NSA chief looks to win allies at elite tech conference
The director of the US National Security Agency on Monday sought allies at an elite technology conference amid lingering distrust about widespread online snooping.
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Warming opens famed Northwest Passage to navigation
Beneath the Aurora Borealis an oil tanker glides through the night past the Coast Guard ice breaker Amundsen and vanishes into the maze of shoals and straits of the Northwest Passage, navigating waters that for millennia ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2015
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Monarchs get help from unlikely source: California's drought
In California's drought, the struggling monarch butterfly may have found a sprinkling of hope.
Ecology
Oct 20, 2015
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Apple Music boasts 6.5 mn subscribers
Apple chief executive Tim Cook said Monday the technology giant's new music service has some 6.5 million subscribers.
Business
Oct 20, 2015
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Methane from fracking sites can flow to abandoned wells, new study shows
As debate roils over EPA regulations proposed this month limiting the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane during fracking operations, a new University of Vermont study funded by the National Science Foundation shows ...
Environment
Oct 20, 2015
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Mysterious star stirs controversy
Mysterious light on a distant star could be a sign of alien civilisation, some astronomers have claimed, stirring controversy among their peers. Not so fast, said NASA.
Astronomy
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