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• Tesla sales surge as global demand picks up speed

  02-10-2020 23:36
  
  Tesla’s third-quarter sales rose 44% from a year ago as global demand for its electric vehicles proved stronger than most other automakers
  
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• Tesla shares sink 7% despite record car sales

  02-10-2020 23:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Tesla reported record sales for the third quarter, but its high-flying stock still suffered a sell-off on the news.
  
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• “Echo Mapping” Light Bursts From Supermassive Black Holes in Faraway Galaxies to Measure Vast Cosmic Distances

  02-10-2020 22:55 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Matter swirling around supermassive black holes creates bursts of light that “echo” in nearby dust clouds. These traveling signals could serve as a new cosmic...
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• Strong Evidence of Zoonotic COVID-19 Transmission: Study Shows SARS-CoV-2 Jumped Between People and Mink

  02-10-2020 21:44 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A study investigating SARS-CoV-2 infections across 16 mink farms in the Netherlands, presented at the ESCMID Conference on Coronavirus Disease (ECCVID, held online from September...
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• 'Star Wars: Squadrons' lets players pilot their own starfighters

  02-10-2020 20:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Inspired by the '90s Star Wars flight games, "Star Wars: Squadrons" came out Friday, and its main draw is letting fans pilot their own spaceships, zooming past debris and space rocks to fire down enemy targets.
  
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• 2020 Arctic Sea Ice Minimum Extent the Second Lowest Since Modern Record Keeping Began

  02-10-2020 20:14 via scitechdaily.com
  
  This year’s Arctic sea ice cover shrank to the second-lowest extent since modern record keeping began in the late 1970s. An analysis of satellite data...
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• Diet by DNA: Is the Best Way to Eat Written in Your Genes?

  02-10-2020 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nutrigenomics companies that use genetic data to create diets are becoming more popular. But does matching diet to genes improve health?
  
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• 48,000 Year-Old Baby Tooth Found – Belonged to One of the Last Neanderthals in Northern Italy

  02-10-2020 18:43 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A milk-tooth (i.e. baby tooth) found in the vicinity of “Riparo del Broion” on the Berici Hills in the Veneto region bears evidence of one...
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• Looking Down at Storm From Space, NASA Finds Heavy Rainfall Ringing Major Hurricane Maria’s Eye

  02-10-2020 17:47 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Imagine being able to look down at a storm from orbit in space, and provide data that lets scientists calculate the rate in which rain...
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• Globalists Pledge To Halt Earth’s Destruction Ahead Of UN Summit

  02-10-2020 17:26 via technocracy.news
  
  It has been well documented that the U.N. polices of Sustainable Development will not save the world, but rather destroy it. World leaders are still saying they will stop the destruction while implementing more Sustainable Development.
  This is Hegelian dialectic on steroids. The “Pledge for Nature’ they all signed states,
  Political leaders participating in the United Nations Summit on Biodiversity in September 2020, representing 76 countries from all regions and the European Union, h
  
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• Nitric Oxide a Possible Treatment for COVID-19 – Only Substance to Have a Direct Effect on SARS-CoV-2

  02-10-2020 17:15 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers at Uppsala University have found that an effective way of treating the coronavirus behind the 2003 SARS epidemic also works on the closely related...
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• Former Chief Science Officer for Pfizer: ‘Second Wave’ is Faked

  02-10-2020 17:05 via technocracy.news
  
  From a truly objective scientific view, a second wave was not predicted nor has it materialized. However, the Technocrat narrative has completely overridden science to perpetuate the “Great Panic of 2020” to drive vaccines to the world’s population.
  In this case, Dr. Mike Yeadon might be considered a whistleblower of sorts as he defies Big Pharma’s hollow rhetoric and says the “pandemic is over”. Establishment media will not give a single inch of coverage to h
  
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• 20 Things You Didn't Know About Wilderness

  02-10-2020 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The great outdoors is good for our overall health, but this precious resource is in danger.
  
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• Gates, Kissinger On Same Path To Population Control

  02-10-2020 16:31 via technocracy.news
  
  Population control has been a not-so-hidden agenda ever since the Club of Rome’s publication of Limits to Growth in 1972 and Dr. Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb in 1968. Disguised in many ways to hide its true purpose, it is remains patently anti-human. ⁃ TN Editor“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” George Orwell
  Can we agree that there are two types of Covid-19?
  The first type, is Covid-19 ,”The Virus&r
  
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• Europe's central bank moves toward introducing digital euro

  02-10-2020 16:28
  
  The euro could be going digital
  
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• Hunt the Skies for New Worlds Beyond Our Solar System From Home With NASA’s Planet Patrol

  02-10-2020 16:16 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Help NASA find exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, through a newly launched website called Planet Patrol. This citizen science platform allows members of the...
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• How a crease in Biden's shirt spawned a debate conspiracy theory

  02-10-2020 16:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Before the first Presidential debate, a baseless conspiracy theory inundated many Americans: that Democratic candidate Joe Biden might wear a secret earpiece to assist him in his debate against President Trump. Biden did not. But a video of a crease briefly forming on Biden's shirt has some still believing.
  
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• A crease in Biden's shirt wrinkles the facts

  02-10-2020 15:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Before the first Presidential debate, a baseless conspiracy theory inundated many Americans: that Democratic candidate Joe Biden might wear a secret earpiece to assist him in his debate against President Trump. Biden did not. But a video of a crease briefly forming on Biden's shirt has some still believing.
  
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• Physicists Harness the Atomic Motion of Graphene to Generate Clean, Limitless Power

  02-10-2020 15:11 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers build circuit that harnessed the atomic motion of graphene to generate an electrical current that could lead to a chip to replace batteries. A...
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• Second Alignment Plane of Solar System Discovered After Accounting for Galactic Gravity

  02-10-2020 14:35 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A study of comet motions indicates that the Solar System has a second alignment plane. Analytical investigation of the orbits of long-period comets shows that...
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• Fundamental to the Human Experience: Babies’ Random Choices Become Their Preferences

  02-10-2020 14:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  When a baby reaches for one stuffed animal in a room filled with others just like it, that seemingly random choice is very bad news...
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• New Calculation Using the World’s Fastest Supercomputers Refines Comparison of Matter With Antimatter

  02-10-2020 13:39 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Theorists publish improved prediction for the tiny difference in kaon decays observed by experiments. An international collaboration of theoretical physicists—including scientists from the U.S. Department...
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• Scientists Find It Is Better to Drink Coffee After Breakfast, Not Before – Here’s Why

  02-10-2020 13:13 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The new study looked at the combined effects of disrupted sleep and caffeine on our metabolism – with surprising results. A strong, black coffee to...
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• U.S. state, local election computer networks still vulnerable to hacks

  02-10-2020 12:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  "A lot of good stuff has been done," said one expert. "But let's face it, we've got 54 states and territories. The risk landscape is pretty broad."
  
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• Exploring Earth From Space: New York City [Video]

  02-10-2020 12:26 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over New York City – the most populous city in the United States. With a population of over 8...
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• Shedding New Light on Earth’s Deepest Mechanisms Using Diamonds

  02-10-2020 07:06 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Uncovering New Understanding of Earth’s Carbon Cycle University of Alberta PhD student authors paper shedding new light on Earth’s deepest mechanisms using information from diamonds....
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• Ingredients That Make Vaccines More Effective Could Be Hiding in Small Molecule Libraries

  02-10-2020 06:22 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Scientists have found an ingredient that makes a vaccine more effective through an approach more often seen in materials science — testing molecules that self-assemble...
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• Much of U.S. Southwest left parched after monsoon season

  02-10-2020 03:09
  
  Cities across the U.S. Southwest recorded their driest monsoon season on record this year
  
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• ExoMars 2022: The Way Forward to Mars

  02-10-2020 02:24 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The path that ExoMars 2022 will follow to reach the Red Planet is set. The trajectory that will take the spacecraft from Earth to Mars...
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• How We Will Really Find E.T. — Not with a Message, But with a Molecule

  02-10-2020 01:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The grand discovery of alien life is likely to come in the form of frustratingly subtle chemical clues.
  
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• The Atlanta Falcons will use 'disinfecting drones' to sanitize the team's stadium when it welcomes back fans this month

  02-10-2020 01:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium (MBS) is the first professional sports venue to sanitize its arena using drones.
  
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• Amazon says nearly 20,000 U.S. employees have contracted Covid-19

  02-10-2020 01:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  The announcement, part of a blog post published by Amazon, offers the public's first national overview of how the pandemic has hit the company's sizable workforce.
  
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• Do-It-Yourself COVID-19 Vaccines Fraught With Legal, Ethical, and Public Health Problems

  02-10-2020 01:03 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Well-intentioned “citizen scientists” developing homemade COVID-19 vaccines may believe they’re inoculating themselves against the ongoing pandemic, but the practice of self-experimentation with do-it-yourself medical innovations...
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• What is QAnon: Far-right conspiracy movement’s growing influence

  02-10-2020 00:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  Support for QAnon is growing online and showing up in the crowds of Trump rallies. The movement, labeled a domestic terror threat by the FBI, pushes a long list of false, outlandish and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that experts worry will be a political force in the November election.
  
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