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• A NASA satellite spotted this strangely prominent pattern of long, sinuous clouds over the Pacific

  14-02-2018 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  The conspiracy-minded will shout "chemtrails." Of course that's nonsense. But just what is creating these clouds?
  I have to admit that I was a little taken aback when I saw these long, sinuous cloud shapes snaking across the northeast Pacific Ocean.The image, captured by NASA's Terra satellite on Feb. 12, 2018, covers a huge amount of territory — as is evident if you look to the extreme right, where a good portion of the west coast of North America is visible.Before I get in
  
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• Offshore drilling foes, denied microphone, hold rallies

  14-02-2018 23:16
  New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy has message for President Donald Trump: 'You will not drill off our precious shores!'; environmentalists, denied mic at hearings, stage boisterous rallies beforehand
  
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• What's the Deal With Pulsating Auroras?

  14-02-2018 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Auroras, known to many as the northern lights, are a beautiful and mysterious phenomenon. To the casual observer the streaks of colored light across the sky can seem miraculous and inexplicable.And one kind in particular, called a pulsating aurora, has indeed been mysterious to scientists, who have never been able to directly prove their hypothesis about how it’s formed. Now, armed with better technology, researchers from Japan say they’ve finally caught the aurora in the act.
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• Here's what Popular Science editors are reading right now

  14-02-2018 22:15
  
  Gadgets"It's some of the best speculative fiction I've ever read."
  "It's some of the best speculative fiction I've ever read."…
  
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• Is it possible to die from eating too much chocolate? Asking for a friend.

  14-02-2018 21:46
  
  Ask Us Anything It would take 7,084 Hershey chocolate kisses to get chocolate poisoning
  Chocolate contains theobromine. At very high levels it can be toxic to humans, but that requires a lot of chocolate.
  
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• FBI Director: The Whole Of Chinese Society Is A Threat To The US

  14-02-2018 20:56 via technocracy.news
  China is completely intentional about everything it does to gain foreign influence, and its whole national apparatus is focused solely on gaining foreign influence. Espionage, hacking, Confucius Institutes, trade (companies like Huawei), etc. To a Technocrat mind, efficiency and persistence are supreme and every action has a purpose. ⁃ TN EditorFBI director Christopher Wray reiterated a commonly held view on Tuesday that China is seeking to become a global superpower through unconventional
  
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• Chemicals in Non-Stick Pans May Contribute to Weight Gain

  14-02-2018 20:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  More than 38 percent of American adults and 17 percent of American children are obese. And while there are numerous ways to shed pounds, it’s often difficult for many people to keep them off. It turns out some common items regularly used by people across the world could be the culprit.A study released Tuesday in PLOS Medicine suggests that perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) could be contributing to weight gain and lead to obesity. Since the 1950s, these environmental chemicals hav
  
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• Punked: Google Tests Robot To Chat With Friends For You

  14-02-2018 20:41 via technocracy.news
  If you are tired of all the texting you are doing, then Technocrat–minded Google has the perfect answer: use the AI robot to talk to your friends instead. The logical end of this (which Technocrats seldom worry about) is that humans will get pushed out and robots will talk to robots while we just watch the parade float by. ⁃ TN EditorAre you tired of the constant need to tap on a glass keyboard just to keep up with your friends? Do you wish a robot could free you of your constant com
  
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• Cryptocurrency Mining Is Hampering the Search for E.T.

  14-02-2018 20:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mining for cryptocurrencies isn’t just gobbling up capacity on electrical grids around the world, it might also be slowing the search for extraterrestrial life.Mining cryptos like Bitcoin require miners to solve wickedly complex mathematical puzzles to validate each transaction. For their efforts, miners receive a small payment for each puzzle they solve, but the process requires a crapload of computing power. To reap profits, miners rely on graphics processing units (GPUs) that are high
  
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• STANK LOVE, BEAR WIG, and other sayings from AI-generated candy hearts

  14-02-2018 20:33
  
  TechnologyThe list also includes ME LOVE HAVE and HOLE. Happy Valentine's Day.
  This is what you get when you ask artificial intelligence to write romantic candy heart messages for you.
  
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• Photographed: The Glow from a Single, Hovering Strontium Atom

  14-02-2018 19:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the photo above, you’re looking at a single, positively charged strontium atom suspended by electric fields.It’s an atom, visible to the naked eye.Whoa, right?David Nadlinger, a quantum physicist and PhD candidate at Oxford University, is the person who put it all together. He titled his picture “Single Atom in an Ion Trap.” A blue-violet laser blasts the atom, which then absorbs and re-emits enough light particles to be photographed with conventional equipment. So, te
  
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• ALMA Reveals Rotating Dense Molecular Torus Around an Active Supermassive Black Hole

  14-02-2018 18:49 via scitechdaily.com
  High resolution observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) imaged a rotating dusty gas torus around an active supermassive black hole. The existence of...
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• Organ-On-Chip Tech Reaches Next Stage, Experts Test Interaction With Pathogens

  14-02-2018 18:48 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists at Imperial College London have become the first in the world to test how pathogens interact with artificial human organs. Artificial human organs, or...
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• Six U.S. intelligence agencies Warn Against Using China’s Huawei phones

  14-02-2018 18:38 via technocracy.news
  As a Technocracy, China is prosecuting its campaign for global domination through the use of technology, data collection and the application of artificial intelligence. It has been working its campaign since at least 1978, and the results are just now catching the attention of intelligence agencies. ⁃ TN EditorSix top U.S. intelligence chiefs told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday they would not advise Americans to use products or services from Chinese smartphone maker Huawei.
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• nEDM Experiment Imposes Limits on the Interactions of Axions With Nucleons

  14-02-2018 18:34 via scitechdaily.com
  If they existed, axions – one of the candidates for particles of the mysterious dark matter – could interact with the matter forming our world,...
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• Climate change revealed this U.S. military secret

  14-02-2018 18:30
  
  Nexus Media News Toxic chemicals from hidden military bases now risk leaking.
  The melting Greenland ice sheet could leaking chemicals that the Army thought would stay frozen in perpetuity.
  
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• Image of an Icy Heart for Valentine’s Day

  14-02-2018 18:18 via scitechdaily.com
  The year 2017 was a record-breaking one for Operation IceBridge, NASA’s aerial survey of the state of polar ice. For the first time in the...
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• Fin24.com | What's next for SpaceX?

  14-02-2018 18:17
  
  In successfully sending the world's most powerful rocket into space, SpaceX founder Elon Musk has pulled off yet another spectacular gamble.
  
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• A Song of Ice and Light, Enceladus Drifts Before Saturn’s Rings

  14-02-2018 18:01 via scitechdaily.com
  Saturn’s moon Enceladus drifts before the rings and the tiny moon Pandora in this view that NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured on November 1, 2009. The...
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• Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway will Extend Human Presence in Deep Space

  14-02-2018 17:52 via scitechdaily.com
  As NASA sets its sights on returning to the Moon, and preparing for Mars, the agency is developing new opportunities in lunar orbit to provide...
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• OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Captures New Earth-Moon Image

  14-02-2018 17:44 via scitechdaily.com
  As part of an engineering test, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and Moon using its NavCam1 imager on January 17 from...
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• Creating Predictable Patterns from Unpredictable Carbon Nanotubes

  14-02-2018 17:20 via scitechdaily.com
  Integrating nanoscale fibers such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into commercial applications, from coatings for aircraft wings to heat sinks for mobile computing, requires them to...
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• New Chip Reduces Neural Networks’ Power Consumption by 95 Percent

  14-02-2018 16:53 via scitechdaily.com
  Most recent advances in artificial-intelligence systems such as speech- or face-recognition programs have come courtesy of neural networks, densely interconnected meshes of simple information processors...
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• Biochemists Reveal Secrets of a Little-Known Cancer Ally

  14-02-2018 16:45 via scitechdaily.com
  Human cancers often have a little recognized ally — the increased size and number of a cell’s organelles called the nucleolus. The nucleolus is where...
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• Astonishing Ways Animals Ensure Their Sperm Win

  14-02-2018 16:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  We all know that individuals fight over potential love interests. Just think of Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) scuffling, rather impotently, over Bridget Jones in a fountain. But you might be surprised to hear that the fierce rivalry continues behind the scenes — in the form of sperm competition. This is when the sperm of two or more males compete inside the reproductive tract of a female, to fertilize the eggs, something that is widespread in the animal kingdo
  
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• Before Planning an Exotic Summer Vacation...Read This

  14-02-2018 15:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Are you planning an adventure vacation packed with new experiences? Thinking about doing something that few people have ever done, like climbing Mt Everest? Well, according to this study, these experiences may not be all they're cracked up to be. These researchers found that "participants thoroughly enjoyed having experiences that were superior to those had by their peers, but that having had such experiences spoiled their subsequent social interactions and ultimately left them feeling wors
  
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• Now doctors can look inside the body like never before

  14-02-2018 15:47 via nbcnews.com
  New devices will end 'historic disconnect' in doctors's treatment of patients.
  
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• How to block web pop-ups, alerts, and autoplaying video

  14-02-2018 15:30
  
  DIYRestore the peace and quiet in any web browser.
  Pestered by sounds, videos, pop-ups and other distractions you don't want? Here's how to quieten down the web.
  
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• Squid Lovers Switch Sex Positions In Response To Partner's Signals

  14-02-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  When it comes to interesting cephalopod sex lives, squid seem to have drawn the short straw. Argonauts, their cousins, keep things interesting with swimming, detachable penises. Giant Pacific Octopus mating involves several hours of rough, squishy grabbing action that would make Toshio Maeda blush. But squid just get a quick hello, a few colorful flashes, and second or two of perfunctory sperm delivery—or so it would seem. A new study suggests that for all they lack in
  
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• European officials: Virtual currencies are no way to pay

  14-02-2018 14:35
  A top European monetary official says virtual currencies are no substitute conventional money issued and managed by central banks
  
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• Six animals having worse sex than you this Valentine’s Day

  14-02-2018 14:00
  
  AnimalsSex is terrible for almost all female animals.
  Sexual pleasure and passion aren’t priorities when a hermaphroditic snail impales its mate with a love dart. Their goals are to make babies and die.
  
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• WATCH: Sam's Club offers free shipping

  14-02-2018 12:31
  In an attempt to compete with Costco and Amazon, Sam's Club will now offer free shipping on many items with no minimum order size.
  
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• Twitter deleted 200,000 Russian troll tweets. Read them here.

  14-02-2018 10:55 via nbcnews.com
  Twitter doesn't make it easy to track Russian propaganda efforts — this database can help
  
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• Fin24.com | Tesla’s China dream threatened by standoff over Shanghai factory

  14-02-2018 08:45
  
  Tesla is in danger of being relegated to an expensive niche in China because Elon Musk can't clinch a deal to open a factory there.
  
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• Turner chief: Justice Department 'clueless' about AT&T-Time Warner deal

  14-02-2018 01:42 via nbcnews.com
  John Martin, chief executive of Turner Broadcasting, described the government as "clueless" during an interview on Tuesday.
  
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• Following Battles, Ant Medics Treat Their Wounded Comrades

  14-02-2018 01:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Ants that hunt termites can risk getting grievously injured in battle, but that doesn't mean its the end of the line.In a newly published study, scientists observed ant medics caring for their wounded comrades, which may be the first scientifically documented example of such medical care in the animal kingdom outside humanity.The African ant Megaponera analis specializes in hunting termites. After scouts of this ant species find termite feeding sites, the scouts lead columns of 200 t
  
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• Trump fights releasing details on national monument decision

  14-02-2018 00:39
  The U.S. government says it doesn't have to release documents involving legal arguments for President Donald Trump's decision to shrink national monuments because they're protected presidential communications
  
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• WATCH: 24 of the most famous space launches ever

  14-02-2018 00:00
  SpaceSpaceX's Falcon Heavy test is just the latest.
  On February 6, SpaceX tested its Falcon Heavy rocket, the largest since NASA's Saturn V. In honor of that, here are 24 of the most famous space launches ever.
  
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