A small drone buzzes above a pristine Pacific beach in Mexico as troops stand guard, seeking to deter poachers from snatching sea turtle eggs that end up on restaurant menus.
Ecology
Sep 16, 2015
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Microsoft is raising its quarterly dividend 16 percent to 36 cents a share.
Business
Sep 16, 2015
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The noise of cars honking and zooming through the streets may shorten the lifespan of sparrows growing up near the clamour, scientists said Wednesday.
Plants & Animals
Sep 16, 2015
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Wildfires that have raged in California this summer haven't just overwhelmed firefighters—they've also stumped computer models designed to predict the intensity of flames and where they'll burn.
Environment
Sep 16, 2015
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Facebook, pressed for years by users to add a "dislike" button, says it is working on the feature and will be testing it soon.
Internet
Sep 16, 2015
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People protesting the construction of a giant telescope on a Hawaiian mountain they hold sacred are decrying the destruction of a stone altar they built near the construction site.
Space Exploration
Sep 16, 2015
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An animal rights group said Wednesday that New Zealand researchers who secured live pigs to a surgical table and shot them in the head with a pistol as part of a study on blood-spatter patterns acted cruelly, and has urged ...
Other
Sep 16, 2015
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A team of astronomers has given us our best view yet of an exoplanet moving in its orbit around a distant star. A series of images captured between November 2013 to April 2015 shows the exoplanet β Pic b as it moves through ...
Astronomy
Sep 16, 2015
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