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• How to grow a premium brand without killing its cachet? Outlet stores can help

  12-07-2017 23:58
  
  Managers of premium brands face a perennial dilemma. How do you grow a premium brand without killing its soul - the unique brand cachet that attracts its core high price paying customers - even as you seek to expand sales to the masses by offering lower prices? In recent years, outlet stores located hours away from glitzy shopping districts, selling off-season and lower tier merchandise at a fraction of regular retail prices, have proliferated and become significant sources of revenues. The conv
  
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• Study finds toxic mercury is accumulating in the Arctic tundra

  12-07-2017 23:48
  
  Vast amounts of toxic mercury are accumulating in the Arctic tundra, threatening the health and well-being of people, wildlife and waterways, according to a UMass Lowell scientist investigating the source of the pollution.
  
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• Researchers study factors predicting school corporal punishment

  12-07-2017 23:48
  
  The number of Southern natives and the average education level in a county are the most influential factors on the odds of a U.S. public school using corporal punishment, according to new Penn State research.
  
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• Early squirrel gets the real estate, study finds

  12-07-2017 23:44
  
  Those young squirrels now scampering around your neighbourhood were born in this year's earliest litters and are more likely to survive than squirrels born later and still curled up in their nests, according to a new University of Guelph study.
  
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• New biofuel technology significantly cuts production time

  12-07-2017 23:29
  
  New research from a professor of engineering at UBC's Okanagan Campus might hold the key to biofuels that are cheaper, safer and much faster to produce.
  
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• Giant charge reversal observed for the first time

  12-07-2017 23:28
  
  Charged surfaces submerged in an electrolyte solution can sometimes become oppositely charged. This nonintuitive phenomenon, known as charge inversion, happens when excess counter ions adsorb, or adhere, to the surface. It can occur in a number of chemical and biological settings. In certain situations, theory predicts that a highly charged surface not only changes sign, but can become more highly charged than the original surface. This is known as giant charge reversal, but remains controversia
  
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• Online climate data benefits producers

  12-07-2017 23:25
  
  Are you a farmer who wants to keep better track of the climate conditions around you? There's an app for that.
  
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• Rice scientists simplify the incorporation of nitrogen into molecules

  12-07-2017 23:22
  
  A Rice University laboratory that specializes in synthesizing reagents and intermediate molecules for the design and manufacture of drugs and other fine chemicals has delivered on a promise to generalize the synthesis of electrophilic (electron-poor) aminating agents.
  
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• Antibiotic nanoparticles fight drug-resistant bacteria

  12-07-2017 23:14
  
  Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem, especially among a type of bacteria that are classified as "Gram-negative." These bacteria have two cell membranes, making it more difficult for drugs to penetrate and kill the cells.
  
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• Slow earthquakes occur continuously in the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone

  12-07-2017 23:06
  
  Seismologists at the University of California, Riverside studying earthquakes in the seismically and volcanically active Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone have found that "slow earthquakes" are occurring continuously, and could encourage damaging earthquakes.
  
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• Researchers illuminate the field of microscopy with nanoparticle 'buckyswitch'

  12-07-2017 23:04
  
  Visualizing biological cells under a microscope was just made clearer, thanks to research conducted by graduate student Yifei Jiang and principal investigator Jason McNeill of Clemson University's department of chemistry.
  
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• NASA sees formation of Tropical Storm Fernanda in Eastern Pacific Ocean

  12-07-2017 23:03
  
  The sixth tropical depression of the Eastern Pacific Ocean hurricane season formed near southwestern Mexico and quickly strengthened into Tropical Storm Fernanda. NASA's Aqua satellite provided infrared imagery of the strengthening storm.
  
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• Jupiter's Great Red Spot Imaged Like Never Before

  12-07-2017 22:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On Monday, a human-built object got closer than any other before it to the most iconic, raging storm in the solar system.That is, of course, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, an anticyclone that’s been swirling for hundreds of years, stuck between two of the planets jet stream bands. It’s a storm twice the size of Earth, and wind speeds there top out at roughly 400 miles per hour. And earlier this week, NASA’s Juno spacecraft dipped 2,200 miles above the turbulence to get a close
  
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• French court annuls Google's $1.27 billion back tax bill

  12-07-2017 22:52
  
  A French court annulled Wednesday a 1.1 billion-euro ($1.27 billion) tax adjustment imposed on Google by France's tax authorities, saying the way the California firm operates in the country allows it to be exempt from most taxes
  
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• A university in Oregon will use balloons to track eclipse

  12-07-2017 22:48
  Portland State University in Oregon will launch four high-altitude balloons equipped with GPS tracking systems and 360-degree video cameras to track the upcoming solar eclipse in live time from the air
  
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• Meet KJ-600, the aircraft that could help China's navy rival America's

  12-07-2017 22:46
  
  From Our Blogs: Eastern Arsenal The airborne early warning and control plane fills a gap in China's arsenal.
  China's carrier radar plane, the KJ-600, will be the aircraft to tie together Chinese naval aviation combat across all domains.
  
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• The Latest: Attorney: Monkey cannot get money from copyright

  12-07-2017 22:36
  
  Attorneys for a wildlife photographer whose camera was used by a monkey to snap selfies asked a federal appeals court to end a lawsuit seeking to give the animal rights to the photos
  
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• ISPs surprise net neutrality fans on protest day

  12-07-2017 22:14
  
  Tech firms and internet activists got a surprise participant in their Wednesday online protest in support of net neutrality: AT&T
  
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• New, Noninvasive Imaging Technique Finds Heart Disease Before It Hurts

  12-07-2017 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A new, noninvasive imaging method lets researchers pick up on the warning signs of heart disease long before a heart attack or stroke can take place.The noninvasive technique uses current computed tomography (CT) scanning technology to analyze images of fatty deposits lining blood vessels in order to flag potentially dangerous inflammation. Using the data from heart scans, researchers from the University of Oxford developed an index measuring changes in fat tissues around blood vessels t
  
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• Satellite images reveal an iceberg with twice the volume of Lake Erie breaking off the Antarctic Peninsula

  12-07-2017 21:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It has been predicted for a long time, and now it has finally happened: One of the largest icebergs ever recorded has broken free of the Larsen C Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula.Scientists monitoring a growing rift in the ice shelf confirmed today in a blog post that the trillion-ton iceberg had calved. It occurred at some point between Monday, July 10th and Wednesday, July 12th. The scientists, part of a research project called Project Midas, say the berg is about&
  
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• Tech review: Samsung QLED TV is picture perfect

  12-07-2017 21:30
  
  It's time to make a confession about my television. I only have one TV in my house, and it's a 10-year-old, 42-inch Panasonic plasma set.
  
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• Moon Express ‘lunar outpost’ looks gorgeous, but don’t get too excited yet

  12-07-2017 21:30
  
  SpaceThe company hopes to put robots on the moon’s South Pole by 2020
  “Outpost” is a bit of a strong word, but here's what the company has in mind. Read on.
  
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• Face scans for US citizens flying abroad stir privacy issues

  12-07-2017 21:29
  
  Trump administration plans to require all U.S. citizens flying abroad to submit to face scans worries privacy advocates; No guarantee that the data won't eventually be retained in databases searchable by law enforcement, intelligence agencies.
  
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• New Chip Design Method May Result in Miniature Smart Drones

  12-07-2017 20:31 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A team of engineers at MIT has developed a method for designing efficient computer chips may get miniature smart drones off the ground. In recent...
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• NASA’s SDO Watches a Sunspot That is Larger Than Earth

  12-07-2017 20:14 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory observes a sunspot that is the first to appear after the sun was spotless for two days. The dark core of...
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• Massive iceberg breaks off in Antarctica

  12-07-2017 20:12
  
  It weighs 1.12 trillion tons.
  
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• Study reveals the hidden ways math helps us in everyday life

  12-07-2017 20:00
  
  A psychological intervention implemented to help students cope and learn more in a tough statistics course did more than just help them in the class, a new study found.
  
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• RNA molecules live short lives

  12-07-2017 20:00
  
  A research group at the Biozentrum, University of Basel, has developed a new method to measure the half-life of RNA molecules. The study revealed that commonly used methods provide distorted results and that RNA molecules live an average of only two minutes, ten times shorter than previously assumed. The results have now been published in the journal Science Advances.
  
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• Low-cost smart glove wirelessly translates the American Sign Language alphabet into text

  12-07-2017 20:00
  
  A glove fitted with wearable electronics can translate the American Sign Language alphabet and then wirelessly transmit the text for display on electronic devices—all for less than $100, according to a study published July 12, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Timothy O'Connor and Darren Lipomi from University of California, San Diego, US, and colleagues.
  
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• Anti-CRISPR proteins decrease off-target side effects of CRISPR-Cas9

  12-07-2017 20:00
  
  CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing is based on a tactic bacteria developed to protect themselves from viruses.
  
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• Delaware Sized Iceberg Splits Off from Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf

  12-07-2017 19:54 via scitechdaily.com
  
  NASA’s Aqua satellite and the NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite discover a massive iceberg splitting off from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf. An iceberg...
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• Researchers used CRISPR to encode a movie into DNA

  12-07-2017 19:51
  
  ScienceGenome GIFs.
  Using the gene editing technique CRISPR, the researchers encoded a series of images and a short video in the form of a GIF into the DNA of E. Coli. Read on.
  
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• Barbarian Technocrats Have Broken Down School Doors And Are Plundering Knowledge

  12-07-2017 19:39 via technocracy.news
  
  The barbarians have finally broken down the school doors and are now plundering knowledge. Books are their target. Banning them is the goal.
  In New York City, administrators at the Life Sciences Secondary School have ordered all textbooks rounded up and removed. Books, they say, are antiquated. Instead, technology is to be the new god of learning.
  Of course the excuse is that books are expensive. The schools complain that the kids lose the books or that they wear out and there is no budget to re
  
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• “Urban Science-Policy Interface” For Global Sustainability

  12-07-2017 19:30 via technocracy.news
  
  Since ‘data-driven’ is the globalist mantra, extra attention will be given to data and how to standardize data sets across borders and cultures. Technocrats never have enough data because they believe that social engineering is perfected only by total data collection. ⁃ TN EditorAs the euphoria from last year’s Habitat III conference on sustainable urbanization dissipates and global attentions turn to other pressing matters, it is urgent that the
  
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• Shape-shifters Once Ruled the Planet

  12-07-2017 19:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Before sharks and whales ruled the seas as the biggest bad boys (and girls) of the sea, there were rangeomorphs, a bizarre plant-looking-animal-type … thing. They roamed the seas of Earth around 540 million years ago, absorbing nutrients drifting in the water.Rangeomorphs were the biggest thing in the game — and had the shape-eshifting skills to make themselves as big or as small as they needed. That could range from a few millimeters up to a few meters. While that may not sound hug
  
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• Serving pizzas made by robots

  12-07-2017 19:20
  
  Not long after the pizzeria Zume opened for business last year, its kitchen staff noticed a problem with some of its pizzas: they had holes in them.
  
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• UN Urges Governments To Take Over Water Resources & Allocations

  12-07-2017 19:16 via technocracy.news
  
  I have long stated that Sustainable Development (aka Technocracy) is a resource grab of global proportions, and water is a key live-giving resource that the UN intends to control. The article states, “The World Water Council has issued its 2016 report, which calls for mainstreaming water in a variety of global agendas, including infrastructure financing, climate action and sustainable development.” ⁃ TN EditorUN agencies have reviewed the impacts of forestry and hi-tech ir
  
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• How to Wipe Your Cellphone Data

  12-07-2017 19:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  Before you sell or trade in your cell phone, you'll want to erase your data.
  
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• Getting a New Phone? Here's How to Wipe Your Data

  12-07-2017 19:06 via nbcnews.com
  
  Before you sell or trade in your cell phone, you'll want to erase your data.
  
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• Taking cells out to the movies with new CRISPR technology

  12-07-2017 19:00
  
  Researchers are developing ways to harness DNA, the blueprint of biological life, as a synthetic raw material to store large amounts of digital information outside of living cells, using expensive machinery. But, what if they could coerce living cells, like large populations of bacteria, into using their own genomes as a biological hard drive that can be used to record information and then be tapped for it anytime? Such an approach could not only open entirely new possibilities of data storage,
  
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• An iceberg the size of Delaware just broke off of Antarctica

  12-07-2017 18:43
  
  From Our Blogs: Nexus Media News “We are seeing a microcosm of the future.”
  In a sign of things to come, Antarctica just shed an iceberg the size of Delaware. Read on.
  
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• Check out the closest ever view of Jupiter's Great Red Spot

  12-07-2017 18:33
  
  SpaceLooking into a massive storm.
  Here are the first pictures from NASA’s flyby of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot. Take a look.
  
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• Hyperloop startup moves closer to near-supersonic rail

  12-07-2017 18:28
  
  US startup Hyperloop One on Wednesday announced the first successful full-systems test of its near-supersonic rail transit system.
  
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• Graduate research fellow investigates how fungi and fire enable pine savanna ecosystem to thrive

  12-07-2017 18:27
  
  For most humans, fire symbolizes destruction and death. Yet nature often adapts to fire and can wield it as a creative force. For example, in the pine savannas of the southeastern U.S., fire acts as a chrysalis from which grasslands and forests spread new stems and unfurl fresh leaves.
  
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• Greece: Heatwave closes Acropolis, ancient sites

  12-07-2017 18:05
  
  Greek authorities closed the ancient Acropolis in Athens to visitors for several hours Wednesday along with other popular archaeological sites around the country due to a heatwave.
  
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• HIV hijacks surface molecule to invade cell

  12-07-2017 18:00
  
  Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered a key step in the process that HIV uses to inject its genetic material into cells. Working with cultures of cells and tissues, the researchers prevented the invasion process by chemically blocking this step, preventing HIV genetic material from entering cells. The findings could lead to the eventual development of new drugs to prevent HIV infection.
  
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