Climate change to blame for Hurricane Maria's extreme rainfall

Hurricane Maria dropped more rain on Puerto Rico than any storm to hit the island since 1956, a feat due mostly to the effects of human-caused climate warming, new research finds.

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Twitter touts a 'healthier' service after it was slow to remove death threats against congresswoman

Twitter claimed it has "made strides in creating a healthier service" on Tuesday following reports about the social media giant's shortcomings in managing abusive content.

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Astronomers discover third planet in the Kepler-47 circumbinary system

Astronomers have discovered a third planet in the Kepler-47 system, securing the system's title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds. Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, a team of researchers detected the new Neptune-to-Saturn-size planet orbiting between two previously known planets.

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Bacteria harness viruses to distinguish friend from foe

Bacterial cells that normally colonize our guts can distinguish themselves from other bacterial species using what's traditionally considered their enemy -- a virus. Researchers report that some bacteria use viruses that have infected them (i.e., phages) for self-recognition and thereby show greater fitness, repelling competitors that lack this adaptation.

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Astronomers discover third planet in the Kepler-47 circumbinary system

Astronomers have discovered a third planet in the Kepler-47 system, securing the system's title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds. Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, a team of researchers detected the new Neptune-to-Saturn-size planet orbiting between two previously known planets.

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Netflix investor isn't worried about Disney, Apple streaming services — Netflix is 'future of film'

Netflix shouldn't be worried about streaming wars, Morris Mark, CEO of Mark Asset Management, said Tuesday ahead of the company's fiscal earnings.

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UN Security Council condemns Taliban offensive as a blow against ‘sustainable peace’

The United Nations Security Council has condemned the announcement by Taliban militants in Afghanistan of its spring offensive, saying it will result in more “unnecessary suffering and destruction for the Afghan people”.

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Mercedes woos millennials with redesigned entry-level coupe at NY auto show

Launched in 2013, the CLA-Class preceded the A-Class as Mercedes' entry-level model in the U.S. market, with a starting price of under $30,000 at launch. Sales have declined since the peak of 29,643 units in 2015 to 22,556 last year.

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Zoom raises IPO price range and could now be worth almost $9 billion in debut

Zoom said it plans to sell shares for up to $35 to a piece, an increase from $32, the top end of its previous range.

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Security firm Kaspersky has a 'TajMahal warning' for you

Researchers with cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a sophisticated spying platform, TajMahal, that has been active for more than five years now and appears to be unconnected to any known threat actors.

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PUBG Mobile Update 0.12 Patch Notes Announced: Everything You Need to Know

PUBG Mobile update 0.12 release date is April 17 and just before this Tencent has revealed what you can expect from it.

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Northrop Grumman's 11th Cargo Launch Prepares to Launch to Station

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus resupply spacecraft is seen during sunrise on Pad-0A, Tuesday, April 16, 2019, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

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Facebook's scandal-ridden year gets a fresh glimpse in massive exposé

A new Wired feature details Facebook's internal hand-wrenching over how to confront the public and its own employees about several PR fires.

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For millions of Americans on workplace wellness treadmill, test results are back, and not good

One of the first randomized clinical studies of a corporate wellness program tracking 30,000 workers reveals companies may need to temper expectations on better health outcomes and lower health-care spending. There's still more promise than payoff.

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Facebook looking to merge News Feed, Stories into single interface

Facebook is working on to merge the News Feed and Stories features into a single interface, like Snapchat and Instagram, on its platform.

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Apple joins French firms in pledging millions to rebuild Notre Dame after fire

French companies including L'Oreal and luxury groups LVMH and Kering have pledged millions of euros to help rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after it was severely damaged in a fire Monday night.

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Here's how CEO Satya Nadella plans to put an end to harassment at Microsoft

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said the company is making sweeping changes in its HR practices to address complaints of sexual harassment and discrimination at the workplace.

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5G global users to touch 2.8 billion mark by 2025, says Huawei

Chinese telecom major Huawei Technologies on Tuesday raised the market demand projection for 5G services and forecast the figure of 2.8 billion 5G users by 2025 and 58 per cent global coverage by this ultra-fast spectrum based services.

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Adobe has partnered with this firm for customer experience management

Aiming to better embrace digital transformation, online beauty major Nykaa.com on Tuesday announced it is partnering with software major Adobe in order to expand its focus on Customer Experience Management (CXM).

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Northrup Grumman's 11th Cargo Launch Prepares to Launch to Station

A Northrop Grumman Antares rocket carrying a Cygnus resupply spacecraft is seen during sunrise on Pad-0A, Tuesday, April 16, 2019, at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

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Apple Music Upgrades 'For You' Section to Serve Theme-Based Recommendations, Regular Updates: Report

Apple Music with the upgraded 'For You' section is rolling out for iPhone and iPad users on iOS 12.3 beta and for Mac users on macOS 10.14.5 beta.

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YouTube tool mistakenly links Notre Dame fire to 9/11

YouTube's new tool for battling misinformation mistakenly linked videos of the massive fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the US and later issued an apology for the "wrong call".

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Forza Street Free-to-Play Racing Gaming Launched for Windows 10; Coming to Android, iOS Later This Year

Forza Street is now available for Windows 10, and will be coming to Android and iOS later this year.

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How SwiftKey Is Using Vernacular and AI to Grow in the Indian Market

SwiftKey keyboard supports more than 30 Indian languages, including different dialects, and covers all the 22 scheduled languages.

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Facebook partners with 'GAME' to help small entrepreneurs

Phase I will be rolled out this year covering 10 states including Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Jammu and Kashmir and Maharashtra among others.

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New discovery makes fast-charging, better performing lithium-ion batteries possible

Creating a lithium-ion battery that can charge in a matter of minutes but still operate at a high capacity is possible. This development has the potential to improve battery performance for consumer electronics, solar grid storage, and electric vehicles.

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Solar evaporator offers a fresh route to fresh water

Researchers have demonstrated a successful prototype of one critical component for affordable small-scale desalination: an inexpensive solar evaporator, made of wood.

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Mark Zuckerberg reportedly mulled making 100 deals just to work out the dollar value of user data

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly once considered pursuing numerous deals with third-party developers to help it find out how much users' data is worth.

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A biosynthetic dual-core cell computer

Researchers have integrated two CRISPR-Cas9-based core processors into human cells. This represents a huge step towards creating powerful biocomputers.

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Here's what major analysts think of Netflix before its earnings report Tuesday

Analysts watching Netflix closely as it reports earnings after the bell.

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A biosynthetic dual-core cell computer

Researchers have integrated two CRISPR-Cas9-based core processors into human cells. This represents a huge step towards creating powerful biocomputers.

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Physicists improve understanding of heat and particle flow in the edge of a fusion device

Physicists have discovered valuable information about how plasma flows at the edge inside doughnut-shaped fusion devices. The findings mark an encouraging sign for the development of machines to produce fusion energy for generating electricity without creating long-term hazardous waste.

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AdBlock, AdBlock Plus, uBlock Filter Vulnerability Allows Arbitrary Code Injection in Browsing Sessions: Researcher

A malicious filter author can steal online credentials, tamper sessions, or redirect pages using this vulnerability.

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Google searches reveal popular bird species

Cross-referencing a decade of Google searches and citizen science observations, researchers have determined which of 621 North American bird species are currently the most popular and which characteristics of species drive human interest.

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Up in arms: Insect-inspired arm technology aims to improve drones

Insect-inspired arm technology aims to improve drones to handle larger payloads.

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Facebook Messenger Officially Gets Dark Mode Globally, No Need to Send Moon Emoji

Facebook has officially rolled out dark mode for its Messenger app

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Facebook Messenger Officially Gets Dark Mode Globally, No Need to Send Moon Emoji

Facebook has officially rolled out dark mode for its Messenger app

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Megalith tombs were family graves in European Stone Age

Archeologists have discovered kin relationships among Stone Age individuals buried in megalithic tombs on Ireland and in Sweden. The kin relations can be traced for more than ten generations and suggests that megaliths were graves for kindred groups in Stone Age northwestern Europe.

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Netflix shares will climb as streaming platform becomes a global 'cultural necessity,' Deutsche says

Deutsche Bank raised its rating on Netflix shares to buy from hold on Tuesday as the streaming service is becoming "more like a platform every day," the firm said, rather than just another app on people's phones.

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Graphene gives a tremendous boost to future terahertz cameras

In a recent study, researchers developed a novel graphene-enabled photodetector that operates at room temperature, is highly sensitive, fast, has a wide dynamic range, and covers a broad range of THz frequencies. The researchers have achieved a solid understanding of how the PTE effect gives rise to a THz-induced photoresponse, which is valuable for further detector optimization.

from Nanotechnology News - Nanoscience, Nanotechnolgy, Nanotech News http://bit.ly/2Itob8X

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Amazon faces probe from Italy's antitrust authority over abuse of market position

Italy's competition authority announced on Tuesday it will begin a preliminary investigation into whether Amazon abused its dominance in e-commerce and logistics services.

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IBM using AI to create customised, emphatic chatbots

According to an estimate, chatbots are predicted to tackle a massive 85 per cent of customer service interactions by 2020.

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Telecom tariffs to rise in second half of this financial year: Report

Prices of telecom services are likely to rise in the second half of the current financial year (2019-20), an Edelweiss report said on Tuesday.

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Qatar Airways teams up with Rolls-Royce to test virtual reality training

Using their devices, engineers will experience sight, touch and sound.

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Hulu Spends $1.43 Billion to Buy Back AT&T Stake, Disney and Comcast Now Only Owners

Hulu has bought back wireless carrier AT&T's stake in the US entertainment streaming service for $1.43 billion, in a deal that values Hulu at $15 billion.

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France to ask EU partners to adopt its cryptocurrency regulation

France will push for the European Union to adopt a regulatory framework on cryptocurrencies similar to the one it brought in last week at a national level, becoming the first major country to do so.

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TCS vs Infosys: What worked, what didn't and more

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Amazon flooded with thousands of fake reviews, report claims

The probe, carried out by U.K. consumer advocacy group Which?, analyzed hundreds of tech products on Amazon and found that potentially false reviews were helping unknown brands dominate searches for popular items.

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Huawei Phone Users Can Now Download VLC Player Again After Being Blocked by VideoLAN

Last year, VLC parent entity VideoLAN blamed Huawei for having a "ridiculous policy" over background apps.

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New microscopy technique peers deep into the brain

Using new imaging technology, researchers can now record the activity of large populations of brain cells with unprecedented speed, and at new depths.

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Computer games for fish uncover why some prey lead and others follow

For the first time, researchers have shed new light on the evolution of different social roles within animal groups by exploring how fish predators target and attack groups of virtual prey. The study found leaders in groups of animals are more vulnerable to attack from predators.

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WhatApp for Android Gets New Doodle UI, Ability to Block Screenshots Spotted

WhatsApp will soon get ability to block screenshots in conversations and a new user interface for WhatsApp Doodle.

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Uber's Valuation Appraisal More Complex Than Lyft's, Professor Says

Uber is more complicated than its competitor, making valuing the company ahead of its IPO more difficult and open to interpretation.

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Reliance Jio applies for in-flight connectivity licence to DoT

Reliance Jio Infocomm has approached the telecom department for in-flight connectivity licence, that allows service providers to offer connectivity and data services to Indian and foreign airlines, according to sources.

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Huawei says it hasn't talked with Apple about any 5G chip deal — even though CEO Ren is 'open' to it

Ren Zhengfei, founder and CEO of Huawei, told CNBC over the weekend that the company is "open" to selling its 5G chips to Apple. But the two companies have not spoken about the subject, another top Huawei boss said Tuesday.

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Jio TV App for Android Updated With Picture-in-Picture Support

Reliance Jio has released an updated version of its JioTV app in the Google Play Store, which bring picture-in-picture (PiP) support.

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Jio TV App for Android Updated With Picture-in-Picture Support

Reliance Jio has released an updated version of its JioTV app in the Google Play Store, which bring picture-in-picture (PiP) support.

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US will reportedly press allies to keep Huawei out of 5G in Prague meeting

The United States will push its allies at a meeting in Prague next month to adopt shared security and policy measures that will make it more difficult for China's Huawei to dominate 5G telecommunications networks, sources say.

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Walmart is launching its first subscription box for apparel. And this one's for kids

Walmart announces it's partnering with Kidbox, a subscription box company akin to Stitch Fix but focused solely on selling clothes for babies, girls and boys.

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Cramer: Investors must study up on the Amazon effect before buying any stock

"Any company with any kind of consumer product could potentially end up in their crosshairs, and that's a very dangerous place to be," the "Mad Money" host says.

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AT&T sells Hulu stake, valuing the video streaming company at $15 billion

Hulu bought back AT&T's 9.5 percent stake in the entity for $1.43 billion, valuing the streaming company at $15 billion.

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Wipro employee accounts hacked, may have been used to attack clients

The Bengaluru-based company was responding to a Reuters query after cyber security blog KrebsOnSecurity said Wipro's systems had been breached and were being used to launch attacks against some of its clients.

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Asia’s internet companies compete with banks for consumer finances

The push into banking by companies better known for their messaging apps, cute emojis and online holiday bookings comes as regulators across Asia open up their banking sectors to a new breed of digital players.

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Samsung says it sold 2 million A series smartphones in 40 days, clocks USD 500 million in sales

South Korean tech giant Samsung said it has sold two million units of its A series smartphones in 40 days, clocking about USD 500 million (nearly Rs 3,500 crore) in sales.

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Snapdeal to hire 120 engineers this year

"This resurgence also enabled Snapdeal to become the first e-commerce company in India to become cash flow positive, giving it the freedom to invest its earnings in growing the business," Snapdeal said in a statement.

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Apple locks horn with Qualcomm in $27-billion battle

Filed by Apple in early 2017, the lawsuit in federal court revolves around the modem chips that connect devices like the iPhone or Apple Watch to wireless data networks.

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Reliance Jio crosses 300 million subscriber mark: 5G services, challenges ahead and more

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Facebook Spotted Testing Merging of News Feed With Stories

Facebook News Feed and Stories are currently two distinct interfaces for its over 2.2 billion monthly active users.

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YouTube Fact-Checking Tool Goes Wrong: In Flaming Notre Dame, It Somehow Sees 9/11 Tragedy

The misfire underscored the ongoing limits of computerised tools for detecting and combating misinformation.

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Samsung A80 and A70 Launch, Redmi Note 7 Pro 6GB First Sale, Realme 3 Pro India Launch Date, Huawei P30 Pro, and More News This Week

Samsung A80 and A70 launch, Redmi Note 7 Pro 6GB first sale in India, and Huawei P30 Pro and P30 Lite India launch, and Realme 3 Pro India launch date reveal, were some of the biggest tech news stories this week.

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It's not your imagination — tax extortion scams are up, and they might get worse after filing day

Frauds that involve convincing taxpayers to pay fraudsters steep tax bills, which often start with a series of bothersome robocalls to a victim's cell phone, rose 242% in 2018.

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Blockchain protocol to prevent counterfeit pharmaceutical sales

Researchers want to prevent counterfeit pharmaceuticals from flooding the market.They have recently published a blockchain protocol that could do just that.

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Asteroids help scientists to measure the diameters of faraway stars

Using the unique capabilities of telescopes specialized on cosmic gamma rays, scientists have measured the smallest apparent size of a star on the night sky to date. The measurements reveal the diameters of a giant star 2,674 light-years away and of a sun-like star at a distance of 700 light-years.

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Asteroids help scientists to measure the diameters of faraway stars

Using the unique capabilities of telescopes specialized on cosmic gamma rays, scientists have measured the smallest apparent size of a star on the night sky to date. The measurements reveal the diameters of a giant star 2,674 light-years away and of a sun-like star at a distance of 700 light-years.

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Best in snow: New scientific device creates electricity from snowfall

Researchers have designed a new device that creates electricity from falling snow, a first. The device is inexpensive, small, thin and flexible like a sheet of plastic.

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Best in snow: New scientific device creates electricity from snowfall

Researchers have designed a new device that creates electricity from falling snow, a first. The device is inexpensive, small, thin and flexible like a sheet of plastic.

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Best in snow: New scientific device creates electricity from snowfall

UCLA researchers and colleagues have designed a new device that creates electricity from falling snow. The first of its kind, this device is inexpensive, small, thin and flexible like a sheet of plastic.

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'Game of Thrones' hits record viewership in season 8 premiere

Coming back from its longest hiatus in series history, "Game of Thrones" earned its highest showing for a first-run telecast with an average of 17.4 million viewers, exceeding the previous series high for the season seven finale in 2017.

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New compound allows bacterial communication to be controlled by light

Scientists have succeeded in incorporating a light-controlled switch into a molecule used by bacteria for quorum sensing -- a process by which bacteria communicate and subsequently control different cellular processes. With the molecule described, it is possible to either inhibit or stimulate communication, making it a useful tool for research into bacterial communication and its influence on different genetic pathways.

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Asteroids help scientists measure distant stars

We gaze up at them, we wish upon them, we even sing about swinging on them. But the one thing we haven't been able to do with a star is figure out how big it is...until now.

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High-speed 'electron camera' films molecular movie in HD

With an extremely fast 'electron camera,' researchers have made the first high-definition 'movie' of ring-shaped molecules breaking open in response to light. The results could further our understanding of similar reactions with vital roles in chemistry, such as the production of vitamin D in our bodies.

from Top Technology News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2DgTijx

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New compound allows bacterial communication to be controlled by light

Scientists have succeeded in incorporating a light-controlled switch into a molecule used by bacteria for quorum sensing -- a process by which bacteria communicate and subsequently control different cellular processes. With the molecule described, it is possible to either inhibit or stimulate communication, making it a useful tool for research into bacterial communication and its influence on different genetic pathways.

from All Top News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2IBA7ED

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High-speed 'electron camera' films molecular movie in HD

With an extremely fast 'electron camera,' researchers have made the first high-definition 'movie' of ring-shaped molecules breaking open in response to light. The results could further our understanding of similar reactions with vital roles in chemistry, such as the production of vitamin D in our bodies.

from All Top News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2DgTijx

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Publicis' $4.4 billion acquisition leaves analysts skeptical

Analysts wonder how well Publicis will be able to integrate the data marketing company.

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Time is money, especially when it comes to giving

Would you be more likely to donate to charity if you could report the gift sooner on your taxes? According to a new article, the answer is yes. Researchers found that changing the deadline for donations closer to tax time increased donations by nine per cent.

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Astronomers take first, high-resolution look at huge star-forming region of Milky Way

A team of astronomers used a newly commissioned radio telescope in South Korea to make the first high-resolution observations of the molecular clouds within a star-forming region of the Milky Way. The first good look at the galactic region indicated large molecular clouds about 180 light years across with a mass equal to about 100,000 masses of our sun.

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TESS finds its first Earth-sized planet

A nearby system hosts the first Earth-sized planet discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite, as well as a warm sub-Neptune-sized world. This milestone sets the path for finding smaller planets around even smaller stars, and those planets may potentially be habitable.

from Top Technology News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2VN8VGS

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Tiny fragment of a comet found inside a meteorite

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery that gives clues to how solar system formed.

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Engineering 'hairpins' increases CRISPR accuracy

Biomedical engineers have developed a method for improving the accuracy of the CRISPR genome editing technology by an average of 50-fold. The approach adds a short tail to the guide RNA that folds back and binds onto itself, creating a 'lock' that can only be undone by the targeted DNA sequence.

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TESS finds its first Earth-sized planet

A nearby system hosts the first Earth-sized planet discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite, as well as a warm sub-Neptune-sized world. This milestone sets the path for finding smaller planets around even smaller stars, and those planets may potentially be habitable.

from All Top News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2VN8VGS

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New evidence suggests volcanoes caused biggest mass extinction ever

Researchers say mercury buried in ancient rock provides the strongest evidence yet that volcanoes caused the biggest mass extinction in the history of the Earth. The extinction 252 million years ago was so dramatic and widespread that scientists call it 'the Great Dying.' The catastrophe killed off more than 95 percent of life on Earth over the course of hundreds of thousands of years.

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Tiny fragment of a comet found inside a meteorite

Astronomers have made a surprising discovery that gives clues to how solar system formed.

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NASA Highlights Science on 17th SpaceX Resupply Mission to International Space Station

NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Monday, April 22, to discuss select science investigations launching on the next SpaceX commercial resupply flight to the International Space Station.

April 15, 2019
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Plastic's carbon footprint

From campaigns against microplastics to news of the great Pacific garbage patch, public awareness is growing about the outsized effect plastic has on the world's oceans. However, its effect on the air is far less obvious. Plastic production, use, and disposal all emit prodigious amounts of greenhouse gasses, but scientists haven't had a firm grasp on the scope.

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North Atlantic warming hole impacts jet stream

The North Atlantic warming hole (NAWH), a region of reduced warming located in the North Atlantic Ocean, significantly affects the North Atlantic jet stream in climate simulations of the future.

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Leveraging scientists' perceptions for successful interactions with policy makers

Creating new policies that deal with important issues like climate change requires input from geoscientists. Policy makers, media outlets, and the general public are interested in hearing from experts, and scientists are put under increasing amounts of pressure to effectively engage in policy decisions.

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Graphene gives a tremendous boost to future terahertz cameras

Scientists have developed a novel graphene-enabled photodetector that operates at room temperature, is highly sensitive, very fast, has a wide dynamic range and covers a broad range of THz frequencies.

from Top Technology News -- ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2IzAGie

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Disney+ is the service Apple wants

Apple and Disney launched their streaming service events at nearly the same time, but Disney had the roll-out and the product Apple should desire.

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Tesla raising price of its full self-driving option

Electric Vehicle (EV) maker Tesla is set to increase the price of its Full Self-Driving option from May 1.

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This new form of chemotherapy may be used to heal lung cancer patients

Scientists are testing a targeted chemotherapy for lung cancer patients, that can be inhaled instead of being injected or taken orally.

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Microsoft revamps HR practices after email chain describing harassment spreads

Microsoft is changing up its approach to looking into reports of inappropriate workplace behavior after employees spoke out in an email chain recently.

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YouTube's algorithm placed a descriptive link of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks under a live stream video of the Notre Dame cathedral fire.

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