Roadmap to safer cyberspace
How do cybersecurity experts discover how to properly defend a system or build a network that's secure?
Security
Dec 17, 2015
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Rare full moon on Christmas Day
Not since 1977 has a full moon dawned in the skies on Christmas. But this year, a bright full moon will be an added gift for the holidays.
Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2015
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Scientists peg Anthropocene to first farmers
A new analysis of the fossil record shows that a deep pattern in nature remained the same for 300 million years. Then, 6,000 years ago, the pattern was disrupted—at about the same time that agriculture spread across North ...
Archaeology
Dec 17, 2015
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First praying mantis survey of Rwanda uncovers rich diversity
A college student working at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History was lead author on the first formal survey of praying mantises in Rwanda, which revealed a 155 percent increase in praying mantis species diversity for ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 17, 2015
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Spread of algal toxin through marine food web broke records in 2015
Researchers monitoring the unprecedented bloom of toxic algae along the west coast of North America in 2015 found record levels of the algal toxin domoic acid in samples from a wide range of marine organisms. The toxin was ...
Environment
Dec 17, 2015
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Another baby: 8th endangered orca spotted in Puget Sound
Whale researchers are celebrating the birth of another baby orca in Puget Sound, the first time in decades the population has experienced such a boom.
Plants & Animals
Dec 17, 2015
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Britain awards new shale exploration licences
Britain awarded scores of new licences for onshore shale exploration on Thursday in a move that opponents say could lead to controversial fracking beneath protected countryside.
Environment
Dec 17, 2015
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Gene-editing is Science mag's breakthrough of 2015
A gene-editing technique known as CRISPR was named Thursday by the influential US journal Science as 2015's breakthrough of the year, due to its potential to revolutionize health and medicine.
Biotechnology
Dec 17, 2015
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Architecture of mTOR protein complex solved
For a long time it has been known that the protein TOR - Target of Rapamycin - controls cell growth and is involved in the development of diseases such as cancer and diabetes. Researchers at the University of Basel's Biozentrum ...
Biochemistry
Dec 17, 2015
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Ancient Egyptians described Algol's eclipses
The Ancient Egyptian papyrus Cairo 86637 calendar is the oldest preserved historical document of naked eye observations of a variable star, the eclipsing binary Algol - a manifestation of Horus, a god and a king. This calendar ...
Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2015
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