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Study shows common insecticide is harmful in any amount
An alfalfa leafcutter bee, the type used by UC Riverside scientists to study the effects of pesticide and water levels.…
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Top Stories this AM: Matt Damon says he finally stopped using the word ‘f—-t’; Paul Gosar’s siblings shame him; Twitter pays for Afterpay
Good morning and welcome to your weekday morning roundup of the top stories you need to know. For more daily…
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A super-short gamma-ray burst defies astronomers’ expectations
A surprisingly short gamma-ray burst has astronomers rethinking what triggers these celestial cataclysms. The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a…
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Latest Steam survey shows AMD rebounding, an excellent month for Ampere, and a Windows 7 resurgence
In brief: The Steam hardware and software survey for July has arrived. Last month was a good one for AMD,…
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NASA Interns Take Space Washing Machine Designs for a Spin
NASA Glenn interns brainstormed ways to wash clothes on the space station during a summer design challenge. Credit: NASA/Design by…
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Plastic creates ‘evolutionary trap’ for young sea turtles
An olive ridley sea turtle, a species of the sea turtle superfamily. Credit: Thierry Caro/Wikipedia Plastic pollution creates an “evolutionary…
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HSBC crushes 1H profit estimates and slashes bad-loan buffer as the global economy recovers from COVID-19
Tommy Walker/NurPhoto via Getty Images HSBC’s $5.1 billion net profit in Q2 topped forecasts of $3.7 billion as the bank…
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People living in dense UK cities are more likely to feel lonely
By Elle Hunt The skyline of Edinburgh, UK Andrew Merry/Getty Images People who live in dense urban areas, particularly those…
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A Supermassive Black Hole Emitted a Flare Away From Us, but Its Intense Gravity Redirected the Blast Back in Our Direction
Seen nearly edgewise, the turbulent disk of gas churning around a black hole takes on a crazy double-humped appearance. The…
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Girls are less likely to see science as a viable career when taught alongside scientifically confident classmates
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Being in a classroom surrounded by children who are confident and interested in science can actually…
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The CEO of TikTok is reportedly in talks to buy a $64 million bungalow in Singapore — take a look at the street it’s on
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is in talks to buy a $64 million bungalow in Singapore, according to Singapore’s Business…
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American Physical Society Announces Fall 2021 Prize and Award Recipients
Honors recognize achievements in fluid dynamics, nuclear physics, and plasma physics. The American Physical Society (APS) has announced the Society’s…
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No ‘eureka moment’: the evolution of climate science
NASA image of Rio de Janiero and Sao Paulo from 2013. What if Earth’s atmosphere was infused with extra carbon…
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3 congressional Democrats seemingly violated a federal transparency law by improperly disclosing financial trades
Reps. Lori Trahan, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Kathy Castor were late disclosing stock trades. Insider has this year identified more than…
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Astronomers Discover a “Changing-Look” Blazar – A Powerful Active Galactic Nucleus
An artist’s conception of a blazar, a galay powered by an active nucleus. Credit: M. Weiss/CfA A University of Oklahoma…
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Panda loaned to France gives birth to twins: zoo
Giant panda Huan Huan, which means “Happy” in Chinese, has given birth to twins at the Beauval Zoo in Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher,…
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AOC says the notion that activists can ‘out-organize’ voter suppression is ‘a ridiculous premise’ that ‘verges on naïveté’
AOC is joining progressives criticizing the notion that voter suppression can be out-organized. Ocasio-Cortez told CNN that the notion “verges…
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Zoom Agrees to Pay Whopping Settlement Fee Over Zoombombing | Digital Trends
Zoom, the company behind the popular videoconferencing software of the same name, has agreed to pay $85 million to settle…
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New ForCE Model Accurately Predicts How Coasts Will Be Impacted by Storms and Sea-Level Rise
The beach at Perranporth in North Cornwall (UK) has already been dramatically affected by the effects of extreme storms and…
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AOC blames ‘conservative Democrats’ and Biden administration inaction on failure to extend eviction moratorium
New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday blamed members of her own party for allowing the federal eviction moratorium to…
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Portrait of a Swirling Galaxy: Hubble Peers Inside Horologium “The Clock”
By ESA/Hubble August 1, 2021 Hubble Space Telescope image of spiral galaxy IC 1954. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee…
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Superconductivity in Cuprates: “From Maximal to Minimal Dissipation” – A New Model?
‘Artist’s impression: the description of electrons in high-temperature superconductors (round particles) exhibiting maximal dissipation in the normal state before passing…
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NIH director says school mask rules for kids under 12 is the ‘best thing’ to reduce spread of COVID-19
NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins said “masks are the best thing we’ve got right now” to help curb COVID-19 cases…
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Protein’s ‘Silent Code’ Affects How Cells Move – “On a Global, Philosophical Level, This Expands Our Understanding of Genetic Code”
Despite having very similar amino acid sequences, two forms of the protein actin have distinct roles in the body. A…
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Obama is throwing his 60th birthday bash on Martha’s Vineyard with hundreds of guests amid Delta variant concerns
Barack Obama is throwing his 60th birthday party outdoors on Martha’s Vineyard, Axios reported. Sources said the party will have…
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ISS Astronaut Describes His First 100 Days in Space | Digital Trends
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet has described the first 100 days of his latest space mission as “magical” but also “routine.”…
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In Remarkable Experiment, Scientists Create a Golden Drop of Metallic Water
On the left is a pure drop of sodium-potassium alloy, on the right is the drop with a layer of…
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How the CIA teamed up with a reclusive billionaire for a secret mission to raise a Soviet submarine sunk 3 miles under the ocean
In the mid-1970s, the CIA pulled off one of its most audacious intelligence operations. Project Azorian involved the recovery of…
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Gas Re-Accretion Observed in Dying Galaxies for the First Time
Shown here in composite view, ALMA data (red/orange) reveals filament structures left behind by ram pressure stripping in a Hubble…
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Goldman Sachs is raising salaries for second-year analysts to $125K and first-year associates to $150K in its investment bank
Goldman Sachs is raising base comp for some junior investment bankers, Insider has learned. Second-year analysts will make $125,000 in…
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Exploring Earth From Space: Malé, the Maldives – One of the Most Densely Populated Cities in the World
Image of Malé, the Maldives captured by Credit: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2019), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0…
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GOP Rep. Paul Gosar’s siblings denounced him in a scathing op-ed: ‘Have you no sense of decency, Paul?’
The siblings of GOP. Rep. Paul Gosar ripped into him in a new op-ed. Published by NBC, the op-ed accuses…
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Starliner Launch Map Reveals Viewing Opportunities | Digital Trends
At 1:20 p.m. (ET) on Tuesday, August 3, Boeing will launch its Starliner spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA)…
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The Symptoms of the Delta Variant Differ From Traditional COVID-19 – Here’s What To Look Out For
By Lara Herrero, Research Leader in Virology and Infectious Disease, Griffith University August 1, 2021 We’ve been living in a…
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2 rare Sumatran tigers recovering after catching COVID-19
In this photo released by Jakarta Province Government, Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan visits one of the two Sumatran tigers that…
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Jack Dorsey’s Square agreed to buy Afterpay, which has a ‘buy now, pay later’ service, for $29 billion in stock
Square announced Sunday it is acquiring the Australian company Afterpay for $29 billion in stock. Afterpay offers a buy now,…
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Looking for Love Post-Lockdown? Niche Dating Apps Are the Next Big Thing
AFTER A LONG and lonely lockdown, Theresa Causa was ready for love. To find it, the 40-year-old nurse practitioner in…
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Zoom Agrees to Settle Lawsuit Over ‘Zoombombing’
Zoom Video Communications, the videoconferencing company whose internet app became a mainstay of American life during the coronavirus pandemic, has…
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Square to buy ‘buy now, pay later’ giant Afterpay in $29B deal – Dutiful News
In a blockbuster deal that rocks the fintech world, Square announced today that it is acquiring Australian buy now, pay…
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Alexa Live and the Future of Ambient Computing | TechNewsWorld
Amazon last week held its Alexa Live 2021 developer conference, which would have been a lot more fun if during…
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IRS child tax credit: 2021 monthly payment schedule, unenroll deadlines and more
You can opt out of advance child tax credit payments to get one lump sum during tax time. Sarah Tew/CNET…
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Fires rage across southern Europe, forcing hundreds to evacuate
Turkey has suffered its worst fires in at least a decade. Dozens of villages were evacuated in tourist hotspots in…
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How the Army’s Delta Force and Nightstalkers teamed up to rescue hostages in Iraq, according to operators who were there
A year after the US’s March 2003 invasion of Iraq, the country faced a growing insurgency. That violent campaign challenged…
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Best Standing Desk Deals for August 2021 | Digital Trends
Digital Trends may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. If you work at home, have…
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Intel’s Itanium is finally dead
Looking back: After 20 years of failing to make a mark on the wider computing world, Intel finally stopped shipping…
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Amazon Hit With Record EU Privacy Fine
Amazon.com Inc. has been fined 746 million euros, equivalent to $887 million, by a European Union privacy regulator for violations…
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The pandemic effect is slowing – Dutiful News
Welcome back to The Dutiful News Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by what the weekday Exchange column digs…
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Corporate Participation in the Open Source Community | TechNewsWorld
Open-source software is prolific in technology today. Just about everything from supercomputers to consumer electronics is powered by at least…
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Here’s how frustrated parents can track down their child tax credit payment
You can check your payment history with the Child Tax Credit Update Portal. Sarah Tew/CNET The next advance child tax…
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Turkey wildfires death toll rises to eight
Turkey has suffered the worst fires in at least a decade, official data show. The death toll from wildfires in…
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