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• Security mistakes prompt changes to Georgia election system

  14-07-2017 23:41
  
  Georgia's top elections official says his office will take over managing the state's elections technology after a major security lapse at the center that has done the work for 15 years.
  
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• To infinity and beyond? US lawmakers advance 'Space Corps' plans

  14-07-2017 23:32
  
  US lawmakers on Friday advanced a defense bill that includes a provision to establish a new branch of the military—dubbed "Space Corps"—that would focus on space operations.
  
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• NASA analyzes US midwest heavy rainfall, severe storms

  14-07-2017 23:32
  
  Heavy rain resulted in significant flooding in the U.S. Midwest over the week of July 7 to 14, 2017. Using satellite data, NASA estimated the amount of rain that fell over those areas and used satellite data to create 3-D imagery of severe storms.
  
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• Helping robots learn to see in 3-D

  14-07-2017 23:32
  
  Autonomous robots can inspect nuclear power plants, clean up oil spills in the ocean, accompany fighter planes into combat and explore the surface of Mars.
  
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• WATCH: July 16, 1969: Apollo 11 lifts off from Kennedy Space Center

  14-07-2017 23:10
  
  The Apollo 11 mission landed the first two humans, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on the moon.
  
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• Researchers Develop a Sampling Scheme That is Unconstrained by Bandwidth

  14-07-2017 23:09 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers from MIT and the Technical University of Munich have developed a new technique could lead to cameras that can handle light of any intensity,...
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• DJI Spark drone review: A powerful little flying machine for the average person

  14-07-2017 22:27
  
  GadgetsThis mini drone brings advanced features in a small package.
  DJI has entered the entry-level, consumer drone market with the Spark. Here's what it has to offer.
  
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• WATCH: Net neutrality fight continues

  14-07-2017 22:24
  
  Major internet companies are launched online protests over Republican efforts to roll back FCC regulations.
  
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• 15 awesome 'Google Home' tricks

  14-07-2017 22:20
  
  Whether you already own one or have thought about it, you probably know Google Home ($129) is one of those popular voice-activated personal assistants for the home.
  
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• Planets like earth may have had muddy origins

  14-07-2017 21:36
  
  Scientists have long held the belief that planets – including Earth – were built from rocky asteroids, but new research challenges that view. 
  
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• Here's how we were able to see that giant chunk of ice break off of Antarctica

  14-07-2017 21:28
  
  ScienceA golden age of Earth observation.
  A peek into the satellites that let us track the progression of Larsen C from an ice shelf to an iceberg. Read on.
  
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• Mica provides clue to how water transports minerals

  14-07-2017 21:25
  
  In order to understand various environmental processes and learn to better address the effects of pollution, scientists have been interested in tracking the movement of elements through the environment, particularly at interfaces between water and minerals.
  
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• Tardigrades could probably survive the otherwise complete annihilation of life on Earth

  14-07-2017 21:09
  
  AnimalsWater bear don't care.
  Water bear don't care. Meet our planet's future overlords.
  
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• Dark Matter Might Clump to Form Planets

  14-07-2017 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A new theory suggests dark matter could coalesce into massive structures.Dark stars may not just be for Grateful Dead fans anymore.In a new paper uploaded to arXiv, Rutgers University astrophysics professor Matthew R. Buckley puts forth a truly wild hypothesis: It might be possible to build worlds out of dark matter.But the whole thing came to him from an unusual angle: He wanted to prove that dark matter structures were impossible. In a blog post, Buckley outlined his thinking.
  
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• Researchers develop new transistor concept

  14-07-2017 20:00
  
  Transistors, as used in billions on every computer chip, are nowadays based on semiconductor-type materials, usually silicon. As the demands for computer chips in laptops, tablets and smartphones continue to rise, new possibilities are being sought out to fabricate them inexpensively, energy-saving and flexibly.
  
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• Fluorine grants white graphene new powers: Researchers turn common insulator into a magnetic semiconductor

  14-07-2017 20:00
  
  A little fluorine turns an insulating ceramic known as white graphene into a wide-bandgap semiconductor with magnetic properties. Rice University scientists said that could make the unique material suitable for electronics in extreme environments.
  
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• Climate change: Biodiversity rescues biodiversity in a warmer world

  14-07-2017 20:00
  
  Climate change leads to loss of biodiversity worldwide. However, ecosystems with a higher biodiversity in the first place might be less affected a new study in Science Advances reports. An international research team found that when they experimentally warmed meadows, the diversity of nematode worms living in the soil went down in monocultures, whereas the opposite was true for meadows with many different herbaceous plant species.
  
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• Russia launches 73 satellites into orbit

  14-07-2017 19:58
  
  An imaging satellite and 72 micro-satellites were launched into orbit Friday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency Roscosmos and research centre Glavcosmos announced.
  
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• New NASA Videos Soar Over the Mountains and Icy Plains of the Pluto System

  14-07-2017 19:54 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using data from New Horizons and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, NASA scientists have created two flyover movies that offer...
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• ALMA Observes Gas Emission in a Protoplanetary Disk

  14-07-2017 19:36 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Using the ALMA facility, a team of astronomers is the first to obtain spatially resolved observations of gas emission in the protoplanetary disk around the...
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• Ravens are so smart it’s actually kind of disconcerting, new study finds

  14-07-2017 19:31
  
  AnimalsUnlike so many of us, they actually plan for the future.
  A flock of ravens ravaging a carcass may technically be called an unkindness, but the real unkindness is using that term for an objectively awesome animal.
  
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• Silicon Valley reeling in wake of sexual harassment storm

  14-07-2017 19:20
  
  It started with a few women speaking up, reporting a suggestive text message, an invitation to a hotel room, an unwanted touch under a table.
  
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• Tardigrades Will Be The Last Survivors On Earth

  14-07-2017 19:14 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A newly published study reveals that an eight-legged micro-animal will survive the risk of extinction from all astrophysical catastrophes and survive long after humans are...
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• Top scientists sue Salk Institute for gender discrimination

  14-07-2017 19:12
  
  Two top scientists are suing their employer, the Salk Institute, alleging that they and other women have suffered long-term gender discrimination at the renowned California research center
  
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• AT&T could create media division after Time Warner merger: report

  14-07-2017 18:39
  
  Telecoms giant AT&T is likely to create a separate media division upon completion of its planned merger with Time Warner, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
  
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• Strong friendships among women in the workplace reduce conflict, according to new study

  14-07-2017 18:38
  
  According to a new study in the INFORMS journal Organization Science, when employers foster an office environment that supports positive, social relationships between women coworkers, especially in primarily male dominated organizations, they are less likely to experience conflict among women employees.
  
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• Hubble spots a barred lynx spiral

  14-07-2017 18:36
  
  Discovered by British astronomer William Herschel over 200 years ago, NGC 2500 lies about 30 million light-years away in the northern constellation of Lynx. As this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows, NGC 2500 is a particular kind of spiral galaxy known as a barred spiral, its wispy arms swirling out from a bright, elongated core.
  
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• Uncovering the connection between negative stiffness and magnetic domain walls

  14-07-2017 18:24
  
  Nature doesn't like having interfaces—this is why bubbles like to be round, and the surface of a pond settles to flat as long as it's not disturbed. These trends minimize the total amount of interface (or surface) that is present. As an exception to this behavior, certain materials are known to have a property, called negative stiffness, where the interface prefers to become distorted, or wavy, even without any external stimulation.
  
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• Ohio county fair hogs to be destroyed after swine flu found

  14-07-2017 18:21
  
  State officials have ordered the slaughter of nearly 300 hogs at a county fair in Ohio after at least two animals tested positive for swine flu.
  
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• New limits to functional portion of human genome reported

  14-07-2017 18:20
  
  An evolutionary biologist at the University of Houston has published new calculations that indicate no more than 25 percent of the human genome is functional. That is in stark contrast to suggestions by scientists with the ENCODE project that as much as 80 percent of the genome is functional.
  
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• Gov. Brown makes dire plea to save California climate law

  14-07-2017 18:20
  
  California Gov. Jerry Brown is calling climate change "a threat to organized human existence" and warning of devastation from forest fires and disease if lawmakers fail to renew the state's signature program to fight the problem
  
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• Scientists create first laboratory generation of astrophysical shock waves

  14-07-2017 18:18
  
  Throughout the universe, supersonic shock waves propel cosmic rays and supernova particles to velocities near the speed of light. The most high-energy of these astrophysical shocks occur too far outside the solar system to be studied in detail and have long puzzled astrophysicists. Shocks closer to Earth can be detected by spacecraft, but they fly by too quickly to probe a wave's formation.
  
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• Citrix pivoting from growth mode to profit-taking in CEO change, analysts say

  14-07-2017 18:10
  
  Software company Citrix Systems promoted its chief financial officer to CEO on Monday, and for good reason, analysts say.
  
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• Prime Day broke records, Amazon says

  14-07-2017 18:07
  
  Amazon.com said its third Prime Day, held Tuesday, broke records and was the biggest day of sales in the company's history.
  
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• Master python programming for thousands of dollars off

  14-07-2017 18:00
  
  Sponsored PostBuild your own apps, program devices, analyze the markets, and more.
  Master python programming for thousands of dollars off. Build your own apps, program devices, analyze the markets, and more. Read on.
  
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• Two UK police forces team up to launch drone unit

  14-07-2017 17:46
  
  Two British police forces have combined efforts to create what they say is the nation's first police unit dedicated to using drones.
  
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• Mars mission astronauts rehearse water landings off Texas

  14-07-2017 17:46
  
  NASA astronauts training for a possible mission to Mars have been practicing water maneuvers in a mock-up Orion space capsule in the Gulf of Mexico.
  
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• Researcher makes deep-sea coral reefs discovery in depths of the North-Pacific

  14-07-2017 17:42
  
  Scientists have long believed that the waters of the Central and Northeast Pacific Ocean were inhospitable to deep-sea scleractinian coral, but a Florida State University professor's discovery of an odd chain of reefs suggests there are mysteries about the development and durability of coral colonies yet to be uncovered.
  
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• NASA gives Hurricane Fernanda a close-up

  14-07-2017 17:42
  
  Hurricane Fernanda is moving through the deep tropics and there's nothing in its way to prevent it from becoming a major hurricane. NASA's Terra satellite took a closer look at the strengthening storm.
  
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• A new view of twisted proteins could help scientists understand Alzheimer's

  14-07-2017 17:37
  
  HealthA critical molecule in the neurodegenerative disease has finally been mapped.
  A recent study reveals the full molecular structure of tau filaments, thought to cause Alzheimer's disease. It could unlock the secret of neurodegenerative .
  
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• Survey reports employment characteristics for more than 200 fields of study

  14-07-2017 16:55
  
  The National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics has more than doubled the sample size of its 2015 Survey of Doctorate Recipients in order to examine employment characteristics for specific fields of degree for the first time.
  
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• Researchers find first genomic biomarkers in extracellular vesicles in veterinary patients

  14-07-2017 16:50
  
  Researchers at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University have discovered important biomarkers in extracellular vesicles in dogs with myxomatous mitral valve disease and congestive heart failure. This is the first biomarker discovery based on extracellular vesicles in a veterinary disease. The genomic material (microRNA, or miRNA) were isolated in small extracellular vesicles called exosome, which circulate in blood. These findings could provide important insight into the molecul
  
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• Image: Pilanesberg, South Africa

  14-07-2017 16:50
  
  The circular structure dominating this Sentinel-2 image is Pilanesberg, the result of geological activity over more than a billion years. Once a massive volcanic complex towering over 7000 m tall, millions of years of erosion have shaped the landscape to what it is today: concentric rings of hills rising from the surrounding plain, with a diameter of some 25 km.
  
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• New research uses satellites to predict end of volcanic eruptions

  14-07-2017 16:41
  
  Researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM) School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) recently discovered that infrared satellite data could be used to predict when lava flow-forming eruptions will end.
  
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• Mountain forests don't need humans – but we need them

  14-07-2017 16:40
  
  Forests in the mountain regions of our planet are fragile ecosystems, suffering from the impact of climate change. However, to survive in the long-term, these ecosystems do not need human intervention. It is rather the humans in the mountain regions who depend on healthy forests and the protection they provide.
  
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• Astronomers discover one of the brightest galaxies known

  14-07-2017 16:40
  
  Thanks to an amplified image produced by a gravitational lens, and the Gran Telescopio CANARIAS a team of scientists from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias have discovered one of the brightest galaxies known from the epoch when the universe had 20 percent of its present age.
  
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• New scales for the new kilogram

  14-07-2017 16:38
  
  The Planck scale works according to the principle of electromagnetic force compensation: A weight force on one side of the scale is balanced by an electromagnetic force on the other side. This means that weights (so-called mass standards) will no longer be needed. This could be the beginning of the development of a completely new generation of scales that are suitable for industry.
  
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• Smartphone app could reveal how urban spaces affect our health and wellbeing

  14-07-2017 16:30
  
  A new smartphone app designed to show how urban environments affect people's health and wellbeing has been launched this week (14 July 2017).
  
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