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'Prisoners of Gravity': Hey, TV Sci-Fi Can Have Ideas After All

On this week's episode of the 'Geek's Guide to the Galaxy' podcast the creators of the science fiction show look back on its legacy.

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'Prisoners of Gravity': Hey, TV Sci-Fi Can Have Ideas After All

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Obama Failed to Punish Russian Hacking, and Other Security News This Week

Every Saturday we round up the biggest cybersecurity news of the week.

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Obama Failed to Punish Russian Hacking, and Other Security News This Week

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Honda's Self-Driving Approach Starts With the Acura NSX Supercar

The NSX relies on the kind of innovation that will help Honda cruise into the self-driving future.

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Honda's Self-Driving Approach Starts With the Acura NSX Supercar

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Space Photos of the Week: Galaxy Is a Big, Dusty Star Machine

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Space Photos of the Week: Galaxy Is a Big, Dusty Star Machine

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Plastic Water Bottles Might Have Poisoned Ancient Californians

Native Americans living in California made their own plastic water bottles. However, they didn't know how toxic that might be.

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Plastic Water Bottles Might Have Poisoned Ancient Californians

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How To Turn Off Snapchat's Stalkerish Snap Map Feature

It's called Ghost Mode.

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How To Turn Off Snapchat's Stalkerish Snap Map Feature

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6 Things Quantum Computers Will Be Incredibly Useful For

Computers don't exist in a vacuum. They serve to solve problems, and the type of problems they can solve are influenced by their hardware. Graphics processors are specialized for rendering images; artificial intelligence processors for AI; and quantum computers designed for"what" While the power of quantum ...

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6 Things Quantum Computers Will Be Incredibly Useful For

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This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 24)

SPACE NASA Finds Evidence of 10 New Earth-Sized Planets in Our Corner of the Galaxy Sean O?Kane | The Verge “A total of 2,335 of those have been verified as exoplanets, 21 of which are Earth-sized and orbit in their star's habitable zone. Earth-sized planets are of particular interest because ...

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This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 24)

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New Virtual World Sansar Is Ready to Pick Up Where Second Life Left Off

On its 14th birthday, a reflection on Linden Lab's groundbreaking Second Life, and how their next project Sansar hopes to go even further. In May 2006, Bloomberg's Businessweek ran a cover story detailing the business empire of real estate millionaire Anshe Chung. What caught the world's attention, however, ...

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New Virtual World Sansar Is Ready to Pick Up Where Second Life Left Off

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Ray Kurzweil: Here’s What Will Happen When We Connect Our Brains to the Cloud

Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, thinker, and futurist famous for forecasting the pace of technology and predicting the world of tomorrow. In this video, Kurzweil looks ahead to a time in the not-too-distant future when we?ll be able to connect our brains to computers in the cloud. Individual computers and ...

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Ray Kurzweil: Here’s What Will Happen When We Connect Our Brains to the Cloud

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Conference: US mayors may shape national climate policy

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) – With the Trump administration's withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, national policy on climate change will emerge from U.S. cities working to reduce emissions and become more resilient to rising sea levels, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said at the annual U.S. Conferences ...

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Conference: US mayors may shape national climate policy

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'Pharma Bro' defies advice to keep quiet before fraud trial

Even with his federal securities fraud trial set to begin Monday, Martin Shkreli has blatantly defied his attorneys' advice to lay low. The former pharmaceutical CEO, who became a pariah after raising ...

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'Pharma Bro' defies advice to keep quiet before fraud trial

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The way we respond to being stared at may reveal how much power we think we have

In a blog post for Psychology Today, Audrey Nelson discusses how continuous eye contact for ten seconds or longer is disconcerting. This doesn't mean that everyone who dislikes eye contact is on the autistic spectrum, though. According to research discussed in another blog post in Psychology Today, ...

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The way we respond to being stared at may reveal how much power we think we have

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The prize-winning tech helping Ghana's farmers to grow

Agyei Douglas is a farmer who grows vegetables near Kumasi in Ghana's central Ashanti region. For farmers, there are also weather forecasts, market prices and agricultural tips all offered as voice messages in local languages such as the Akan dialect Twi.

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The prize-winning tech helping Ghana's farmers to grow

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Strong earthquake injures 2, knocks off roof tiles in Japan

TOKYO (AP) – A strong earthquake shook residents Sunday in a mountainous region of central Japan, injuring at least two people and knocking roof tiles off homes.

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Strong earthquake injures 2, knocks off roof tiles in Japan

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These 4 Animals Are Real Extinct American Creatures

They sound like mythical creatures but these prehistoric American animals were very real before they went extinct thousands of years ago.

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These 4 Animals Are Real Extinct American Creatures

Science Daily

Bird's eye perspective

Researchers have now provided the first insight into the perplexing question of how humans developed their daytime vision.

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Bird's eye perspective

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Making ferromagnets stronger by adding non-magnetic elements

Magnetic materials can be functionalized through a thoroughly unlikely method, report researchers: by adding amounts of the virtually non-magnetic element scandium to a gadolinium-germanium alloy.

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Making ferromagnets stronger by adding non-magnetic elements

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Genes, ozone, and autism

Exposure to ozone in the environment puts individuals with high levels of genetic variation at an even higher risk for developing autism than would be expected just by adding the two risk factors together, a new analysis shows. The study is the first to look at the combined effects of genome-wide genetic ...

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Genes, ozone, and autism

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Atomic imperfections move quantum communication network closer to reality

An international team of scientists has discovered how to manipulate a weird quantum interface between light and matter in silicon carbide along wavelengths used in telecommunications.

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Atomic imperfections move quantum communication network closer to reality

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The mere presence of your smartphone reduces brain power, study shows

Your cognitive capacity is significantly reduced when your smartphone is within reach " even if it's off " suggests new research.

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The mere presence of your smartphone reduces brain power, study shows

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Fungal toxins easily become airborne, creating potential indoor health risk

Toxins produced by three different species of fungus growing indoors on wallpaper may become aerosolized, and easily inhaled. The findings likely have implications for 'sick building syndrome.

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Fungal toxins easily become airborne, creating potential indoor health risk

New York Times Science

Trilobites: Solving the Scorching Mystery of the Sun’s Erupting Plasma Jets

After decades of study, scientists have developed a model to explain how violent solar spicules form.

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New York Times Science

Trilobites: Solving the Scorching Mystery of the Sun’s Erupting Plasma Jets

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Trilobites: Waves Above the Earth May Have Once Caused a ‘Nocturnal Sun’

Historical observations of bright nights that were almost like daytime have a new explanation in forces of the upper atmosphere.

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New York Times Science

Trilobites: Waves Above the Earth May Have Once Caused a ‘Nocturnal Sun’