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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
(Bloomberg) -- Six days after they went AWOL to sabotage a bill to curb carbon emissions in Oregon, 11 lawmakers are still hiding out -- in the latest, and weirdest, flashpoint in the U.S. divide over climate change.The Republicans fled the capitol i...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
Three students are getting ready for a space experiment that will use gravity and magnetism to simulate the origin of planet Earth. Another trio plans to create a musical composition that's based on blips of cosmic radiation. We're not talkin...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
The expanded label, which could significantly boost annual sales, is for use with other medicines to treat patients suffering from chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps, the companies said in a joint statement. The FDA first approved Dupixent in...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
At least 12,000 people converged on Britain's parliament on Wednesday to lobby lawmakers to start driving the sweeping changes needed to meet the country's new target to cut net carbon emissions to zero by 2050, organisers said. In the largest envir...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
(Bloomberg) -- YouTube said it will let users override automated recommendations after criticism over how the online video service suggests and filters toxic clips."Although we try our best to suggest videos you’ll enjoy, we don’t always get it...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
Inside a locked vault at Johnson Space Center is treasure few have seen and fewer have touched. The restricted lab is home to hundreds of pounds of moon rocks collected by Apollo astronauts close to a half-century ago. "It's sort of a coincidence t...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
(Bloomberg) -- About 100 Google employees urged the organizer of this weekend’s San Francisco Pride parade to kick the company out of the celebration, escalating pressure on the internet giant to overhaul its handling of hate speech online.“Whenever...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
(Bloomberg) -- Bitcoin’s furious run is starting to look more and more like it did at the height of crypto-mania two years ago.The virtual currency surged as much as 18% on Wednesday, topping $13,000 for the first time since January 2018, and bringin...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
U.S. Route 285, cutting through the Texas-New Mexico border, is perilous.Lines of speeding trucks lugging oil and fracking tanks gouge big cracks in the narrow two-way highway. Come night, in the blackened, high desert, it can be challenging to even...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
Finland will use its turn in the EU presidency to seek a pledge that the bloc will produce net zero greenhouse emissions by 2050, Prime Minister Antti Rinne said Wednesday. Several EU countries have signed up to reduce emissions to net zero, but opp...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
The mother of a child with febrile infection related epilepsy syndrome (FIRES), shares why it's important other families with epilepsy understand this rare condition.
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
The only test publicly announced by the Navy took place on May 15, when WSMR engineers and technicians fired off four rounds "with full diagnostics and verification," according to the Navy statement.The Navy's electromagnetic railgun is...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
(Bloomberg) -- American technology companies have resumed selling certain products to Huawei Technologies Co. after concluding there are legal ways to work with the Chinese telecom giant in spite of its inclusion on a Trump Administration blacklist.M...