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Politico Politics Feed- Live highlights: Schiff accuses Trump of 'witness intimidation' for tweet attack on Yovanovitch 11/15/2019We're posting the biggest developments from today's hearing.Nahal Toosi
- Trump blows up effort to blunt impeachment damage 11/15/2019The White House's release of Trump's first Ukraine call runs into the president's own tweets.ncook@politico.com (Nancy Cook)
- Read the summary of Trump's first call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky 11/15/2019Read the summary.POLITICO Staff
- Defiant Yovanovitch says she was ‘kneecapped’ amid Trump 'smear campaign' 11/15/2019The ousted ambassador to Ukraine is delivering key testimony to impeachment investigators.kcheney@politico.com (Kyle Cheney)
- 'It's very intimidating': Yovanovitch reacts in real time to Trump's attacks 11/15/2019"Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad," Trump tweeted out as Yovanovitch spoke.Nahal Toosi
- 'Witness intimidation in real-time': Democrats see more evidence of Trump obstruction 11/15/2019Even Republicans expressed their discomfort with Trump attacking the former ambassador to Ukraine while she was testifying.jbresnahan@politico.com (John Bresnahan)
- Read: Marie Yovanovitch's opening statement at today's impeachment hearings 11/15/2019Read her full prepared remarks.POLITICO Staff
- Read: Chairman Adam Schiff's opening statement at today's impeachment hearings 11/15/2019Read his full opening statement.POLITICO Staff
- Roger Stone was found guilty. Now all eyes turn to Trump. 11/15/2019The president will face pressure to pardon Stone after the GOP operative was found guilty of charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller.jgerstein@politico.com (Josh Gerstein)
- Trump claims 'double standard' in Roger Stone conviction 11/15/2019The tweet will only further stoke speculation of a potential pardon for the longtime Trump ally.coprysko@politico.com (Caitlin Oprysko)
- ‘No discipline. No plan. No strategy.’: Kamala Harris campaign in meltdown 11/15/2019Campaign manager Juan Rodriguez is taking the most heat for the failings, but his defenders point their finger at the candidate's sister, Maya Harris.ccadelao@politico.com (Christopher Cadelago)
- White House hopefuls are missing Senate votes — and nobody cares 11/15/2019"Their presence doesn’t make a difference," Sen. Dick Durbin says.mlevine@politico.com (Marianne LeVine)
- Live highlights: Schiff accuses Trump of 'witness intimidation' for tweet attack on Yovanovitch 11/15/2019
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- Secret of explosive volcanism unlocked 11/15/2019When will the next eruption take place? Examination of samples from Indonesia's Mount Merapi show that the explosivity of stratovolcanoes rises when mineral-rich gases seal the pores and microcracks in the uppermost layers of stone. These findings result in new possibilities for the prediction of an eruption.
- Chemists map an artificial molecular self-assembly pathway with complexities of life 11/15/2019Two pathways diverged in a chemical synthesis, and one molecule took them both. Chemists have studied how molecular building blocks can either form a spherical cage or an ultrathin sheet that shows some of the basic properties of a ''smart'' material that can respond to its environment.
- New cell therapy improves memory and stops seizures following TBI 11/15/2019Researchers have developed a breakthrough cell therapy to improve memory and prevent seizures in mice following traumatic brain injury.
- How nematodes outsmart the defenses of pests 11/15/2019The western corn rootworm, one of the world's most damaging maize pests, can use plant defense compounds to defend itself against its own natural enemies, so-called entomopathogenic nematodes. However, the nematodes can become immune against these compounds in turn, which enhances their ability to fight the western corn rootworm, as researchers show. Th […]
- Direct-to-patient telemedicine cardiology follow-ups may safely save families time, cost 11/15/2019Health provider follow-ups delivered via computer or smartphone is a feasible alternative to in-person patient follow-ups for some pediatric cardiac conditions, according to the new findings.
- Scientists close in on malaria vaccine 11/15/2019Scientists have taken another big step forward towards developing a vaccine that's effective against the most severe forms of malaria.
- Many patients with iNPH develop Alzheimer's disease, too 11/15/2019Up to one in five patients treated for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus, iNPH, also develop Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study. The researchers were able to predict the development of Alzheimer's disease by using the Disease State Index, DSI, that combines patient-specific data from various sources.
- Researchers link sisters' paralysis to an 'extremely rare' genetic variant 11/15/2019Following a nearly 25-year search across three continents, parents of a pair of sisters -- who as children slowly became paralyzed from the waist down -- finally have a diagnosis. Thanks to a chance viewing on French TV of a story about another physically disabled child who regained her mobility after being diagnosed at TGen, the parents of the two sisters c […]
- Master regulator in mitochondria is critical for muscle function and repair 11/15/2019New study identifies how loss of mitochondrial protein MICU1 disrupts calcium balance and causes muscle atrophy and weakness.
- Lichens are way younger than scientists thought 11/15/2019Lichens -- a combo of fungus and algae -- can grow on bare rocks, so scientists thought that lichens were some of the first organisms to make their way onto land from the water, changing the planet's atmosphere and paving the way for modern plants. But a closer look at the DNA of the algae and fungi that form lichens shows that lichens likely evolved mi […]
- Early DNA lineages shed light on the diverse origins of the contemporary population 11/15/2019A new genetic study demonstrates that, at the end of the Iron Age, Finland was inhabited by separate and differing populations, all of them influencing the gene pool of modern Finns. The study is so far the most extensive investigation of the ancient DNA of people inhabiting the region of Finland.
- Mapping disease outbreaks in urban settings using mobile phone data 11/15/2019A new study into the interplay between mobility and the 2013 and 2014 dengue outbreaks in Singapore has uncovered a legal void around access to mobile phone data -- information that can prove vital in preventing the spread of infectious diseases.
- Secret of explosive volcanism unlocked 11/15/2019
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- The three challenges keeping cars from being fully autonomous 04/23/2019Technical, regulatory, and business obstacles are still in the way of safe, useful, and affordable self-driving vehicles.
- Ready for 6G? How AI will shape the network of the future 04/19/2019With 5G networks rolling out around the world, engineers are turning their attention to the next incarnation.
- Landowners are earning millions for carbon cuts that may not occur 04/18/2019A new analysis finds California’s cap-and-trade program may vastly overestimate emissions reductions.
- Facebook’s ad-serving algorithm discriminates by gender and race 04/05/2019Even if an advertiser is well-intentioned, the algorithm still prefers certain groups of people over others.
- The race to make a lab-grown steak 02/27/2019Meat production spews tons of greenhouse gas and uses up too much land and water. Is there an alternative that won’t make us do without?
- China’s Huawei has big ambitions to weaken the US grip on AI leadership 03/04/2019In spite of tensions with the US and its allies, Huawei is rapidly building a suite of AI offerings unmatched by any other company on the planet.
- A simple blood test to predict premature births could save babies’ lives 02/27/2019Complications from preterm birth are the leading cause of death worldwide in children under five.
- Bill Gates explains why we should all be optimists 02/27/2019We sat down to talk about breakthrough technologies, China, and reasons to be cheerful with this issue’s guest editor.
- 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2019, curated by Bill Gates 02/27/2019We asked Gates to choose this year’s list of inventions that will change the world for the better.
- Why AI is a threat to democracy—and what we can do to stop it 02/26/2019Futurist and NYU professor Amy Webb on an impending artificial intelligence catastrophe—and why there’s still hope it can be averted.
- The three challenges keeping cars from being fully autonomous 04/23/2019
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- Trump Wants Insurers and Hospitals To Show Real Prices To Patients 11/15/2019Two regulations announced Friday take aim at health care prices. One, to affect patients by 2021, addresses hospital rates. The second, a proposal, would require more upfront clarity from insurers.Selena Simmons-Duffin
- The U.S. Natural Gas Boom Is Fueling A Global Plastics Boom 11/15/2019America is now the world's biggest exporter of ethane, a part of natural gas that's a building block for making plastics. That's helping fuel the fast-growing global plastics industry.Reid Frazier
- Betsy DeVos And The High-Stakes Standoff Over Student Loan Forgiveness 11/15/2019The Education Department narrowly avoids a subpoena in a fight with House Democrats over forgiving the loans of defrauded student borrowers.Cory Turner
- Amazon Appeals Pentagon's Choice Of Microsoft For $10 Billion Cloud Contract 11/15/2019Amazon cited "unmistakable bias" as it prepares to challenge its loss in federal court. This starts a new chapter in the contentious battle over the biggest U.S. cloud-computing contract, called JEDI.Alina Selyukh
- Why The American Leather Industry Is Having A Tough Time 11/14/2019The leather industry hit a peak in 2014. Retailers were forced to find cheaper, artificial alternatives. Now, leather is struggling to regain the market share it lost. The trade war is not helping.Darius Rafieyan
- Hey Alexa, Should We Worry About Kids And Smart Speakers? 11/14/2019If more than one in four American households have a smart speaker — how will they affect family relationships?
- Google Health Data Project Under Scrutiny 11/14/2019Google is collecting the health data of millions of Americans in partnership with a big health care system. The project is raising questions about patient privacy.Shannon Bond
- A New Solution For Snakebites 11/14/2019Snakebites are common, but anti-venom can be hard to get. One doctor is trying a new solution, with help from a former rock star.Amanda Aronczyk
- Federal Appeals Court Allows Congress To Subpoena Trump Tax Returns 11/14/2019The full D.C. Circuit voted 8-3 not to reconsider an earlier decision by a three-judge panel that ruled against the president. Trump's lawyer says he will appeal to the Supreme Court.Richard Gonzales
- Ethane And The Plastics Boom 11/13/2019America's natural gas boom has also made it the world's biggest exporter of ethane. It's a building block for plastics, and U.S. gas is helping fuel the global plastics industry.Reid Frazier
- Trump Wants Insurers and Hospitals To Show Real Prices To Patients 11/15/2019
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- Amazon Appeals Pentagon's Choice Of Microsoft For $10 Billion Cloud Contract 11/15/2019Amazon cited "unmistakable bias" as it prepares to challenge its loss in federal court. This starts a new chapter in the contentious battle over the biggest U.S. cloud-computing contract, called JEDI.Alina Selyukh
- Hey Alexa, Should We Worry About Kids And Smart Speakers? 11/14/2019If more than one in four American households have a smart speaker — how will they affect family relationships?
- News Brief: Impeachment Hearings, Stephen Miller Emails, Google Health Data 11/14/2019We look at what we learned in the first day of public impeachment hearings. Also, the Southern Poverty Law Center says emails show Stephen Miller promoted white nationalist theories.Tim Mak
- Google Health Data Project Under Scrutiny 11/14/2019Google is collecting the health data of millions of Americans in partnership with a big health care system. The project is raising questions about patient privacy.Shannon Bond
- How Internet Trolls And Online Extremists Are 'Hijacking' American Politics 11/12/2019New Yorker staff writer Andrew Marantz spent years with far-right online extremists, embedding with them and watching them spread false news by exploiting social media. His new book is Antisocial.Terry Gross
- How San Diego's Utility Companies Are Working To Prevent Wildfires 11/11/2019In California, power company PG&E is using blackouts to prevent its equipment from starting wildfires. But San Diego's utility doesn't use widespread outages because of changes it made a decade ago.
- A Smart Home Neighborhood: Residents Find It Enjoyably Convenient Or A Bit Creepy 11/09/2019Smart homes let homeowners turn on lights and unlock doors from a mobile phone. But the technology also sends incredible amounts of data to big tech companies.Joshua McNichols
- Instagram Will Test Hiding 'Likes' On Some U.S. Accounts Starting Next Week 11/09/2019"The idea is to try to 'depressurize' Instagram, make it less of a competition," the company's CEO Adam Mosseri announced on Friday.Brakkton Booker
- Long-Lost Texts Arrive 11/09/2019If you caught heat for neglecting to send a romantic text last Valentine's Day, you might now be vindicated: Server maintenance slowed 170,000 texts to a glacial pace. They were recently delivered.Scott Simon
- Feds Say Self-Driving Uber SUV Did Not Recognize Jaywalking Pedestrian In Fatal Crash 11/08/2019The death of a pedestrian struck by the self-driving vehicle in Arizona last year highlights safety concerns and calls for regulating the testing of such vehicles.Richard Gonzales
- Amazon Appeals Pentagon's Choice Of Microsoft For $10 Billion Cloud Contract 11/15/2019
- Scientific American
- Climate Change May Be Blowing Up Arms Depots 11/14/2019More intense heat waves can destabilize the components of munitions, particularly where explosives are not properly stored -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comPeter Schwartzstein
- Literacy Might Shield the Brain from Dementia 11/13/2019An ability to read and write, even with little or no schooling, could offer protection -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comGary Stix
- Key Photosynthesis Complex Viewed in Spinach 11/13/2019Findings fuel hopes for improved food-crop efficiency -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comEmily Willingham
- Hearing Is Seeing: Sound Waves Create a 3-D Display 11/13/2019An interactive system produces levitating images by projecting color onto a tiny bead as it zips around a darkened box -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comSophie Bushwick
- Proposed Interstellar Mission Reaches for the Stars, One Generation at a Time 11/12/2019Starting in the early 2030s, the project could become our first purposeful step out of the solar system—if it launches at all -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comLee Billings
- Frozen Researchers Will Greatly Improve Arctic Weather Prediction 11/11/2019Their data will also bolster climate models that forecast extreme weather where we all live -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comShannon Hall
- Western Individualism Arose from Incest Taboo 11/07/2019Researchers link a Catholic Church ban on cousins marrying in the Middle Ages to the emergence of a way of life that made the West an outlier -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comDavid Noonan
- Can Secondhand Shopping Dent Fast Fashion's Environmental Damage? 11/07/2019Reusing clothes saves on emissions and water use, but researchers have lingering questions on exactly how much it can contribute to making the apparel industry more sustainable -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comAllison Hirschlag
- First New HIV Strain in 19 Years Identified 11/06/2019The surveillance of viral changes persists to keep the blood supply safe -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comKaren Weintraub
- Quantum Computer Made from Photons Achieves a New Record 11/06/2019The limited system made a notable advancement on the road to beating classical machines -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.comDaniel Garisto
- Climate Change May Be Blowing Up Arms Depots 11/14/2019
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- Toward a Neo-Progressive Foreign Policy 09/04/2018In foreign policy, progressives are adrift, caught between dated paradigms that have not yet come to terms with the current geopolitical moment.
- A Better Iran Deal Is Within Reach 11/15/2019When the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump ratcheted up its “maximum pressure” campaign last May, with the professed aim of driving Iran’s oil exports to zero, it didn’t take long for Tehran to respond with escalation of its own. In the months since, Iran has reportedly attacked pipelines, tankers, and one of the world’s largest oil processing fa […]
- Why Trump’s Shapeshifting Syria Policy Worked—Until It Didn’t 11/13/2019The Trump administration’s Syria policy resembled a Rorschach inkblot—an ambiguous shape to which observers could ascribe their own preferred meaning. But in October, the limitations of this approach were laid bare.
- The Tunisia Model 10/15/2019For all the unfinished business the country still faces nearly a decade after the Arab Spring, Tunisia's example remains a source of hope across the region.
- The Real Fight for the Future of 5G 11/14/2019With 5G, a new networking infrastructure is emerging, dependent on the Internet but distinct from it and much more subject to government and private control.
- The Ayatollah’s Den of Espionage 11/12/2019Forty years ago last week, a group called Muslim Students Following the Line of the Imam stormed the American embassy in Tehran and took its staff hostage. Iran’s new revolutionary government, under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, dubbed the embassy the “den of espionage.” The ensuing hostage crisis cast a long shadow over Iran’s relations wit […]
- The New Masters of the Universe 10/10/2019Paul Starrs reviews Shoshana Zuboff's new book about technology firms, power, and privacy.
- Venezuela’s Suicide 10/15/2018Socialism and declining oil prices are often blamed for Venezuela’s catastrophe. In reality, it was decades of destructive leadership under Hugo Chávez and his successor, Nicolás Maduro, that transformed Venezuela into a poor country and criminalized state beholden to a foreign power.
- America’s Original Identity Politics 11/07/2019Charles King reviews The Case for Nationalism by Rich Lowry.
- Why Latin America Was Primed to Explode 10/29/2019In a world aflame with protest, Latin America stands out as a raging ten-alarm fire. From Bolivia to Ecuador, Haiti to Honduras, the closing months of 2019 have seen enormous, sometimes violent demonstrations prompted by a truly dizzying array of grievances, including electoral fraud, corruption, and rising fuel and public transportation prices. Even Chile, […]
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