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Reuters
April 05, 2018
Facebook said on Wednesday the personal information of up to 87 million users, mostly in the United States, may have been improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, up from a previous news media estimate of more than 50 million.
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Reuters
April 04, 2018
"They are highly varied. Some sound absolutely haunting," said marine biologist Kit Kovacs of the Norwegian Polar Institute and the University Centre in Svalbard. "But others sound as though something wild is taking place in a barn."
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PRI's The World
April 02, 2018
A natural spring in the shadow of Cape Town's Table Mountain provides a measure of relief — and a new pop-up community — for drought-strapped residents.
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Reuters
March 31, 2018
Hawking, disabled since a young man by a degenerative disease, beat the odds stacked against him to became the most celebrated scientist of his era.
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Reuters
March 31, 2018
India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has mooted a proposal to levy a 10 percent duty on the import of populated printed circuit boards, the latest in a series of moves aimed at boosting domestic manufacturing in the world's second-biggest smartphone market.
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PRI's The World
March 30, 2018
When Cape Town's growing water crisis started bubbling up last year, a local radio station in the South African city jumped on the beat with wall-to-wall coverage and water-saving tips for listeners.
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This Muslim purge in Myanmar is so awful you can see it from space
GlobalPost
November 15, 2016
Along Myanmar’s marshy coastline, villages keep going up in flames.
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Victims of online romance scams, there's a place you can go for help
PRI's The World
January 12, 2017
Victims of online romance scams suffer some of the highest financial losses of any internet-based crimes, the FBI says.
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Your paper brain and your Kindle brain aren't the same thing
The Takeaway
September 18, 2014
If you've given up on reading paper books for the ease of your e-reader's screen, you may want to step back a bit. Neuroscience confirms that our brains use different areas to read on paper and screens, and you need to exercise both.
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Nebraska farmers are relying on Ukrainian hackers to fix their tractors
PRI's The World
March 31, 2017
Until a few years ago, farmers could fix and upgrade their own large farm equipment, including tractors. But that's changed as tractors have become more high-tech.
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New research on plant intelligence may forever change how you think about plants
Science Friday
January 10, 2014
Plants have senses that put humans to shame. Not only do they hear (yes, it's true) and smell, they can also sense the presence of water, and even an object in their space. Now new research suggests that plants can actually learn and remember.
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El Niño is back, and global temperature records are in danger
PRI's The World
May 13, 2015
Updated
El Niño is back. That could mean trouble for crops from Africa to Australia, drought relief for Brazil and California — and new record global temperatures as the Pacific Ocean warms up and brings the heat along with it.
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Seeking the long-lost 'City of the Monkey God' in dense Honduras jungle
PRI's The World
January 04, 2017
A new book tells the story of the treacherous scientific expedition that re-discovered a lost civilization.
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One of the six US immigrant Nobel winners is 'totally speechless' over the push to limit immigration
PRI's The World
October 11, 2016
Sir J. Fraser Stoddart won a Nobel Prize in chemistry this year. Like the five others who won in the US, he is an immigrant.
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Here’s why new EPA chief Pruitt is ‘absolutely wrong’ about CO2 and climate change
PRI's The World
March 12, 2017
Scott Pruitt says there's no proof that carbon dioxide pollution is causing the Earth to heat up. Well-established science — and a scientist who's a fellow Republican — says that's flat-out wrong.
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Welcome to the 'Double El Niño' — and more extreme weather
Living on Earth
March 22, 2015
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A second helping of El Niño could help usher in the next phase of global warming. When it comes, the consequences could be devastating.