The ocean's fastest shark is being threatened by over fishing
More bad news for sharks.
Ecology
Aug 7, 2017
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Study examines social connections and impacts of financial fraud
The infamous Bernie Madoff financial fraud scandal between 1980 and 2008 influenced far more than the 10,000 directly affected investors who lost billions.
Economics & Business
Aug 7, 2017
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Modern domestic dog has a single geographic origin
By analyzing the DNA of two prehistoric dogs from Germany, an international research team led by Krishna R. Veeramah, Ph.D., of Stony Brook University in the USA has determined that their genomes were the probable ancestors ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 7, 2017
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Astronauts to bring asteroid back into lunar orbit
Future space exploration aims to fly further from Earth than ever before. Now, Italian Space Agency scientists have expressed an interest in contributing to the development of robotic technologies to bring an asteroid from ...
Space Exploration
Aug 7, 2017
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SoftBank adding technology ambitions, with ARM, robotics
Photo ops of SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son sometimes show him chatting happily with his company's humanoid robot, the childlike Pepper, or grinning as President Donald Trump heaps praise on him for creating American ...
Business
Aug 7, 2017
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Drought-affected trees die from hydraulic failure and carbon starvation
The report finds that hydraulic failure, which is the inability of a plant to move water from roots to leaves to be almost universally present when trees died, while carbon starvation was a contributing factor roughly half ...
Environment
Aug 7, 2017
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Japanese scientists create ice cream that doesn't melt
A team of Japanese scientists has developed a way to make and sell a type of ice cream that does not melt, capitalizing on a discovery made accidentally by a chef. Most ice cream starts melting just moments after it is scooped ...
Judge: IBM owes Indiana $78M for failed welfare automation
IBM owes Indiana $78 million in damages stemming from the company's failed effort to automate much of the state's welfare services, a judge has ruled in a long-running dispute.
Business
Aug 7, 2017
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Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctic polar desert
An abnormal season of intense glacial melt in 2002 triggered multiple distinct changes in the physical and biological characteristics of Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys over the ensuing decade, new research led by the University ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 7, 2017
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9-year-old wants to be NASA's 'planetary protection officer'
A 9-year-old New Jersey boy who described himself as a "Guardian of the Galaxy" is hoping to add the real-life NASA title "Planetary Protection Officer" to his resume.
Space Exploration
Aug 7, 2017
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