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• Parents turn to Uber to shuttle kids, even though it's not allowed

  23-08-2017 23:10
  Teenager Emily Lieber needed a ride home from the bus stop, so she did what her parents might do: She called Uber.
  
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• Solving the mystery of what killed a Civil War submarine crew - CNN

  23-08-2017 22:13 via cnn.com
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  Solving the mystery of what killed a Civil War submarine crew
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  (CNN) The dead submarine crew hadn't moved from their stations for nearly 150 years when the vessel was raised from the ocean in 2000. Whatever killed them happened so suddenly that they never made a run for the escape hatch. What's more, they had ...
  Science may have solved the 150-year-old mystery of a sunken Civil War submarineWashington Post
  Confederate sub's weapon killed its own crew, researchers findArs Technica
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• A Secret Confederate Submarine Was So Deadly, Even the Crew Wasn't Safe

  23-08-2017 21:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  On Feb. 17, 1864, naval warfare was changed forever.That night aboard the U.S.S. Housatonic, master John H. Crosby of the Union Navy saw what he described as a porpoise sliding through the water on a direct course for his vessel just a few hundred feet away.Three years prior, President Abraham Lincoln had ordered a blockade of all major Confederate ports, and the Housatonic, a sloop-of-war with 12 large cannons, was stationed in South Carolina’s Charleston Harbor to help the presiden
  
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• Google and Walmart Are Teaming Up to Take on Amazon

  23-08-2017 21:45 via nbcnews.com
  In a swipe at Amazon, Walmart shoppers will soon be able to do their weekly shopping via Google Home.
  
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• Regulators, Whole Foods shareholders approve Amazon deal

  23-08-2017 21:32
  Whole Foods shareholders and federal regulators approved Amazon's $13.7 billion acquisition of the organic grocer, a deal that could bring big changes to the supermarket industry and how people order groceries online.
  
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• Please Enjoy This Total Eclipse 'Megamovie'

  23-08-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7BCzm4IGpYAs the eclipse laid a swath of darkness across the heart of the United States, thousands of amateur photographers pointed phones and cameras skyward to memorialize the occasion.The images together comprise a mosaic of stellar imagery spanning more than an hour and a half, and give scientists a chance to study a feature of the sun still shrouded in mystery: the corona. The delicate atmosphere of our home star, the corona is a wispy collection of
  
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• In Seattle, behind-the-scenes Facebook team wrangles digital deluge in massive cloud

  23-08-2017 21:30
  More than 2 billion people log into Facebook every month. Every day, the social-media crowd uploads billions of photos, calls up hundreds of millions of hours of video, and fires off a prodigious flurry of likes and comments. Somebody has to store that slice of humanity's digital record.
  
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• Taking loads of vitamin B could increase your risk of lung cancer

  23-08-2017 21:16
  
  HealthThe price of supplements might be pretty steep.
  Because B vitamins are water soluble and don't cause acute toxicity (i.e. sudden death), large doses were generally thought to be safe.
  
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• Disease-carrying mosquitoes rare in undisturbed tropical forests

  23-08-2017 21:16
  A new study by scientists from the Smithsonian, the Panamanian government and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, among other institutions, concludes that conserving old-growth tropical rainforest is "highly recommended" to prevent new outbreaks of viral and parasitic mosquito-borne diseases.
  
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• Anglers' delight as algal blooms breakthrough highlights innovative science

  23-08-2017 21:14
  Millions of fish-deaths caused by toxic Prymnesium algal blooms could be prevented with the application of a household chemical best known for bleaching hair, breakthrough research has revealed.
  
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• 'Sci-fi to real life': US invests $17 million in laser tech

  23-08-2017 20:52
  The U.S. Defense Department is investing $17 million in high-powered laser technology that has the potential for practical uses on the battlefield, from destroying enemy drones to disrupting communication systems.
  
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• Poodle gets tumor that's a third of its body weight removed

  23-08-2017 20:51
  A poodle named Oreo is on the mend after having a 6.4-pound (2.9-kilogram) tumor removed—nearly a third of its body weight.
  
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• You and some 'cavemen' get a genetic checkup

  23-08-2017 20:49
  Had an arrow in his back not felled the legendary Iceman some 5,300 years ago, he would have likely dropped dead from a heart attack. Written in the DNA of his remains was a propensity for cardiovascular disease.
  
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• WATCH: Dad creates app so son can't ignore his text messages

  23-08-2017 20:45 via abcnews.go.com
  Nick Herbert of the United Kingdom developed the app ReplyASAP so his 13-year-old son wouldn't miss his text messages.
  
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• Research identifies new microbe with potential to help rebalance Earth's nitrogen cycle

  23-08-2017 20:43
  New research from University of Alberta and University of Vienna microbiologists provides unparalleled insight into the Earth's nitrogen cycle, identifying and characterizing the ammonia-oxidizing microbe, Nitrospira inopinata. The findings, explained Lisa Stein, co-author and professor of biology, have significant implications for climate change research.
  
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• Your UTI keeps coming back because we use too many antibiotics

  23-08-2017 20:39
  
  Ask Us Anything Antibiotic resistance is making your UTI harder to treat.
  What UTIs are, how we get them, how to treat them, and how that's all changing.
  
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• Former CIA officer wants to buy Twitter to kick Trump off

  23-08-2017 20:30 via abcnews.go.com
  Former undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson is looking to crowdfund enough money to buy Twitter so President Donald Trump can't use it.
  
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• Confederate submarine crew killed by their own weapon

  23-08-2017 20:10
  The H.L. Hunley, the first combat submarine to sink an enemy ship, also instantly killed its own eight-man crew with the powerful explosive torpedo it carried, according to new research from a Duke University Ph.D. in biomedical engineering.
  
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• Arsenic risk in Pakistan much greater than expected

  23-08-2017 20:10
  In many parts of the densely populated plains along the Indus River and its tributaries, arsenic concentrations in groundwater supplies exceed the WHO guideline of 10 μg/litre. Very high concentrations, above 200 μg/litre, are found mainly in the south; the highest measured in this study was 500 μg/litre (Fig. 1 and Box).
  
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• The mystery of a spooky Confederate submarine might finally be solved

  23-08-2017 20:00
  
  MilitaryWe may finally know what killed Civil War soldiers on the Hunley.
  The first submarine to take down an enemy vessel was found with its crew still sitting at their battle stations. What killed them without causing panic?
  
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• New fly fossil sheds light on the explosive radiation of flies during the Cenozoic Era

  23-08-2017 20:00
  The first unambiguous fossil from the botfly family adds to the few known fossils of a major clade of flies (Calyptratae), shedding light on their rapid radiation during the Cenozoic Era, according to a study published August 23, 2017 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Pierfilippo Cerrito from Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, and colleagues.
  
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• NASA sees Tropical Depression Harvey's rebirth

  23-08-2017 19:49
  NASA's Aqua satellite provided an infrared look at the cloud top temperatures of newly reborn Tropical Depression Harvey.
  
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• Scientists 'excited' by observations suggesting formation scenarios

  23-08-2017 19:47
  Physicists have described how observations of gravitational waves limit the possible explanations for the formation of black holes outside of our galaxy; either they are spinning more slowly than black holes in our own galaxy or they spin rapidly but are 'tumbled around' with spins randomly oriented to their orbit.
  
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• Data mining finds more than expected beneath Andean Plateau

  23-08-2017 19:46
  Seismologists investigating how Earth forms new continental crust have compiled more than 20 years of seismic data from a wide swath of South America's Andean Plateau and determined that processes there have produced far more continental rock than previously believed.
  
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• Astronomers Detect First X-Rays from a Type Ia Supernova

  23-08-2017 19:13 via scitechdaily.com
  A team of astronomers has detected the first X-rays from what appears to be a type Ia supernova inside the spiral-shaped galaxy ESO 336-G009, about...
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• What causes algal blooms to become toxic?

  23-08-2017 19:10
  The disastrous 2015-16 Dungeness crab season, delayed and shortened by an unprecedented bloom of toxic algae, is a bitter memory for the West Coast fishing industry. The culprit was domoic acid, a potent neurotoxin produced by marine algae and discovered in 1987 as the cause of amnesic shellfish poisoning.
  
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• 'Nano-hashtags' could provide definite proof of Majorana particles

  23-08-2017 19:00
  In Nature today an international team of researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology, Delft University of Technology and the University of California - Santa Barbara presents an advanced quantum chip that will be able to provide definitive proof of the mysterious Majorana particles. These particles, first demonstrated in 2012, are their own antiparticle at one and the same time. The chip, which comprises ultrathin networks of nanowires in the shape of 'hashtags', has all the qualities to
  
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• Methane from tundra, ocean floor didn't spike during previous natural warming period

  23-08-2017 19:00
  Scientists concerned that global warming may release huge stores of methane from reservoirs beneath Arctic tundra and deposits of marine hydrates - a theory known as the "clathrate gun" hypothesis - have turned to geologic history to search for evidence of significant methane release during past warming events.
  
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• Major leap towards data storage at the molecular level

  23-08-2017 19:00
  From smartphones to supercomputers, the growing need for smaller and more energy efficient devices has made higher density data storage one of the most important technological quests.
  
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• #HappyBirthday! Hashtag turns 10

  23-08-2017 19:00
  The hashtag, the symbol attached to keywords to tag topics online, on Wednesday celebrates 10 years making social media just a bit more navigable.
  
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• Harvard Study Casts Doubt on the Prevailing Model of Fixed Memory Formation

  23-08-2017 18:52 via scitechdaily.com
  A newly published study from the Harvard Medical School casts doubt on the prevailing model of fixed memory formation, suggesting that the brain may be...
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• SpaceX unveils peek at sleek new spacesuit

  23-08-2017 18:43
  SpaceX's chief executive Elon Musk gave a sneak peek Wednesday at the California-based company's futuristic new spacesuit.
  
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• Tectonic Plates Used to Sink Much Further Than They do Today

  23-08-2017 18:37 via scitechdaily.com
  New research from MIT reveals that ancient Earth harbored higher mantle temperatures, which were much more efficient at drawing down pieces of the planet’s crust....
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• Climate change is luring Kodiak bears away from their iconic salmon streams

  23-08-2017 18:33
  Kodiak brown bears are abandoning salmon-their iconic prey-due to climate change, according to a new study.
  
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• Understanding Caribbean mammal extinctions of the past spurs renewed focus on conservation

  23-08-2017 18:32
  A Johns Hopkins paleontologist and her collaborative team of scientists report they have clear evidence that the arrival of humans and subsequent human activity throughout the islands of the Caribbean were likely the primary causes of the extinction of native mammal species there. The evidence, they say, highlights the need for urgent human intervention to protect the native mammal species still inhabiting the region.
  
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• Long-term study aims to understand prairie ecology after farmland is forsaken

  23-08-2017 18:32
  Across the U.S., farmers have abandoned millions of acres of land due to economics and hindrances such as dropping water tables that make irrigation of crops impossible. Since 2001, a longstanding study at the University of Kansas has improved researchers' grasp of how to restore native prairie grassland on these abandoned lands and how restoration is influenced by agricultural inputs such as nitrogen.
  
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• How 139 countries could be powered by 100 percent wind, water, and solar energy by 2050

  23-08-2017 18:28
  The latest roadmap to a 100% renewable energy future from Stanford's Mark Z. Jacobson and 26 colleagues is the most specific global vision yet, outlining infrastructure changes that 139 countries can make to be entirely powered by wind, water, and sunlight by 2050 after electrification of all energy sectors. Such a transition could mean less worldwide energy consumption due to the efficiency of clean, renewable electricity; a net increase of over 24 million long-term jobs; an annual decrease in
  
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• Middle America Is Crazy in Love With Bitcoin

  23-08-2017 18:23 via nbcnews.com
  In May, there were more searches for Bitcoin than Beyonce. Cryptocoins are going mainstream as the middleclass wants in on the "Wild West" action.
  
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• NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Views a Saturn-lit Tethys

  23-08-2017 18:21 via scitechdaily.com
  In this newly released image Cassini gazes across the icy rings of Saturn toward the icy moon Tethys – whose night side is illuminated by...
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• Gadget Guide: It's Not Too Late to Load up on College Tech

  23-08-2017 18:21 via nbcnews.com
  Tech is now a huge part of campus life. So, what tech gear do today's students need?
  
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• Personality drives purchasing of luxury goods

  23-08-2017 18:10
  People who are extraverted and on low incomes buy more luxury goods than their introverted peers to compensate for the experience of low financial status, finds new UCL research.
  
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• Whole Foods shareholders say yes to Amazon deal

  23-08-2017 18:04 via abcnews.go.com
  Whole Foods shareholders say yes to Amazon's $13.7 billion takeover bid of the organic grocer
  
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• Chemists get step closer to replicating nature with assembly of new 3-D structures

  23-08-2017 18:00
  A team of New York University chemists has created a series of three-dimensional structures that take a step closer to resembling those found in nature. The work offers insights into how enzymes are properly assembled, or folded, which could enhance our understanding of a range of diseases that result from these misfolded proteins.
  
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• Judge: Bears near US-Canada border merit endangered status

  23-08-2017 17:57 via abcnews.go.com
  A judge has ruled that grizzly bears in Montana and Idaho near the Canadian border can be considered endangered even if they are not on the brink of extinction
  
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• Myanmar's startups map past, shape future with virtual reality

  23-08-2017 17:50
  Gasps echo across the hall as the Myanmar school kids trial virtual reality goggles, marveling at a device that allows some of Asia's poorest people to walk on the moon or dive beneath the waves.
  
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• Focus for independent retailers _ make shopping easy and fun

  23-08-2017 17:40
  When sporting goods retailer evo ships ski boots ahead of the winter season, some will be delivered to the company's competitors—who will then help evo customers be sure the boots are a good fit.
  
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• 'Rare' Byzantine mosaic revealed in Jerusalem's Old City

  23-08-2017 17:30
  Israeli archaeologists on Wednesday unveiled a 1,500-year-old portion of mosaic floor bearing the names of Byzantine Emperor Justinian and a senior Orthodox priest.
  
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• Former CIA agent wants to buy Twitter to kick Trump off

  23-08-2017 17:26 via abcnews.go.com
  Former undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson is looking to crowdfund enough money to buy Twitter so President Donald Trump can't use it
  
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• Dakota pipeline company sues environmental groups

  23-08-2017 17:23
  The operator of a controversial US oil pipeline, which was the focus of months of protests by Native American tribes, on Tuesday sued several environmental groups, claiming they spread false information and incite violence.
  
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• S.Africa's first online rhino horn auction sparks anger

  23-08-2017 17:22
  South Africa's first online auction of rhino horn opened Wednesday, despite conservation groups protesting that the legal, domestic sale would encourage poachers.
  
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