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2 days ago+20 20 0France has passed a law protecting the sounds and smells of the countryside
France has passed a law protecting the "sensory heritage" of its rural areas, in the face of complaints about the noises and smells typical of the countryside. Senators voted to approve the law, which passed through the lower house of parli ...
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4 days ago+14 14 0Personalized Skin Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in New Trial Results
The future of cancer treatment might involve personalized vaccines meant to manage or even prevent relapses—at least if new research published Thursday continues to pan out. In a small clinical trial, high-risk melanoma patients given such a vaccine ...
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9 days ago+15 15 0Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub, the pirated-papers website
Move comes as publishers sue in India to block public access
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10 days ago+21 21 0Phage viruses can make superbugs susceptible to antibiotics again
Viruses firmly hold the world’s attention at the moment, but we shouldn’t ignore the rising health threat that bacteria pose, too. The crafty critters are fast evolving resistance to antibiotics, meaning our best drugs could soon stop working entirel ...
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11 days ago+16 16 0Maryland governor said he was repeatedly denied authorization to send National Guard to D.C.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said Thursday that after receiving a request for help from the District of Columbia on Wednesday, he immediately mobilized the state police and National Guard, but was repeatedly denied authorization to deploy.
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11 days ago+20 20 0Trump auction of oil leases in Arctic refuge attracts barely any bidders
The Trump administration’s last-minute attempt on Wednesday to auction off part of a long-protected Arctic refuge to oil drillers brought almost zero interest from oil companies, forcing the state of Alaska into the awkward position of leasing the la ...
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12 days ago+13 13 0Chuck Norris weighs in on U.S. Capitol riot after photo resembling actor goes viral
Chuck Norris is speaking out on last week's deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol after a photo of a man in D.C. resembling the actor began trending online. "It wasn't me and I wasn't there," Norris tweeted Tuesday night. "The ...
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2 weeks ago+22 22 050 countries commit to protection of 30% of Earth's land and oceans
A coalition of 50 countries has committed to protect almost a third of the planet by 2030 to halt the destruction of the natural world and slow extinctions of wildlife. The High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature and People, which includes the UK an ...
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2 weeks ago+15 15 0James Webb will be the 'launch to watch in 2021'
If the standout rocket launch of 2020 was the flight that took US astronauts back into orbit from American soil, then the major rocket event of 2021 must surely be the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. The successor to the mighty Hubble obser ...
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3 weeks ago+1 1 0Why Even the Most Reasonable People You Know Are Bending Covid Safety Rules
It was a warm September evening, perfect for a socially distanced outdoor gathering. When she arrived at her friends’ house in rural Pennsylvania, Karen — who asked that we only use her first name to protect her friends’ privacy — dutifully donned he ...
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3 weeks ago+26 26 08 great Apple Arcade games for your new 2020 iPhone or iPad
This time last year, Apple Arcade was still a fledgling service, but one with a lot of potential. For $5 a month, you could get unlimited access to a big library of interesting games, the kind that no one really sells in the App Store anymore. It’s s ...
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1 month ago+11 11 0Man walks circumference of earth without leaving home city
A retired business consultant has walked the equivalent of the circumference of the Earth without leaving his home city. Vinod Bajaj, 70, walked 40,075 kilometres over the past four years in Limerick, in the west of Ireland. He has encouraged others ...
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1 month ago+4 4 0Laptops, Desktop PC Sales See 'Renaissance' Due to Pandemic
The world stocked up on laptop and desktop computers in 2020 at a level not seen since the iPhone debuted in 2007, and manufacturers still are months away from fulfilling outstanding orders, hardware industry executives and analysts said.
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1 month ago+3 3 0Tom Selleck Leaves a $2,020 Tip and Handwritten Note for Restaurant Servers as Part of the 2020 Tip Challenge
Generosity clearly runs in the Blue Bloods family. On Wednesday night, Donnie Wahlberg shared that his costar Tom Selleck recently left a $2,020 tip on a $204.68 bill for the servers at Elio's restaurant in New York City. "I found out that ...
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1 month ago+17 17 0Coalition Sues Trump Administration Over 'Outrageous Assault' on Tongass National Forest Protections
"Trump's reckless plan to clearcut old-growth trees in the Tongass will irreversibly damage our climate, kill wildlife, and devastate Southeast Alaska communities."
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1 month ago+17 17 0Suspicions grow that nanoparticles in Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine trigger rare allergic reactions
Severe allergy-like reactions in at least eight people who received the COVID-19 vaccine produced by Pfizer and BioNTech over the past 2 weeks may be due to a compound in the packaging of the messenger RNA (mRNA) that forms the vaccine’s main ingredi ...
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1 month ago+11 11 0Anthony Fauci reassures small children with claim to have vaccinated Santa
Children around the world should not worry about the logistics of Christmas present delivery while the coronavirus pandemic rages, Dr Anthony Fauci said – because he vaccinated Santa himself.
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1 month ago+4 4 0Astronomers Get Their Wish, and the Hubble Crisis Gets Worse
On December 3, humanity suddenly had information at its fingertips that people have wanted for, well, forever: the precise distances to the stars. “You type in the name of a star or its position, and in less than a second you will have the answer,” B ...
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1 month ago+12 12 0Facebook slams Apple's new privacy measures in full-page newspaper ads
Facebook has launched a scathing attack on Apple in a series of full-page newspaper ads over plans to make it harder to track users and increase privacy in iOS 14.
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1 month ago+17 17 0Amazon, TikTok, Facebook, Others Ordered To Explain What They Do With User Data
The Federal Trade Commission is demanding that nine social media and tech companies share details on how they harness users' data and what they do with the information. Amazon.com, TikTok owner ByteDance, Discord, Facebook, Reddit, Snap, Twitter ...