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5 years ago+13 13 0Climate of North American cities will shift hundreds of miles in one generation | University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
In one generation, the climate experienced in many North American cities is projected to change to that of locations hundreds of miles away—or to a new climate unlike any found in North America today. A new study and interactive web application aim t ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0Scientists Remember the Mars Rover Opportunity as Hope Fades for Its Resurrection
A brutal dust storm engulfed Mars last summer. The planet-wide tempest spared the nuclear-powered Curiosity rover, but the older, solar-powered Opportunity rover shut down as the thick dust blocked light from the Sun. Opportunity has remained silent ...
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5 years ago+19 19 0Australia on track to meet Paris Agreement early, researchers say
Australia is on track to meet its Paris climate commitments five years earlier than expected — in 2025 — according to new research from the Australian National University. Per capita, the country is installing renewable energy faster than China, Japa ...
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5 years ago+20 20 0New Exhibition Highlights Story of the Richest Man Who Ever Lived
The title of richest person on Earth seems to ping-pong between tech titans every few years. But for all their wealth, Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates won’t come close to being the richest human of all time—that would mean besting people like Augustus Caesa ...
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5 years ago+12 12 0Democrats’ tax plans reflect profound shift in public mood
From the outset, several top-tier Democratic presidential candidates are pushing for new taxes on the wealthiest Americans and attempting to portray themselves as best positioned to fight the country’s yawning inequality gap.
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5 years ago+3 3 0Those recession fears now seem way overblown after 'scorching' jobs and manufacturing data
January's super strong jobs report and a solid manufacturing survey on Friday showed that recession worries may be overblown and slowdown fears are not impacting corporate hiring or dampening manufacturers' sentiment. The economy added a su ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0Notorious Website 4chan To Be Shutdown
4chan, an infamous hub for trolls, hackers, and neo nazis, is to be shut down sometime in 2019. Hiroyuki Nishimura, the owner of 4chan was interviewed this afternoon by CNN, and he shed light on a couple of things related to the site closing. Accordi ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0Dozens of children contract cancer in Indiana suburb
An alarming number of childhood cancer diagnoses in an Indiana suburb have parents wondering whether their environment is safe and challenging the Environmental Protection Agency to do something about it. CNN's Miguel Marquez reports.
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5 years ago+23 23 0 x 1Is ruling in the genes? All presidents bar one are directly descended from a medieval English king
What do Barack Obama, Thomas Jefferson, George W. Bush and the other past U.S. presidents have in common? Besides holding the coveted title of commander-in-chief, it appears that all of them but one are cousins. The remarkable discovery was made by 1 ...
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5 years ago+3 3 0How Universal Basic Income can see light of day
Agricultural distress and joblessness are not new issues in India, but they often hog the limelight prior to elections. This year is no different. After toying with several policies ranging from farm loan waiver to hiking minimum support prices (MSP) ...
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5 years ago+15 15 050 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat
In the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat, according to a newly published article in JAMA Internal Medicine. The article draws on internal documents to show that an industry ...
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5 years ago+25 25 0The Tech Education Con
Apple, Google, and Microsoft are the champions of teaching tech in schools. For many, they are saving education. Apple cuts prices on their hardware for dot-edu email owners to make their products available to students. Google competes by selling che ...
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5 years ago+21 21 0Dark Stars, Nazis and the Manhattan Project—A Brief History of Black Holes
Late in 2018, the gravitational wave observatory, LIGO, announced that they had detected the most distant and massive source of ripples of spacetime ever monitored: Waves triggered by pairs of black holes colliding in deep space. Only since 2015 have ...
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5 years ago+20 20 0Bill Gates warns that nobody is paying attention to gene editing, a new technology that could make inequality even worse
Gene editing is one of the most promising new approaches to treating human disease today. It also raises "enormous" ethical questions, Bill Gates recently warned, and "could make inequality worse, especially if it is available only for ...
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5 years ago+11 11 0We Should Be Able to Take Facebook to Court
After The New York Times revealed last month that Facebook continued to share personal information of millions of consumers with companies like Netflix, Yahoo, Spotify and Google — despite contrary assertions to Congress — many people decided to dele ...
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5 years ago+2 2 0Blizzard’s trying to clean up Twitch chat by tying it to Battle.net accounts
Since the earliest days of the Overwatch League, Blizzard has had a tough time getting fans, and even pro players, to behave themselves in Twitch chat. Whether it was spamming emotes or simply posting offensive messages, every week of the Overwatch L ...
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5 years ago+17 17 0Scientists Achieve Breakthrough on Path to Pig-to-Human Heart Transplants
Although 54 percent of adults in the United States have registered as organ donors, just one in three people die in a way that allows for organ donation. That leaves more than 100,000 people in the United States waiting for a transplant. Many will di ...
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5 years ago+16 16 0Aston Martin will make old cars electric so they don’t get banned from cities
Add Aston Martin to the growing list of companies using nostalgia to sell customers on the idea of an electric vehicle future. The British automaker announced this week that it’s starting a “Heritage EV” program where owners of classic Aston Martins ...
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5 years ago+17 17 0Better Sleep — Not ‘All-Nighters’ — Helps Students on Final Exams
Students given extra points if they met “The 8-hour Challenge” — averaging eight hours of sleep for five nights during final exams week — did better than those who snubbed (or flubbed) the incentive, according to Baylor University research. “Better s ...
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5 years ago+9 9 0FTC pledges loot crate investigation
The Federal Trade Commission today agreed to investigate video game loot boxes, following an official request by Senator Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.). In a Congressional oversight committee hearing earlier today, FTC chairman Joe Simons affirmed Sen. Hassa ...