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• Eufy RoboVac 11 Review: This budget-friendly bot is a total neat freak

  24-08-2017 23:42
  
  GadgetsIt doesn't have a companion app, but it's smart about cleaning.
  This affordable robot will clean up your mess.
  
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• TVA monitors for toxins from coal near Memphis water supply

  24-08-2017 23:30
  The Tennessee Valley Authority says it is installing 24 more monitoring wells at a coal-fired power plant where high levels of arsenic and lead were found in groundwater.
  
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• Philips to build health technology center in Tennessee

  24-08-2017 23:27
  Dutch giant Royal Philips plans to build a health technology center in Tennessee.
  
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• Duke University receives two endangered lemurs from Madagascar

  24-08-2017 23:22
  A pair of endangered lemurs has been imported to the U.S. from Madagascar for the first time in two decades.
  
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• Amazon to cut prices on Whole Foods staples like eggs, beef

  24-08-2017 23:22
  Amazon is moving swiftly to make big changes at Whole Foods, saying it plans to cut prices on bananas, eggs, salmon, beef and more as soon as it completes its $13.7 billion takeover next week.
  
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• Peru discovers in pre-Incan site tomb of 16 Chinese migrants

  24-08-2017 23:20
  Peruvian archeologists have discovered in a sacred pre-Incan site the bodies of 16 men from China who arrived to South America almost two centuries ago as semi-enslaved workers.
  
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• Tracking down the jumping genes of maize

  24-08-2017 23:14
  The "jumping genes" of maize have finally been mapped by an international team led by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The discovery could ultimately benefit the breeding and production of maize, one of the world's most important crops.
  
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• 3-D scanning methods allow an inside look into fossilized feces

  24-08-2017 23:13
  Coprolites are fossilized feces that give evidence of an organism's behavior and often contain food residues, parasite remains and other fossils that provide clues to ancient paleoecological relations. Many of the inclusions in coprolites are delicate and fossilized soft tissues, which in many cases are more likely preserved within the coprolites than in other rocks. However, the composition, size and organization of the inclusions within the coprolites make them difficult to analyze. Classic te
  
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• Variation in the recovery of tetrapods

  24-08-2017 23:12
  The end-Permian mass extinction (EPME) occurred about 250 million years ago and represents the Earth's most catastrophic extinction event. Up to 96% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species went extinct, opening up habitats for the evolution of dinosaurs and mammals. A new study, being presented at the 77th Annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in Calgary, Alberta, compares the recovery of land-dwelling vertebrates from different localities in the southern portion
  
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• New dinosaur discovery suggests new species roosted together like modern birds

  24-08-2017 23:12
  The Mongolian Desert has been known for decades for its amazing array of dinosaurs, immaculately preserved in incredible detail and in associations that give exceedingly rare glimpses at behavior in the fossil record. New remains from this region suggest an entirely unknown behavior for bird-like dinosaurs about 70 million years ago. At least some dinosaurs likely roosted together to sleep, quite possibly as a family, much like many modern birds do today. Gregory Funston, Ph.D. Candidate at the
  
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• Ice age era bones recovered from underwater caves in Mexico

  24-08-2017 23:10
  When the Panamanian land bridge formed around 3 million years ago, Southern Mexico was in the middle of a great biotic interchange of large animals from North and South America that crossed the continents in both directions. However, fossil animals from this time have been rare for the in-between environments of Central America and southern Mexico. Recently, a team technical cave divers are helping fill in this gap by discovering remains of large animals that once roamed the Yucatán Penin
  
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• The first hard evidence for the 'outside-in' theory of the origin of teeth

  24-08-2017 23:08
  Researchers studying a 400 million year old bony fish from Estonia believe that they have found evidence for the origins of teeth. Using advanced synchrotron microtomography on numerous specimens representing different ages has allowed scientists a rare glimpse into the evolution and formation of teeth. As lead author Donglei Chen explains, "We can watch how fishes initiated and replaced teeth one by one, and how the blood vessels of these teeth were formed, 400 million years ago. It is as if we
  
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• Fossils reveal how bizarre mammal beat extinction

  24-08-2017 23:07
  Animals that live on islands are among the most at risk from extinction. A remarkable eighty percent of extinctions occurring since 1500AD have been on islands, with inhabitants facing dangers from climate change, sea level rise, invasive species, and human interactions. However, new research presented this week at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology conference in Alberta, Canada, suggests that one island mammal may hold the key to survival—a flexible diet.
  
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• Elucidating the biology of extinct cave bears

  24-08-2017 23:06
  One of the largest known species of bear, the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus), ranged widely through Eurasia all the way to the Mediterranean in the south and to the Caucasus Mountains and northern Iran in the east during Late Pleistocene times. Its name is based on the fact that it spent more of its life in caves than its closest present-day relative, the brown bear (Ursus arctos).
  
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• Purdue startup receives Veteran Affairs' grant, advance RoboTable, increase independence, improve quality of life

  24-08-2017 23:02
  Prehensile Technologies, a company developing robotic assistive technology devices, is developing RoboTable, a robotic over-the-bed table, to help veterans and others with disabilities or mobility impairments better use their laptop computers and mobile devices while restricted to bed, allowing them to be more independent and remain productive with work or school.
  
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• High-frequency chip brings researchers closer to next generation technology

  24-08-2017 23:01
  novel, high-frequency electronic chip potentially capable of transmitting tens of gigabits of data per second—a rate that is orders of magnitude above the fastest internet speeds available today—has been developed by engineers at the University of California, Davis.
  
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• Carbon nanotubes worth their salt

  24-08-2017 22:59
  Lawrence Livermore scientists, in collaboration with researchers at Northeastern University, have developed carbon nanotube pores that can exclude salt from seawater. The team also found that water permeability in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with diameters smaller than a nanometer (0.8 nm) exceeds that of wider carbon nanotubes by an order of magnitude.
  
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• Samsung Galaxy Note 8 first look: Sharp phone with few surprises

  24-08-2017 22:20
  Samsung wants to give customers another reason to love the Note.
  
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• Trees help keep you cozy, even when you’re indoors

  24-08-2017 22:04
  
  From Our Blogs: Nexus Media News Protecting buildings from cold air, turbulent winds and dangerous pollution.
  Trees keep pedestrians comfortable when they stroll down the street, and they help lower building heating costs by slowing winds.
  
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• 'Assassin's Creed' is crossing over with 'Final Fantasy' - Engadget

  24-08-2017 22:00 via engadget.com
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  'Assassin's Creed' is crossing over with 'Final Fantasy'
  Engadget
  So this is weird: Square Enix and Ubisoft have announced that this month will mark the beginning of crossovers between Assassin's Creed and Final Fantasy. Yup, really. "This collaboration is the result of being huge fans," Ubisoft Montreal game ...
  Final Fantasy XV Gets DLC From, Uh, Assassin's CreedKotaku
  Gamescom 2017: Assassin's Creed/Final Fantasy XV Crossover AnnouncedIGN
  Final Fantasy 15 Gets Assassin's Creed Cross
  
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• 9 paid iPhone apps on sale for free right now - BGR

  24-08-2017 21:53 via bgr.com
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  9 paid iPhone apps on sale for free right now
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  Whether you're looking to turn your iPhone into a keypad for your Mac or a dashboard for your car, we've got you covered with today's selection of paid apps gone free. There are some other games and productivity apps to go along with those, but if you ...
  Survey finds 70 percent of iPhone loyal and won't switch, 40 percent want 'iPhone 8'AppleInsider (press release) (blog)
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• Researchers Confirm Theory of “Superballistic” Electron Flow

  24-08-2017 21:41 via scitechdaily.com
  New experiments confirm theory of “superballistic” electron flow, revealing how electrons behave like particles in a viscous fluid to help bunches of electrons squeeze through...
  The post Researchers Confirm Theory of “Superballistic” Electron Flow appeared first on SciTech Daily.
  
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• A Russian Tanker Completes First Solo Trip Through the Arctic Ocean

  24-08-2017 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Russian tanker ship has traversed the Arctic Ocean without the help of a separate icebreaker, marking a first for the Northern Sea Route.The Christophe de Margerie made the journey from Norway to South Korea in 23 days carrying a shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG), opening up the frigid route to sustained shipping traffic. Ships normally travel through the Suez Canal to reach Asia from Europe, a trip that takes some 30 percent longer. The ship, which has a reinforced hull allowing
  
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• Can This Ancient Babylonian Tablet Improve Modern Math?

  24-08-2017 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Researchers in Australia say an ancient Babylonian tablet that’s considered the world’s oldest trigonometric table was a far more powerful tool than it’s given credit for.The square tablet, known as Plimpton 322, is roughly the size of a cell phone and features four columns and 15 rows of cuneiform numbers written on it. Artifacts dealer Edgar Banks—the man who Indiana Jones is based off of— sold the 3,700-year-old artifact to New York publisher George Arthur Plimpt
  
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• SpaceX launched and landed another one of its Falcon 9 rockets - The Verge

  24-08-2017 21:07 via theverge.com
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  SpaceX launched and landed another one of its Falcon 9 rockets
  The Verge
  Update August 24th, 3:05PM ET: SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket landed on the company's drone ship 10 minutes after take off, marking the ninth successful rocket landing for SpaceX this year and the fifteenth recovery overall. Meanwhile, the vehicle also ...
  Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket soars into space from CaliforniaSpaceflight Now
  SpaceX chalks up another rapid-fire Falcon 9 launchCBS News
  SpaceX Launches Earth
  
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• SpaceX launches Taiwan's first home-built satellite

  24-08-2017 21:02
  SpaceX on Thursday launched the first satellite designed and built entirely in Taiwan, a spacecraft that aims to boost disaster forecasts and mapping, environmental observation and space research.
  
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• Satellite for Taiwan launched from California

  24-08-2017 21:02
  An Earth-observation satellite for Taiwan's National Space Organization has been launched from California.
  
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• Collapse at salmon farm renews debate about fish farming

  24-08-2017 21:02
  A marine net pen holding 305,000 farmed Atlantic salmon collapsed recently, releasing thousands of fish into Puget Sound and renewing concerns that a new proposed salmon farm could harm wild salmon stock and cause other environmental damage.
  
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• Amazon: Whole Foods deal to close Monday, vows lower prices

  24-08-2017 21:02
  Amazon announced Thursday that its takeover of Whole Foods Market will close next week, as it vowed to cut grocery prices and fully integrate the chain into its retail empire.
  
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• Physicists discover that some plasma instabilities can extinguish themselves

  24-08-2017 21:01
  Physicist Fatima Ebrahimi at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has for the first time used advanced models to accurately simulate key characteristics of the cyclic behavior of edge-localized modes (ELMs), a particular type of plasma instability. The findings could help physicists more fully comprehend the behavior of plasma, the hot, charged gas that fuels fusion reactions in doughnut-shaped fusion facilities called tokamaks, and more reliably produ
  
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• NASA technologist develops self-calibrating, hybrid space magnetometer

  24-08-2017 21:00
  They've flown on high-profile interplanetary and more modest low-Earth-orbiting missions, but in all cases the ubiquitous fluxgate magnetometers that scientists use to measure the intensity of a magnetic field will degrade over time.
  
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• DNA detectives crack the case on biothreat look-alikes

  24-08-2017 20:59
  Biological "detectives" are tracking down biothreats such as the bacteria that causes tularemia ("rabbit fever"), but they constantly face the challenge of avoiding false positives. Sounding the alarm over a bioattack, only to find it's a harmless relative in the same genus, reduces credibility and public trust. New work at Los Alamos National Laboratory is narrowing down the confusion over Francisella bacteria, a few species of which include highly virulent human and animal pathogens, fish path
  
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• NASA finds heavy rainfall in intensifying Tropical Storm Harvey

  24-08-2017 20:58
  NASA examined Harvey as it began to intensify and organize and found heavy rainfall in the system. NASA also created an animation that showed Harvey's intensification from a low pressure area into a hurricane.
  
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• James Webb Telescope will study our solar system's 'ocean worlds'

  24-08-2017 20:57
  NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will use its infrared capabilities to study the "ocean worlds" of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, adding to observations previously made by NASA's Galileo and Cassini orbiters. The Webb telescope's observations could also help guide future missions to the icy moons.
  
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• Hundreds of Android Apps Had Spyware — And Google Didn't Even Know It

  24-08-2017 20:33 via nbcnews.com
  As many as 500 seemingly harmless apps downloaded from the Google Play store hid a dirty little secret that even the app makers weren't aware of.
  
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• Hinode Satellite Captures August 21 Eclipse Images, Video

  24-08-2017 20:26 via scitechdaily.com
  Credits: JAXA/NASA By assembling still images from the Hinode Solar Observation Satellite, scientists from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan...
  The post Hinode Satellite Captures August 21 Eclipse Images, Video appeared first on SciTech Daily.
  
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• Microsoft's Xbox One X is still a tough sell - Engadget

  24-08-2017 20:17 via engadget.com
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  Microsoft's Xbox One X is still a tough sell
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  We get it, Microsoft. The Xbox One X is a beast! It'll run games in native 4K! (Not like that sometimes-4K from the PlayStation 4 Pro.) It's basically everything we've ever wanted, spec-wise, from a video game console. And yet, many aspects of the Xbox ...
  'Minecraft' for Xbox One finally gets mouse and keyboard supportDigital Trends
  Xbox One X Project Scorpio Edition Preorder GuideIGN
  ET Deals: Pre-Order the Xbox One X on AmazonExt
  
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• Post-Tropical Cyclone Kenneth spinning down

  24-08-2017 20:10
  Former Tropical Storm Kenneth continues to maintain gale-force winds but appears to be devoid of any strong thunderstorms in satellite imagery.
  
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• The gut microbes of modern hunter-gatherers reveal one big problem with your diet

  24-08-2017 20:00
  
  HealthMore fiber might mean more bacteria—and that's a good thing.
  A team of scientists studied the microbiomes of a unique group of individuals: The Hadza people, a hunter-gatherer community living in Tanzania.
  
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• Mathematical mystery of ancient Babylonian clay tablet solved

  24-08-2017 20:00
  UNSW Sydney scientists have discovered the purpose of a famous 3700-year old Babylonian clay tablet, revealing it is the world's oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, possibly used by ancient mathematical scribes to calculate how to construct palaces and temples and build canals.
  
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• Hunter-gatherers' seasonal gut-microbe diversity loss echoes our permanent one

  24-08-2017 20:00
  More evidence that our intestinal microbes are profoundly influenced by the foods we eat—or don't: The gut ecosystems of members of a small group of hunter-gatherers inhabiting Tanzania's Rift Valley show a strong cyclicality consistent with the population's seasonally changing diet.
  
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• Antibiotic resistance rises in 'lonely' mutating microbes

  24-08-2017 20:00
  A major study led by The University of Manchester has discovered that so called 'lonely' microbes, those living at low population densities, are more likely to mutate causing higher rates of antibiotic resistance.
  
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• 4 things the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 can do that the Galaxy S8 can't - CNET

  24-08-2017 19:47 via cnet.com
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  4 things the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 can do that the Galaxy S8 can't
  CNET
  Beyond a slightly larger display and a somewhat boxier design, the Note 8 has kept a few features to itself when compared to the Galaxy S8 ($649.88 at Amazon Marketplace) and S8 Plus. Write on the screen. A staple of the Note line has always been a big ...
  The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 is not just for scribblers anymoreZDNet
  Samsung's Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus are $150 off on Amazon this weekBusiness Insider
  Galaxy Note 8
  
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• Searching 'Depression'? Google Will Now Get You Help

  24-08-2017 19:44 via nbcnews.com
  People searching for depression will now be presented with a questionnaire from Google.
  
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• Nandan Nilekani back at India's Infosys

  24-08-2017 19:28
  Infosys cofounder Nandan Nilekani will take over immediately as the company's nonexecutive chairman, the Indian software giant said Thursday, a move to calm investor unrest and steady the share price.
  
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• The secret life of dodos, revealed

  24-08-2017 19:26
  Has any animal suffered greater ignominy than the ill-fated dodo?
  
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• Hopes soar in Scotland: Edinburgh Zoo panda may be pregnant

  24-08-2017 19:23
  The only female giant panda in Britain is believed to be pregnant, Edinburgh Zoo said Thursday.
  
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• Egypt archaeologists uncover tombs dating back to Roman era

  24-08-2017 19:23
  Egypt's Antiquities Ministry says that archaeologists have uncovered five tombs from the Roman era, dating back to more than 2,000 years.
  
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• Manganese in underground drinking water is cause for concern

  24-08-2017 19:21
  Underground drinking water sources in parts of the U.S. and three Asian countries may not be as safe as previously thought due to high levels of manganese, especially at shallow depths, according to a study led by a researcher at the University of California, Riverside. Manganese, a metal that is required by the body in tiny amounts, can be toxic at elevated levels, particularly in children.
  
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• World's oldest Italian wine just discovered: Ancient pottery tests positive for wine

  24-08-2017 19:20
  Chemical analysis conducted on ancient pottery could dramatically predate the commencement of winemaking in Italy. A large storage jar from the Copper Age (early 4th millennium BC) tests positive for wine.
  
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