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5 years ago+34 34 0 x 1Who Is America? (2018) | First Look
WHO IS AMERICA? is a half-hour series from comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in his return to series television for the first time in more than a decade in the genre he created first in Da Ali G Show. In the works over the past year, WHO IS AMERICA? explor ...
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5 years ago+9 9 0Ancient Dog DNA Reveals Close Relationship with Contagious Cancer
North America’s first domesticated dogs died out after European colonization, but they share a genetic link to a transmissible tumor spread globally
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5 years ago+27 27 0 x 1The Astronaut Who Never Left Earth
Scientific American speaks with a crew member from a NASA simulation of a long-duration space mission
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5 years ago+28 28 0 x 1Team discover how microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft
Rakesh Mogul, a Cal Poly Pomona professor of biological chemistry, was the lead author of an article in the journal Astrobiology that offers the first biochemical evidence explaining the reason the contamination persists.
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5 years ago+32 32 0 x 1Boulder-Size Clues to How Humans Settled the Americas
Scientists have discovered what they say is “direct evidence” supporting the theory that Ice Age migrants from Asia traveled down the Pacific Coast, rather than through North America’s interior.
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5 years ago+31 31 0 x 1Lyme Disease Is On The Rise Again. Here's How To Prevent It
The tick-borne illness is spreading north and south — about 300,000 U.S. cases a year. As scientists work on better diagnostic tests and surveillance tools, you can take steps to cut your risk.
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5 years ago+20 20 0It’s Impossible to Prove Your Laptop Hasn’t Been Hacked. I Spent Two Years Finding Out.
I spent two years trying to get someone to tamper with my laptop, so I could then detect it. Somewhere along the way, I realized this might never happen.
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6 years ago+18 18 0The Disgrace of Minor League Baseball
It’s not that MLB owners can’t afford to pay their minor leaguers a living wage. No, it’s just that they don’t want to.
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6 years ago+18 18 0Eddie Murphy - Party All the Time
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6 years ago+23 23 0Cbkb—a new recipe app—calls itself “Spotify for cookbooks.”
This new service makes 500 cookbooks and 100,000 recipes searchable, and cooking an even more social experience.
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6 years ago+13 13 0FDA approves AI-powered diagnostic that doesn’t need a doctor’s help
Marking a new era of “diagnosis by software,” the US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday gave permission to a company called IDx to market an AI-powered diagnostic device for ophthalmology.
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6 years ago+21 21 0Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84,000 alternative
Exclusive: 71 million people stand to benefit from reduced price treatment for virus which can lead to liver cirrhosis, cancer and death
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6 years ago+16 16 0Quick D: Dancing Phantoms
Captain Disillusion takes a close look at a piece of Art.
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6 years ago+28 28 0 x 1How I Upgraded My iPhone Memory By 800% in Shenzhen, China
This is my journey in Shenzhen, China to learn how to upgrade the memory in my iPhone 6s from 16GB to 128GB. I've been hearing for several years that this was something the repair shops here in Huaqiangbei could do, and I'd even seen one d ...
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6 years ago+28 28 0 x 1An "Ashamed" Fox News Commentator Just Quit The "Propaganda Machine"
"Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association," Col. Ralph Peters wrote in an email to colleagues. "Now I am ashamed."
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6 years ago+33 33 0 x 1Chinese Invisibility Cloak Hoax Destroyed
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6 years ago+26 26 0It’s official: Democrat Conor Lamb wins Pennsylvania special election in major upset
Trump won this district by 20 points in 2016. For him, this was personal.
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6 years ago+41 41 0 x 1The Secret to a Longer Life? Don’t Ask These Dead Longevity Researchers
Some of the biggest names in dieting, organic agriculture and preventive medicine died at surprisingly young ages.
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6 years ago+22 22 0U.S. says 'Pharma Bro' Shkreli deserves at least 15 years in prison
U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday said former drug company executive Martin Shkreli should spend at least 15 years in prison after being convicted of fraud, saying his lack of remorse and respect for the law justified a long time behind bars.
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6 years ago+33 33 0 x 1China Presses Its Internet Censorship Efforts Across the Globe
Beijing is pushing past its digital borders to influence and control what people say online, as it enjoys growing sway in the technology world.