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Impact crater linked to Martian tsunamis

Via: randy • Health, Science & Technology • 2 Comments • 8 years ago

By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News website, The Woodlands, Texas Scientists have located an impact crater linked to powerful tsunamis that swept across part of ancient Mars....

The debate over Pluto will never die. Here’s the latest argument for why it’s a planet.

Via: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 1 Comments • 8 years ago

Original article by Brian Resnick - Vox ------------------------------------- Scientists’ new definition of “planet” includes Pluto — and at least a 100 other objects in the solar...

Steve Mnuchin has been compromised (by robots)

Via: community • Health, Science & Technology • 9 Comments • 8 years ago

Not to downplay the apparently imminent existential threat of global trade, but this time the call is coming from inside the house. Well, not the House, but the cabinet, where Treasury Secretary...

An Unexpected New Lung Function Has Been Found - They Make Blood

Via: community • Health, Science & Technology • 8 Comments • 8 years ago

Researchers have discovered that the lungs play a far more complex role in mammalian bodies than we thought, with new evidence revealing that they don't just facilitate respiration - they...

Silicon Valley Would Rather Cure Death Than Make Life Worth Living

Via: community • Health, Science & Technology • 4 Comments • 8 years ago

SILICON VALLEY IS coming for death. But it’s looking in the wrong place. After disrupting the way we love, communicate, travel, work, and even eat, technologists believe they can solve the...

Fentanyl Crisis: Columbus, Ohio Has One Fatal Overdose Per Day

Via: randy • Health, Science & Technology • 5 Comments • 8 years ago

by Corky Siemaszko The drug that killed Prince is slaying people at a rate of nearly one a day in Ohio's capital city. Fentanyl has already figured in 55 fatal drug overdoses in...

Now Blowing Up YouTube: Secret Nuclear Test Footage

Via: randy • Health, Science & Technology • 6 Comments • 8 years ago

The films are being preserved by a weapons physicist before they decay By Michael Harthorne , Newser Staff Posted Mar 15, 2017 4:27 PM CDT (Newser) – The US government...

Mysterious energy flashes may be aliens firing up interstellar spacecraft, Harvard scientists say

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Health, Science & Technology • 3 Comments • 8 years ago

Mysterious energy flashes may be aliens firing up interstellar spacecraft, Harvard scientists say By Robert Mendick, The Telegraph (Reported by National Post) March 11, 2017 Let's hope the...

Fewer heavy Americans are trying to lose weight, study finds

Via: johnrussell • Health, Science & Technology • 10 Comments • 8 years ago

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/87a17de0413d49dc8af4e75bf5424b73/fewer-heavy-americans-are-trying-lose-weight-study-finds Fewer heavy Americans are trying to lose weight, study finds...

House Republicans unveil Obamacare replacement plan

Via: randy • Health, Science & Technology • 1 Comments • 8 years ago

US House Republicans have unveiled a long-awaited plan to replace the signature health care law of former US President Barack Obama. The proposed legislation would repeal penalties for those...

We Were Wrong About Not Feeding Peanuts to Infants

Via: bob-nelson • Health, Science & Technology • 17 Comments • 8 years ago

Image: Donnie Ray Jones/Flickr For years, parents have been told to withhold peanut products from their children until the age of three. In a total flip-flop, the NIH has issued new...

18 Israeli firms rocking financial technology

Via: krishna • Health, Science & Technology • 14 Comments • 8 years ago

There are more than 430 Israeli companies developing products for moving and protecting money in the digital age. ISRAEL21c takes a look at 18 making headlines Fintech is strong and growing...

Scientists Discover 60 New Planets, Some Similar To Earth

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Health, Science & Technology • 9 Comments • 8 years ago

Scientists Discover 60 New Planets, Some Similar To Earth By Samantha Karas, International Business Times, February 14, 2017 Are Aliens Real? Scientists Discover 60 New Planets And Some Can...

Seven Earth-sized exoplanets discovered: what does the Nasa announcement about the TRAPPIST-1 solar system all mean?

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Health, Science & Technology • 18 Comments • 8 years ago

Seven Earth-sized exoplanets discovered: what does the Nasa announcement about the TRAPPIST-1 solar system all mean? By Chiara Palazzo, The Telegraph (Technology), 23 February 2017 Turns out it...