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6 years ago+29 29 0 x 1Engineered pig lung transplant 'success'
Scientists have successfully transplanted a bioengineered lung into a pig.
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6 years ago+16 16 0Best News Bloopers - July 2018
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6 years ago+30 30 0 x 1Traveling to the sun: Why won't Parker Solar Probe melt?
This summer, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will launch to travel closer to the Sun, deeper into the solar atmosphere, than any mission before it. If Earth was at one end of a yard-stick and the Sun on the other, Parker Solar Probe will make it to wi ...
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6 years ago+29 29 0 x 1Did Qatar pay the world’s largest ransom?
The BBC has copies of texts and voicemails revealing Qatar’s tortuous negotiations to free kidnapped royals.
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6 years ago+14 14 0Warner Bros. wants to build a $100-million aerial tramway to the Hollywood sign
The studio would foot the bill for the project, which it hopes will relieve traffic congestion in the neighborhoods near the sign.
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6 years ago+12 12 0Tesla's China factory: Will it ever be built?
Tesla has reached a preliminary agreement with the Shanghai government to build an auto factory that would rival production from its lone U.S. assembly plant, as Elon Musk takes his biggest step yet to expand overseas.
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6 years ago+15 15 0News bloopers - June 2018
Funny news bloopers that hit the internet in June 2018.
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6 years ago+23 23 0 x 1Use of ‘smart drugs’ on the rise
European nations see biggest increases in use of stimulants such as Ritalin by people seeking brain-boosting effects.
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6 years ago+17 17 0Marble Sorting Machine Debunk
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6 years ago+18 18 0Will Cryptocurrency Be Alberta’s Next Big Boom?
Why I quit my day job to become a Bitcoin miner.
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6 years ago+25 25 0 x 1Facial Recognition Cameras Do Not Belong in Schools
Next year, students as young as 4 or 5 years old who attend public school in Western New York’s Lockport School District could be subject to surveillance from facial recognition technology.
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6 years ago+24 24 0 x 1My Teenage Video Game Obsession Wasn't 'Gaming Disorder'
I was a gay teen in the 1980s, hiding from a terrifying world in an arcade. The WHO's push to uniquely pathologize gaming won't help people like me.
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6 years ago+14 14 0The Milky Way Just Got Larger
Researchers surveyed stars, finding that the Milky Way is twice as large as previously thought.
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6 years ago+31 31 0 x 1Historic Trump-Kim summit begins in Singapore
The two leaders headed into a private meeting, accompanied only by interpreters.
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6 years ago+34 34 0 x 1These Physicists Watched a Clock Tick for 14 Years Straight
It was to test Einstein's theory of general relativity.
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6 years ago+22 22 0Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth
Biggest analysis to date reveals huge footprint of livestock - it provides just 18% of calories but takes up 83% of farmland
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6 years ago+2 2 0De Beers admits defeat over man-made diamonds
De Beers, the global diamond giant, has announced Tuesday it is launching a new line of jewelry featuring lab-grown diamonds.
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6 years ago+39 39 0 x 1If renewable energy can power entire countries, why isn't everyone doing it?
A country getting all its electricity from a combination of wind, solar and hydro sounds like science fiction. It's not.
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6 years ago+23 23 08 African cities are aiming to be carbon free by 2050
The continent is highly vulnerable to climate change - but it's starting to fight back.
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6 years ago+16 16 0Comcast website bug leaks Xfinity customer data
Exclusive: A bug in Comcast's website leaks sensitive customer information.