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phys.org | 2/7/2018 | Staff
The discovery of the Cas9 protein has simplified gene editing, and may even make it possible to eliminate many hereditary diseases in the near future. Using Cas9, researchers have the ability to cut...
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phys.org | 2/7/2018 | Staff
The sun might emit less radiation by mid-century, giving planet Earth a chance to warm a bit more slowly but not halt the trend of human-induced climate change. The cooldown would be the result of...
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TechCrunch | 2/10/2018 | Jason Rowley
Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor: Did - Tide - VC - Start - Q4 Did the tide of global VC start to turn in Q4 2017? In the...
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phys.org | 2/7/2018 | Staff
At DESY's X-ray source PETRA III, scientists have investigated an intriguing form of self-assembly in liquid crystals: When the liquid crystals are filled into cylindrical nanopores and heated,...
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TechCrunch | 2/10/2018 | Danny Crichton
Human resources has to be one of the greatest bait-and-switch professions one can join today. HR departments position themselves with a forward-facing fluffy image, whether improving the...
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phys.org | 2/7/2018 | Staff
A new study published in Nature Communications will help to predict antibiotic resistance evolution and thus guide future drug development. The genes that equip bacteria with resistance to...
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TechCrunch | 2/10/2018 | Billy Gallagher
Billy Gallagher is a former TechCrunch staffer whose first book "HOW TO TURN DOWN A BILLION DOLLARS: The Snapchat Story by Billy Gallagher" is on sale now. Gallagher previously worked as an analyst...
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phys.org | 2/7/2018 | Staff
Russian cyberspies pursuing the secrets of military drones and other sensitive U.S. defense technology tricked key contract workers into exposing their email to theft, an Associated Press...
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TechCrunch | 2/10/2018 | Brian Heater
Robots are great at doing what they’re told. But sometimes inputting that information into a system is a far more complex process than the task we’re asking them to execute.
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phys.org | 2/7/2018 | Staff
From cars to rockets, Elon Musk dreams big. On Tuesday, the South African-born entrepreneur combined both of those passions, blasting one of his Tesla electric cars into space aboard his own rocket.
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
A deadly feline disease is now spreading between cats after hiding in nature for nearly 40 years. Multiple cases of feline parvovirus, also known as cat plague, or panleukopenia, have been reported...
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
A team of researchers have discovered that studying small groups of wildlife and how they share scarce resources in particular environments can be critical to preventing wide-spread species loss.
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
Is it a computer program or a living being? At TU Wien (Vienna), the boundaries have become blurred. The neural system of a nematode was translated into computer code – and then the virtual worm was...
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
A quick and cost-effective approach to monitoring the health of elephant populations could help measure the impact of poaching on the animals, according to a new study involving the University of...
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3ders.org | 2/9/2018 | Staff
DNV GL, the international quality assurance and risk management firm, has announced it will be launching a Global Additive Manufacturing Centre of Excellence in Singapore.
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) traditionally demand atomic perfection to optimize efficiency. On the nanoscale, where structures span just billionths of a meter, defects should be avoided at all...
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ScienceDaily | 2/9/2018 | Staff
Scientists already knew that a molecular blueprint guides the formation of upside-down V-shaped bundles on the surface of inner ear cells that detect sound, motion, and spatial orientation.
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
In a new article, published in Nature Materials, researchers from Beijing, Uppsala and Jülich have made significant progress allowing very high resolution magnetic measurements.
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ScienceDaily | 2/9/2018 | StaffRobert Doyle, the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence and professor of chemistry, is the inventor of a new compound that triggers the secretion of insulin in the...
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
The importance of birds, mammals and reptiles for pollinating plants around the world is the subject of a major new study involving the University of East Anglia.
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ScienceDaily | 2/9/2018 | Staff
"Seeing such a strong connection between arachidonic acid levels and ROP is something that is entirely new. However we looked at the data, it's always low levels of arachidonic acid that is most...
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
I began my research career in the last century with an analysis of how news organisations were adapting to this strange new thing called "the Internet". Five years later I signed up for Twitter and,...
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Space.com | 2/10/2018 | Staff
Elon Musk wasn't necessarily expectingSpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket to successfully launch into space Tuesday (Feb. 6) — but it did, and a new video shows Musk's surprise and delight as the...
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ScienceDaily | 2/9/2018 | Staff
In a study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists at the University of California, Davis, were able to develop a new culture system that...
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
A picture is worth 1,000 words, the saying goes, but a group of Harvard-based scientists is hoping that it may also be worth the same number of equations. Pictorial laws appear to unify ideas from...
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TechCrunch | 2/10/2018 | Greg Kumparak
This past week, as we watched SpaceX launch its absolutely massive Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time, many of us wondered if it would make it off the launch pad. So did Elon Musk.
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
Researchers at Aalto University have found that only a fraction of stability tests done on new types of solar cells meet proper requirements. Tests lack common standards and should have been done in...
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
A team of researchers from several institutions in Italy has found evidence of Neanderthals using fire to craft tools approximately 171,000 years ago. In their paper published in Proceedings of the...
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
Multi-omics research on Thermosulfidibacter (isolated from a hydrothermal field in the Southern Okinawa Trough) has enabled the discovery of possibly the most primordial form of tricarboxylic acid...
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Express.co.uk | 2/11/2018 | Staff
Progress cargo ships - who’s purpose is to deliver supplies needed to sustain a human presence in orbit - look a lot like Russia's crewed Soyuz capsules, and the agency has been using the uncrewed...
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
Top panels: Averaged pulse profiles of the best detections of Ter5aj (on the left), Ter5ak (in the middle) and Ter5al (on the right). Bottom panel: Intensity of the signal (gray scale) as a function...
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
University of Leeds scientists are looking back in time at previously discarded chemical compounds, to see if any could be developed for new antibiotics. In the heyday of antibiotic development in...
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
An astonishing number of viruses are circulating around the Earth's atmosphere – and falling from it – according to new research from scientists in Canada, Spain and the U.S.
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
Whether for separation processes, photovoltaics, catalysis, or electronics, porous polymer membranes are needed in many fields. Membranes with micropores that switch between different shapes and/or...
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
Among the many discoveries on matter at high pressure that garnered him the Nobel Prize in 1946, scientist Percy Bridgman discovered five different crystalline forms of water ice, ushering in more...
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
The final results from the ESA satellite LISA Pathfinder (LPF) have been published today. Using data taken before the end of the mission in July 2017, the LPF team – including researchers from the...
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
Termites are "social cockroaches." They evolved from ancestral solitary cockroaches some 150 million years ago, at least 50 million years before bees, ants and wasps evolved similar intricate...
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3ders.org | 2/11/2018 | Staff
Valentine’s Day 2018 is just around the corner, and though it is a pretty cheesy holiday, it is also a much-needed pick-me-up in a cold and impossibly long winter.
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phys.org | 2/11/2018 | Staff
The growth of bitcoin is fueling speculation and debate about the environmental impact of the energy needed to power the virtual currency in the era of climate change.
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earthsky.org | 2/11/2018 | EarthSky Voices
Cape Town city center. Image via Gilbert Sopakuwa/Flickr. According to city officials, Day Zero is coming for Cape Town. The exact date it will arrive depends on the latest calculations; as of...
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phys.org | 2/11/2018 | Staff
A crowd cheers, banging on balloons, in front of glitzy stages, each with a giant screen. The rising stars at the sprawling Makuhari Messe hall are the quietly seated men in hoodies and T-shirts,...
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phys.org | 2/11/2018 | Staff
Internet mogul Kim Dotcom's legal case returns to court in New Zealand Monday for what may be the Megaupload founder's final chance of avoiding extradition to the United States.
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earthsky.org | 2/11/2018 | Paul Scott Anderson
Image of the gravitational lens galaxy RXJ 1131-1231, with the lens galaxy at the center and four smaller lensed background quasars. Image via University of Oklahoma and AmericaSpace.
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phys.org | 2/11/2018 | Staff
Spectators have been urged to wrap up warm with temperatures set to plunge on Monday. An earthquake triggered an alert and high winds disrupted competition at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Sunday,...
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Space.com | 2/11/2018 | Google+
The launch of a Russian cargo ship bound for the International Space Station was aborted in the final minute Sunday (Feb. 11), just as it was poised to fly the fastest resupply mission to the...
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phys.org | 2/11/2018 | Staff
Russian space agency Roscosmos has delayed the launch of a Soyuz rocket carrying a Progress cargo ship by two days after Sunday's planned lift-off was aborted at the last minute.
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TechCrunch | 2/6/2018 | Jon Evans
I watched the Falcon Heavy launch this week. Not as an accredited journalist, from an observation tower, but as one of the masses on Alan Shepard Beach twelve miles south.
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Space.com | 2/11/2018 | Staff
A colorful lunar corona above Grand Place, in Brussels city, Belgium, in this image by sky photographer Miguel Claro. Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator...
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phys.org | 2/6/2018 | Staff
The two halves of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now reside at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in Redondo Beach, California, where they will come together to form the complete observatory.
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TechCrunch | 2/10/2018 | Steve Gillmor
The Gillmor Gang — Frank Radice, Denis Pombriant, Doc Searls, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Saturday, February 10, 2018. G3: Promises Promises — Mary Hodder, Elisa Camehort Page,...
Friday Prayer: What Will Be I think a lot about sanctification. That particular theological undertaking is not often pondered...
Pope taps experts, US cardinal to help prep for abuse summit VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis named the Vatican’s top sex abuse...
Free Stuff Fridays (Tyndale House Publishers) This week’s Free Stuff Friday is sponsored by Tyndale House Publishers who also...
Seeing and Believing 177: Steve McQueen’s Widows and the Coen Brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Use Up/Down Arrow keys to...
Are You Controlling Your Digital Life, Or Is It Controlling You? The digital onslaught has become overwhelming. The promise...
Good News! Partial Government Shutdown Hampering ‘Climate Efforts’ – Travel by scientists with NASA, NOAA & EPA impacted
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Anker’s new phone sized charger can power a laptop and costs just $30 This charger needs to be in my life. It’s tiny.
CFACT’s media saturation bombing of UN climate summit in Poland
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This wireless charging alarm clock from Anker looks pretty nice I have an Echo Spot by my bed right now, and I feel kind of...
Listen: The Orchard’s Paul Davidson on Surviving Sundance Bidding Wars Hollywood heads to Park City, Utah this week in the...
Paris Hilton's ex-fiance Chris Zylka goes on day date with mystery woman two months It appears Chris Zylka may have mended...
It’s Time For Another ‘Punisher’ Video Game Last year saw the release of the most recent iteration of a Spidey game, “Marvel’s...
Prince William Turns the Tables as He Leads a Discussion on the Future of the Planet Prince William made an appearance in...
‘Sopranos’ Film Casts Michael Gandolfini as Young Tony Soprano Michael Gandolfini will play a young Tony Soprano in the...
Ryan Gosling dons his First Man baseball cap as she steps out after Oscar nomination snub His performance as astronaut Neil...
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