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North Dakota creates task force to counter threats from rogue UAS activity
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An unmanned aircraft park near Grand Forks will anchor a North Dakota task force aimed at defending against threats from rogue UAS activity. The UAS Detection and Counter-UAS Task Force,...
The Thoughts of a Spiderweb
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Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head Millions of years ago, a few spiders...
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE THERANOS SAGA SO FAR
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In the beginning, Theranos was called Real-Time Cures. Corny? Sure. But Elizabeth Holmes was barely 19 when she came up with it, a Stanford dropout aspiring to upend personalized...
Raw Veganism and Weight Loss
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8 years ago
Hey guys!I am contemplating starting a raw diet, but after my last experience with it, I'm not sure if it will be the best of ideas.The last time I ate a raw diet, I ended up gaining weight. In...
Marijuana makes aging mice cognitively young again and may work for people too
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https://qz.com/979695/cannabis-may-help-aging-patients-with-dementia-based-on-a-new-animal-study/ Written by Ephrat Livni Smoking marijuana when...
MLB Pipeline Ultimate 100 Opportunity Countdown Open up Thread
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This a enjoyable period of the yr. Not due to the fact just about anything consists of virtually transpired inside of the worldwide of baseball, still since opportunity writers during the land...
Monsanto Hires Internet Trolls to Cover Up Roundup’s Cancer Risk
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The Ring of Fire 11 May Monsanto Hires Internet Trolls to Cover Up Roundup’s Cancer Risk http://www.ecowatch.com/monsanto-hires-internet-trolls-2401703407.html...
This Nasty Medieval Remedy Kills MRSA
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An ancient brew could lead to modern-day drugs to fight the superbug Why would scientists revive a thousand-year-old medical recipe for a foul-smelling concoction? They suspected it could...
University Says Up to 7K Bodies Are Buried on Campus
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By Kate Seamons , Newser Staff Posted May 7, 2017 2:20 PM CDT University of Mississippi Medical Center trying to decide what to do with them (Newser) – On some 20 acres of...
Great Pacific garbage patch
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The Great Pacific garbage patch , also described as the Pacific trash vortex , is a gyre of marine debris particles in the central North Pacific Ocean discovered between 1985 and...
Scientists Discover Plastic-Eating Worm
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Paolo Bombelli, who was the lead author on a paper published in Current Biology, was able to discover a caterpillar, known as a wax worm, that is able to eat through plastic. The worm,...
Woman has Triplets by 'Superfoetation'
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What is superfoetation? A British woman's revealed she fell pregnant with twins, then conceived while carrying them and gave birth to triplets. It's called superfoetation - when someone...
March for Science: Rallies worldwide to protest against political interference
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Thousands of scientists have taken part in demonstrations around the world in protest against what they see as a global political assault on facts. The first-ever March for Science, which was...
US Navy redesigning its submarines to accommodate women
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FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2012, file photo, released by the U.S. Navy, Lt j.g. Marquette Leveque, left, and Lt. j.g. Kyle McFadden, both of the USS Wyoming, receive their pins to indicate that...
FEDOR Is a Gunslinging Robot That’s Just a Skin Suit Away From Westworld
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Author Dom Galeon Russia's FEDOR humanoid robot can now shoot guns, leading critics of artificial intelligence to express concerns over the potential danger it poses. The Russian government,...
This is what the earliest ancestor of birds and dinosaurs looked like
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Original article by Angela Chen - The Verge ------------------------------------- Teleocrater roamed the Earth before dinosaurs appeared The new species Teleocrater rhadinus...
A Genetic Oddity May Give Octopuses and Squids Their Smarts
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Original article by Steph Yin - Trilobites (NYT) ------------------------------------- A California two-spot octopus. Scientists say coleoid cephalopods, a group encompassing...
Self-driving cars will only work when we accept autonomy is a myth
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Jack Stilgoe The ability of autonomous vehicles to navigate our cities is impressive. But their potential will only be realised when these cars are interdependent T he crash of an...
After Badger Buries Entire Cow Carcass, Scientists Go to the Tape
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Original article by Nicholas Bakalar - NYT Science ------------------------------------- A badger captured on a trap camera after it buried a cow carcass. Credit Biodiversity and...
Badly Misinformed Lawmaker Thinks Our ‘Warm Bodies’ May Be Causing Climate Change
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Spoiler alert: Republican Scott Wagner is very wrong. By Michael McLaughlin Scott Wagner State Sen. Scott Wagner may need a refresher science class. A Republican...
I am an Arctic researcher. Donald Trump is deleting my citations
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Victoria Herrmann These politically motivated data deletions come at a time when the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the global average ‘In the waning days of 2016 we were warned:...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink wants to boost the brain to keep up with AI
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Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk has a new company — yes, another one — focused on developing the capabilities of the brain through technological augmentation. Neuralink, the new venture, officially...
UK schoolboy corrects Nasa data error
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A British teenager has contacted scientists at Nasa to point out an error in a set of their own data. A-level student Miles Soloman found that radiation sensors on the International Space...
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