Motorola's Moto G7 line aims for budget phone shoppers with three new phones
A new phone doesn't need to cost you several hundred dollars.
Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 12, 2019
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Marine scientists find toxic bacteria on microplastics retrieved from tropical waters
A field survey conducted by a team of marine scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has uncovered toxic bacteria living on the surfaces of microplastics, which are pieces of plastic smaller than five millimetres ...
Environment
Feb 12, 2019
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New SpaceX Raptor engine beats the chamber pressure of Russia's RD-180 engine, according to Elon Musk
2019 has been shaping up to be an interesting year for SpaceX and its founder, Elon Musk. After completing work on the miniaturized version of the Starship (Starship Alpha or "Starship hopper") over the holidays, SpaceX moved ...
Space Exploration
Feb 12, 2019
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Study takes aim at biased AI facial-recognition technology
A study by Deb Raji, a fourth-year student in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, and researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is underscoring the racial and gender biases ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 12, 2019
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Why young people in South Korea are staying single despite efforts to spark dating
Recent reports about a sex recession among young Americans aside, the concept of dating and mating is reasonably engrained in daily life in the West. In sharp contrast, in South Korea, 40 per cent of people in their 20s and ...
Social Sciences
Feb 12, 2019
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Reddit study shows how growth, aging affect online communities
Through studying groups on the website Reddit, researchers at The University of Alabama found as online groups grow and age, discussion concentrates among fewer contributors and retention of new contributors becomes harder.
Social Sciences
Feb 12, 2019
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Organotin poisoning may cause obesity, medics say
RUDN medics report that exposure to organotin compounds may cause metabolic disturbance and therefore lead to obesity. Being aware of the mechanisms of such exposure, doctors can neutralize the effect of the toxins. The work ...
Biochemistry
Feb 12, 2019
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Xbox Live could soon be coming to iOS, Android and the Nintendo Switch
Playing games between an Xbox and Nintendo Switch may soon expand beyond "Fortnite," "Minecraft" and "Rocket League."
Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 12, 2019
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Researchers engineer more efficient Cas12a variants
A team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and MIT has engineered Cas12a variants that are able to target a wider range of protospacer adjacent motifs (PAMs). In their paper published ...
Biochemists report a way to stop the immortality of cancer cells with oligonucleotides
RUDN biochemists found a way to reduce the activity of telomerase (the enzyme of cell immortality) 10-fold. The discovery could lead to new antitumor drugs and give a better understanding of how the activity of the enzyme ...
Biochemistry
Feb 12, 2019
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