First ever twin panda cubs born in Canada
The first ever giant panda cubs born in Canada were announced Tuesday by the Toronto zoo.
Plants & Animals
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Officials in Utah defend NSA's role fighting cyber-attacks
The National Security Agency's massive data center in Utah isn't being used to store Americans' personal phone calls or social media activity, but plays a key role in protecting the country from cyber-attacks by hostile foreign ...
Security
Oct 13, 2015
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Twitter CEO Dorsey: Tech's latest would-be comeback kid
Twitter boss Jack Dorsey, the newly anointed savior of the quirky but troubled microblogging service, is the latest in a long line of tech company founders who've been called back to revive their wayward startups. After co-founding ...
Business
Oct 13, 2015
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What does it take to escape the water? Plankton have clues
Dolphins and whales may attract a lot of attention when they leap dramatically out of the water. But aquatic animals thousands of times smaller are accomplished jumpers, too.
General Physics
Oct 13, 2015
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Spring to come three weeks earlier to the United States
Scientists have projected that the onset of spring plant growth will shift by a median of three weeks earlier over the next century, as a result of rising global temperatures.
Environment
Oct 13, 2015
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Four biological kingdoms influence disease transmission in monarch butterflies
Experiments with monarch butterfly caterpillars and the milkweed plants on which they feed have shown for the first time that interactions across four biological kingdoms can influence disease transmission.
Ecology
Oct 13, 2015
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Cassini Begins Series of Flybys with Close-up of Saturn Moon Enceladus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will wrap up its time in the region of Saturn's large, icy moons with a series of three close encounters with Enceladus starting Wednesday, Oct. 14. Images are expected to begin arriving one to two ...
Space Exploration
Oct 13, 2015
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EDF for carbon price floor
French owned energy firm EDF on Tuesday urged the adoption of a carbon price floor in the run-up to a climate warming conference in Paris, backing a government proposal to that effect for the sector in France.
Environment
Oct 13, 2015
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NASA, Israel ink space cooperation agreement
NASA and the Israel Space Agency signed an agreement Tuesday to expand cooperation in civil space activities, the Israeli government said.
Space Exploration
Oct 13, 2015
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One direction: Researchers grow nanocircuitry with semiconducting graphene nanoribbons
In a development that could revolutionize electronic ciruitry, a research team from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (UW) and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory has confirmed a new way to control ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 13, 2015
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