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Verizon's Zombie Cookie Gets New Life
Verizon is merging its cellphone tracking supercookie with AOL’s ad tracking network to match users’ online habits with their offline details - TechMediaNetwork The Sciences
Extinct Tree-Climbing Human Walked with a Swagger
Homo naledi ’s hands and feet could reveal answers about a key shift in human evolution—the move from a life of climbing trees to one spent walking on the ground - Video The Sciences
Fluorescence Is a State of Mind: Stefan Hell
How to break a fundamental law of physics and win a Nobel Prize to boot. Stefan Hell explains super-resolved fluorescence microscopy for which he shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. - Nature The Sciences
CERN Prepares to Test Revolutionary Mini Accelerator
Machines that "surf" particles on electric fields could reach high energies at a lower price - Nature Health
Gene-Editing Record Smashed in Pigs
Researchers modify more than 60 genes to enable organ transplants into humans - Scientific American Volume 313, Issue 4 Tech
How to Make Guns Safer
Biometrics, RFID and microstamping technologies aim to prevent deaths and crime - Climatewire Sustainability
Paris Climate Accord Aims to Speed Transition to Clean Power for All
Rich and poor countries now share responsibility for keeping global temperatures at a safe level - Nature Sustainability
South Korean Economist to Lead Global Warming Science Panel
The new leader of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change replaces Rajendra Pachauri - Scientific American Volume 313, Issue 4 The Sciences
Extragalactic Neutrinos in South Pole Experiment Reveal Distant Universe
Dozens of particles from halfway across the universe have landed in the IceCube experiment at the South Pole. These messengers could help answer some long-standing cosmic conundrums - News The Sciences
Discovery of DNA Repair Methods Nails 2015 Chemistry Nobel Prize
Three scientists who found ways that cells fix damaged DNA—staving off cancer and other diseases—have won this year's prize - 60-Second Science The Sciences
2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, Aziz Sancar for mechanistic studies of DNA repair - News The Sciences
20 Years Later--a Q&A with the first Astronomer to Detect a Planet Orbiting Another Sun
Michael Mayor and grad student Didier Queloz were the first astronomers to identify an alien world as it circled a sunlike star - The Conversation Sustainability
Chernobyl Wildlife Make a Comeback Despite Contamination
The Belarus region devastated by the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident is now teeming with elk, wild boar, deer and wolves - News The Sciences
Skepticism Versus Spiritualism: A Q&A with Author David Jaher
Jaher chronicles a 1920s Scientific American contest meant to uncover the truth about speaking with the dead - Extinction Countdown Sustainability
Endangered Hawaiian Bees and Other Species Proposed for Protection
Threatened insects and plants in the extinction capital of the world would benefit from ecosystem-based conservation - Video Mind
Researchers Reveal the Neuroscience of Magic
Magicians capitalize on the mind's abilities and limitations to create illusions. - News The Sciences
Light from Universe’s First Stars Spotted in Hubble Photos
Astronomers have detected faint light that dates from shortly after the big bang - Reuters Health
Not All Anti-Bullying Laws Created Equal
High schoolers in states with certain protections on the books report less bullying - Science Talk The Sciences
Physics Nobel: Neutrinos Do Have Mass
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass - Scientific American Volume 313, Issue 4 Sustainability
How Modern Agriculture Can Save the Gorillas of Virunga
Intensifying agriculture and urbanization is the best way to save what wild places remain
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