UK plans to strengthen online 'right to be forgotten'
Britain plans to strengthen the online "right to be forgotten" with a law making social media companies delete personal information on request.
Internet
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France, UK among 4 countries urged to check eggs
The European Union has notified food safety authorities in Britain, France, Sweden and Switzerland as a precautionary measure that some eggs contaminated with an insecticide might have entered their territory.
Ecology
Aug 7, 2017
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Researchers identify transport mechanism for synaptic junction reinforcement
Learning involves constant restructuring of nerve-cell connections. This requires specialized transport systems to ensure that these specific synapses can structurally and functionally be modified. One such delivery mechanism ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 7, 2017
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The barred grass snake is described as a separate species
Together with an international team, Senckenberg scientists identified a new species of snake in Europe. Based on more than 1,600 snakes, the researchers were able to show that the barred grass snake, whose range includes ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 7, 2017
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New approach makes it easier to find novel drugs
Scientists have created a new way of screening compounds that is more sensitive than existing methods, opening up the possibility of finding new drugs for many diseases.
Biochemistry
Aug 7, 2017
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Massive multiple star system found by astronomers
A group of astronomers led by Javier Lorenzo of the University of Alicante, Spain, has discovered that the binary star system HD 64315 is more complex than previously thought. The new study reveals that HD 64315 contains ...
Musk says maiden Falcon Heavy rocket to launch in November, acknowledges high risk
Before the year is out, the long awaited debut launch of the triple barreled Falcon Heavy rocket may at last be in sight says SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk, as he forthrightly acknowledges it comes with high risk and released ...
Space Exploration
Aug 7, 2017
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Why your tuna could have 36 times more chemicals than others
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego found levels of persistent organic pollutants as much as 36 times higher in the muscle tissue of yellowfin tuna caught in the more ...
Environment
Aug 7, 2017
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Metal cloud to protect fusion reactor walls
A thin vapour cloud in front of a liquid metal may be the solution to protecting the reactor walls of future fusion power plants to the extreme heat fluxes encountered. In Nature Communications, PhD candidate Stein van Eden ...
Plasma Physics
Aug 7, 2017
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Researchers find novel technique for tuning the color of LED light emission
The color of the light emitted by an LED can be tuned by altering the size of their semiconductor crystals. LMU researchers have now found a clever and economical way of doing just that, which lends itself to industrial-scale ...
Materials Science
Aug 7, 2017
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