Viacom names Robert Bakish acting president, CEO
Viacom has named Robert Bakish as acting president and chief executive to succeed interim CEO Tom Dooley, who is leaving the media conglomerate.
Business
Oct 31, 2016
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In California, a $350 million social experiment over lawns
California water agencies that spent more than $350 million in the last two years of drought to pay property owners to rip out water-slurping lawns are now trying to answer whether the nation's biggest lawn removal experiment ...
Environment
Oct 31, 2016
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Cloudy feedback on global warming
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have identified a mechanism that causes low clouds - and their influence on Earth's energy balance - to respond differently to global warming depending on their spatial pattern.
Earth Sciences
Oct 31, 2016
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Laser researchers boldly go into uncharted THz territory
Once the preferred weapon of B-movie madmen and space-fiction heroes alike, the laser—a device that generates an intense beam of coherent electromagnetic radiation by stimulating the emission of photons from excited atoms ...
Optics & Photonics
Oct 31, 2016
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Study: Next US president must act fast on Colorado River
The next U.S. president will have to act quickly to chart a course so the Colorado River can continue supplying water to millions of city-dwellers, farmers, Indian tribes and recreational users in the Southwest, according ...
Environment
Oct 31, 2016
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Canary Islands selected as alternate giant telescope site
The nonprofit organization that wants to build a giant telescope atop a Hawaii mountain has selected another site in case it can't be built on land many Native Hawaiians consider sacred.
Space Exploration
Oct 31, 2016
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Hackers say they're revealing more from trove of NSA data
A group calling itself "Shadow Brokers" says it's releasing another tranche of information from its trove of top secret hacking data stolen from the U.S.'s National Security Agency.
Security
Oct 31, 2016
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Finland to continue wolf culls despite NGO uproar
Finnish authorities said Monday they plan to maintain culling of the protected wolf population to prevent illegal poaching, despite opposition from environmentalists.
Ecology
Oct 31, 2016
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Dutchman 'who almost broke the internet' to go on trial
A Dutchman accused of launching an unprecedented cyberattack that reportedly "almost broke the internet" is to go on trial Tuesday on charges of masterminding the 2013 incident that slowed down web traffic world-wide.
Security
Oct 31, 2016
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Millions of loci from a thousand plant transcriptomes
Scientists face many constraints when embarking on new projects. Often the biggest constraint is a small budget. This is why a team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Florida recently worked to make one ...
Biotechnology
Oct 31, 2016
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