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Who should get to decide what’s ethical as technology advances?
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6 years ago
Technology is ripe with ethical dilemmas. New tech usually comes with more power and more advanced capabilities; we might be able to reshape the world in new, innovative ways, or we might expose...
Fed-up AMA doctors overwhelmingly support gun restrictions in sweeping votes
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6 years ago
They voted to support assault weapon bans, minimum buying age, and closing loopholes. Semi-automatic long guns for sale are on display at Texas Gun, one of the 6,700 firearm dealers...
Anti-Gay Views Linked to Lower Intelligence in New Study
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6 years ago
A new study of almost 12,000 people links greater prejudice against gay people with lower intelligence, and makes total sense, adding to “a growing body of literature that indicates less...
The Bike Share War Is Shaking Up Seattle Like Nowhere Else
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6 years ago
Sean Healy was driving for Uber in Seattle when a passenger offered him an intriguing job. It wasn't the first time a rider had proposed a new line of work; in the bustling tech scene in...
Bizarre lunar anomaly suggests humans may have warmed the moon
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6 years ago
A new report from a team of researchers at Texas Tech suggests humans may have inadvertently given the moon a fever because we were a little too messy during our Apollo visits. NASA conducted...
Why a Hawaiian Volcano Is Sprouting Golden ‘Goddess Hair’
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6 years ago
The gossamer strands are beautiful, but potentially dangerous. Hundreds of strands of Pele’s hair intertwined on the surface of a pahoehoe flow at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii from an eruption...
Man arrested after calling police to have his drugs tested
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6 years ago
Police receive many calls for assistance, but this one was quite unusual. Douglas Kelly, 49, from Hawthrone, Florida, called the Putnam County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday, police said, asking them...
Single-motor Electric Vehicles? Lame, Says Jaguar
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6 years ago
Jaguar’s I-Pace seems to be Tesla’s greatest threat, if pre-orders in Europe (and glowing reviews) are anything to go on. The electric SUV, which arrives in the U.S. later this year, features...
Mars rover's new discoveries hailed as 'breakthroughs in astrobiology'
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6 years ago
New discoveries by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity add to a growing body of evidence supporting the idea that microscopic organisms once lived on the red planet — and have some scientists considering...
In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice.
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6 years ago
As the president prepares for nuclear talks, he lacks a close adviser with nuclear expertise. It’s one example of a marginalization of science in shaping federal policy. President Trump is...
NASA is reinventing the wheel for space
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6 years ago
Why bother with lame earth wheels? NASA reinvented the wheel. Shape memory alloy tires are airless tires developed at NASA's Glenn Research Center. Created to support heavy loads and be...
Weird neutrino excess won’t go away, hints at new physics
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6 years ago
There are several indications that our current understanding of the particles and forces that govern normal matter is wrong. Many of these areas seem to involve neutrinos, and that's in part...
Trump Is Saving China's ZTE for Some Reason and Congress Can't Do Jack Shit About It
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6 years ago
A ZTE building in Beijing. AP Chinese telecom ZTE faced almost certain death after the Department of Commerce slapped it with a seven-year ban on purchasing or using parts from US...
What Is Dark Matter and Why Hasn't Anyone Found It Yet?
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6 years ago
NASA, ESA, CFHT, CXO, M.J. Jee (University of California, Davis), and A. Mahdavi (San Francisco State University) Five-sixths of the universe’s stuff seems to be missing, and we just can’t...
Reagan, Deregulation and America’s Exceptional Rise in Health Care Costs
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6 years ago
Some readers and experts have responded to a recent article by pointing out that the 1980s increase in U.S. health costs coincided with a broad push toward deregulation. President Reagan at a...
Abortion does not cause depression, new study finds: Groups that claim abortion leads to mental illness are misleading people, experts say
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6 years ago
From NBC News: Abortions don’t cause depression, although women who have depression and anxiety may be more likely to have abortions, researchers reported Wednesday.The study is the latest to show...
Offer to share space station welcomed
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6 years ago
Offer to share space station welcomed China Daily | Updated: 2018-05-30 TanSat, China's first carbon dioxide monitoring science satellite, successfully launches from the Jiuquan Space...
Vast hidden canyons and mountain ranges discovered in Antarctica
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6 years ago
Scientists have discovered mountain ranges and a series of vast canyons buried deep under the ice near the South Pole in western Antarctica. The discoveries, made with the help of...
Public support for vaccines drops a bit: Strong support for vaccines has fallen since 2008, survey finds
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6 years ago
From NBCNews: Support for vaccination has fallen a little among Americans in the past 10 years, a new survey out Monday finds. While almost all Americans still vaccinate their children on...
'Brain in a bucket' study spurs medical, ethical debates
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6 years ago
From NBCNews : Three weeks ago, a Yale University neuroscientist, Nenad Sestan, explored the ethical implications of experiments using human brain tissue in an essay in the journal Nature. Then...
Dying mother takes her plea for a new liver straight to the top at insurer UnitedHealth
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6 years ago
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/dying-mother-takes-her-plea-for-a-new-liver-straight-to-the-top-at-insurer-unitedhealth-2018-05-13 Erika Zak, 38, has written two of the most important...
British schools are replacing analog clocks because kids can't read them during tests
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6 years ago
Source Schools in Britain are throwing their hands up over kids who can't tell time on traditional clocks. Some U.K. schools are ditching analog clocks from test rooms because a generation...
Israeli 3D-printed veggie burgers coming to a restaurant near you
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6 years ago
Israeli 3D-printed veggie burgers coming to a restaurant near you 3D-printed veggie burger. (illustrative) (shutterstock) An up-and-coming startup promises to revolutionize the fast...
We’re underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video
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6 years ago
Seeing is believing. And because of this fact, we’re screwed. Due to advances in artificial intelligence, it’s now possible to convincingly map anyone’s face onto the body of another...
Interest in science, not ability, builds trust in climate science
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6 years ago
Studies of how people perceive climate science paint a depressing picture—one in which ideology overwhelms evidence. Not only does opinion about the science break down along ideological lines,...
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