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• Trump leads opposition as more states expand voting by mail ahead of November election - CNN

  08-04-2020 23:54 via news.google.com
  Trump leads opposition as more states expand voting by mail ahead of November election  CNNWhy Republicans Are So Afraid of Vote-by-Mail  The New York TimesAnalysis | The Cybersecurity 202: Mail-in voting surge is already facing time crunch in run-up to November election.  The Washington PostTrump Hates Having Too Many Voters  The New York TimesTrump’s evidence of vote-by-mail election fraud is a “pants on fire” lie  Vox.comView
  
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• Is Hand-Rearing Butterflies Actually Helpful to Monarch Populations?

  08-04-2020 23:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Weaker, paler and potentially directionally confused, some monarchs seem less prepared to journey all the way to Mexico.
  
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• Amazon halts its shipping service that competed with UPS and FedEx

  08-04-2020 22:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Amazon is halting its third-party shipping service in the United States, which competed with FedEx and UPS, the company said Wednesday.
  
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• Even as COVID-19 Poses Huge Challenges to Responders, the Risks for Natural Disasters Are Rising

  08-04-2020 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Abnormally warm sea temperatures are raising the risks for hurricanes, while the central and southeastern U.S. face flooding, and parts of the West are forecast to see heightened wildfire activity.
  
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• The conspiracy linking 5G to coronavirus just will not die

  08-04-2020 21:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As the spread of the coronavirus is proving difficult to contain, so too is the misinformation surrounding it.
  
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• Amazon halts its shipping service that competed with UPS, FedEx

  08-04-2020 21:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Amazon is halting its third-party shipping service in the United States, which competed with FedEx and UPS, the company said Wednesday.
  
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• Ancient Microscopic Mineral Excavation Deepens Mystery of the Origins of Earth’s Magnetic Field

  08-04-2020 20:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The existence of a magnetic field beyond 3.5 billion years ago is still up for debate. Microscopic minerals excavated from an ancient outcrop of Jack...
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• Report: Outbreak triggers drop in climate-changing emissions

  08-04-2020 19:18
  
  President Donald Trump will preside over one of America's sharpest drops in climate-changing emissions despite mocking the idea of climate change himself
  
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• Experts Raise the Alarm on Endangered Great Apes and COVID-19

  08-04-2020 18:25 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Primate experts warn that the global human health emergency of COVID-19 also threatens our closest living relatives — endangered great apes. Nature published their commentary...
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• Science row hits EU at height of coronavirus crisis

  08-04-2020 18:15
  
  The European Union has been thrown into a scientific policy dispute at the height of the coronavirus crisis
  
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• Climate Alarmists Use Coronavirus To Push Climate Change Agenda

  08-04-2020 18:04 via technocracy.news
  
  This is no surprise because climate and coronavirus alarmism are originated from the same source, namely, Imperial College in London and the UN’s World Health Organization. Their mission is singular: implement Sustainable Development and Green New Deal, aka Technocracy. ⁃ TN EditorSeveral climate alarmists, including celebrities, members of the media, and politicians, are using the deadly coronavirus pandemic to further their climate change agenda.
  A report by Steven Milloy released
  
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• Why It’s Unconstitutional To Keep Grocery Stores Open While Closing Churches

  08-04-2020 17:48 via technocracy.news
  
  This is a must-read article by constitutional attorney Jenna Ellis on the slippery slope of Constitutional degradation when government authorities pick winners and losers in private society. ⁃ TN EditorIt’s a dangerous precedent that government could consider itself the arbiter of private essential services.
  In response to the Wuhan coronavirus, state governors and local leaders have issued wide-ranging executive orders requiring closure of “non-essential” businesses. Thi
  
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• Horowitz: It’s Time To End The Great American COVID-19 Police State

  08-04-2020 17:28 via technocracy.news
  
  Except that tyranny is raising its ugly and toxic head, there is no excuse or rationale to implement a police state in America because of COVID-19 or any other disease. Citizens must contend for Civil Liberties at every level of government. ⁃ TN EditorWe now have the most severe, widespread, and protracted form of martial law in our nation’s history … except as it applies to dangerous criminals who are undeterred and released. How much worse will we allow this to get
  
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• Revolutionary Light-Emitting Silicon – “Holy Grail” Breakthrough After 50 Years of Work

  08-04-2020 17:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Breakthrough after 50 years of work paves the way for photonic chips. Emitting light from silicon has been the ‘Holy Grail’ in the microelectronics industry...
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• Inside One Company’s Quest to Develop a COVID-19 Antibody Treatment: A Q&A with Regeneron’s George Yancopoulos

  08-04-2020 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While teams race to develop a vaccine, Regeneron’s treatment would use antibodies to give patients short-term immunity.
  
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• A Rapidly Changing Arctic: Significantly More Carbon & Nutrients to North Pole

  08-04-2020 16:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Shelf sediments, freshwater runoff from rivers brings more carbon, nutrients to North Pole. Trace elements may increase with future Arctic melt releasing dissolved organic matter...
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• Fake U.S. government documents came from Russian group, researchers say

  08-04-2020 15:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  The report comes as election security experts remain on alert for efforts to manipulate the 2020 election from Russia and many other countries and nonstate actors.
  
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• 'Zoomover': Still in quarantine, Jewish families prepare for a virtual Passover

  08-04-2020 14:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  "It was just a no brainer to us to switch to the digital world and continue the tradition online,” Kara Silverman, who will host a virtual Seder, said.
  
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• Asian Hornets Are Invading Europe – Here’s What It’s Going to Cost

  08-04-2020 14:19 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Since its accidental introduction in 2003 in France, the yellow-legged Asian hornet (Vespa velutina nigrithorax) is rapidly spreading through Europe. Both experts and citizen scientists...
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• Quantum Entanglement of Independent Particles Without Any Contact – Ever

  08-04-2020 13:45 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Entanglement by Identity, or Interaction Without Ever Touching What is interaction and when does it occur? Intuition suggests that the necessary condition for the interaction...
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• Powerful Relativistic Jet Blasts From Colliding Galaxies & Here’s the First-Ever Photo Proof

  08-04-2020 13:13 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A team of Clemson University College of Science researchers, in collaboration with international colleagues, has reported the first definitive detection of a relativistic jet emerging...
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• Surprising Secret to Making Stronger Concrete: Sewage

  08-04-2020 12:35 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A by-product of steel making can be used to both treat wastewater and make stronger concrete. Researchers have shown how a by-product of steel making...
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• “Dancing Cat Fever” – New Culprit Identified for Minamata Mercury Poisoning Tragedy

  08-04-2020 12:09 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The 1950s and ‘60s poisoning event was long attributed to methylmercury, but studies at SLAC suggest a different compound was to blame. The findings could...
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• Climate Change Drove Settlers to South Pacific Islands 200 Years Earlier Than Previously Thought

  08-04-2020 11:42 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Research led by scientists at the University of Southampton has found settlers arrived in East Polynesia around 200 years earlier than previously thought. Colonization of...
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• Long-Standing Quantum Physics Prediction Proven: Bethe Strings Experimentally Observed

  08-04-2020 11:14 via scitechdaily.com
  
  90 years ago, the physicist Hans Bethe postulated that unusual patterns, so-called Bethe strings, appear in certain magnetic solids. Now an international team has succeeded...
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• News24.com | Zoom sued for fraud over privacy, security flaws

  08-04-2020 10:59
  
  Weak encryption technology has given rise to the phenomenon of “Zoombombing”, where uninvited trolls gain access to a video conference.
  
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• Fin24.com | Zoom sued for fraud over privacy, security flaws

  08-04-2020 10:59
  
  Weak encryption technology has given rise to the phenomenon of “Zoombombing”, where uninvited trolls gain access to a video conference.
  
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• Coronavirus lockdown could give online education a lasting boost in India

  08-04-2020 10:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Indian children are using more education apps, as schools close in its nationwide lockdown.
  
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• WeWork sues SoftBank for bailing on $3 billion share buyout agreed to in October

  08-04-2020 08:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  WeWork is suing SoftBank for abandoning a $3 billion share buyout, accusing the Japanese company of inventing reasons to back out of the plan, as financial losses mount and the Covid-19 pandemic worsens.
  
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• The Lord of the Rings

  08-04-2020 06:34 via scitechdaily.com
  
  At first glance, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image looks to be a simple spiral galaxy, with two pinwheeling arms emerging from...
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• Twitter's Dorsey sets up $1B fund; consumers get some breaks

  08-04-2020 06:33
  
  Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is setting aside $1 billion in stock to establish a philanthropic venture focused initially on global relief efforts for the COVID-19 pandemic
  
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• False Memories of Crime Appear Real to Others When Told

  08-04-2020 06:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  People are no better than chance at identifying when someone else is recounting a false or real memory of a crime, according to a new...
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• COVID-19 World Map: 1,279,722 Confirmed Cases; 205 Countries; 72,614 Deaths

  08-04-2020 05:42 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Note: There is now a newer Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation Report 79. WHO Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Situation Report 78 One new country/territory/area reported cases of...
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• What is a Supermoon?

  08-04-2020 04:30 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The Moon will be a Supermoon on Tuesday night, April 7, 2020, appearing opposite the Sun (in Earth-based longitude) at 10:35 PM EDT. The Moon...
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• Bleaching on Great Barrier Reef more widespread than ever

  08-04-2020 03:40
  
  An aerial survey of the Great Barrier Reef shows coral bleaching is sweeping across the area off the east of Australia for the third time in five years
  
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• COVID-19 Forces Earth's Largest Telescopes to Close. But a Few Isolated Astronomers Are Still Watching Over the Cosmos

  08-04-2020 01:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  More than 100 of Earth's largest telescopes are now closed, and astronomers are worried about the pandemic’s long-term impacts on their field. 
  
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• Virus Spillover, Wildlife Extinction and the Environment – It’s All Interlinked

  08-04-2020 01:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The same processes that threaten wildlife increase our risk of spillover. As COVID-19 spreads across the globe, a common question is, can infectious diseases be...
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• Modeling coronavirus: 'Uncertainty is the only certainty'

  08-04-2020 00:52
  The latest statistical models show a glimmer of hope, forecasting fewer deaths in the U.S. from the coronavirus pandemic before August
  
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• Jack Dorsey sets aside $1 billion for charity. His initial focus: coronavirus relief efforts

  08-04-2020 00:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey says he's dedicating more than a quarter of his wealth to a new fund for charitable causes, with the immediate focus on coronavirus relief efforts.
  
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