Best Buy rings up a rebound
Five years ago Best Buy Co. looked like a retail dinosaur, another victim of e-commerce juggernaut Amazon.com and other online sellers.
Business
Jul 21, 2017
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NC island's mysterious birth appears on NASA satellite images
NASA has released satellite images that show North Carolina's newly formed Shelly Island was born in November.
Earth Sciences
Jul 21, 2017
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Superluminous supernova marks the death of a star at cosmic high noon
The death of a massive star in a distant galaxy 10 billion years ago created a rare superluminous supernova that astronomers say is one of the most distant ever discovered. The brilliant explosion, more than three times as ...
Astronomy
Jul 21, 2017
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Exhumation of Dali's remains finds his mustache still intact
Forensic experts in Spain have removed hair, nails and two long bones from Salvador Dali's embalmed remains to aid a court-ordered paternity test that may enable a woman who says she is the surrealist artist's daughter to ...
Archaeology
Jul 21, 2017
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Lyft team steers toward open self-driving tech (Update)
US ride-share startup Lyft on Friday dedicated a new team focused on speeding up its effort to create a self-driving vehicle platform, which would be open to use by other companies.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 21, 2017
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In saliva, clues to a 'ghost' species of ancient human
In saliva, scientists have found hints that a "ghost" species of archaic humans may have contributed genetic material to ancestors of people living in Sub-Saharan Africa today.
Archaeology
Jul 21, 2017
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Rare discovery of three new toad species in Nevada's Great Basin
Three new species of toads have been discovered living in Nevada's Great Basin in an expansive survey of the 190,000 square mile ancient lake bottom. Discoveries of new amphibians are extremely rare in the United States with ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 21, 2017
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NASA sees Tropical Storm Fernanda sliding into central Pacific
Tropical Storm Fernanda has crossed the 140 degree longitude line and entered the central Pacific Ocean. NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement mission, or GPM, satellite took a look at the rainfall the weakening system ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 21, 2017
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Computers using linguistic clues to deduce photo content
Scientists at Disney Research and the University of California, Davis have found that the way a person describes the content of a photo can provide important clues for computer vision programs to determine where various things ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 21, 2017
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The moon is front and center during a total solar eclipse
In the lead-up to a total solar eclipse, most of the attention is on the sun, but Earth's moon also has a starring role.
Space Exploration
Jul 21, 2017
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