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• Norfolk Southern train derails in Alabama, no public threat - ABC News

  09-03-2023 23:59 via news.google.com
  Norfolk Southern train derails in Alabama, no public threat  ABC NewsNorfolk Southern CEO grilled by senators over Ohio derailment  ReutersFull coverage: Senate hearing on toxic East Palestine train derailment  Yahoo NewsOcasio-Cortez: East Palestine a ‘potential crime scene’  WKBN.comOpinion | Norfolk Southern CEO: We're committed to helping East Palestine recover  The Washington PostView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Disturbing Truth: Opioids Dominate as Primary Cause of Poisoning Deaths in Children - SciTechDaily

  09-03-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  
  Disturbing Truth: Opioids Dominate as Primary Cause of Poisoning Deaths in Children  SciTechDailyOpioid drugs cause more than half of young children’s poisoning deaths: new study  Fox NewsThe nation's opioid epidemic has deadly consequences for children  CBS News‘We're Going to Have to Do More': Growing Concern as Fentanyl Deaths Spike Among Kids  NBC 6 South FloridaThe News You Need To Read This Morning  BuzzFeed NewsView Full Covera
  
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• Disturbing Truth: Opioids Dominate as Primary Cause of Poisoning Deaths in Children

  09-03-2023 23:30 via scitechdaily.com
  Researchers find rate of fatal opioid poisonings among children more than doubled over 13-year span Over-the-counter drugs also continue to pose fatal risks to young...
  
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• The Hidden Mathematics of Crowds: How Pedestrians Inadvertently Self-Organize

  09-03-2023 22:17 via scitechdaily.com
  Mathematical research from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom has shed new light on the formation and behavior of crowds. Have you ever...
  
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• The Psychological Benefits Of Commuting

  09-03-2023 22:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  For most American workers who commute, the trip to and from the office takes nearly one full hour a day – 26 minutes each way on average, with 7.7% of workers spending two hours or more on the road. Many people think of commuting as a chore and a waste of time. However, during the remote work surge resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, several journalists curiously noted that people were – could it be? – missing their commutes. One woman told The W
  
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• Poland, Slovakia urge allies to send fighter jets to Ukraine

  09-03-2023 21:16
  
  Officials in Poland and Slovakia are urging their allies to provide fighter jets to Ukraine, saying they are ready to send their their Soviet-made MiG-29 jet fighters to Kyiv as part of an international coalition
  
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• What Was Traded On the Silk Road?

  09-03-2023 21:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Invented in China around 5,600 years ago, silk was the slipperiest, most mysterious material in the ancient world. Fashioned from the twisted threads of the cocoons of the mulberry silkworm, the fabric’s process of production was protected by the state for several thousand years. That said, the secrecy of silk manufacturing didn’t mean that the material remained restricted to China for all of antiquity. In fact, traces of the finished fabric made their way west well before the strate
  
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• Silicon, Gold, and Copper – Scientists Discover New Weapons Against COVID-19

  09-03-2023 20:57 via scitechdaily.com
  A recent study from Curtin University has discovered that the spike proteins of SARS-CoV-2, the strain of coronaviruses responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, can become...
  
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• Health data breach hitting Congress 'could be extraordinary'

  09-03-2023 20:47
  
  Hackers have broken into a Washington, D
  
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• FDA says mammogram facilities must notify women if they have dense breast tissue to reduce cancer risk - ABC News

  09-03-2023 20:25 via news.google.com
  FDA says mammogram facilities must notify women if they have dense breast tissue to reduce cancer risk  ABC NewsFDA sets national mammogram standards to protect women with dense breasts  The Washington PostFDA mandates breast density information with mammography results  Yahoo NewsFDA Will Require Dense Breast Disclosure at Mammogram Clinics  The New York TimesUS women to be told about breast density under new mammogram rules  The Guardian USView
  
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• Men on Pinterest are creating sex-themed image boards of little girls. The platform makes it easy.  

  09-03-2023 20:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  Pinterest is inadvertently driving men to selfies and videos posted by young girls who have no idea how their images are being used, an NBC News investigation found.
  
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• How Are Humans Still Evolving?

  09-03-2023 20:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  When people think about evolution and human beings, the assumption is often made that we have stopped evolving. Once upon a time, we had to evade predators, compete with other hominid species and fight off disease. And thanks to modern society, agriculture, medicine, and technology, we've largely alleviated these physical selection pressures on our species.   Are Humans Still Evolving? Perhaps we haven't stopped after all. Broadly speaking, evolution simply means the gradual change in
  
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• Unexpected Behavior – Bending 2D Nanomaterial Could “Switch On” Future Technologies

  09-03-2023 19:46 via scitechdaily.com
  Scientists at Rice University have discovered a new workable feature of a particular class of 2D materials. Rice University materials scientist Boris Yakobson and his...
  
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• Lithium-ion battery fires are happening more often. Here's how to prevent them

  09-03-2023 18:35 via cnn.com
  
  Lithium-ion batteries, found in many popular consumer products, are under scrutiny again following a massive fire this week in New York City thought to be caused by the battery that powered an electric scooter.
  
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• Researchers Discover Cryptic Cat Species on Mount Everest

  09-03-2023 18:35 via scitechdaily.com
  A new scientific finding marks the first documented discovery of Pallas’s Cat on the world’s highest mountain. A new paper published in Cat News has...
  
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• Scientists revive ‘zombie’ virus that was trapped for 48,500 years in the Arctic’s permafrost - Euronews

  09-03-2023 18:14 via news.google.com
  
  Scientists revive ‘zombie’ virus that was trapped for 48,500 years in the Arctic’s permafrost  EuronewsScientists revived a 'zombie' virus frozen for 48,500 years in ice. They learned it could still infect other cells.  Yahoo! VoicesScientists Revive 50000-Year-Old Virus Frozen in Permafrost  ExtremeTechUh-Oh: 'Zombie' Viruses Hidden in Permafrost Now Revived  Popular MechanicsResearchers Revive "Zombie Virus" That's Been Dormant for 50,0
  
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• Distant Star Has Two Potentially Habitable Planets Orbiting It

  09-03-2023 18:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  NASA recently announced the discovery of a new, Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a nearby star called TOI-700. We are two of the astronomers who led the discovery of this planet, called TOI-700 e. TOI-700 e is just over 100 light years from Earth – too far away for humans to visit – but we do know that it is similar in size to the Earth, likely rocky in composition and could potentially support life. You've probably heard about some of the many&nbs
  
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• La Nina, which worsens hurricanes and drought, is gone

  09-03-2023 17:47
  
  Scientists say the La Nina weather phenomenon that increases Atlantic hurricane activity and worsens western drought is gone after three troublesome years
  
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• What Makes Brown Rice Healthy? Scientists Unveil the Secrets to Its Nutritional Wealth

  09-03-2023 17:25 via scitechdaily.com
  The researchers have discovered that the ester compound cycloartenyl ferulate is the primary contributor to the health benefits of brown rice. In Asia, rice is...
  
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• Want To Get in the Flow? Try This Math Equation

  09-03-2023 17:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  During the 1992 NBA Championship finals, Michael Jordan hit six 3-pointers in 18 minutes then turned to the crowd with an iconic shrug. Later, he said he was so “in the zone” he literally didn’t know how he did it. He was talking about, of course, that thrilling feeling of flow. A term coined by the late positive psychology expert Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, flow is the state of being hyper-focused, fully absorbed and energized by the task at hand. “Flow
  
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• Why lithium-ion batteries found in many products keep exploding

  09-03-2023 16:42 via cnn.com
  
  Lithium-ion batteries, found in many popular consumer products, are under scrutiny again following a massive fire this week in New York City thought to be caused by the battery that powered an electric scooter.
  
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• Mermaid Mummy Revealed to Be Paper Mache

  09-03-2023 16:30 via discovermagazine.com
  
  In 1846, a Japanese policeman drew a legendary mermaid with scales like a coat of mail and flowing hair that ran all the way down to three mer-fins. He’d come across the creature while investigating a report of a greenish glow in the water and had listened as the fish-person forecasted a good harvest and added, almost as an aside: “Should an epidemic come,” the beaked Amabie said, “draw me and show me to the people.” An early Japanese newspaper re-printed the drawin
  
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• Revolutionary Material May Solve Key Quantum Computing Issue for IBM and Google

  09-03-2023 16:13 via scitechdaily.com
  An international team of researchers has discovered that a novel form of heterostructure made up of layered two-dimensional (2D) materials could help overcome the major...
  
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• Are There Snakes in Ireland?

  09-03-2023 16:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  St. Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, is best known for bringing Christianity to the Emerald Isle, but his story is chock-full of other legends and miracles, too. It’s been said that the missionary raised dozens of people from the dead, for example, and even banished all of Ireland’s snakes into the sea following a 40-day fast. Unfortunately, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the science doesn’t quite back up this latter claim. While it’s true that the Irish don’t have an
  
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• Prince Michael On Europe’s Regulatory-Technocratic Suicide

  09-03-2023 15:21 via technocracy.news
  
  The author concludes, “It was always doubtful that technocrats could develop solutions better than the market does.” Technocratic micro-management always results in gridlock that cannot be rationalized away. Technocrats simply move on to another project to “solve” and micromanage some more. Technocrats are typically too deep in the forest to see the trees.
  It is important to remember that European members of the Trilateral Commission, according to co-founder David Rockefe
  
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• Secrets of 9-Foot Tall, 1,500-Pound Elephant Birds Revealed by Ancient Eggshells

  09-03-2023 15:06 via scitechdaily.com
  More than 1,200 years ago, flightless elephant birds roamed the island of Madagascar and laid eggs bigger than footballs. While these ostrich-like giants are now...
  
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• Is The Transhumanist Era Is Already Here?

  09-03-2023 15:03 via technocracy.news
  
  If humans are just “ape-brained meatsacks” in desperate need of an upgrade, then their Utopia isn’t working out as well as hoped. In fact, Transhumanism has been sneaking up on us before anyone recognized it as such. Today, the rush to hack humanity will favor the rich and discriminate against everyone else. ⁃ TN Editor
  At an UnHerd event last night, columnist Mary Harrington and Oxford University AI ethicist Elise Bohan, author of Future Superhuman, came togeth
  
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• Roku’s latest software update brings local news, more live sports and a new mobile app - TechCrunch

  09-03-2023 15:01 via news.google.com
  Roku’s latest software update brings local news, more live sports and a new mobile app  TechCrunchRoku's first self-made TVs hit Best Buy stores today  EngadgetRoku Announces Roku OS 12 With a Ton of New Features  Cord Cutters NewsRoku Announces a New Roku Experience  Thurrott.comRoku is adding a Local News Hub to its Live TV menu  EngadgetView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• Can Loud Sounds Cook Things?

  09-03-2023 15:00 via discovermagazine.com
  
  Yes, sound can definitely produce heat. But you can’t cook food from yelling at it (sorry Gordon Ramsey). What we call sound is really a patterned, regular, ordered movement of individual particles. When we speak to each other, we force air through the small opening of our throat and shape it with our mouths. This makes the air molecules bunch together in specific patterns on their way out. Those air molecules then expand again, pushing against their neighbors, which makes them contract, a
  
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• Scientists Use AI To Turn Thoughts Into Images, 80% Accuracy

  09-03-2023 14:34 via technocracy.news
  
  If the Scientific Revolution is a horse, it is ridden by Technocrats who are driven to examine and expose everything that is human. The mechanistic approach is that humans are just accidental blobs of molecules that deserve to be analyzed. As C.S. Lewis explained in The Abolition of Man, conquering nature ends up conquering man. ⁃ TN EditorArtificial intelligence can create images based on text prompts, but scientists unveiled a gallery of pictures the technology produces by reading brain
  
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• Europe joins the US in its chip war with China

  09-03-2023 13:57 via cnn.com
  
  Europe's biggest producer of advanced chipmaking technology has joined the United States in its escalating standoff with China.
  
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• Researchers Unveil New Platform for Catalytic Syngas Conversion

  09-03-2023 13:18 via scitechdaily.com
  To bridge the gap between different carbon resources and vital chemicals, catalytic syngas conversion is a key pathway. A new platform for this conversion is...
  
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• Researchers Warn That Gluten-Free Products Are Not Necessarily Healthier

  09-03-2023 12:28 via scitechdaily.com
  For 9 years, a research team from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has been conducting an analysis of gluten-free products to determine if...
  
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• When These Neurons Are Activated by Chronic Stress – Behavioral Problems Like Depression and PTSD Result

  09-03-2023 11:39 via scitechdaily.com
  Chronic stress has a clear effect on our behavior, causing issues such as depression, a decrease in enjoyment of previously pleasurable activities, and even post-traumatic...
  
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• Congress members warned of significant health data breach

  09-03-2023 07:32
  
  Officials have informed members of the House and Senate and their staffs that hackers may have gained access to their sensitive personal data in a breach of a Washington, D
  
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• Meta's Instagram back up after brief global outage

  09-03-2023 06:55 via cnn.com
  
  Meta Platform's Instagram was back up for most users after a global outage, the photo-sharing platform said on Thursday, adding that an hours-long technical issue has been resolved.
  
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• Data breach hits 'hundreds' of lawmakers and staff on Capitol Hill

  09-03-2023 05:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  A top House official said a “significant data breach” at the health insurance marketplace for Washington, D.C., potentially exposed information on lawmakers.
  
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• US probes Tesla Autopilot, steering wheels that can come off

  09-03-2023 04:32
  
  U.S. safety regulators are turning up the heat on Tesla
  
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• Instagram down for thousands of users globally

  09-03-2023 04:13 via cnn.com
  
  Meta Platform's Instagram was down for thousands of users globally on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
  
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• Dutch to restrict semiconductor tech exports to China, joining US effort

  09-03-2023 03:27 via cnn.com
  
  The Netherlands' government on Wednesday said it plans new restrictions on exports of semiconductor technology to protect national security, joining the US effort to curb chip exports to China.
  
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• Poll: Do you like the new iPhone 14 and 14 Plus yellow color? - 9to5Mac

  09-03-2023 03:18 via news.google.com
  
  Poll: Do you like the new iPhone 14 and 14 Plus yellow color?  9to5MacHere's Our First Look at the Yellow iPhone 14 and How to Preorder  TheStreetApple Store Down Ahead of Yellow iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus Pre-Orders  MacRumorsYellow iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus now available to order  9to5MacMacworld Podcast: New yellow iPhone, Clean Energy Charging, upcoming iMac and MacBook Air  MacworldView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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• From marketing to design, brands adopt AI tools despite risk

  09-03-2023 03:02
  
  Even if you haven’t tried artificial intelligence tools that can write essays and poems or conjure new images on command, chances are the companies that make your household products are already starting to do so
  
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• Japan's Nissan slashing EV costs, cuts rare materials use

  09-03-2023 02:47
  
  Japanese automaker Nissan is revving up its electrification shift and slashing costs by using the same components across models and cutting use of expensive rare materials
  
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• FAA says technology will help avoid some dangerous landings

  09-03-2023 02:17
  
  Federal officials say they have completed outfitting 43 major U.S. airports with technology to warn air traffic controllers when incoming planes are aimed at a taxiway instead of a runway
  
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• Swarm of quakes at Alaska volcano could mean eruption coming

  09-03-2023 01:47
  
  A swarm of earthquakes have been recorded below the summit of a remote Alaska volcano, a possible indication of an impending eruption
  
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• COVID survivors at increased risk of long-term gastrointestinal conditions - Ars Technica

  09-03-2023 00:00 via news.google.com
  COVID survivors at increased risk of long-term gastrointestinal conditions  Ars TechnicaCOVID-19 linked to chest pain months after infection: Study  NewsNation NowWhat to Know About Long COVID  CNETLong COVID Patients at Increased Risk for Cardiovascular Conditions, Study Finds  HealthLeaders MediaWhat is the gastrointestinal impact of Long Covid?  News-Medical.NetView Full Coverage on Google News
  
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