Even after working 40 or more hours a week, thousands of Florida parents would need to earn nearly double the state's current hourly minimum wage in order to break even, according to policy analyses conducted by researchers ...
Social Sciences
Aug 4, 2016
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A NASA satellite animation of imagery from NOAA's GOES-East satellite shows the movement and landfall of Hurricane Earl near Belize City, Belize.
Earth Sciences
Aug 4, 2016
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Cancer cells are more dependent on a cellular garbage disposal unit—the proteasome—than healthy cells, and cancer therapies take advantage of this dependency. Scientists at EMBL and MPI determined the proteasome's 3D ...
Biochemistry
Aug 4, 2016
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A light that appeared high over St. Louis' Gateway Arch is perplexing officials.
Space Exploration
Aug 4, 2016
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Auto safety regulators in two countries are investigating another deadly air bag problem that could affect up to 8 million vehicles.
Business
Aug 4, 2016
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Self-destructing electronic devices could keep military secrets out of enemy hands. Or they could save patients the pain of removing a medical device. Or, they could allow environmental sensors to wash away in the rain.
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 4, 2016
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A new study challenges earlier interpretations of an important burial mound at Cahokia, a pre-Columbian city in Illinois near present-day St. Louis. The study reveals that a central feature of the mound, a plot known as the ...
Archaeology
Aug 4, 2016
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Tropical Porites corals adjust their internal pH to enable themselves to form calcium carbonate and grow under elevated carbon dioxide concentrations—even for a longer period of time. In order to understand the ability ...
Environment
Aug 4, 2016
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The seventh tropical cyclone of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean season formed, and infrared data from NASA's Aqua satellite showed powerful thunderstorms persisting in the storm's center.
Earth Sciences
Aug 4, 2016
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Better batteries that charge quickly and last a long time are a brass ring for engineers. But despite decades of research and innovation, a fundamental understanding of exactly how batteries work at the smallest of scales ...
Nanophysics
Aug 4, 2016
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