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21 hours agoCurrent Event canuck
Brains are hard-wired to recognize opposite sex
Male mice, even those that are young and sexually naïve, are hard-wired to quickly discern the sex of another mouse. What’s more,researchers have for the first time identified the neurons in the male mouse brain that guide the behavior.
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2 days agoCurrent Event canuck
Authors are protesting Amazon's e-book policy that allows users to read and return
Authors say readers are exploiting Amazon's seven-day return policy by using Amazon like a library and returning books after reading them.
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6 days agoCurrent Event canuck
Amber Heard spotted grocery shopping in the Hamptons
Amber Heard may be hanging out in one of the wealthiest enclaves in the country, but — fresh off her epic court loss to Johnny Depp — she seems to be keeping things majorly low-key.
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6 days agoCurrent Event canuck
Hubble Space Telescope catches dead star in the act of cosmic cannibalism
The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted evidence of a white dwarf star devouring rocky and icy material from its own system, suggesting that water and other volatiles might be common in the outer reaches of planetary systems.
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13 days agoCurrent Event canuck
British 5-year-old publishes book, earns world record
A 5-year-old British girl earned a Guinness World Record when she published a book that she wrote and illustrated. Guinness World Records confirmed Bella Jay Dark earned the record for youngest person to publish a book (female) when her book, The Lost Cat, sold more than 1,000 copies, the minimum set by the record-keeping organization.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event canuck
Russia Is Taking Over Ukraine’s Internet
WEB PAGES IN the city of Kherson in south Ukraine stopped loading on people’s devices at 2:43 pm on May 30. For the next 59 minutes, anyone connecting to the internet with KhersonTelecom, known locally as SkyNet, couldn’t call loved ones, find out the latest news, or upload images to Instagram. They were stuck in a communications blackout.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event canuck
Amazon to launch Prime Air drone deliveries in California
Nearly a decade after Amazon began working on drone delivery, customers living in one small California community will soon be able to take advantage of the 30-minute air delivery service.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event canuck
The aliens are all hanging out on Dyson spheres circling white dwarfs, physicist argues
So yet, no proof of sentient aliens has been discovered elsewhere in the universe. However, if they do exist, they might be found on Dyson spheres around the husks of sunlike stars known as white dwarfs dispersed across the Milky Way, according to a recent article. In an email to Live Science, study co-author Ben Zuckerman, an emeritus professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California Los Angeles, said that's where we should be focused our hunt for extraterrestrials.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event canuck
USB-C will be mandatory for phones sold in the EU ‘by autumn 2024’
European Union lawmakers have reached an agreement on legislation that will force all future smartphones sold in the EU — including Apple’s iPhone — to be equipped with the universal USB-C port for wired charging by fall 2024. The rule will also apply to other electronic devices including tablets, digital cameras, headphones, handheld video game consoles, and e-readers. Laptops will have to comply with the rule at a later date.
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3 weeks agoAnalysis canuck
Giant craters are opening up in the Arctic due to climate change
The permafrost region contains three times as much carbon as all living vegetation on Earth - with concerning consequences as it thaws.
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3 weeks agoCurrent Event canuck
The world’s fastest supercomputer just broke the exascale barrier
The Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee clocked in at more than 1.1 quintillion calculations per second.
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1 month agoCurrent Event canuck
Scientists Plan to Open Ancient Rock Salt Crystal That May Contain 830-Million-Year-Old Living Organisms
Scientists plan on opening an 830-million-year-old rock salt crystal discovered by geoligists in central Australia. They believe it may contain living remnants of prokaryotic and algal life in fluid inclusions, or microscopic bubbles of liquid inside the crystal. These organic solids and liquids that were similar in shape, size, and fluorescent response to cells of prokaryotes and algae.
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1 month agoExpression canuck
'The Wire' Creator David Simon Calls Out Police Response to Texas School Shooting
He could find no reason for cops to "stand outside a school while children were shot and bleeding to death inside"
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1 month agoCurrent Event canuck
Ukraine war is visible from space, astronaut says
AGerman astronaut who has just returned to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS) has spoken of his impressions of the war in Ukraine from space. European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer, 52, said that while in orbit, he could see rocket impacts in Kyiv and clouds of smoke above the cities that had been bombarded.
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1 month agoCurrent Event canuck
You can now get an Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti for less than MSRP
EVGA is selling the Nvidia RTX 3090 Ti for less than MSRP, signalling a return to normal GPU prices. While we’ve grown accustomed to forking out extra cash for the best graphics cards, you can now upgrade your gaming PC with a current-gen contender and save a few pennies in the process.
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1 month agoCurrent Event canuck
For the first time, researchers have observed an X-ray explosion on a white dwarf
When stars like our sun use up all their fuel, they shrink to form white dwarfs. Sometimes such dead stars flare back to life in a super-hot explosion and produce a fireball of X-ray radiation. A research team from several German institutes including Tübingen University, and led by Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), has now been able to observe such an explosion of X-ray light for the very first time.