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• Robots roll out to help stop oil spills

  14-06-2017 22:50
  
  It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. And when it comes to the expensive, claustrophobic and sometimes dangerous work of inspecting natural gas and oil pipelines, that somebody might be a robot.
  
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• A new wave of gadgets is setting out to secure your smart home

  14-06-2017 22:41
  
  TechnologyBut it's not your fault you have to worry about it in the first place
  Stepping into the fray are companies that sell security products straight to consumers who may want to batten down the hatches on their assortment of internet-connected…
  
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• WATCH: A closer look at technology designed to prevent hot car deaths

  14-06-2017 22:27
  
  ABC News' Paula Faris tests the Driver's Little Helper car seat monitor technology system to see how it alerts drivers about a child in the backseat.
  
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• Correction: Shipwreck Discovery story

  14-06-2017 22:03
  Correction: Shipwreck Discovery story
  
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• Lettuce tell you why sexy produce sells better

  14-06-2017 21:59
  
  HealthGet your chard on.
  Want people to eat their veggies? Don't make them sound like health food.
  
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• New tool helps pick puppies most suited to guide dog training

  14-06-2017 21:55
  
  Animal behaviour experts at the University of Nottingham have developed a new tool which can be used to predict a young dog's likelihood of successfully completing guide dog training.
  
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• Multispectral imaging reveals ancient Hebrew inscription undetected for over 50 years

  14-06-2017 21:42
  
  Using advanced imaging technology, Tel Aviv University researchers have discovered a hitherto invisible inscription on the back of a pottery shard that has been on display at The Israel Museum for more than 50 years.
  
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• US blames North Korea for series of cyberattacks

  14-06-2017 21:33
  U.S. officials are blaming the North Korean government for a series of worldwide cyberattacks dating to 2009
  
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• Facebook gives bots ability to negotiate, compromise

  14-06-2017 21:21
  
  Facebook's artificial intelligence researchers announced Wednesday they had broken new ground by giving automated programs or "bots" the ability to negotiate, and make compromises.
  
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• Brazilian carnivorous mammal-like reptile fossil may be new Aleodon species

  14-06-2017 21:19
  
  Some Late Triassic Brazilian fossils of mammal-like reptiles, previously identified as Chiniquodon, may in fact be the first Aleodon specimens found outside Africa, according to a study published June 14, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Agustín Martinelli from the Universidade Federal of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and colleagues.
  
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• Older and wiser: Female elk learn to avoid hunters as they age

  14-06-2017 21:16
  
  Female elk adapt their behaviour to avoid hunters as they get older, new UAlberta research reveals.
  
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• EU's Juncker says no Paris climate deal renegotiation

  14-06-2017 20:50
  
  European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday rejected US President Donald Trump's suggestion that the Paris climate pact could be renegotiated.
  
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• Japan kicks off Pacific whaling campaign

  14-06-2017 20:40
  
  Japan on Wednesday kicked off a whaling campaign in the northwestern Pacific, in a move sure to anger animal rights activists and others calling for an end to the hunts.
  
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• Microsoft AI Notches the Highest 'Ms. Pac-Man' Score Possible

  14-06-2017 20:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A Microsoft artificial intelligence has achieved the ultimate high score in Ms. Pac-Man, maxing out the counter at just under a million points.With its randomly-generated ghost movements, Ms. Pac-Man has proven a tough nut for AI to crack, as it cannot simply learn the patterns that govern the ghosts' movements. Maluuba, an artificial intelligence company recently acquired by the tech giant, succeeded in outwitting the hungry ghosts by breaking their gaming algorithm into around 160 diff
  
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• How a female-only line of salamanders 'steals' genes from unsuspecting males

  14-06-2017 20:30
  
  AnimalsKleptogenesis gets a little less mysterious in a new study.
  What the heck is kleptogenesis? Read on.
  
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• Canada to teach computer coding starting in kindergarten

  14-06-2017 20:30
  
  Canadian schoolchildren will soon start learning computer coding and other digital skills from kindergarten through to high school, the government announced Wednesday.
  
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• Foxconn, assembler of iPhones, eyes Wisconsin for plant

  14-06-2017 20:22
  
  A Taiwanese company that assembles Apple's iPhones and other electronics is considering building a plant in Wisconsin that could employ thousands of people and give Gov. Scott Walker a huge political boost as he prepares to run for re-election.
  
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• Four Fascinating Things We Learned About Uber From Its Review

  14-06-2017 20:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  An independent investigation into Uber's workplace culture and policies is offering a glimpse of what it's like to work at the San Francisco company.
  
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• Eyes in the sky reveal extent of gray seal recovery

  14-06-2017 20:07
  
  Using research drones, thermal cameras and free images from Google Earth, two Duke University-led studies confirm that gray seals are making a comeback off the New England and eastern Canadian coasts.
  
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• Surviving the Hunt: Female Elk Get Sneakier With Age

  14-06-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Cougars, wolves, and bears (oh my!) all scour the landscape of Western Canada, ready to take out an elk if the opportunity arises. Although each of these predators poses a deadly threat to unsuspecting ungulates, elk have an even bigger problem to deal with: hordes of humans that invade the region every autumn armed with rifles, bows and arrows.But as female elk grow older and wiser, researchers have found, they learn to outwit fervent hunters by changing up their routines and laying low
  
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• Promising peas' potential in big sky country

  14-06-2017 19:57
  
  Farmers in Montana, and other parts of the Northern Great Plains, are shifting from cereal mono-cropping to a cereal-dry pea cropping system. This transition is not without its share of unknowns, however.
  
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• Fin24.com | Naspers shareholders to get boost in earnings

  14-06-2017 19:43
  
  Naspers expects earnings per share to increase by more than 180% for the financial year.
  
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• The future of our cities: Engineers test resilient, intelligent infrastructure

  14-06-2017 19:42
  
  Like many of today's household devices, modern infrastructure is gaining the ability to collect and exchange valuable data using wireless devices that monitor the health of buildings and bridges, for example, in real time. But wireless systems for underground infrastructure, such as utility pipelines, are much more difficult to test in the field, especially during rare and extreme events such as earthquakes.
  
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• Anti-malaria drugs: Potential new target identified

  14-06-2017 19:41
  
  A newly described protein could be an effective target for combatting drug-resistant malaria parasites. The protein, the transcription factor PfAP2-I, regulates a number of genes involved with the parasite's invasion of red blood cells, a critical part of the parasite's complex life cycle that could be targeted by new antimalarial drugs. A paper describing the protein PfAP2-I and its role in the invasion process appears June 14, 2017 in the journal Cell Host & Microbe.
  
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• How Emojis Can Improve Your Relationships

  14-06-2017 19:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  Emojis might seem dumb, but one expert says they're actually making us smarter and better communicators.
  
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• Wireless charging of moving electric vehicles overcomes major hurdle

  14-06-2017 19:00
  
  If electric cars could recharge while driving down a highway, it would virtually eliminate concerns about their range and lower their cost, perhaps making electricity the standard fuel for vehicles.
  
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• Hydroelectric dams may jeopardize the Amazon's future

  14-06-2017 19:00
  
  Hundreds of built and proposed hydroelectric dams may significantly harm life in and around the Amazon by trapping the flow of rich nutrients and modifying the climate from Central America to the Gulf of Mexico. These findings, published in Nature, emerge from a multidisciplinary, international collaboration of researchers from 10 universities, led by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin.
  
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• Gray seals are making a huge comeback

  14-06-2017 19:00
  
  AnimalsThey're doing better than expected after being hunted nearly to extinction.
  There may be a lot more gray seals living along the East Coast than we thought. Read on.
  
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• For Funding, Scientists Turn to Unorthodox Sources

  14-06-2017 18:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When Donna Riordan first moved to the idyllic Orcas Island just off the coast of Washington state, she had no plans of doing any sort of research, despite her background in science and education policy. But a few years later, in 2012, she learned that Pacific International Terminals, part of marine and rail cargo operating company SSA Marine, planned to build the largest coal transport terminal in North America. She’d be able to see it from her home.The proposed site was on top of two re
  
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• Astronomers Provide New Evidence That All Stars Are Born in Pairs

  14-06-2017 18:41 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using a radio survey of a giant molecular cloud filled with recently formed stars and a mathematical model that can explain the observations, astronomers reveal...
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• An automatic home espresso machine 44 percent off? I'd buy it.

  14-06-2017 18:29
  
  GadgetsLattes and cappuccinos at home—for $400 less.
  Lattes and cappuccinos at home—for $400 less. Read on.
  
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• Researchers Simulate the Conditions Around Black Holes Using a Specially Designed Water Bath

  14-06-2017 18:15 via scitechdaily.com
  
  By successfully simulated the conditions around black holes using a specially designed water bath, a team of astronomers has made a significant leap forward in...
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• The WiFi endoscopic camera lets you fix life's tiniest problems and spy on wildlife

  14-06-2017 18:00
  
  Sponsored PostThis tiny waterproof camera helps you see clogged drains and fiddly electronics.
  The WiFi endoscopic camera lets you fix life's tiniest problems and spy on wildlife. Read on.
  
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• Eating potatoes won't actually kill you

  14-06-2017 17:54
  
  HealthThe latest “news” on fries is total garbage.
  The next time you eat some delicious, oil-crisped taters and someone blurts out that “hey you know fries double your risk of mortality” because they read a clicky…
  
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• SOFIA Investigates Cool Dust Around Energetic Active Black Holes

  14-06-2017 17:46 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using observations from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), scientists at the University of Texas San Antonio found that the dust surrounding active, ravenous...
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• Chaotically magnetized cloud is no place to build a star, or is it?

  14-06-2017 17:40
  
  For decades, scientists thought that the magnetic field lines coursing around newly forming stars were both powerful and unyielding, working like jail bars to corral star-forming material. More recently, astronomers have found tantalizing evidence that large-scale turbulence far from a nascent star can drag magnetic fields around at will.
  
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• Speed limit study set to reveal if twenty is plenty on city streets

  14-06-2017 17:36
  
  The impact of 20mph speed limits is to be evaluated in a major study in two British cities.
  
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• Printed sensors monitor tire wear in real time

  14-06-2017 17:20
  
  Electrical engineers at Duke University have invented an inexpensive printed sensor that can monitor the tread of car tires in real time, warning drivers when the rubber meeting the road has grown dangerously thin.
  
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• Gender dictates camouflage strategy in this newly identified praying mantis group

  14-06-2017 17:20
  
  Adult females and males in a newly identified genus of Latin American praying mantises have evolved sharply different camouflage strategies, according to a Cleveland Museum of Natural History-led study published in the journal ZooKeys.
  
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• Elon Musk's vision of a self-sustaining city on Mars published in New Space

  14-06-2017 17:17
  
  The Commentary entitled "Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species presents the vision of Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, for future manned trips to other planets and specifically what will be needed to create a self-sustaining city on Mars. The article, drawn from Mr. Musk's presentation at the 67th International Astronautical Congress, is published in New Space, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the New Space website until July 5, 2017.
  
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• First CRISPR crop could debut in 2020

  14-06-2017 17:16
  
  The gene-editing technique known as CRISPR/Cas9 made a huge splash in the news when it was initially announced. But the first commercial product, expected around 2020, could make it to the market without much fanfare: It's a waxy corn destined to contribute to paper glue and food thickeners. The cover story of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society, explores what else is in the works.
  
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• Scientists make waves with black hole research

  14-06-2017 17:14
  
  Scientists at the University of Nottingham have made a significant leap forward in understanding the workings of one of the mysteries of the universe. They have successfully simulated the conditions around black holes using a specially designed water bath.
  
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• 'Purposeful leaders' are winning hearts and minds in workplaces, study finds

  14-06-2017 17:11
  
  People are happier and more productive when their leaders show strong morals, a clear vision and commitment to stakeholders, a new study has found.
  
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• Graphene encapsulation provides unprecedented view of the diffusion and rotation of fullerene molecu

  14-06-2017 17:10
  
  Carbon is one of the most versatile elements: it forms the basis for an enormous number of chemical compounds, it has several allotropes of different dimensionality, and it exhibits many different bonding geometries. For this reason, carbon materials have had a special place in materials research for a long time. Although the three-dimensional forms of carbon—diamond and graphite—are known since ancient times, it took until 1985 before the first low-dimensional carbon allotrope, the
  
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• How to stay safe on public Wi-Fi

  14-06-2017 17:07
  
  DIY5 tips for roaming without fear.
  Wi-fi hotspots let you work, play, and keep in touch on the go—but they can also be vulnerable to security threats. Here's how to protect yourself.
  
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• Wildfires pollute much more than previously thought

  14-06-2017 17:00
  
  Summer wildfires boost air pollution considerably more than previously believed.
  
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• Michigan health director charged with involuntary manslaughter due to Flint water woes

  14-06-2017 16:59
  
  HealthCourts allege he concealed info on a deadly Legionnaires' outbreak.
  Courts allege that Nick Lyon, Michigan health director, concealed information about Legionnaires' outbreak that lead to the death of 12 people.
  
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• Beetles spark development of color-changing nanoparticles for commercial use

  14-06-2017 16:50
  
  Inspired by the varying colors that gleam off of beetle shells, scientists have developed color-shifting nanoparticles that can change hue even after being embedded into a material. A report on the new, inexpensive technique, which could lead to the production of easier-to-read sensors and anti-tampering tags, appears in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
  
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• Earning a living in a changing climate—the plant perspective

  14-06-2017 16:49
  
  There are many ways to make a living in a suitable climate but far fewer in a less suitable one. That may seem obvious for people living under various socio-economic stresses, but new research shows it also applies to the world's plants—many of which are resorting to dramatic 'last-stand' strategies to survive in deteriorating environmental conditions.
  
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