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Politico Politics Feed- The Trump White House’s War Within 07/24/2017His national security team wants a stepped-up fight in Afghanistan. There's just one problem: A president who doesn't want to be there.Susan B. Glasser
- Laurel Miller: The Full Transcript 07/24/2017 Susan B. Glasser
- GOP despairs at inability to deliver 07/24/2017The party’s failure to repeal Obamacare amid West Wing chaos has GOPers frustrated they’re squandering power.jdawsey@politico.com (Josh Dawsey)
- Kushner defends his Russia contacts: 'I did not collude' 07/24/2017In his statement to Senate investigators, the president's son-in-law recounts but downplays four meetings with Russians.akarni@politico.com (Annie Karni)
- FULL TEXT: Jared Kushner's prepared statement to Congress 07/24/2017
- Republicans in the dark on big Obamacare vote 07/24/2017Failure looks so certain that some lawmakers are trying to paint a narrow loss as success.jhaberkorn@politico.com (Jennifer Haberkorn)
- Giuliani: Sessions 'made the right decision' to recuse himself 07/24/2017 nmccaskill@politico.com (Nolan D. McCaskill)
- Feinstein calls for Sessions to testify in light of new Russia report 07/24/2017 awright@politico.com (Austin Wright)
- Freedom Caucus chairman: Border wall fight unlikely to cause shutdown 07/24/2017 kcheney@politico.com (Kyle Cheney)
- Trump: Washington is a 'sewer' not a 'swamp' 07/24/2017 lnelson@politico.com (Louis Nelson)
- Judge denies demand for privacy assessment on Trump voter fraud data request 07/24/2017The panel initially asked states to upload that data to a site hosted by the Defense Department, potentially implicating federal laws covering executive branch agencies.jgerstein@politico.com (Josh Gerstein)
- Pelosi protests GOP move to limit debate on intel community 07/24/2017 kcheney@politico.com (Kyle Cheney)
- The Trump White House’s War Within 07/24/2017
- ScienceDaily Newsfeed
- Algae cultivation technique could advance biofuels 07/24/2017Washington State University researchers have developed a way to grow algae more efficiently -- in days instead of weeks -- and make the algae more viable for several industries, including biofuels.
- Summer sea ice melt in the Arctic 07/24/2017Earlier this year Arctic sea ice sank to a record low wintertime extent for the third straight year. Now NASA is flying a set of instruments north of Greenland to observe the impact of the melt season on the Arctic's oldest and thickest sea ice.
- Engineers invent the first bio-compatible, ion current battery 07/24/2017Engineers have invented a new kind of battery; one that is bio-compatible because it produces the same kind of ion-based electrical energy used by humans and other living things.
- Challenging prevailing theory about how deep-sea vents are colonized 07/24/2017Despite being relatively close together, two recently discovered hydrothermal vent fields in the Gulf of California host very different animal communities. This finding contradicts a common scientific assumption that neighboring vents will share similar animal communities, and suggests that local geology and vent-fluid chemistry are important factors affecti […]
- Moon has a water-rich interior 07/24/2017Using satellite data, researchers have for the first time detected widespread water within ancient explosive volcanic deposits on the moon, suggesting that its interior contains substantial amounts of indigenous water.
- Strength of tectonic plates may explain shape of the Tibetan Plateau 07/24/2017Geoscientists have long puzzled over the mechanism that created the Tibetan Plateau, but a new study finds that the landform's history may be controlled primarily by the strength of the tectonic plates whose collision prompted its uplift. Given that the region is one of the most seismically active areas in the world, understanding the plateau's geo […]
- Psychologists say our 'attachment style' applies to social networks like Facebook 07/24/2017Scientists lend insight into the interplay between attachment style and how people manage and perceive friendship networks.
- Study finds 90 percent of American men overfat 07/24/2017Researchers reported earlier this year in the journal Frontiers of Public Health that up to 76 percent of the world's population may be overfat. Now these same researchers have focused their efforts on data from 30 of the top developed countries, with even more alarming findings that up to 90 percent of adult males and 50 percent of children may be over […]
- Alcohol boosts recall of earlier learning, study suggests 07/24/2017Drinking alcohol improves memory for information learned before the drinking episode began, new research suggests.
- Child living with HIV maintains remission without drugs since 2008 07/24/2017A nine-year-old South African child who was diagnosed with HIV infection at one month of age and received anti-HIV treatment during infancy has suppressed the virus without anti-HIV drugs for eight and a half years, scientists report. This case appears to be the third reported instance of sustained HIV remission in a child after early, limited anti-HIV treat […]
- 300 million-year-old 'modern' beetle from Australia reconstructed 07/24/2017He's Australian, around half a centimeter long, fairly nondescript, 300 million years old -- and he's currently causing astonishment among both entomologists and palaeontologists. The discovery of a beetle from the late Permian period is throwing a completely new light on the earliest developments in this group of insects.
- Shining rings: A new material emits white light when exposed to electricity 07/24/2017Scientists have developed a new way to make stimuli-responsive materials in a predictable manner. They used this method to design a new material, a mixture of carbon nanorings and iodine, which conducts electricity and emits white light when exposed to electricity. The team's new approach could help generate a range of reliable stimuli-responsive materi […]
- Algae cultivation technique could advance biofuels 07/24/2017
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- Technology Review
- A DNA App Store Is Here, but Proceed with Caution 07/24/2017Helix will sequence your genes for $80 and lure app developers to sell you access to different parts of it.
- Carbon Prints Amazing Materials 06/27/2017Using his background in chemistry, CEO Joseph DeSimone has taken a whole new approach to advanced manufacturing, enabling Carbon, number 18 on our list of the 50 Smartest Companies, to print materials with a broad range of useful properties.
- Why Tesla Is Worth More Than GM 06/27/2017A few companies that master digital technologies are capturing huge chunks of the economy. Does this explain the persistence of slow growth?
- Teaching Drones How To Crash Safely 07/21/2017Drone delivery won’t happen until the unmanned vehicle can master the emergency landing.
- AI Fight Club Could Help Save Us from a Future of Super-Smart Cyberattacks 07/20/2017The best defense against malicious AI is AI.
- Sucking Up CO2 Will Cost Hundreds of Trillions 07/19/2017Study finds that if the world doesn’t begin cutting emissions soon, the price of capturing and storing carbon dioxide will soar.
- The Startup Behind NYC’s Plan to Replace Phone Booths with 7,500 Connected Kiosks 07/18/2017Intersection, which is funded by Alphabet, hopes they could someday guide autonomous vehicles, too.
- Small Reactors Could Kick-Start the Stalled Nuclear Sector 07/17/2017NuScale is on track to build the first commercial small modular reactors in the United States.
- Google Stakes Its Future on a Piece of Software 06/27/2017Alphabet, number 5 on our list of the 50 Smartest Companies, thinks it can wrest the cloud computing market away from Amazon by helping companies make use of machine learning with a tool called TensorFlow.
- 50 Smartest Companies 2017 06/27/2017Our editors pick the 50 companies that best combine innovative technology with an effective business model.
- A DNA App Store Is Here, but Proceed with Caution 07/24/2017
- NPR Business News
- Democrats' 'Better Deal' Aims To Reclaim A Populist Image 07/24/2017In an effort to drive a message ahead of next year's elections, Democrats promised more and better jobs, lower-cost prescription drugs and a crackdown on corporations that ship jobs overseas.Scott Neuman
- Auto Industry Benefits For Now From Subprime Loans 07/24/2017A factor in the auto industry's record sales the past 2 years has been the return of loans to borrowers with less than perfect credit. This has led some to worry about a bubble in subprime auto loans.Sonari Glinton
- Why The Inflation Rate Is A Worry For The Federal Reserve 07/24/2017Steve Inskeep talks to David Wessel of the Brookings Institution about why the U.S. economy is having trouble boosting its rate of inflation.
- Bikes May Have To Talk To Self-Driving Cars For Safety's Sake 07/24/2017Autonomous vehicles have gotten pretty good at detecting other cars and pedestrians. But "seeing" bikes and predicting what they'll do is still a challenge. The answer may lie in bikes themselves.Margaret J. Krauss
- Father Of Girl Ticketed For Selling Lemonade Responds To Supporters: 'Make A Stand' 07/23/2017A 5-year-old girl whose sidewalk lemonade stand brought a $195 fine in London has been invited to set up shop elsewhere. Her dad says, "Now she feels less sour about the experience."Bill Chappell
- Sentencing Approaches for New England's 'Codfather' 07/23/2017Carlos Rafael was a fishing magnate in America's most lucrative port. As he faces sentencing for a scheme to cheat fishing quotas, many worry about the fate of local jobs if his empire is dismantled.Simon Rios
- Health Insurance CEO On Expanding Coverage 07/22/2017NPR's Scott Simon talks with Michael Neidorff, CEO of the health insurance company Centene Corporation, which has expanded coverage on the insurance marketplace even as other insurers have withdrawn.
- 'Keep Detailed Records Of Every Minute' And Other Micromanager Horror Stories 07/22/2017After we posted a story about the costs and implications of micromanagement, we received over 1,000 responses on Facebook. Here's a selection, along with some advice from an executive coach.Yuki Noguchi
- Sing Different: Steve Jobs' Life Becomes An Opera 07/22/2017The Apple co-founder's complicated story is the subject of The (R)evolution Of Steve Jobs, by composer Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell. It premieres Saturday in Santa Fe.Naomi Lewin
- A Bother, A Brotherhood: Living Among The Mines In Coal Country 07/22/2017When Mary Jo and Mike Picklo bought their house in 2003, they expected to retire in it — until a coal mine opened across the street. They don't want it there, but they are nearly alone in their view.Daniella Cheslow
- Democrats' 'Better Deal' Aims To Reclaim A Populist Image 07/24/2017
- NPR Technology
- Are Helicopter Parents Ruining Summer Camp? 07/24/2017In a wired world, summer camp is one of the last phone-free zones. But campers, staff and especially parents don't always appreciate the message.Anya Kamenetz
- Bikes May Have To Talk To Self-Driving Cars For Safety's Sake 07/24/2017Autonomous vehicles have gotten pretty good at detecting other cars and pedestrians. But "seeing" bikes and predicting what they'll do is still a challenge. The answer may lie in bikes themselves.Margaret J. Krauss
- Creating A 'Dadbot' To Talk With A Dead Father 07/23/2017NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with James Vlahos about his article in Wired. He wrote about creating a chatbot that allows him to "communicate" with his father who died of cancer.
- Screen Saviors: Can Activism-Focused Games Change Our Behavior? 07/23/2017In recent years, there has been an influx of games centered on social and political issues from sexism to racism to the refugee crisis. In one of the latest, you rescue animals in a slaughterhouse.Rachel Ament
- Sing Different: Steve Jobs' Life Becomes An Opera 07/22/2017The Apple co-founder's complicated story is the subject of The (R)evolution Of Steve Jobs, by composer Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell. It premieres Saturday in Santa Fe.Naomi Lewin
- I Sink, Therefore I Am: This Robot Wasn't Programmed For Existential Angst 07/22/2017After a security robot drowned in a fountain in Washington, D.C., NPR's Scott Simon muses on robot suicide, and how long it will be until a robot has the capacity to question its own existence.Scott Simon
- A Future Of Gadgets Without Power Cords? Not So Fast 07/21/2017This month, the first wireless-charging laptop hit the market. But making wireless power a standard consumer feature is a big technological — and psychological — challenge.Asma Khalid
- Spotify Sued, Yet Again, Over Compositions 07/21/2017Two new lawsuits against the music streaming leader landed this week, over issues that have already twice led to settlements.Andrew Flanagan
- How Did The Afghan All-Girl Team Do At The Robotics Competition? 07/20/2017The Afghan team made headlines even before the event started when their visas were denied. But they made it after all!Courtney Columbus
- Justice Department Announces Seizure Of Dark Web Marketplace 07/20/2017The Department of Justice announced Thursday its seizure of an international marketplace on the dark web. AlphaBay provided an anonymous site for people selling illegal drugs, firearms and other items.Martin Kaste
- Are Helicopter Parents Ruining Summer Camp? 07/24/2017
- Scientific American
- Wandering in the Void, Billions of Rogue Planets without a Home 07/24/2017New results suggest free-floating giant planets are less common than previously believed, but hint at vast numbers of smaller castaway worlds -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comLee Billings
- Make America Wait Again: Trump Tries to Delay Regulations out of Existence 07/24/2017The White House has been postponing environmental rules as it tries to undercut them, a Scientific American analysis shows. But a new court decision weakens that strategy -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comJohn McQuaid
- Ground Control to Major Google: Space Station Street View Is Here 07/22/2017Take a self-guided tour and imagine what it is like to be an astronaut -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comLeslie Nemo
- Attention Passengers: Your Flight Will Arrive 20 Years behind Schedule 07/21/2017Robopocalypse creator Daniel Wilson sets aside his dystopian tendencies to help the XPRIZE’s Sci-fi collection and writing contest find a silver lining in our obsession with intelligent... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comLarry Greenemeier
- What Do We Know about the Brain Cancer Plaguing Sen. John McCain? 07/20/2017An oncology expert discusses treatment options for aggressive glioblastoma -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comDina Fine Maron
- Earth's Tectonic Activity May Be Crucial for Life--and Rare in Our Galaxy 07/20/2017A new study finds plate tectonics may be hard to sustain on exoplanets -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comShannon Hall
- Untangling the Mystery of How Fido Became Humankind's Best Friend 07/19/2017New DNA-based research suggests dogs were domesticated in a single event, in contrast with a previous hypothesis -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comJason G. Goldman
- Too Sunny in Philadelphia? Satellites Zero In on Dangerous Urban Heat Islands 07/19/2017Satellite and socioeconomic data can pinpoint which of a city’s neighborhoods are most at risk during heat waves -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comAnnie Sneed
- Is Guaranteed Income for All the Answer to Joblessness and Poverty? 07/18/2017Experts disagree, but a number of experiments could offer insight -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comDavid Noonan
- Mathematics World Mourns Maryam Mirzakhani, Only Woman to Win Fields Medal 07/17/2017The brilliant Stanford professor, killed by breast cancer at 40, worked with shapes unconstrained by the real world -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comEvelyn Lamb
- Wandering in the Void, Billions of Rogue Planets without a Home 07/24/2017
- Guardian Unlimited with link to PDF newspaper option
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- Foreign Affairs
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- Essay Writing Service, Argumentative Essay 04/20/2017our essay writing team will work on it relent lessly to ensure that its quality
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