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• Boulder-size asteroid disintegrated harmlessly over Africa

  04-06-2018 23:57 via abcnews.go.com
  Boulder-size asteroid aiming for Earth disintegrated harmlessly over Africa's Botswana
  
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• Apple wants to help you deal with smartphone addiction

  04-06-2018 23:44 via nbcnews.com
  It's also declaring war on internet tracking technology, a move that could help put it ahead of the curve on data privacy
  
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• We may finally know how Easter Island’s giant statues got their jaunty stone hats

  04-06-2018 23:43
  
  ScienceBut there are still puzzles left to solve.
  Almost a thousand stone figures—each weighing tons—dot Easter Island. They have puzzled generations of Western anthropologists over the past two centuries…
  
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• NASA Hacked a Fix For Mars Rover's Broken Drill

  04-06-2018 23:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  After suffering more than a year with a broken drill, NASA’s 5-year-old Mars rover Curiosity is now collecting and analyzing samples once again.The drill sits at the end of Curiosity’s LeBron James-sized robotic arm and is vital for grabbing and dropping dirt into the spacecraft’s onboard laboratory. Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) put many months of effort into hacking a new way to drill after the rover’s tool broke way back in December of 2016.Drill Ba
  
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• How Pluto Formed Its Mysterious Dunes

  04-06-2018 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zipped by Pluto at 31,000 mph in July 2015, it captured a plethora of breathtaking photos of the distant dwarf planet’s surface. Within these highly detailed images, researchers noticed what looked to be an extensive system of strange dunes stretching 75 miles along the boundary of Pluto’s massive Al-Idrisi Montes mountain range and Sputnik Planitia — a nitrogen-ice plain that forms the left lobe of the planet’s fam
  
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• This Poisonous Frogs' Bright Colors Weirdly Help Camouflage It

  04-06-2018 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The conspicuous colors of poison frogs are presumed to be a warning. Indeed, vibrant patterns so often signal toxicity that biologists even have a special term for them: aposematic coloration. But, weird as it might sound, new research suggests that radiant skin patterns might help these frogs stay hidden, too.Poison frogs are armed with some of the planet's most potent toxins. The most deadly is the golden poison frog (Phyllobates terribilis)—one frog's
  
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• Saturn's speedy rotation makes its daytime auroras possible

  04-06-2018 21:30
  
  SpaceBright lights, big planet.
  A new study published today in Nature Astronomyfinds that magnetic outbursts on Saturn that explode around its noontime are powerful enough to drive auroras. This…
  
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• Cleaner pig poop could reduce bacon's environmental burden

  04-06-2018 20:30
  
  Nexus Media News Genetically modified pigs produce fewer dangerous pollutants.
  Pigs can’t make three important enzymes they need to digest the polluting nitrogen and phosphorus in their feed, so scientists have come up with another way to fix the…
  
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• Starburst Galaxies Contain Much Higher Proportions of Massive Stars

  04-06-2018 19:11 via scitechdaily.com
  Astronomers using ALMA and the VLT have discovered that both starburst galaxies in the early Universe and a star-forming region in a nearby galaxy contain...
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• Study Shows Plant Protein and Nuts Lower Cholesterol, Improve Blood Pressure

  04-06-2018 18:57 via scitechdaily.com
  A new meta-analysis published in the journal Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases finds that a diet that includes plant protein, fiber, nuts, and plant sterols lowers...
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• Chemical Traces From Intense Starbursts Shed Light on Cosmic History

  04-06-2018 18:44 via scitechdaily.com
  Fresh insight into how stars are formed is challenging scientists’ understanding of the Universe. A study of intense starbursts – events in distant galaxies in...
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• Researchers Develop a Wireless Way to Power Human Implants

  04-06-2018 18:17 via scitechdaily.com
  MIT researchers, working with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, have developed a new way to power and communicate with devices implanted deep within the...
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• Astronomers Reveal Globular Clusters 4 Billion Years Younger Than Previously Thought

  04-06-2018 17:42 via scitechdaily.com
  New research led by the University of Warwick reveals that globular clusters could be up to 4 billion years younger than previously thought. Once thought...
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• Everything you need to know about Apple's 2018 WWDC announcements

  04-06-2018 17:31
  
  TechnologyiOS 12, ARKit, and all the shiny new stuff from Apple.
  Watch Apple's 2018 WWDC keynote with us!
  
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• Neuroscientists Link APOE4 Gene to Alzheimer’s

  04-06-2018 17:03 via scitechdaily.com
  People with a gene variant called APOE4 have a higher risk of developing late-onset Alzheimer’s disease: APOE4 is three times more common among Alzheimer’s patients...
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• Volcano vocabulary to help you understand the most recent eruptions

  04-06-2018 17:00
  
  EnvironmentSpatters, clinkers, and lahars, oh my.
  The ongoing eruption of Kilauea in Hawaii has brought volcano jargon to the surface, like an effusion of mafic (that’s low-silica, oozing magma to you).
  
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• Hubble Image of the Week – Threads of Blue

  04-06-2018 16:51 via scitechdaily.com
  A ripple of bright blue threads through this galaxy like a misshapen lake system. The foreground of this image is littered with nearby stars with...
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• California Governor Jerry Brown Labeled As Technocrat

  04-06-2018 15:47 via technocracy.news
  Gov. Jerry Brown has more in common with a Technocrat than a left-wing Democrat: he is totally ‘green’, promoting Sustainable Development, global warming, alternative energy, smart cities and unlimited immigration. Whatever the United Nations proposes, Brown puts into practice, which is the unspoken reason NY Times can call him a “pragmatic, results-focused technocrat”. ⁃ TN EditorAcross the country, Democrats are winning primaries by promoting policies like univers
  
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• Facebook Shareholders Slam Zuckerberg As The ‘Dictator”

  04-06-2018 15:31 via technocracy.news
  The head of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg is actually a Technocrat, but Technocrats are essentially dictators, as in China. Inwardly, Technocrats are motivated and guided by their Utopian goals of transforming the world for its own good, even if it requires forcing compliance. ⁃ TN EditorFacebook is run like a “dictatorship,” according to some of the company’s shareholders, who slammed CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the annual shareholder meeting in Menlo Park, California, Thursday.
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• Some 83,000 members of the U.S. military are missing. This group tries to bring them home.

  04-06-2018 15:30
  
  MilitaryHow elite military and scientific teams bring home fallen U.S. soldiers.
  Many searches begin in musty archives and digital databases. DPAA historians and archivists pore over battle reports, flight and ship logs, and other documents.
  
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• Fin24.com | Nintendo investors seek answers after 'shocking' share drop

  04-06-2018 15:06
  
  Nintendo has suffered its biggest two-day drop in 18 months, befuddling analysts and sending investors scrambling to explain the sell off.
  
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• Four intense ways insects sacrifice themselves for the good of the colony

  04-06-2018 14:00
  
  AnimalsWhen the going gets tough, the tough self-destruct.
  When predators threaten, these tropical ants pull the ultimate power move: disemboweling themselves to spew noxious chemicals onto their enemies.
  
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• Fin24.com | Facebook disputes report it grants phone makers deep data access

  04-06-2018 13:31
  
  The New York Times has reported Facebook had struck deals with device manufacturers that allowed them full access to information on users and their friends.
  
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• WATCH: Microsoft acquiring computer code site

  04-06-2018 12:06 via abcnews.go.com
  The software giant is purchasing Github, whose most recent valuation was $2 billion
  
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• In China, Cockroach Farms May Be The Future Of Food

  04-06-2018 06:59 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats in China live for maximum efficiency and have figured out that the way to get rid of China’s discarded food is to feed it to cockroaches. Cockroach ‘ranches’ can host 4-5 billion of the insects at one time. ⁃ TN EditorAt a facility in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, three billion cockroaches are eating 15 tonnes of kitchen waste each day to solve the long-time environmental problem of what to do with mountains of discarded food.
  And as restaurants se
  
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• What Religion Gives Us (That Science Can’t)

  04-06-2018 00:30 via nytimes.com
  No amount of scientific explanation or sociopolitical theorizing is going to console a grieving mother.
  
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