Inventor's firm says creator of the wind-up radio has died
Trevor Baylis, creator of the clockwork or wind-up radio, has died at 80.
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NewsGuard, new venture to combat 'fake news'
Two prominent American journalists announced plans Monday to launch a venture called NewsGuard which will provide online users with "reliability ratings" for media outlets.
Internet
Mar 5, 2018
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Qualcomm requests national security review of Broadcom bid
US chipmaker Qualcomm postponed its annual shareholders' meeting after secretly requesting a national security review of Broadcom's bid to take over the company, the Singapore-based Broadcom announced Monday.
Business
Mar 5, 2018
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Beetles face extinction due to loss of old trees
Nearly a fifth of Europe's wood beetle species face extinction because the old, decaying trees they depend on have been cleared from forests, scientists warned Monday.
Ecology
Mar 5, 2018
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Plants share defensive proteins in evolutionary pick 'n' mix
The recent research, led by the Krasileva Group of Earlham Institute and The Sainsbury Laboratory, used phylogenetics (the study of how DNA sequences are related) to identify how these 'bait' genes are distributed throughout ...
Biotechnology
Mar 5, 2018
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These tropical hummingbirds make cricket-like sounds other birds can't hear
Researchers reporting in Current Biology on March 5 have found that a tropical species of hummingbird called a black jacobin makes vocal sounds with an unusually high-frequency pitch that falls outside birds' normal hearing ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 5, 2018
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Technique to see objects hidden around corners
A driverless car is making its way through a winding neighborhood street, about to make a sharp turn onto a road where a child's ball has just rolled. Although no person in the car can see that ball, the car stops to avoid ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 5, 2018
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Chemical sleuthing unravels possible path to forming life's building blocks in space
Scientists have used lab experiments to retrace the chemical steps leading to the creation of complex hydrocarbons in space, showing pathways to forming 2-D carbon-based nanostructures in a mix of heated gases.
Astronomy
Mar 5, 2018
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Massive astrophysical objects governed by subatomic equation
Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics governing the sometimes-strange behavior of the tiny particles that make up our universe. Equations describing the quantum world are generally confined to the subatomic realm—the ...
Astronomy
Mar 5, 2018
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When rotated at a 'magic angle,' graphene sheets can form an insulator or a superconductor
It's hard to believe that a single material can be described by as many superlatives as graphene can. Since its discovery in 2004, scientists have found that the lacy, honeycomb-like sheet of carbon atoms - essentially the ...
Nanophysics
Mar 5, 2018
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