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• Volcanic Eruptions May Have Contributed to Unrest in Ancient Egypt

  27-01-2022 23:30 via discovermagazine.com
  
  A series of eruptions around the world could have led to less Nile River flooding, which is essential for agriculture.
  
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• Atomic Armor for Next-Generation, Electron-Beam Accelerators

  27-01-2022 21:33 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Advancement in single-atom layer graphene coatings improves accelerator electron source lifespans. Protective coatings are common for many things in daily life that see a lot...
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• Devices launching with Android 13 may get to load games in the fast lane - Android Police

  27-01-2022 20:26 via news.google.com
  Devices launching with Android 13 may get to load games in the fast lane  Android PoliceView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Cosmic Physics Breakthrough: Scientists Produce Particle-Antiparticle Pairs From a Vacuum

  27-01-2022 20:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
    Cosmic physics mimicked on table-top as graphene enables Schwinger effect. Researchers at The University of Manchester have succeeded in observing the so-called Schwinger effect,...
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• Complex Color Explosion – Beautiful Earth

  27-01-2022 19:10 via scitechdaily.com
  
  This NASA image of the day, captured by the Landsat 8 satellite, shows the view over Western Australia on May 12, 2013. The image shows...
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• Climate Change Might Be Shrinking Amazonian Birds

  27-01-2022 19:03 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Forty-year data has revealed that nearly all local bird species lost mass over time in relatively pristine parts of the rainforest.
  
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• Fearing tips could get lost, sheriff halts Facebook comments

  27-01-2022 18:27
  A Florida sheriff’s office has turned off public comments on its social media posts because too many people are reporting crimes there rather than calling 911 or submitting tips through the agency’s website
  
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• First Molecular Electronics Chip Developed – Realizes 50-Year-Old Goal

  27-01-2022 18:20 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A platform for single-molecule measurement of binding kinetics & enzyme activity. The first molecular electronics chip has been developed, realizing a 50-year-old goal of integrating...
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• Coming soon: Nutrition labels, but for your internet service

  27-01-2022 17:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  Notices similar to nutrition labels are coming to broadband service.
  
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• When fossils come to life: SARS-CoV-2 spike, syncytin-1, and other curious fusion proteins - Phys.org

  27-01-2022 17:30 via news.google.com
  When fossils come to life: SARS-CoV-2 spike, syncytin-1, and other curious fusion proteins  Phys.orgCovid-19: Precautions to take after vaccination for Sars-Cov-2 | Oneindia News  Oneindia NewsEvidence on intra-host recombination of SARS-CoV-2 during superinfection by Alpha and Epsilon variants in USA  News-Medical.NetUpdate on SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern Omicron  World Health OrganizationAssessment of the further spread and potential impact of the SARS-
  
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• In 1999 Mysterious Finger-Like Features Were Spotted on the Sun – Now Scientists Have an Explanation

  27-01-2022 17:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  In January 1999, scientists observed mysterious motions within a solar flare. Unlike typical flares that showed bright energy erupting outwards from the Sun, this solar...
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• NASA Remembers Fallen Heroes - NASA

  27-01-2022 16:16 via news.google.com
  
  NASA Remembers Fallen Heroes  NASANASA Challenger disaster remembered 36 years later  9News.com KUSAFor NASA, a somber 'Day of Remembrance' casts spotlight on astronaut safety to prevent tragedies  Space.comOn this day 36 years ago: Remembering the Challenger explosion and the legacy Hawaii’s first astronaut left behind  KHON2At KSC, NASA's Day of Remembrance honors the fallen  Florida TodayView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• YouTube permanently bans Fox News host Dan Bongino for evading Covid misinformation suspension

  27-01-2022 16:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Fox News Channel host Dan Bongino on Wednesday was permanently banned from YouTube, a week after the Google-owned video service said he had posted Covid-19 misinformation.
  
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• Harvard Mathematician Resolves 150-Year-Old Chess Problem

  27-01-2022 16:11 via scitechdaily.com
  
  A Different Kind of Queen’s Gambit Harvard mathematician largely resolves 150-year-old chess problem involving most powerful piece on board. The queen is the most powerful...
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• Science Near Me: Connecting Curious People With Opportunities To Explore, Experience and Engage In Science

  27-01-2022 16:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Science Near Me is your place to learn about, find and do real science.
  
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• Why More People Are Becoming Nearsighted

  27-01-2022 15:50 via discovermagazine.com
  
  One surprising remedy might be right outside your window.
  
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• White House expands digital regulations for U.S. water supply

  27-01-2022 15:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  The White House launched a new cybersecurity initiative for the U.S. water supply Thursday after a handful of worrisome hacks against the sector last year.
  
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• Space Station Agriculture Teaching How to Sustain Space Crews

  27-01-2022 15:36 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Space agriculture dominated the research schedule aboard the International Space Station yesterday to learn how to sustain long-term crews far beyond low-Earth orbit. The Expedition...
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• EU watchdog clears Facebook's purchase of Kustomer startup

  27-01-2022 15:22
  
  European Union regulators have approved Facebook parent Meta’s purchase of customer service startup Kustomer, after the social network made concessions to ease concerns the deal wouldn’t squeeze out rivals
  
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• Meet the man who won a trip to space and gave it to a friend

  27-01-2022 15:10
  The real winner of a sweepstakes for a ride in space has finally come forward: a Florida-based airline pilot
  
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• Experts Balking Over Elon Musk’s Brain Implants

  27-01-2022 15:05 via technocracy.news
  
  The world’s top Technocrat, Elon Musk, has no ethical concerns about harnessing the human brain with wires and computer chips, but many scientists do. Dr. Nita Farahany, a scholar on emerging technologies at the Duke University School of Law, correctly notes, “Our brain is our last bastion of freedom, our last place for privacy.”
  Musk says that in addition to helping paralyzed people do things again, you will be able to stream music directly to your brain. ⁃ TN EditorThe
  
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• Microsoft makes a big bet that it can fix Activision Blizzard's troubled culture

  27-01-2022 15:04 via cnn.com
  
  Microsoft's nearly $70 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard could make it a leader in gaming. But it also risks creating a new headache for the tech giant in a key part of its operations: corporate culture.
  
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• Japan's Mitsubishi, energy body join Gates' nuclear project

  27-01-2022 14:52
  
  Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency have signed an agreement to participate in a next-generation nuclear energy project with TerraPower, a company started by Bill Gates
  
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• Scientists Revisit Study To Predict Year When Society Will Collapse

  27-01-2022 14:49 via technocracy.news
  
  Be afraid. Be very afraid. Technocrat scientists want you to know when the end will come. This purely propaganda story hits on all cylinders: Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth, Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb, James Lovelock’s earth-as-an-organism Gaia hypothesis, sustainable development.
  Welcome to the Club of Rome, where the author is an official advisor. The original study in 1974 was commissioned by the Club of Rome in an attempt to panic people into following their crazy envi
  
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• Forget Zoom school. For some students, class is in session in VR

  27-01-2022 14:37 via cnn.com
  
  Jeremy Bailenson has studied virtual reality for decades. But it wasn't until last year that the Stanford professor felt the technology was good enough that he could actually teach a class in VR.
  
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• Unprecedented New Telescope Image Reveals Nearly 1,000 Mysterious Strands in Milky Way’s Center

  27-01-2022 14:33 via scitechdaily.com
  
  ‘A watershed in furthering our understanding of these structures,’ researcher says. An unprecedented new telescope image of the Milky Way galaxy’s turbulent center has revealed...
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• Kicked Off Heart Transplant List For Not Taking mRNA Injection

  27-01-2022 14:09 via technocracy.news
  
  David Ferguson wants to live but he desperately needs a heart transplant. He declined an mRNA injection because it might kill him but the hospital kicked him off the transplant list, guaranteeing his untimely death – he is only 31 years old.  Without a shred of evidence, the doctors say that the “vaccinated” have a better chance post-surgery of surviving.
  When medical Technocrats dig in their heels with what to them is absolute truth, all other reason is thrown out the doo
  
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• Spotify removes Neil Young's music over Joe Rogan dispute

  27-01-2022 13:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  Spotify said Wednesday that it has agreed to remove Neil Young's music after the famed singer-songwriter said he wouldn't share the platform with podcaster Joe Rogan.
  
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• Mysterious “Zen Stone” Phenomenon Finally Understood

  27-01-2022 13:33 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Like a work of art enshrined in a museum, some stones end up on a pedestal of ice in nature, with no human intervention. This...
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• Schools and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Simulation Model Allows for Safe Operation

  27-01-2022 12:50 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Developed during the ongoing pandemic, but adaptable to different needs: Austrian scientists develop simulation model for keeping schools open safely during a pandemic. A year...
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• Even Remote Areas Are Not Safe Havens for Biodiversity

  27-01-2022 12:23 via scitechdaily.com
  
  An international research team led by Associate Professor Giovanni Strona from the University of Helsinki has identified a general macroecological mechanism that calls for a...
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• Scientists Regrow Frog’s Lost Leg With a Five-Drug Cocktail

  27-01-2022 11:24 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Frogs briefly treated with a five-drug cocktail administered by a wearable bioreactor on the stump were able to regrow a functional, nearly complete limb. For...
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• Hypertensive Crisis: Uncontrolled Blood Pressure Is Sending Twice As Many People to the Hospital

  27-01-2022 11:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Men are more likely than women to be admitted for a hypertensive crisis, but women have similar hospital mortality rates. The number of people hospitalized for...
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• Apple is back on top in smartphone sales worldwide after a record win in China

  27-01-2022 09:46 via cnn.com
  
  Apple has once again become the top-selling smartphone brand in top market China, along with the rest of the world.
  
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• Climate and Health Impacts of Natural Gas Stoves Are Much Greater Than Previously Thought

  27-01-2022 09:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Study estimates that methane leaking from stoves inside US homes has the same climate impact as about 500,000 gasoline-powered cars and the stoves can expose...
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• Cannabis Combined With Alcohol Make Driving Especially Dangerous

  27-01-2022 08:00 via scitechdaily.com
  
  New research published today (January 27, 2022) in the scientific journal Addiction has found that cannabis combined with alcohol is more detrimental to driving performance...
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• New Brain Mapping Technique Reveals Neural Code of Vision Processing Over Time

  27-01-2022 07:29 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Humans are stepping ever closer to understanding how the brain codes visual information, as researchers have now developed a method that maps time-varying brain responses...
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• Surprising Findings Show the Unexpected Ways Metabolism Changes With Age

  27-01-2022 07:13 via scitechdaily.com
  
  Researchers measured life’s metabolic highs and lows, from birth to old age. The findings may surprise you. Most of us remember a time when we...
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• Waiting to Hatch

  27-01-2022 07:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Self-taught fossil specialist Terry Manning uncovered his first dinosaur embryo from an ancient egg in 1993. More than 30 embryos and nearly three decades later, hardly anyone has laid eyes or hands on his rare specimens.
  
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• 5 Thought-Provoking Facts About Brain Function

  27-01-2022 07:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  It’s bigger, faster and more adaptable than most owners realize.
  
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• Australia scientists find 'spooky' spinning object in Milky Way - BBC News

  27-01-2022 06:18 via news.google.com
  
  Australia scientists find 'spooky' spinning object in Milky Way  BBC NewsUnknown space object beaming out radio signals every 18 minutes remains a mystery  CNNAstronomers spot mysterious object ‘unlike anything seen before’ – and it’s sending signals our way...  The SunThis disappearing space object is emitting giant, highly-polarized radio bursts every 20 minutes  CBS NewsObject found in the Milky Way 'unlike anything astronomers h
  
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• Expats head for the exit as 'easy' Singapore's COVID controls bite - Reuters

  27-01-2022 05:55 via news.google.com
  
  Expats head for the exit as 'easy' Singapore's COVID controls bite  ReutersView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Chris Mack out as head coach of UofL men's basketball team - WLKY Louisville

  27-01-2022 04:38 via news.google.com
  Chris Mack out as head coach of UofL men's basketball team  WLKY LouisvilleWhat's next for Louisville? Who should the Cards hire as its next coach? Where does Chris Mack go? Roundtable discussion  The AthleticChris Mack out as Louisville Cardinals men's basketball coach  ESPNMack speaks at 2018 Louisville Live.jpeg |  WDRBLouisville Fires Head Coach Chris Mack | CBS Sports HQ  CBS Sports HQView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Fed Interest-Rate Decision Tees Up March Increase - The Wall Street Journal

  27-01-2022 04:29 via news.google.com
  
  Fed Interest-Rate Decision Tees Up March Increase  The Wall Street JournalThe Fed is getting ready to raise interest rates  CNNPowell speech: FOMC is “of a mind” to raise rates at the March meeting  FXStreetThe Fed’s Fledgling Inflation Hawks  The Wall Street JournalWill the Fed repeat the mistakes of the Great Inflation? | TheHill  The HillView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Boston father removed from heart transplant list over vaccine deteriorating 'so much, so quickly,' family says - Fox News

  27-01-2022 04:21 via news.google.com
  
  Boston father removed from heart transplant list over vaccine deteriorating 'so much, so quickly,' family says  Fox NewsHeart transplant denied to patient who refused COVID vaccine  NPRUnvaccinated man denied heart transplant by Boston hospital  BBC NewsUnvaccinated Boston-area man in need of a heart not placed on transplant list  Boston HeraldHospital patient without Covid vaccination denied heart transplant  NBC NewsView Full Coverage on Google
  
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• Futures Fall After Hawkish Fed Wipes Out Big Gains; Tesla Leads Late Movers - Investor's Business Daily

  27-01-2022 03:57 via news.google.com
  Futures Fall After Hawkish Fed Wipes Out Big Gains; Tesla Leads Late Movers  Investor's Business DailyJust forget your 401(k) password  CNNDow futures drop nearly 400 points as investors assess Fed update  CNBCWhenever the Dow and the S&P 500 fall below this key support level, stocks typically come roaring back  MarketWatchMorning Bid: Buy the dip? Or pray for Fed put?  ReutersView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Impossible Material Made Possible Inside a Graphene Sandwich – “These Are Truly Exciting Times!”

  27-01-2022 03:32 via scitechdaily.com
  
  The design of new materials allows for either improved efficiency of known applications or totally new applications that were out of reach with the previously...
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• 'Celebrity Big Brother': Cast of Season 3 Revealed, Full List - TVLine

  27-01-2022 03:28 via news.google.com
  
  'Celebrity Big Brother': Cast of Season 3 Revealed, Full List  TVLineCelebrity Big Brother Season 3 Cast Announced | PEOPLE.com  PEOPLECelebrity Big Brother Cast Announcement  CBSKhloe Kardashian’s ex Lamar Odom joins Celebrity Big Brother season 3 alongside Travis Barker’s ex-wife Sha...  The US Sun‘Celebrity Big Brother’ Season 3 Cast Revealed: Lamar Odom, Shanna Moakler and More Set to Compete  Us WeeklyView Full Covera
  
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• Nets won't listen to trade offers for James Harden leading up to deadline, per report - CBS Sports

  27-01-2022 03:21 via news.google.com
  
  Nets won't listen to trade offers for James Harden leading up to deadline, per report  CBS SportsSources - Brooklyn Nets to shun trade-deadline offers for James Harden  ESPNWhat is James Harden's Future With The Brooklyn Nets? | NBA on TNT  NBA on TNTNow Daryl Morey thinks he can land Harden in the offseason? Just make a trade already, man!  DeadspinWhere should James Harden direct his frustrations? | NBA Today  ESPNView Full Coverage on Google N
  
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• Amy Schneider’s historic 40-win Jeopardy! streak broken by new champ - The Guardian

  27-01-2022 02:54 via news.google.com
  
  Amy Schneider’s historic 40-win Jeopardy! streak broken by new champ  The Guardian'Jeopardy!' champ's impressive winning streak ends  CNNAmy Schneider's historic 'Jeopardy!' winning streak ends with loss to Chicago librarian Rhone Talsma  Chicago TribuneJeopardy! | Amy Schneider's Win Streak Ends at 40 Games  TVLineAmy Schneider’s ‘Jeopardy!’ Reign Ends  The New York TimesView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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