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The electric scooter boom — and cities’ misguided attempts to squash it
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6 years ago
Cities that take their own rhetoric about sustainability seriously should embrace the scooter. This summer, cities across America fought a strange new menace: electric scooters . They were...
Japan is about to launch a mini space elevator that could be a sign of things to come
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6 years ago
Getting into space can be a tricky thing. Right now, the hardware that can get you there — a rocket — is complex, pricey, and a bit dangerous. The idea of a space elevator which could haul...
Why sand scarcity is about more than ‘running out’ of sand
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6 years ago
Come along on our sand scavenger hunt he world is running surprisingly low on sand . Humans have found a staggering variety of uses for sand, from glass and concrete to electronics and...
Melissa Gilbert Finally allowing myself to age naturally was one of the best decisions I ever made
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6 years ago
There's this constant message, everywhere you go, on how to improve your looks through medical interventions. The message is so ubiquitous — just drive any significant long distance, and, if you...
Jupiter's 'Baffling' Magnetic Field Is Unlike Any Other
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6 years ago
A diagram of the magnetic field in Jupiter’s northern hemisphere, showing the Great Blue Spot. Moore et al (Nature 2018) Jupiter is strange for a number of reasons. It’s the biggest...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just spotted its next target, more than 100 million miles away
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6 years ago
NASA’s New Horizons mission is a pretty interesting one. Rather than heading to one specific location, as many other spacecraft do, the New Horizons craft has multiple points of interest it’s...
Jaguar Land Rover wants to stick googly eyes on self-driving cars so you’ll trust them
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6 years ago
It might not have seemed possible after their incredibly slow start, but self-driving cars are looking more and more like the future of personal transportation. Still, some nagging questions...
Israeli-Developed OCD Treatment Changes Lives
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6 years ago
Israeli-Developed OCD Treatment Changes Lives An Israeli breakthrough in brain disorder treatment has the ability to change lives! By United With Israel Staff, United With Israel,...
FDA approves Teva's generic EpiPen after yearslong delay
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6 years ago
FDA approves Teva's generic EpiPen after yearslong delay By Meg Tirrell, CNBC (msn.com), August 16 2018 U.S. regulators cleared the first generic competitor to Mylan's EpiPen, after...
The Standard Model of particle physics: The absolutely amazing theory of almost everything
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6 years ago
The Standard Model. What dull name for the most accurate scientific theory known to human beings. More than a quarter of the Nobel Prizes in physics of the last century are direct inputs to or...
Blue light emitted from smartphones and laptops accelerates blindness by making a molecule in our eyes toxic, according to a new study
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6 years ago
Staring at screens all day isn't good for us — we know this. It can cause eye strain, sometimes called computer vision syndrome , and the light is so bright it can mimic sunlight, mess with our...
California Strikes Back Against the Trump Administration’s Auto Pollution Rollback
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6 years ago
California went on the offensive Tuesday against the Trump administration’s plan to weaken fuel-efficiency rules for cars, laying out a scathing rebuttal that the state’s clean-air regulator...
This cute new robot from Anki is definitely the droid you’re looking for
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6 years ago
Who among us isn’t a sucker for a cute robot you can play games with, that you can ask questions and that beeps like a pint-sized R2D2? Robotics startup Anki is certainly betting a large...
Recuperating power: Charging a prototype Audi e-tron with kinetic energy
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6 years ago
The battery has a range of 248.5 miles with the help of regenerative braking. Last week, Audi invited a handful of journalists to go for a drive down Pike's Peak, one of Colorado's many...
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BDS Activists: Make Sure to Never [Use] These Medical Inventions!
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6 years ago
BDS Activists: Make Sure to Never [Use] These Medical Inventions! Anti-Israel demonstrators (AP/Alberto Pellaschiar) To those who sincerely want to boycott Israel – here is a list of...
Donald Trump is making Medicare-for-all inevitable
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6 years ago
A market-based solution can’t work if Republicans won’t let it. Medicare-for-all — a government-run insurance program that everyone is either covered by or at least eligible for — is...
Bernie Sanders’s $32 trillion Medicare-for-all plan is actually kind of a bargain
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6 years ago
The federal government would spend a lot more money on health care, but overall US health spending would be about the same as otherwise projected. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is one of several...
The Myth That a Cleaner Car Is Less Safe Than a Dirty One
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6 years ago
To justify rolling back auto gas mileage and emissions rules, the Trump administration has fabricated a false conflict between safety and improved fuel economy. The administration is wrong....
How does health spending in the U.S. compare to other countries?
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6 years ago
This chart collection takes a look at how spending on healthcare in the United States compares to other OECD countries that are similarly large and wealthy (based on GDP and GDP per capita)....
Senate Democrat Floats First Serious Proposals For Regulating Big Tech
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6 years ago
Over a series of public hearings , Congress has demonstrated a staggering level of incompetence regarding technology that would convince an ordinary observer that these people shouldn’t...
Boulders and a Crater Dot Asteroid Ryugu in This Spectacular Up-Close View
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6 years ago
A Japanese space probe orbiting an asteroid called Ryugu just took the closest photo yet of the diamond-shaped space rock. The Hayabusa2 spacecraft launched to the asteroid Ryugu in December...
Wood-Be Weight Savior – Technologue
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6 years ago
The next big light/strong material grows on trees Stop the 40-ton presses and cool the autoclaves. There’s a new light/strong/cheap material poised to join the vehicle engineering toolbox, and...
Why haven’t we found aliens yet?
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6 years ago
One summer night, when I was a child, my mother and I were scouring the night sky for stars, meteors, and planets. Suddenly, an object with a light that pulsed steadily from bright to dim caught...
BMW agrees to $4.7 billion contract with China's CATL for battery cells
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6 years ago
BMW plans to source 4 billion euros' ($4.7 billion) worth of battery cells from Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd ( CATL ) over the next few years, the carmaker's...
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