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  1. These quarries supplied the stones that built Stonehenge

    Work at the Welsh quarries dates to around 5,000 years ago.

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  2. Blood of the young won’t spare rich old people from sadness and death, FDA says

    FDA's Gottlieb: "Simply put, we're concerned that some patients are being preyed upon."

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  3. After nearly $50 billion, NASA’s deep-space plans remain grounded

    "As far as I'm concerned, SLS and Orion are doing their jobs of providing work."

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  4. Gene editing still has a few bugs in the system

    Gene editing to treat genetic diseases in mice highlights some considerable problems.

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  5. New carbon capture solvent is another stab at optimism in a stagnant industry

    Tax credits could spur investment; so far there's little movement to capture carbon.

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  6. High-tech toilet seat monitors your heart as you sit on the can

    Everybody poops. Cardiologists are counting on it.

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  7. The wrath of grapes: A tale of 12 dead microwaves and plasma-spewing grapes

    Trent University researchers found that the effect is due to "hot spot."

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  8. Japanese utility makes first contact with melted Fukushima fuel

    Pebbles of melted nuclear fuel were mostly able to be moved.

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  9. A 5km asteroid may briefly occult the brightest star in the night sky

    Unfortunately, the path for this event will occur mostly over water.

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  10. Dance Your PhD’s 2018 winner mixes superconductivity and swing dancing

    Canadian grad student Pramodh Yapa wrote, choreographed, and shot video in 6 weeks.

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  11. Georgia Tech scientists figured out how maggots can eat so much, so fast

    A video shows 10,000 maggots consuming a 16-inch pizza in just two hours.

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  12. Welcome to the cyber world: The real-world tech behind Alita: Battle Angel

    Producer James Cameron wanted his fictional tech to be grounded in the real world.

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  13. The replication crisis may also be a theory crisis

    Theory protects from "personal intuitions and culturally biased folk theories."

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  14. Shell buys Sonnen, Tesla’s competitor in the home battery business

    The acquisition follows Shell's purchase of EV charging company Greenlots.

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  15. Facebook, Google, CDC under pressure to stop anti-vax garbage from spreading

    Facebook ponders demoting anti-vax nonsense as measles cases surge.

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  1. Huge study finds professors’ attitudes affect students’ grades

    And it’s doubly true for minority students.

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  2. NASA moves to buy more Soyuz seats for late 2019, early 2020

    NASA has not had its own crew transport since the space shuttle retired in 2011.

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  3. Rocket Report: Russia’s new spacecraft; is the US sabotaging Iranian rockets?

    “NASA has issued a stop work order on the agency’s Lucy mission."

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  4. TVA board votes to close coal plants despite Trump tweet

    The board voted 5 to 2 in favor of retiring the older plants.

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  5. NASA emphasizing “speed” in its return to the Moon

    "We think this is the right basic architecture, but we aren't closed-minded,"

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  6. Startup will store energy by forcing compressed air in a defunct zinc mine

    The adiabatic process will be built with AUD $9 million in government-funded grants.

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  7. Want a better idea of your future climate? Try this map

    Project finds future climate analogs for 540 cities in the US and Canada.

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  8. Raw milk drinkers in 19 states at risk of rare, dangerous infectious disease

    Without pasteurization, scary, elusive bacteria are on the loose.

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  9. Aluminum may be key to making exosolar systems with water worlds

    Radioactive aluminum could control water content of planetary building blocks.

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  10. Opportunity did not answer NASA’s final call, and it’s now lost to us

    It roved a staggering 45.16 kilometers across the Red Planet.

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  11. Danish haunted-house studies seek to reveal the seductive appeal of horror

    Mathias Clasen of Aarhus University on why we're drawn to scary entertainment.

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  12. Military to audit decision to certify the Falcon Heavy rocket

    "We plan to begin the subject evaluation in February 2019."

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  13. Electric car batteries might be worth recycling, but bus batteries aren’t yet

    The more emissions-efficient way to recycle an EV battery is to remove the cathode.

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  14. To almost no one’s surprise, Mars One is done [Updated]

    Mars One's greatest sin may be making Lee Hutchinson look smart.

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  15. Anti-vaxxers plan to subvert changes to vaccination laws

    Eliminating non-medical vaccine exemptions isn't enough; CA medical exemptions tripled.

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