Spanish astronomer Salvador Barquin has detected a new binary star system in the Draco constellation. The newly found system, registered by the discoverer in the International Variable Star Index (VSX), is an EW-type eclipsing ...
The task seemed simple enough.
Other
May 28, 2018
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It was every Amazon Echo owner's nightmare. Alexa, the connected speaker, really, truly, was listening in on your conservations, and behind your back, passed on the recording of a private chit-chat to someone on your Echo ...
Consumer & Gadgets
May 28, 2018
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Flying is cheaper than driving a car, but a disaster for the environment. Yet few politicians dare to levy excise duty on kerosene. This is only one example from a world where emotions and yelling are burying facts, and in ...
Environment
May 28, 2018
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Police Scotland has changed the way it carries out stop and search following a series of recommendations made by researchers at the University of Dundee and Edinburgh Napier University.
Social Sciences
May 28, 2018
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On Tuesday, Starbucks stores in the United States will close for part of the day to deliver "implicit bias training" for all of its employees. Canadian Starbucks employees will get similar training June 11.
Social Sciences
May 28, 2018
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Visibility in the mass media matters for scientists. It gets funders' attention. It attracts top students. It can be a pathway to policy influence. Media coverage may even boost the number of times a piece of research is ...
Social Sciences
May 28, 2018
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A protein complex called facilitates chromatin transcription (FACT) plays a role in DNA packing within a nucleus, as well as in oncogenesis. A team of scientists from MSU, working in cooperation with foreign colleagues, have ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 28, 2018
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German authorities are giving automaker Daimler until mid-June to submit a plan for how it will fix diesel-powered vans that don't meet emissions requirements.
Business
May 28, 2018
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"Looks don't matter, it's what you do that counts." This quote from Skipper, from "Penguins of Madagascar" is the general theme throughout the work of Annelies Cannaert, a Ph.D. student at the Laboratory of Toxicology at ...
Analytical Chemistry
May 28, 2018
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