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Scientists shocked as NASA cuts only moon roverIn a move that shocked lunar scientists, NASA has cancelled the only robotic vehicle under development to explore the surface of the Moon, despite President Donald Trump's vow to return people there.
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FAST's first discovery of a millisecond pulsarChina's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), still under commissioning, discovered a radio millisecond pulsar (MSP) coincident with the unassociated gamma-ray source 3FGL J0318.1+0252 in the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) point-source list. This is another milestone of FAST.
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NFL Draft: The 10 most intelligent NFL Players to ever be draftedThe NFL is known predominantly for its players’ display of athletic prowess. But you’d be surprised to know that many of these same players are incredibly smart. Here are some of the smartest NFL players ever to have graced the league. Read More
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Bad Audio Can Hurt a Scientist's CredibilityListeners gave more credence to a scientist’s radio interview when the audio was good quality than they did to the same material when the audio was poor. Christopher Intagliata reports. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Best Weekend Tech Deals: 200GB MicroSD, Ecovacs Deebot, Apple iPadWhether you're hunting for a 200GB MicroSD card or a new laptop, we've got a dozen tech deals to check out this weekend.
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Rescued bald eagle released into the wild in CanadaThe female bird of prey was given a traditional Native American farewell in Canada.
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DDoS For Hire, a CIA Card Game, and More Security News This WeekA major DDoS for hire site gets taken down, the CIA has a card game that you can play soon too, and more security news this week.
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Don't Feel Bad for Loving True Crime StoriesAuthor Mary Rickert's short story collection 'You Have Never Been Here' is influenced by real-life crime tales—and it's more intense because of it.
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Get off the golf cart if you have knee osteoarthritisIt may seem intuitive that golfers with knee osteoarthritis should stay off their feet and ride in a golf cart. But new research from the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Northwestern Medicine has found, for the first time, that walking the course provides significantly higher health benefits and is not associated with increased pain, cartilage breakdown or inflammation.
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Apple’s Done Making Airport Routers, So Try These InsteadWith the official end of the Airport era, it's time to let a new router into your life. Preferably mesh.
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Heat Shield for NASA's Next Mars Mission Breaks During TestingAs for what caused the failture, NASA engineers aren't sure yet.
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How Many Uncaptured Serial Killers Are Out There?The Golden State Killer isn't the only one.
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The Impossible Problem – Michael Gazzaniga – Think Again – a Big Think Podcast #145If you've ever heard that there are differences between the "left and right brain", you can blame Michael Gazzaniga. His new work aims at closing the gap between the meat of the brain and the magic of consciousness, and maybe saving us a lot of future headaches. Read More
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The Best of the Physics arXiv (week ending April 28, 2018)This week’s most thought-provoking papers from the Physics arXiv.
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US judge temporarily blocks Xerox takeover by FujifilmA US judge late Friday temporarily blocked the planned takeover of US photocopy maker Xerox by Japan's Fujifilm, saying the deal prioritized the interests of the Xerox CEO over that of the company's shareholders.
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Newborn jaguar cubs draw fans at Mexico wildlife parkTwo jaguar cubs born five weeks ago are the new stars at a wildlife park in Mexico, teaching a valuable lesson about conservation with their cuddly cuteness, according to park officials.
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Thessaloniki subway dig unearths secrets of 'city under the city'Shovels and brooms in hand, some two dozen workmen trudge around the remains of an ancient villa, deep beneath the bustle of modern-day Thessaloniki.
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1980s classic 'Karate Kid' reborn as YouTube joins content warsFor Generation X, "The Karate Kid" is a pop culture touchstone. Now, more than 30 years on, YouTube wants to bring a new generation into the dojo.
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DNA search for California serial killer led to wrong manInvestigators hunting for the so-called Golden State Killer turned to searching genetic websites in 2017 but misidentified an Oregon man as a potential suspect. A year later, after using a similar technique, they are confident they've caught the serial rapist and killer who eluded capture for four decades.
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The Family Weekly: Ch-Ch-ChangesThis Week in Family Once upon a time, if you wanted to start a family in America, the order was pretty straightforward: get married, move in, have children. But today that order is undergoing dramatic change, reports The Atlantic ’s associate editor Caroline Kitchener: More and more unmarried parents are living together and raising their kids under one roof—and redefining what the quintessential
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A Dodger Stadium Gondola Is Just LA's Latest Wild Transit IdeaFlying people to baseball games is exactly the kind of thing LA's Office of Extraordinary Innovation was meant to consider.
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The Fix for E. Coli Outbreaks Could Be…the BlockchainBy the time the US figures out the source of E Coli, many more people will have gotten sick. Making our food supply traceable could speed things up.
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A Century of Feuding Between Presidents and the PressFor the second time, President Trump won’t attend the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. As Washington’s elite journalists gather to celebrate their work this weekend, the president will hold a rally in Michigan. What better way to dismiss the “fake news” press corps that he sees as hostile than by setting up counter-programming of his own? Trump’s absence is part of a bigger pattern
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Spørg Scientariet: Findes der et absolut max-punkt på temperaturskalaen?Flere læsere vil gerne vide, om der findes et modstykke til det absolutte nulpunkt, altså en maksimumtemperatur. Og hvordan måler man egentlig ekstreme temperaturer. Det svarer Malte Olsen fra NBI på.
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Canada's 'Incel Attack' and Its Gender-Based Violence Problem“These are not the kinds of things we expect to happen in this city,” said Toronto’s mayor after a van mowed down pedestrians on a busy sidewalk Monday. Other Torontonians echoed his sentiment. “We never thought this would happen here,” said a supervisor at a trauma center that received several of the attack victims. Similarly, a government employee said , “This is not something that happens here
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North Korea's Secret ChristiansSEOUL—South Korea turned off dozens of high-volume loudspeakers on Monday, putting a halt to the propaganda they normally broadcast over the border into North Korea. The move, a government spokesman said , was designed to set a peaceful tone ahead of the talks between the two Koreas Friday—a tone that was reinforced by the announcement that the countries had committed to work toward a peace agree
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Danske forskere fører an i ny protest mod FacebookDenne gang er problemet ikke, at der bliver delt for mange oplysninger om brugerne. Men at der bliver delt for få oplysninger med forskerne.
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Proof of water wires motivated by a biological water channelAquaporins are proteins that serve as water channels to regulate the flow of water across biological cell membranes. They also remove excess salt and impurities in the body, and it is this aspect that has led to much interest in recent years in how to mimic the biochemical processes of aquaporins potentially for water desalination systems.
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Treating cardiovascular disorders–and more–with the flips of a switchYou've heard of "nature versus nurture," and philosophers argue about which is more important. But how does this work on the cellular level?
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Science | The Guardian
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Largest known child sacrifice site discovered in PeruResearchers believe the 140 children were sacrificed 550 years ago by the Chimú civilisation as floods ravaged the coastline Archaeologists in northern Peru say they have found evidence of what could be the world’s largest single case of child sacrifice. The burial site, known as Las Llamas, contains the skeletons of 140 children who were aged between five and 14 when they were ritually sacrifice
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The Golden State Killer Is Tracked Through a Thicket of DNA, and Experts ShudderThe arrest of a suspect has set off alarms among some scientists and ethicists worried that consumer DNA may be widely accessed by law enforcement.
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Popular Science
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Disney's haptic VR jacket lets you feel snowball impacts and snakes slitheringTechnology The future of VR goes beyond sight and sound. Made out of a converted life jacket, the Force Jacket uses airbags that inflate, deflate, or vibrate to literally give its wearer a feeling of being touched.
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In Hunt For Golden State Killer, Investigators Uploaded His DNA To Genealogy SiteAfter failing to find a match within criminal databases, law enforcement uploaded the killer's DNA profile to a no-frills website used to trace ancestry. The tactic has spurred privacy concerns. (Image credit: Rich Pedroncelli/AP)
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Live Science
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Here's the Odd Reason North Korea Is Shutting Down Its Nuclear Testing SiteMountains can get tired under the stress of nuclear tests and North Korea's might be exhausted.
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Toughest ever heat shields made of springy sponge-like stuffChinese scientists have developed a compressible aerogel that has shown in early heat shield tests to be 5 times more resilient than previous materials
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Golfer Jack Nicklaus says stem cell therapy cured his back painAn experimental stem cell therapy has allowed Jack Nicklaus to return to golf after a lifetime of back pain, and he plans to try it again for his hurt shoulder
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