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Jaguar Land Rover wants to stick googly eyes on self-driving cars so you’ll trust them
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7 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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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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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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7 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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7 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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7 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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7 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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7 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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7 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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7 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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7 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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7 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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7 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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7 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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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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7 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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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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7 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...
Why Particle Physicists Are Excited About This Mysterious Inconsistency
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7 years ago
Scientists haven’t conclusively spotted any new particles since the Higgs boson, and that’s got some people worried—there are a ton of other physics puzzles remaining, many of which would require...
This Is Biggest Regret in Life Most People Have
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7 years ago
Everyone has regrets, but you always imagine that those regrets revolve around the mistakes that you think you made. Maybe you regret calling off your wedding . Maybe you wish you hadn’t...
Who should get to decide what’s ethical as technology advances?
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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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7 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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7 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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7 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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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...
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