Trump Administration Orders Easement For Construction : The Two-Way : NPR

Protesters gather in December 2016 at a camp near the Dakota Access Pipeline construction site.

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Seth Stein: The quake killer : Nature News

Published online 9 November 2011 |
Nature
479,
166-170
(2011)
| doi:10.1038/479166a

The US government says that a huge earthquake risk lurks in the heart of the country, where a series of large shocks hit 200 years ago. Seth Stein says that kind of warning is dead...

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Science Will Suffer Under Trump’s Travel Ban, Researchers Say

Some foreign universities, while condemning the ban, also pointed out that they still welcomed students and researchers from anywhere. The University of British Columbia announced the establishment of a task force, with an initial budget of 250,000 Canadian dollars (about $190,000), “to...

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Unique Antibodies Open Path Toward New HIV Vaccines

DH511.2_K3, an engineered hybrid antibody L.D. WILLIAMS ET AL., SCI. IMMUNOL. 2, EAAL2200 (2017)Thanks to its diversity and tendency to mutate, HIV is a notoriously problematic vaccine target. Researchers have found hope in the existence of rare, naturally occurring antibodies that can...

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Researchers say long-lost continent lies beneath Indian Ocean island

A long-lost continent once sitting between India and Madagascar now lies at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, according to a report published Tuesday.
Lewis Ashwal, a scientist at the University of Witwatersrand, initially discovered in 2013 that the island of Mauritius had a stronger...

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Tiny, 540-Million-Year-Old Human Ancestor Didn't Have an Anus

A speck-size creature without an anus is the oldest known prehistoric ancestor of humans, a new study finds.

Researchers found the remains of the 540-million-year-old critter — a bag-like sea organism — in central China. The creature is so novel, it has its own family (Saccorhytidae), as...

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What the Rapid Growth of Computer Science Means for the Future

What is next for Computer Science education in the next 10-20 years? originally appeared on Quora – the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.


Answer by Bill Poucher, CS Professor at Baylor University and Executive Director...

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