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• Can One Beer a Day Increase Your Cancer Risk? The Science Says Yes

  21-08-2019 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  Does alcohol cause cancer? Here's what recent research tells us. (Credit: Mateone/Shutterstock)Humans and the bottle go a long way back. Archaeologists have found our love of alcohol began some 9,000 years ago (and maybe even 10 million years ago, according to some reports).Evidence of people boozin’ it up has been found in nearly every society throughout history. And today, alcohol is still ingrained in cultures around the world, especially in places like the Midwest – dubbed the Bi
  
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• 8 New Fast Radio Burst Sources Offer New Opportunities for Insights

  21-08-2019 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  An artist's illustration of a neutron star, a proposed source for fast radio bursts. (Credit: Casey Reed - Penn State University/Wikimedia Commons)Fast radio bursts are one of the most puzzling phenomena in
  astrophysics. But a new discovery of eight new sources for them might help
  scientists figure out what’s causing these intense outbursts of energy coming
  from distant galaxies.The newly discovered bursts are from repeating sources,
  meaning they were observed to burst multiple times. P
  
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• 3 Earth-sized Planets Found Around One of Earth's Nearest Neighbors

  21-08-2019 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  GJ 1061 is a cool red dwarf similar to the star TRAPPIST-1. This artist's concept imagines a view from the surface of one of TRAPPIST-1's multiple exoplanets. (Credit: M. Kornmesser/ESO)There is a triplet of Earth-sized planet candidates orbiting
  a star just 12 light-years away, a new study has found. And one appears to be
  in the habitable zone.
  All three candidates are thought to be at least 1.4 to 1.8
  times the mass of Earth, and orbit the star every three to 13 days, which would
  put
  
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• Senior staffer at MIT's Media Lab to resign over Epstein donation

  21-08-2019 23:12 via nbcnews.com
  Ethan Zuckerman, director of the lab's Center for Civic Media, says director Joi Ito failed to disclose the deceased financier's funding of the research center.
  
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• Putin says mysterious explosion posed no radiation threat

  21-08-2019 21:31
  Russian President Vladimir Putin says a recent deadly explosion at a military testing site in northwestern Russia hasn't posed any radiation threat
  
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• Spacewalking astronauts adding parking spot to space station

  21-08-2019 21:26
  Spacewalking astronauts add another parking spot to the International Space Station
  
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• Correction: Alaska-Salmon Hatcheries story

  21-08-2019 21:24
  Correction: Alaska-Salmon Hatcheries story
  
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• Scientists Tell Us How to Be Better Wine Tasters

  21-08-2019 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  The world of wine is complex. But there are a few simple things you can do to up your skills. (Credit: nd3000/Shutterstock)Only 256 people in the world can call themselves Master Sommeliers: experts at tasting, describing and selling wine. They’re so rare because each sip of wine is a perceptual puzzle: Over 25 different taste and smell variables (sweetness, acidity, texture, finish, etc.) define each wine.
  But you don’t have to be a super-taster or super-smeller to become a wine exp
  
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• 'Hate is in the ether': Research finds hate is resilient on the internet

  21-08-2019 19:02 via nbcnews.com
  Even as social networks have vowed to do more to remove hate speech from their platforms, at least some of the people who spread it are finding ways to still organize online.
  
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• Ride Sharing Increases Traffic Crush At Airports

  21-08-2019 18:54 via technocracy.news
  Ride sharing was promised to be the “sustainable” way to get people out of their cars and decrease traffic congestion and hence, pollution.  It has failed on all counts and now aggravates travelers even more. ⁃ TN EditorBeen at an airport lately? Then you’ve surely been in a backup on the roadways or had to jockey for a place in front of the terminal to pick up or drop off a traveler.
  It is not your imagination: Traffic at the airports — even before you ge
  
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• Autonomous Delivery Robots Coming To U.S College Campuses

  21-08-2019 18:42 via technocracy.news
  Students rejoice! Pizza delivered to your door by robot that you don’t need to tip. Starship assumes that this will really work, but they face a mountain of problems, including vandalism. ⁃ TN EditorThe quintessential college experience of getting pizza delivered to your dorm room is about to get a high-tech upgrade. On Tuesday, Starship Technologies announced its plan to deploy thousands of its autonomous six-wheeled delivery robots on college campuses around the country over the ne
  
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• The New Blood Test That Predicts Your Death?

  21-08-2019 18:20 via technocracy.news
  Technocrats invent because they can, without regard for ethical or moral boundaries. Just wait until life and health insurance companies get ahold of these tests to accept or deny coverage.  ⁃ TN EditorScientists from the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing have developed a new blood test that can predict whether you’ll die within the next 10 years.
  While it’s not exactly the most cheerful thought for a Wednesday morning, one day, all of us will die.
  But if you coul
  
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• Why a Polish Village Hasn't Seen a Baby Boy Born for Almost 10 Years

  21-08-2019 17:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  One Polish town has seen an unlikely string of female births stretching for nearly a decade. (Credit: Omar Lopez/Unsplash)The tiny Polish village of Miejsce Odrzanskie has become the unlikely source of international media attention over the past fortnight as a result of what the New York Times called “a strange population anomaly”. It has now been almost a decade since the last boy was born in this place, with the most recent 12 babies all having been girls.The mayor of the region is
  
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• Nanomachines Power Color-Changing Artificial ‘Chameleon Skin’ [Video]

  21-08-2019 17:16 via scitechdaily.com
  Researchers have developed artificial ‘chameleon skin’ that changes color when exposed to light and could be used in applications such as active camouflage and large-scale...
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• After 127 Years, Physics Riddle Finally Solved

  21-08-2019 17:06 via scitechdaily.com
  Researcher proves that boat wakes can be skewed. He solved a 127-year-old physics problem on paper and proved that off-centered boat wakes could exist. Five...
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• A years-old Instagram hoax is back — and it's tricking celebrities and politicians

  21-08-2019 16:47 via nbcnews.com
  "If you’re seeing a meme claiming Instagram is changing its rules tomorrow, it’s not true," Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, wrote on Twitter.
  
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• NASA Mission to Jupiter’s Icy Moon Confirmed

  21-08-2019 16:41 via scitechdaily.com
  An icy ocean world in our solar system that could tell us more about the potential for life on other worlds is coming into focus...
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• NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Gets a Rare Look at the Surface of a Rocky Exoplanet

  21-08-2019 16:37 via scitechdaily.com
  A new study using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a rocky planet orbiting a...
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• New, Healthier ‘Butter’ Spread Made Mostly of Water

  21-08-2019 16:24 via scitechdaily.com
  Cornell University food scientists have created a new low-calorie ‘butter’ spread that consists mostly of water. A tablespoon of this low-calorie spread has 2.8 grams...
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• Instagram debunks viral meme that it will soon use your photos against you

  21-08-2019 16:19 via rss.cnn.com
  Sorry, Rob Lowe, Usher, Pink, and even Governor Rick Perry -- you've been duped.
  
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• Thailand to set up center to combat 'fake news'

  21-08-2019 14:28
  Thailand's government has announced a plan to set up a center to combat unverified news on social media platforms, rejecting concerns that it might be used to suppress free speech
  
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• Fake News Can Lead to False Memories

  21-08-2019 10:12 via scitechdaily.com
  Voters may form false memories after seeing fabricated news stories, especially if those stories align with their political beliefs, according to research in Psychological Science,...
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• New Research Shows Glucose Is Not Primary Driver of Inflammation in Type 2 Diabetes

  21-08-2019 10:01 via scitechdaily.com
  To date, the underlying causes of inflammation in obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have been poorly understood, which has hampered efforts to develop...
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• Fin24.com | Chinese paper attacks Twitter and Facebook for shutting accounts

  21-08-2019 08:18
  
  Twitter and Facebook’s move to close accounts that the companies said were backed by China and attempting to manipulate news about the protests in Hong Kong drew swift backlash from Chinese state media and internet users.
  
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• Merging Galaxies Spotted by Hubble Space Telescope

  21-08-2019 07:44 via scitechdaily.com
  Over thirty years ago, the Infrared Astronomy Satellite discovered that the universe contained many extremely luminous galaxies, some more than a thousand times brighter than...
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• Magnetic Particles Deliver Drugs With Pinpoint Targeting

  21-08-2019 07:17 via scitechdaily.com
  Magnetic particles allow drugs to be released at precise times and in specific areas. Most pharmaceuticals must either be ingested or injected into the body...
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• Urgency for vaccine grows as virus ravages China's pigs

  21-08-2019 06:30
  Scientists are working to develop a vaccine for a deadly virus that's devastating pig herds in Asia
  
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• Facebook rolls out tool to block off-Facebook data gathering

  21-08-2019 05:30
  Facebook launches 'clear history' tool in some countries under a new name
  
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• California high school locks up cellphones to keep students focused

  21-08-2019 05:10 via nbcnews.com
  Some experts say taking away the students' devices creates its own kind of distraction — and anxiety — for students
  
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• Boosting Computing Power With Machine Learning for the Future of Particle Physics

  21-08-2019 03:46 via scitechdaily.com
  Prototype machine-learning technology co-developed by MIT scientists speeds processing by up to 175 times over traditional methods.ning A new machine learning technology tested by an...
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• Earth's future is being written in fast-melting Greenland

  21-08-2019 02:57
  Scientists studying the melting of the ice in Greenland this summer are finding themselves working in shirtsleeve weather without the need for gloves
  
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• How a hacked American nightclub Twitter account was implicated in China's information war

  21-08-2019 00:48 via rss.cnn.com
  Twitter recently took down a covert network of nearly 1,000 accounts it says are tied to the Chinese government. Many, but not all, of the accounts attacked pro-Democracy protesters in Hong Kong.
  
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• Facebook finally rolls out privacy tool for your browsing history

  21-08-2019 00:48 via rss.cnn.com
  More than a year after Mark Zuckerberg tried to defuse a privacy uproar by teasing a new tool to help users "clear" their history on the platform, it's finally rolling out -- but some may be disappointed by the limitations of the feature.
  
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