Meet the 25-Year-Old Behind the World's First Online School for Refugees | VICE | United States: Markus Kressler and his partner Vincent Zimmer are the founders of Kiron—a non-governmental, nonprofit organization providing a way for refugees to integrate into society.
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United States Geological Survey confirms it: Fracking causes earthquakes | ExtremeTech: Entities all around the world, from cities to whole countries, have issued moratoria on fracking pending conclusive evidence of its risks. Well, some of that evidence is in: fracking causes earthquakes.
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White dwarf with nearly pure oxygen atmosphere surprises astronomers - physicsworld.com
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WHO sees scientific consensus on Zika as cause for disorders: Researchers around the world are now convinced the Zika virus can cause the birth defect microcephaly as well as Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that can result in paralysis, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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Good read. Obliquity by John Kay on behavioural economics. "The world is complex, imperfectly known, and our knowledge of it is incomplete, and these things will remain true however much we learn and however much we analyse it." That is why we need to be 'oblique' or muddle through rather than be direct...
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Good read. "Life on the Edge" by Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden covers the fascinating world of quantum biology. Could life be a delicate balance that organic molecules can provide to enable quantum coherence? The efficient quantum mechanisms of photosynthesis, magnetoreception, and enzymes are...
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Plastic-eating bacteria set to revolutionize waste disposal | ExtremeTech: Genetically engineering a bacterium that eats plastic could fix the world's spiraling problem of waste disposal.
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Drone to police massive UK marine reserve - BBC News: An ocean-going drone will be helping to spot illegal fishing in the world's largest, continuous marine reserve.
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Brazil’s science squeeze | Chemistry World
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Estonian citizens will soon have the world’s most hack-proof health-care records: Estonia is the first country to use blockchain, the technology that powers bitcoin.
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Vietnam twins found to have different fathers in rare case - BBC News: A pair of Vietnamese twins have been found to have different fathers, in an extremely rare case.
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Quantifying the Advantage of Looking Forward: We introduce a future orientation index to quantify the degree to which Internet users worldwide seek more information about years in the future than years in the past. Tobias Preis. Helen Susannah Moat. H. Eugene Stanley. Steven R. Bishop. Scientific Reports....
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WHO Looking at Genetically Modified, Sterile Mosquitoes to Control Zika Spread: "The World Health Organization is evaluating some newer techniques for mosquito control, given the rapid spread of the Zika virus.
One possible method to reduce the populations of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which transmit...
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Shor's algorithm is implemented using five trapped ions - physicsworld.com: Quantum-computing scheme could be scaled-up to perform practical calculations
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Concerns grow among scientists over new ‘anti-lobbying’ rules | Chemistry World
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Life in Technicolor—One month wearing EnChroma’s color blindness-fixing glasses: By blocking wavelengths, glasses create a new world complete with grass, traffic lights.
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Google neural network can tell where photos were taken better than humans | ExtremeTech: This neural network has virtually visited millions of locations to learn what the world looks like.
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University leaders warn EU exit would harm UK research | Chemistry World
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Penguin feathers’ ice-resistant design revealed | Chemistry World
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LIGO detects first ever gravitational waves – from two merging black holes - physicsworld.com
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