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China Climate Change Plan to Establish Carbon Market
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China Climate Change Plan to Establish Carbon Market By Clyde Hughes, Newsmax, Tuesday, 19 Dec 2017 A man waits for a bus on a polluted day in Beijing on Dec. 20, 2016. (Greg...
This old drug was free. Now it’s $109,500 a year.
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For four decades, Don Anderson of Seattle has been taking the same drug to help control the temporary bouts of immobility and muscle weakness caused by a rare and frightening genetic illness...
Former Facebook VP says social media is destroying society with ‘dopamine-driven feedback loops’
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Source A former Facebook executive is making waves after he spoke out about his “tremendous guilt” over growing the social network, which he feels has eroded “the core foundations of how...
Van Allen Belt Mystery Solved With Student-Built Satellite
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Oh, that Van Allen Belt—online crackpots love to use Earth’s belt of radiation to bolster their Moon landing conspiracies, suggesting it could be too strong for an astronaut to travel through...
With FCC’s net neutrality ruling, the US could lose its lead in online consumer protection
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The internet may be an international system of interconnecting networks sharing a rough global consensus about the technical details of communicating through them – but each country manages its...
The Many Ways in Which Cars Were Stupendously Unsafe 60 Years Ago
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Unpadded metal surfaces, blunt knobs and rods, steering columns that impale—and seatbelts weren’t even on the options list. We may think highly of the 1955 Chevrolet, but like all cars of the...
New Species of Extinct Marsupial Lion Deepens Their Fierce Family Tree
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The dog-sized animal adds more diversity to the history of Australia’s largest predator. Most modern marsupials are pretty cute and cuddly—koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, sugar gliders...
Israeli Expo Showcases New Artificial Intelligence Technology
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Israeli Expo Showcases New Artificial Intelligence Technology Engineers at a cutting-edge technology expo presented Israeli-developed inventions that police forces and armies around the...
We Regret to Inform You the White House's Solution to the Opioid Crisis Is Kellyanne Conway ... Green Rules apply
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The scale of the opioid crisis gripping the United States is hard to fathom. Since 2000, lethal overdoses from opioid use have tripled, and the problem is so widespread Centers for Disease...
What Makes a Dinosaur a Dinosaur?
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The question may sound like a “duh,” but it gets to the heart of how we categorize and define nature Ask any 8-year-old what a dinosaur is, and she’ll eagerly rattle off her favorite of the...
Trump Just Won’t Give up on Undoing Obama’s Methane Rule
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The Trump administration really doesn’t want to impose rules curtailing the venting of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, during oil and gas operations. On Friday, the Bureau of Land Management...
VW halts European van deliveries amid diesel emissions 'uncertainties'
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Volkswagen said on Friday it had stopped delivering the T6 Multivan to dealers after detecting that the diesel model emitted excessive nitrogen oxide levels. VW said it had reported the findings...
Freaky New Dinosaur Was Part Duck, Part Raptor
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The last few years have yielded some truly bizarre dinosaur discoveries. From rhino-like animals with massive heads and stubby spines, to beaked mishmashes of every dinosaur in the book, there’s...
Astronomers Have Discovered the Most Distant Quasar Yet
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This discovery should speak for itself: Scientists have discovered a crazy example of a crazy thing at a crazy distance. We’re talking about the furthest quasar yet—the incredibly bright light...
The German Amateurs Who Discovered ‘Insect Armageddon’ ... Green Rules apply
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In a nature preserve in western Germany, an elderly gentleman approached a tent-like structure that was in fact a large trap for flying insects. Peering through thick eyeglasses, the...
The Internet Is Dying. Repealing Net Neutrality Hastens That Death ... Green Rules apply
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The internet is dying. Sure, technically, the internet still works. Pull up Facebook on your phone and you will still see your second cousin’s baby pictures. But that isn’t really the...
Call it the Trumpchi conundrum ... Green Rules apply
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China finally feels it has a car capable of following vehicles from Japan, Germany and South Korea into the U.S. market. But its biggest roadblock might be its name. The Chinese automaker GAC...
Voyager 1 Just Fired Up Its Backup Thrusters for the First Time in 37 Years ... Green Rules apply
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Voyager 1, the probe which became the first man-made object to leave the solar system in 2012, has been away from home for a long, long time—approximately 40 years. It’s still been beaming back...
Here's Why Scientists Cloned the First Cloned Dog ... Green Rules apply
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Ever since the first cloned mammal, Dolly the Sheep, died abnormally young, there’s been plenty of talk about clone aging. Now, scientists have cloned the world’s first cloned dog in order to...
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