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• Severing ties with utilities isn't as easy as cutting the cable cord

  16-08-2017 23:20
  If disaster ever struck, Joe Fleischmann could keep the lights, refrigerator and big-screen TV running in his Orange County home, even if the power company went dark.
  
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• Ulcer-fighting Robots Swim Through Stomachs to Deliver a Cure

  16-08-2017 23:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tiny robots powered by bubbles have successfully treated an infection in mice.The achievement is another step forward in a field that has long shown promise, and is only now beginning to deliver. The therapeutic robots in this case were tiny spheres of magnesium and titanium coated with an antibacterial agent and about the width of a human hair. They were released into the stomach, where they swam around and delivered a drug to the target before dissolving.
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• Mount Marilyn: A Name That Will Stick...Finally

  16-08-2017 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  In 1968, Jim Lovell became the first human to pilot a spacecraft — Apollo 8 — around another world. And two years later, his Apollo 13 heroics earned him an eternal place in spaceflight history. But those feats also left Lovell as the only person to visit the moon twice but never walk its surface.In July, Lovell got his chance to leave a lasting mark on our satellite. Explorers have always named newly discovered landmarks. But things didn’t work out that way for Apollo astronau
  
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• Deafness in farmed salmon linked to accelerated growth

  16-08-2017 23:00
  Half of the world's farmed salmon are part deaf due to accelerated growth rates in aquaculture, new research has found.
  
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• Body scanners being piloted in Los Angeles subway system

  16-08-2017 22:10
  Passengers boarding subway trains in Los Angeles may soon be shuffled through airport-style body scanners that are aimed to detect firearms and explosives.
  
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• Changing tides: Lake Michigan could best support lake trout and steelhead

  16-08-2017 22:00
  Invasive mussels and less nutrients from tributaries have altered the Lake Michigan ecosystem, making it more conducive to the stocking of lake trout and steelhead than Chinook salmon, according to a recent U.S. Geological Survey and Michigan State University study.
  
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• Women coders respond to ex-Googler Damore: Nope.

  16-08-2017 21:50
  The ex-Google engineer fired for suggesting women are innately less apt at computing has doubled down on his criticism of diversity efforts, suggesting programs to bring women and girls into coding are"deceitful" and encourage a "victim mentality."
  
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• New non-native species emerges in Great Lakes after a mostly clean decade

  16-08-2017 21:40
  The stew of non-native species known to be swarming in the Great Lakes just got a little thicker.
  
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• Storms felled record number of trees in Poland: officials

  16-08-2017 21:30
  It will take two years to clear the tens of thousands of trees smashed by the weekend storms that devastated Poland's forests, the country's forest service said Wednesday.
  
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• America’s craft breweries are on an environmental crusade

  16-08-2017 21:30
  
  From Our Blogs: Nexus Media News Beer gets green.
  Craft brewers across the country are finding innovative ways to guard the water, soil, air and climate on which their businesses depend.
  
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• NASA sees wind shear battering Banyan

  16-08-2017 21:23
  NASA's Terra satellite captured an infrared image of Typhoon Banyan that showed the strongest storms were being pushed northeast of the center from wind shear.
  
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• Portugal arsonists feed wildfire destruction

  16-08-2017 21:20
  Portugal's police said Wednesday they had arrested 61 suspected arsonists so far this year, with fires on the rise and figures showing the largest number of people killed in forest blazes since 2003.
  
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• Startup wants to do for cybersecurity what ADT does for home security

  16-08-2017 21:19
  Over the last three years, Einaras Gravrock has turned his concerns as a parent into a fast-growing cybersecurity startup.
  
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• Billionaire Richard Branson Joins Technocrat Siren Call For Universal Basic Income

  16-08-2017 21:19 via technocracy.news
  Branson visited The Elders, a small group of self-appointed Technocrats that includes four members of the Trilateral Commission. The Elders are instrumental in the genesis of UBI. Keep in mind that the Trilateral Commission fed Agenda 21/Sustainable Development to the United Nations in 1992 as Agenda 21. The UN and others credit Gro Harlem Brundtland as the creator of Agenda 21; she is a member of The Elders and also a member of the Trilateral Commission. ⁃ TN EditorIn the modern worl
  
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• On the Shores of Lake Erie, Endangered Birds Catch a Lucky Break

  16-08-2017 21:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  Protecting species in peril doesn't happen overnight. Rather, it's all about stringing together small wins that, in the long-term, make all the difference. A little luck can also go far.When waves surged on the Pennsylvania coast of Lake Erie early this summer, it could easily have been the end for a nest of piping plover eggs caught in the water’s path. Fortunately, a dynamic team of biologists, zookeepers and volunteers swooped into action, rescuing the eggs and rearing them at a quiet
  
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• Protests at Google offices over worker's firing are canceled

  16-08-2017 21:09
  Protests planned at Google offices around the country over the firing of an employee who questioned company diversity efforts have been postponed.
  
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• NASA's infrared look at Hurricane Gert

  16-08-2017 21:08
  NASA's Aqua satellite provided an infrared look at the power within Atlantic Hurricane Gert and saw the hurricane had very cold cloud top temperatures.
  
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• Scientists found something surprising at the heart of these jellyfish galaxies

  16-08-2017 21:07
  
  SpaceAn incredibly luminous snack.
  Our galaxy is a spiral, making its way through space with a classic, carefree pinwheel shape that we all know and love. Not so of the jellyfish galaxies.
  
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• End Of The Checkout Line Spells Crisis For 3.5 Million American Cashiers

  16-08-2017 20:59 via technocracy.news
  The 3.4 million cashiers in America make up about six percent of total U.S. employment, but they will face pink slips eventually. Technocrats who build the technology have no concern for the people they relegate to a new class of ‘unemployables.’ The best they can do is promote Universal Basic Income where government just hand out money to everyone in society. ⁃ TN EditorThe day before a fully automated grocery store opened its doors in 1939, the inventor Clarence Saunders
  
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• Tropical trees maintain high carbon accumulation rates into old age

  16-08-2017 20:40
  Tropical trees maintain high carbon accumulation rates into old age, according to a study published August 16, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Michael Köhl from the Universität Hamburg, Germany, and colleagues.
  
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• Fin24.com | Telkom makes push for FreeMe by killing contract offerings

  16-08-2017 20:38
  
  Fixed and mobile operator Telkom has removed numerous contract options in efforts to drive customers towards its FreeMe offering.
  
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• Scottish Parliament under cyberattack, no systems breached

  16-08-2017 20:30
  Officials at the Scottish Parliament say the legislature's IT systems are under sustained cyberattack but have not been breached.
  
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• Do We Manage Online and Offline Friendships the Same?

  16-08-2017 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Social media has been a boon to social science. Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and other platforms serve as online laboratories that reveal all kinds of stuff about the users, researchers say. The rise of these platforms has sparked a flurry of scientific papers describing people’s social network interactions.A lot of the conclusions of the studies can engender the response, “Well, no kidding.” But offering validation for intuitive or common sense knowledge isn’t such a bad
  
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• NASA's LRO team wants you to wave at the moon

  16-08-2017 20:20
  NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team invites the public to wave at the Moon on Aug. 21 as LRO turns its camera toward Earth.
  
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• Boron nitride foam soaks up carbon dioxide

  16-08-2017 20:20
  Rice University materials scientists have created a light foam from two-dimensional sheets of hexagonal-boron nitride (h-BN) that absorbs carbon dioxide.
  
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• Tech Companies Are Knocking Hate Groups Offline

  16-08-2017 20:18 via nbcnews.com
  It's not just GoDaddy — GoFundMe and PayPal are the latest tech firms to kick hate groups off their services.
  
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• Moon’s Magnetic Field May Have Lasted 2 Billion Years

  16-08-2017 20:17 via scitechdaily.com
  New findings from MIT suggest two mechanisms may have powered the moon’s ancient churning, extending the lunar dynamo’s lifetime by at least 1 billion years....
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• Spray-on electric rainbows: Making safer electrochromic inks

  16-08-2017 20:10
  Anyone who has a rear-view mirror that automatically dims blue in reaction to annoying high-beam headlights glaring from behind has seen an electrochromic film in action.
  
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• Modern genetic sequencing tools give clearer picture of how corals are related

  16-08-2017 20:10
  The documentary "Chasing Coral," released on Netflix in July, is a cinematic warning about how the bleaching of coral reefs may foreshadow how these marine animals will respond to climate change. Corals are key to ocean health because they support the densest, most diverse ecosystems—harboring species from turtles to algae to reef fish.
  
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• Cenozoic carnivore from Turkey may have evolved without placental competitors

  16-08-2017 20:10
  A new marsupial-like carnivorous animal that lived more than 40 million years ago in what is now Turkey may have evolved in the absence of competition from placental mammals, according to a study published August 16, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Murat Maga from University of Washington, US and Robin Beck from University of Salford, UK.
  
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• Study reveals the evolutionary history of imperiled salmon stocks

  16-08-2017 20:00
  New technologies for analyzing DNA may transform how imperiled species are considered and managed for conservation protection, according to a study published today in the journal Science Advances and led by the University of California, Davis.
  
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• Impaired DNA replication can cause epigenetic changes inherited for several generations

  16-08-2017 20:00
  Cell division is key for renewing the cells in our tissues and organs. There are two particular processes in which cell division is crucial: embryonic development and tumorigenesis. A fault in the process that copies DNA during cell division can cause genetic changes, so impaired DNA replication is a well-known cancer hallmark and a driver of genomic instability.
  
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• Greenland ice flow likely to speed up

  16-08-2017 20:00
  Flow of the Greenland Ice Sheet is likely to speed up in the future, despite a recent slowdown, because its outlet glaciers slide over wet sediment, not hard rock, new research based on seismic surveys has confirmed. This sediment will become weaker and more slippery as global temperatures rise and meltwater supply becomes more variable.
  
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• Death of baby dolphin triggers outrage in Spain

  16-08-2017 20:00
  Spanish animal lovers reacted with fury on Wednesday after a baby dolphin approached a holiday beach, where it died as bathers played with it and took pictures.
  
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• Pig-to-person spread of flu at fairs a continued concern

  16-08-2017 19:50
  The spread of influenza among pigs is common at fairs and other gatherings, and protective measures including cutting the length of time pigs and people congregate make good sense for both the animals and humans, say the authors of a new study.
  
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• Fin24.com | Paving her way through maritime industry

  16-08-2017 19:50
  
  With the maritime industry formerly male dominated, women have to work hard to prove that they can head up pivotal positions in the industry, says a harbour master.
  
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• On a chaotic day in DC, Trump goes after Amazon, again

  16-08-2017 19:49
  President Donald Trump is renewing his attacks on Amazon, and he says the company is "doing great damage to tax paying retailers."
  
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• Survey examines pubic hair grooming-related injuries

  16-08-2017 19:40
  Pubic hair grooming is a widespread practice and about a quarter of people who groom reported grooming-related injuries in a national survey, according to a new article published by JAMA Dermatology.
  
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• Google And YouTube Have Created A Culture Of Censorship

  16-08-2017 19:38 via technocracy.news
  Google’s chairman is Eric Schmidt, also a member of the Trilateral Commission and a died-in-the-wool Technocrat who is bent on imposing his ideology on the entire world. His platform has become his sledge hammer. Expect censorship to increase along with howls of protest from users. ⁃ TN EditorYouTube has announced a new system to catch and flag what it calls “controversial religious and supremacist” videos hosted on the platform. The platform plans to hide these vide
  
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• Stop thinking your wife is bad with money

  16-08-2017 19:30
  When a husband thinks his wife spends too much money, whether it's reality or perception, financial and marriage problems follow.
  
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• A new critically endangered tree species depends on unique habitat found only on Kaua'i

  16-08-2017 19:30
  A new tree species, Melicope stonei (Rutaceae or citrus family), endemic to the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i, is already assessed as Critically Endangered according to IUCN criteria. The newly described Melicope is apparently restricted to unique old growth forest featuring a combination of tree species that are only found on Kaua'i.
  
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• Can't see the solar eclipse? Tune in online or on TV

  16-08-2017 19:27
  Ronald Dantowitz has been looking forward to Monday's solar eclipse for nearly 40 years.
  
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• Amazon set to create 1,000 new jobs in UK

  16-08-2017 19:27
  US online retail titan Amazon will create more than 1,000 new jobs next year with the opening of a new warehouse in Britain, under plans unveiled Wednesday.
  
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• Сould life begin in oil?

  16-08-2017 19:20
  Paul Bracher, Ph.D., assistant professor in the department of chemistry at Saint Louis University, and his research team have been awarded a three-year $597,380 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study what life might look like on other planets - or, here on earth - if it began in oil.
  
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• Harnessing rich satellite data to estimate crop yield

  16-08-2017 19:20
  Without advanced sensing technology, humans see only a small portion of the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Satellites see the full range—from high-energy gamma rays, to visible, infrared, and low-energy microwaves. The images and data they collect can be used to solve complex problems. For example, satellite data is being harnessed by researchers at the University of Illinois for a more complete picture of cropland and to estimate crop yield in the U.S. Corn Belt.
  
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• Researchers produce smart fabric to neutralize nerve gas

  16-08-2017 19:10
  From the lab of City College of New York chemical engineer and Fulbright Scholar Teresa J. Bandosz comes a groundbreaking development with the potential to thwart chemical warfare agents: smart textiles with the ability to rapidly detect and neutralize nerve gas.
  
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• Superconductivity research reveals potential new state of matter

  16-08-2017 19:09
  A potential new state of matter is being reported in the journal Nature, with research showing that among superconducting materials in high magnetic fields, the phenomenon of electronic symmetry breaking is common. The ability to find similarities and differences among classes of materials with phenomena such as this helps researchers establish the essential ingredients that cause novel functionalities such as superconductivity.
  
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• New Yale Study Shows Paraoxonase 2 Facilitates Pancreatic Cancer Growth

  16-08-2017 19:08 via scitechdaily.com
  New research from Yale University reveals that pancreatic cancer cells use glucose to survive and also to spread to other organs. Pancreatic cancer is a...
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• Fin24.com | PE teen comes up with innovative idea to combat car theft

  16-08-2017 19:01
  
  With vehicle theft rife in his city, 19-year-old Abongile Ngcosholo said he wants to find a way of reducing these robberies.
  
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• Supermassive black holes feed on cosmic jellyfish

  16-08-2017 19:00
  An Italian-led team of astronomers used the MUSE (Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) instrument on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile to study how gas can be stripped from galaxies. They focused on extreme examples of jellyfish galaxies in nearby galaxy clusters, named after the remarkable long "tentacles" of material that extend for tens of thousands of light-years beyond their galactic discs.
  
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