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5 years ago+38 38 0 x 1'Climate Despair' Is Making People Give Up on Life
"It's super painful to be a human being right now at this point in history."
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5 years ago+23 23 0Newly-Discovered 'Vibranium' Fish Named in Honor of Wakanda
While SCUBA diving off the coast of Zanzibar, marine biologist Luiz Rocha saw a fish he had never seen before. He sent a photograph to his collaborator Yi-Kai Tea, currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Sydney, who confirmed that it was a n ...
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5 years ago+7 7 0Mortal Kombat movie is R-rated and features fatalities
The new Mortal Kombat movie will be the first to be rated R in North America. And you know what that means: fatalities on the big screen. The most gratuitously violent fighting game is finally getting a gratuitously violent film.
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5 years ago+28 28 0Net neutrality was repealed a year ago. The Vergecast explains what’s happened since.
Three things the FCC’s done since net neutrality was repealed
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5 years ago+29 29 0Indoor carbon dioxide levels could be a health hazard, scientists warn
CO2 in bedrooms and offices may affect cognition and cause kidney and bone problems
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5 years ago+30 30 0UK slavery network 'had 400 victims'
A judge said the gang was behind the most prolific modern-day slavery network ever exposed in the UK.
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5 years ago+38 38 0 x 1Police face calls to end use of facial recognition software
Analysts find system often wrongly identifies people and could breach human rights law
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5 years ago+5 7 2Scientists 'speechless' at Arctic fox's epic trek
A young fox has walked from Norway's Arctic islands to Canada in just 76 days.
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5 years ago+7 7 0Why plants don’t die from cancer
Humans and other mammals and birds would have been killed many times over by Chernobyl's radiation that plants in the most contaminated areas received. So why is plant life so resilient to radiation and nuclear disaster?
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5 years ago+12 12 0Startup Catalog has jammed all 16GB of Wikipedia's text onto DNA strands
Biological molecules will last a lot longer than the latest computer storage technology, Catalog believes.
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5 years ago+14 14 0U.S. Psychoanalysts: We’re Sorry We Once Said Homosexuality Was a Mental Illness
It took more than 25 years, but the American Psychoanalytic Association has issued an apology for saying in the past that homosexuality was a disorder, an unfounded claim that made life more dangerous for LGBTQ people during that time. The apology, o ...
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5 years ago+20 20 0California’s mighty predator — the mountain lion — faces ‘extinction vortex’
As the mountain lions of Southern California approach what some experts call an “extinction vortex,” environmentalists are demanding protective status.
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5 years ago+3 3 0Square Enix's Rule For Remakes: They Must Surpass The Original
At this past E3, we were granted a one-on-one interview with Square Enix CEO and president Yosuke Matsuda. Matsuda spoke to us about the company's goals and discussed how Square Enix is striving to make its complete library available digitally. ...
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5 years ago+22 22 0The Himalayas Are in Even Worse Shape Than We Thought
New research shows just how much global warming is eating away at the glaciers on the world’s highest peaks
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5 years ago+20 20 0The Past, Present, and Future of AI Art
AI art has a long history that is often overlooked
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5 years ago+8 8 0PlayStation 5 & Xbox Scarlett Will Get $399 Price Tag According to Analyst
The PS5 and Xbox Scarlett are rumored to cost $399.
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5 years ago+10 10 0Uber says it will start delivering McDonald’s by drone this summer
It has a few hurdles to overcome before the service launches, though.The news: Uber Elevate, the company’s aerial arm, has said it will start delivering meals from McDonald’s and other local restaurants to households in San Diego this summer, Bloombe ...
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5 years ago+19 19 0Students Invent Bacteria That Eat Plastic From The Oceans And Turn It Into Water
The high pollution in the oceans is a big problem on the planet. According to recent research, it is likely that in the year 2050 we...
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5 years ago+31 31 0Alzheimer’s Disease is a ‘Double-Prion Disorder,’ Study Shows
Two proteins central to the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease act as prions – spreading through tissue like an infection by forcing normal proteins to adopt the same misfolded shape.
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5 years ago+23 23 0The next big thing in fashion? Not washing your clothes
“We risk turning the customer off by making them feel like we’re suggesting they be less hygienic. We’re going up against years of cultural conditioning here.”