Given the choice, many dogs prefer praise from their owners over food, suggests a new study published in the journal Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. The study is one of the first to combine brain-imaging data ...
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Summer would not be the same without the sweet smell of swimming pools. But behind the familiar smell is the hazard of disinfection byproducts, or DBPs.
Other
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A billion times per second, particles zooming through the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, smash into one another at nearly the speed of light, emitting subatomic debris ...
Hardware
Aug 16, 2016
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A Tesla electric car caught fire during a promotional tour in southwest France, and those aboard escaped unharmed.
Business
Aug 16, 2016
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The British government gave the green light Tuesday for what it called the world's biggest offshore wind farm to be built off the English coast.
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 16, 2016
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It's getting rarer for phone launches to generate excitement these days—especially in the Android world, where all models use the same underlying Google software. Every year, phones get routine refreshes such as faster ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 16, 2016
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The European Union will in September propose subjecting internet services like WhatsApp and Skype to similar rules as traditional telecommunications companies, a spokesman said Wednesday.
Internet
Aug 16, 2016
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(Phys.org)—An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a giant planet and a brown dwarf in a close binary system designated HD 87646. The findings, described in a paper published Aug. 11 on arXiv.org, ...
A research group led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Unversitaet (LMU) in Munich physicist Nico Hamaus is calculating the dynamics of cosmic voids and deriving new insights into our entire universe.
General Physics
Aug 16, 2016
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One of the most critical issues the United States faces today is preventing terrorists from smuggling nuclear weapons into its ports. To this end, the U.S. Security and Accountability for Every Port Act mandates that all ...
General Physics
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