Millions of Charter cable customers lose Univision channels
Spanish-language broadcast network Univision and the company's cable channels have gone dark for millions of Charter customers because of a payment dispute.
Telecom
Feb 1, 2017
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Ollie the bobcat gives US zoo the slip
A dash for freedom by an elusive feline from Washington's National Zoo triggered a three-day cat hunt in the nation's capital—and an online sensation—until the search was called off Wednesday, and Ollie the bobcat was ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 1, 2017
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Facebook vows aggressive investment as earnings surge (Update)
Facebook shares bounced Wednesday with word that profit more than doubled in the final quarter of last year, coming back down after a vow to spend heavily on the future.
Business
Feb 1, 2017
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Neutrons identify critical details in bacterial enzyme implicated in gastric cancer
Neutron analysis at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is helping researchers better understand a key enzyme found in a bacterium known to cause stomach cancer.
Biochemistry
Feb 1, 2017
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Researchers highlight alarming link between feral pigs and vampire bats
The number of vampire bats, which transmit rabies and are a concern for livestock breeders, may be increasing in Brazil and the Americas along with growth in the populations of invasive feral pigs and wild boars (Sus scrofa).
Plants & Animals
Feb 1, 2017
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The shape of melting in two dimensions
Snow falls in winter and melts in spring, but what drives the phase change in between?
Condensed Matter
Feb 1, 2017
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Advanced robotic bat's flight characteristics simulates the real thing
Bats have long captured the imaginations of scientists and engineers with their unrivaled agility and maneuvering characteristics, achieved by functionally versatile dynamic wing conformations as well as more than forty active ...
Robotics
Feb 1, 2017
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Researchers break data transfer efficiency record
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have set a new record in the transfer of information via superdense coding, a process by which the properties of particles like photons, protons and ...
General Physics
Feb 1, 2017
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First ever blueprint unveiled to construct a large scale quantum computer
An international team, led by a scientist from the University of Sussex, have today unveiled the first practical blueprint for how to build a quantum computer, the most powerful computer on Earth.
Quantum Physics
Feb 1, 2017
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First functional fish head joint discovered in deep-sea dragonfishes in museum collections
Scientists with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the French Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle are the first to describe and illustrate an evolutionary novelty among fishes—a unique, flexible ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 1, 2017
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