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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...
The debate over Pluto will never die. Here’s the latest argument for why it’s a planet.
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Mysterious energy flashes may be aliens firing up interstellar spacecraft, Harvard scientists say
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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...
Biologists find weird cave life that may be 50,000 years old
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By SETH BORENSTEIN From Associated Press February 17, 2017 9:00 PM EST BOSTON (AP) — In a Mexican cave system so beautiful and hot that it is called both Fairyland and hell,...
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