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Snails slither their way on to the beauty scene as the next big thing in facialstheguardian.com
Snail mucus is known to contain nutrients and antioxidants and is said to contribute to a youthful visage. Entrepreneurs in Thailand are already cashing in -
Off the 3-D Printer, Practice Parts for the Surgeonnytimes.com
Three-dimensional printing allows surgeons to foresee issues, not stumble into them. -
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When Chocolate was Medicine: Colmenero, Wadsworth and Dufourpublicdomainreview.org
Chocolate has not always been the common confectionary we experience today. When it arrived from the Americas into Europe in the 17th century it was a rare and mysterious substance, thought more of as a drug than as a food. Christine Jones traces the h... -
Scientists in China and US chart latest discoveries of iron-based superconductorsphys.org
Superconductivity is a remarkable macroscopic quantum phenomenon, discovered just over a century ago. As temperature decreases to below a critical value, the electric resistance of a superconductor vanishes and the magnetic field is repelled. Supercond... -
Ancient Skull Adds New Insight to Story of Human Evolutionnytimes.com
Researchers have discovered a 55,000-year-old fossil skull that they say is a missing connection between African and European populations. -
Who Owns Los Angeles?robrhinehart.com
"What is this you call property?”, asked Massasoit, the leader of the Native American Wampanoag tribe. “It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, bird... -
The SSL/TLS handshakeecnmag.com
Last April, the Heartbleed bug caused us to update all our passwords. Then in September, the Shellshock bug forced Linux users to update their bash shell. More recently, the Poodle exploit put an end to SSL 3.0. Network security is constantly - americanscientist.org
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The Net Neutrality Bait and Switchmedium.com
The GOP “Internet Openness” bill is just a ploy to rewrite—and throttle— telecom regulation -
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Amazon Changes The Game Again--AWS Introduces WorkMailforbes.com
Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud computing business unit, continues to surprise industry commentators with both its growth and its incessant innovation. Given that it owns the lion’s share of the public cloud computing market, you’d have thought AWS... -
From efficiency to airflow, it’s a golden age for racing tech in our drivewaysarstechnica.com
Racing tests engineers as well as their designs. -
Canada Casts Global Surveillance Dragnet Over File Downloads - The Interceptfirstlook.org
Canada's leading surveillance agency is monitoring millions of Internet users’ downloading habits in a dragnet search to identify extremists, according to top-secret documents. The covert operation, revealed Wednesday by CBC News in collaboration with ... -
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Humankind’s Most Ambitious Search for Life’s Beginnings - Facts So Romantic - Nautilusnautil.us
A rendering of Hayabusa2 using its “horn” to gather materials from the crater it will make using an explosive-propelled… -
The Bomb Didn’t Beat Japan… Stalin Didforeignpolicy.com
The U.S. use of nuclear weapons against Japan during World War II has long been a subject of emotional debate. Initially, few questioned President Truman's… -
Screenhero joins Slackblog.screenhero.com
Hello Screenhero users, We have big, very happy news to share. Screenhero is joining Slack! Slack is a product for team communication, and we’re excited to bring our unique combination of voice, video...
