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Cyber Currencies Get Boost From High-Profile Endorsements
Don't bet all your chips on crypto coins yet, but Apple's app acceptance makes things interesting. Larry Greenemeier reports.
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London Fish Chip Away At Historical Unknowns
Isotope composition within fish tails found in London archaeological digs shows that the city began importing cod from northern Scandinavia some 800 years ago. Cynthia Graber reports.
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Global Warming Plays a Role in Australia's Record Heat
The past 12 months have been the warmest in Australia's recorded history, where average temperature has warmed by 1.6-degrees F since 1910 -
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"Beast" Asteroid to Fly by Earth on Sunday
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Students Build the First Eukaryotic Chromosome from Scratch
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Monarch Butterflies under Threat from Rising Herbicide Use
Deforestation of the butterflies' Mexican wintering site is eclipsed by the threat posed by the continual loss of habitat to crops and pesticides in the U.S. -
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Carbon Dioxide Emissions Rise with Rebounding Economy
Efficiency improvements reduced emissions slightly from 2008 to 2012, but the Great Recession cut output the most -
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How Does Air Pollution Affect Clouds?
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June 6, 1944: The Geology of D-Day
June 6, 1944 – in planning for D-Day – also geology was considered, as aerial photographs of the shores of Normandy were studied to find suitable landing sites for the invasion. -
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Review: Brian Cox's Wonders of Life
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No Good Deed Should Go Unrewarded: How Prizes Can Help Save the Ocean
Competitions can help solve some of history’s worst market failures -
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Predicting Artistic Brilliance
A “rage to master,” as observed in some precocious young artists, may help define extreme visual creativity -
Model salamanders, in a cave
While on a family holiday recently I visited Dan yr Ogof, the famous National Show Cave for Wales. Besides being interesting for the expected geological and speleological reasons, Dan yr Ogof is set within landscaped gardens that, bizarrely, feature one of Europe's largest `dinosaur parks'. -
Photo Friday: Where does it come from? Where does it go? Visualizing Energy Flows
Each year, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory publishes a powerful graphic of U.S. energy use. In the most recent version, one can see how the ~97 quadrillion british-thermal units (quads) of energy used in the United States can be broken down by uses and sectors. -
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Google Invests Billions on Satellites to Expand Internet Access
The company's plan to buy 180 small, high-capacity satellites complements its other ventures to expand Internet access to remote and underserved areas
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Lunar Rock Chemistry Argued to Reveal How the Moon Formed
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3 New Species of Weird, Endangered Fish Discovered in India, U.S and Colombia
“It’s a strange world. Let’s keep it that way.”—Warren Ellis You can find some pretty weird things when you go poking around in holes in remote parts of the globe. -
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City Frogs Use Drains as Mating Megaphones
Gathering in the gutter may provide a better way to attract females -
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Take This Tea and Call Me in the Morning [Slide Show]
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Lyme Disease’s Possible Bacterial Predecessor Found in Ancient Tick
A juvenile tick trapped in a 15-million- to 20-million-year-old piece of amber contains a bacterium that could be the oldest documented ancestor of the microbe that causes Lyme disease
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