Wal-Mart now lets you pay with phone at all 4,600 US stores
Wal-Mart will now let you pay with its phone app at all 4,600 stores nationwide.
Business
Jul 6, 2016
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Astronomers find evidence of water clouds in first spectrum of coldest brown dwarf
Since its detection in 2014, the brown dwarf known as WISE 0855 has fascinated astronomers. Only 7.2 light-years from Earth, it is the coldest known object outside of our solar system and is just barely visible at infrared ...
Astronomy
Jul 6, 2016
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Pelleting and extrusion increase digestible and metabolizable energy in diets for pigs
Scientists at the University of Illinois using co-products from the ethanol and human food industries are helping shed light on ways processing high-fiber animal feed ingredients can enhance pigs' utilization of the nutrients ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 6, 2016
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Vanishing message app Snapchat lets Memories linger (Update)
Vanishing message app Snapchat on Wednesday began giving users the option of storing images as "Memories" they can look back on or share anew.
Internet
Jul 6, 2016
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A sharper focus for plasmonic lasers
Lasers have become indispensable to modern life since they were invented more than fifty years ago. The ability to generate and amplify light waves into a coherent, monochromatic and well-focused beam has yielded applications ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 6, 2016
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NASA gets an eyeful of Hurricane Blas
Satellites eyeing powerful Hurricane Blas in the Eastern Pacific Ocean revealed a large eye as the powerful storm continued to move over open waters.
Earth Sciences
Jul 6, 2016
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Bangladesh coal plant threatens World Heritage mangrove: petition
The world's largest mangrove forest, a World Heritage Site, should be listed as endangered due to a coal-fired power plant under construction in Bangladesh, urged a petition signed by 50,000 people and submitted to the UN ...
Environment
Jul 6, 2016
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New study upends a theory of how Earth's mantle flows
A new study carried out on the floor of Pacific Ocean provides the most detailed view yet of how the earth's mantle flows beneath the ocean's tectonic plates. The findings, published in the journal Nature, appear to upend ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 6, 2016
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Ancient Brazilians occupied the same homes for centuries
Ancient inhabitants of the southern Brazilian highlands were no strangers to the types of home improvements we enjoy today, academics from the University of Exeter have found.
Archaeology
Jul 6, 2016
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Archaeology suggests no direct link between climate change and early human innovation
Environmental records obtained from archaeological sites suggest climate may not have been directly linked to cultural and technological innovations of Middle Stone Age humans in southern Africa, according to a study published ...
Archaeology
Jul 6, 2016
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