Is this booming Northwest land a paradise or disaster waiting to happen?
It was here before anyone made a map and called this corner of it the Pacific Northwest.
Environment
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FCC offers hope for consumers seeking online privacy protections
I think most of us can agree that the internet poses some unique and wide-scale risks to our privacy.
Telecom
Jun 8, 2016
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Lenovo, Google unveil phone that knows its way around a room (Update)
A Lenovo smartphone unveiled Thursday will be clever enough to grasp your physical surroundings—such as the room's size and the presence of other people—and potentially transform how we interact with e-commerce, education ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 8, 2016
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Snapchat seen surging past Twitter, Pinterest in US
Ephemeral messaging app Snapchat by year's end will have more US users than either Twitter or Pinterest, a market tracker said Wednesday.
Internet
Jun 8, 2016
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An eco-friendly approach to reducing toxic arsenic in rice
A team of researchers at the University of Delaware has found that incorporating rice husk to soil can decrease toxic inorganic arsenic levels in rice grain by 25 to 50 percent without negatively affecting yield.
Other
Jun 8, 2016
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Drug candidate shrinks tumor when delivered by plant virus nanoparticle
In a pair of firsts, researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have shown that the drug candidate phenanthriplatin can be more effective than an approved drug in vivo, and that ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 8, 2016
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Centuries-old database reveals clues on human reproductive habits, trends
When predicting future global population growth, sometimes scientists look to the past. Using a database with historical records that began in 871 A.D., an anthropologist at the University of Missouri was able to show reproductive ...
Social Sciences
Jun 8, 2016
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NASA's NICER mission arrives at Kennedy Space Center
An upcoming NASA astrophysics mission will uncover the physics governing the ultra-dense interiors of neutron stars. Using the same platform, the mission will demonstrate trailblazing space navigation technology.
Astronomy
Jun 8, 2016
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Switched-on Salmonella: Fluid forces guide disease traits of multidrug-resistant bacteria
Once inside the human body, infectious microbes like Salmonella face a fluid situation. They live in a watery world, surrounded by liquid continually flowing over and abrading their cell surfaces—a property known as fluid ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 8, 2016
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No long-term 'star effect' for baseball teams on Twitter
In previous generations, when professional sports franchises had athletes who were considered to be all-star caliber on their teams, those teams would experience a "star effect," which would result in long-term increases ...
Internet
Jun 8, 2016
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