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Will Tech Make Insurance Obsolete in the Future?

We profit from it, we fear it, and we find it impossibly hard to quantify: risk. While not the sexiest of industries, insurance can be a life-saving protector, pooling everyone's premiums to safeguard against some of our greatest, most unexpected losses. One of the most profitable in the world, the insurance ...

15 hours ago

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Will Tech Make Insurance Obsolete in the Future?

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Healthy Mice Born From Same-Sex Parents For the First Time

When scientists made immature human egg cells from donated blood, some speculated that human reproduction was on the verge of a massive disruption. The future is now. Last week, a team from China completely overhauled natural reproduction, using genetic engineering to make mice born from same-sex parents ...

2 days ago

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Healthy Mice Born From Same-Sex Parents For the First Time

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Provocateur Stormy Daniels Takes an Unexpected Turn in the National Spotlight

Porn star Stormy Daniels remains in the spotlight as her alleged affair with President Donald Trump continues to make waves.

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Provocateur Stormy Daniels Takes an Unexpected Turn in the National Spotlight

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In toothy prequel, piranha-like fish menaced Jurassic seas

Scientists said on Thursday they have unearthed in southern Germany the fossil of a fish that, with its mouth full of razor-sharp teeth, strongly resembled today's piranhas, the stars of more than their fair share of Hollywood horror films. Named Piranhamesodon pinnatomus, it is the earliest known example ...

11 hours ago

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In toothy prequel, piranha-like fish menaced Jurassic seas

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Mysterious U.S. whale die-off is now deep in its 2nd year. We still don't know the cause.

Using a tractor, state and town officials in coastal New Hampshire attempted to drop the carcass of a minke whale into a dumpster in mid-September. But the dead cetacean proved too big, bouncing off the red bin and flopping onto the pavement of a beachside parking lot. The minke whale ' which can weigh ...

1 day ago

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Mysterious U.S. whale die-off is now deep in its 2nd year. We still don't know the cause.

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Turkish Police Search Saudi Consul's Home for Clues in Jamal Khashoggi's Disappearance

The new search put further pressure on Saudi Arabia to explain what happened

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Turkish Police Search Saudi Consul's Home for Clues in Jamal Khashoggi's Disappearance

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EPA puts off final say on science transparency rule

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday it is putting off for at least a year any final announcement on a controversial proposal overhauling how the agency evaluates science.

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EPA puts off final say on science transparency rule

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Genes play significant role in whether students to go to university, scientists find

Genetics plays a significant role in whether young adults choose to go to university, which university they choose to attend and how well they do, a new study suggests. Previous studies have shown that genetics plays a major role in academic achievement at school, with 58 per cent of individual differences ...

13 hours ago

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Genes play significant role in whether students to go to university, scientists find

Science Daily

Working lands play a key role in protecting biodiversity

Diversifying working lands -- including farmland, rangeland and forests -- may be key to preserving biodiversity in the face of climate change, says a new review article. These changes could extend the habitat of critters like bats, but also much larger creatures like bears, elk and other wildlife, outside ...

11 hours ago

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Working lands play a key role in protecting biodiversity

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Genetic breakthrough will aid whitebark pine conservation efforts

A research team for the first time developed reliable genetic markers known as nuclear microsatellites for the whitebark pine, a discovery that could improve the tree's prospects for survival. Whitebark pine, which is declining rapidly nearly range-wide, is currently being considered for listing under ...

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Genetic breakthrough will aid whitebark pine conservation efforts

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Superflares from young red dwarf stars imperil planets

Flares from the youngest red dwarfs surveyed are 100 to 1,000 times more energetic than when the stars are older. This younger age is when terrestrial planets are forming around their stars.

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Superflares from young red dwarf stars imperil planets

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150-million-year old, piranha-like specimen is earliest known flesh-eating fish

Researchers have described a remarkable new species of fish that lived in the sea about 150 million years ago in the time of the dinosaurs. The new species of bony fish had teeth like a piranha, which the researchers suggest they used as piranhas do: to bite off chunks of flesh from other fish.

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150-million-year old, piranha-like specimen is earliest known flesh-eating fish

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Not all prion strains interfere with each other

The first example of prion strains that replicate independently in vitro and in vivo suggests that strain diversity may be greater than previously thought, according to a new study.

12 hours ago

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Not all prion strains interfere with each other

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Asthma's effects on airways at the single cell level

By sequencing genetic material at a cell-by-cell level, researchers have described how type 2-high asthma affects the airways and results in mucus production with more detail than ever before. These findings, which help move forward scientific understanding of the biology behind asthma and could inform ...

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Asthma's effects on airways at the single cell level

New York Times Science

Trilobites: With Piranha-Like Teeth, This Prehistoric Predator Never Bit Off More Than It Could Chew

A fossil discovered in southern Germany is the earliest known flesh-eating bony fish.

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New York Times Science

Trilobites: With Piranha-Like Teeth, This Prehistoric Predator Never Bit Off More Than It Could Chew

New York Times Science

Matter: Researchers Explore a Cancer Paradox

Healthy cells carry a surprising number of cancer-linked mutations, but they don’t turn into tumors. What’s holding them back?

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New York Times Science

Matter: Researchers Explore a Cancer Paradox

New York Times Science

Trilobites: Why Southeast Asia and Australia’s Coral Reefs Became So Rich in Species

Biodiversity is a long game.

1 day ago

New York Times Science

Trilobites: Why Southeast Asia and Australia’s Coral Reefs Became So Rich in Species

New York Times Science

Trilobites: Pando, the Most Massive Organism on Earth, Is Shrinking

The grove of 47,000 quivering aspen trees in Utah is being diminished by mule deer, foraging cattle and human mismanagement.

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New York Times Science

Trilobites: Pando, the Most Massive Organism on Earth, Is Shrinking

New York Times Science

Why White Supremacists Are Chugging Milk (and Why Geneticists Are Alarmed)

The appropriation of genetic research by those with extremist views on race has scientists grappling with how to respond.

1 day ago

New York Times Science

Why White Supremacists Are Chugging Milk (and Why Geneticists Are Alarmed)

New York Times Science

Scientists Catch Rare Glimpses of the Endangered Vaquita

An expedition in the Gulf of California yielded photographs and video of a species nearing extinction.

1 day ago

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Scientists Catch Rare Glimpses of the Endangered Vaquita

National Science Foundation

Extremely close look at electron advances frontiers in particle physics

An unprecedented, close examination of the electron has opened a window into the mind-bending nature of particles, energy and forces at infinitesimal scales. The findings, showing a spherical shape for the electron's charge, emerged from the Advanced Cold Molecule Electron Electric Dipole Moment (ACME) ...

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Extremely close look at electron advances frontiers in particle physics

National Science Foundation

NSF Prize Competitions

NSF welcomes members of the public to help solve science, technology, engineering and math challenges by submitting ideas and solutions for a chance to win prizes. More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/competitions/index.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51 This is an NSF News item.

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NSF Prize Competitions

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Arctic & Antarctic

At a glance, Earth's polar regions seem like mirror images, located some 12,000 miles apart. Both are vast, icy regions covering opposite ends of the globe. Closer examination reveals differences as well as similarities. More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/overviews/arcticantarctic/index.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51 ...

2 days ago

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Arctic & Antarctic

National Science Foundation

Astronomy & Astrophysics

For more than 60 years, the National Science Foundation has significantly advanced the understanding of the universe as the federal steward for ground-based astronomy. More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/overviews/astronomy/index.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51 This is an NSF News item.

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Astronomy & Astrophysics

National Science Foundation

Earth & Environment

Our planet gives up its secrets slowly. But every year we learn more about its oceans and air, its restless continents, its myriad ecosystems, and the way living things interact with their environments. More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/overviews/earth-environ/index.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_51 ...

2 days ago

National Science Foundation

Earth & Environment