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Astronomy & Space news
 | Mars rover Opportunity on walkabout near rimNASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is examining rocks at the edge of Endeavour Crater for signs that they may have been either transported by a flood or eroded in place by wind. |
SpaceX set to launch satellites from California air baseSpaceX is going for a weekend double-header with a planned launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, just two days after a successful satellite launch from Florida. | |
Technology news
 | Google to stop scanning Gmail for ad targetingGoogle said Friday it would stop scanning the contents of Gmail users' inboxes for ad targeting, moving to end a practice that has fueled privacy concerns since the free email service was launched. |
 | Cut US commercial building energy use 29 percent with widespread controlsLike driving a car despite a glowing check-engine light, large buildings often chug along without maintenance being performed on the building controls designed to keep them running smoothly. |
 | Brain-inspired supercomputing system takes spotlight in IBM, US Air Force Research Lab collab(Tech Xplore)—IBM and the Air Force Research Laboratory are working to develop an artificial intelligence-based supercomputer with a neural network design that is inspired by the human brain. |
 | Seeing with your ears: Novel acoustics project aims to improve virtual reality, explore ear shape effects on 3-D soundParis' Cathedral of Notre Dame has a ghost orchestra that is always performing, thanks to a sophisticated, multidisciplinary acoustics research project that will be presented during Acoustics '17 Boston, the third joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the European Acoustics Association being held June 25-29, in Boston, Massachusetts. |
 | CIA chief: Intel leaks on the rise, cites leaker 'worship'CIA Director Mike Pompeo says he thinks disclosure of America's secret intelligence is on the rise, fueled partly by the "worship" of leakers like Edward Snowden. |
UK Parliament investigates cyberattack on user accountsBritish officials were investigating a cyberattack Saturday on the country's Parliament after discovering "unauthorized attempts to access parliamentary user accounts." | |
Pay-TV could lose 1 million customers this quarter, analyst saysPay-TV operators could lose 1 million subscribers this quarter, a Wall Street analyst says. | |
Wearable technology could save lives and dollars in construction industryAt first glance, there's nothing remarkable about SolePower's latest work boot prototype. | |
 | China drone king turns to farmingChina drone-maker DJI is betting on flying machines that shoot pesticide instead of photos to fend off growing competition in the global remote-controlled aircraft market. |
The friendly honk: Acoustical remake of car horns alerts without jarringSound permeates the human experience—we are exposed to sounds from birth to death, and the human auditory system can distinguish and classify about 400,000 different sounds, according to some estimates. It is noise that gets our attention. Sometimes traumatically so. | |
 | Fewer than 90 accounts hit by UK parliament cyberattackA "sustained and determined" cyberattack on Britain's parliament compromised fewer than 90 email accounts, a parliamentary spokesman said Sunday. |
US investigates after lab improperly ships nuclear materialU.S. regulators said Friday they are launching an investigation into the improper shipment of nuclear material from the laboratory that created the atomic bomb to other federal facilities this week, marking the latest safety lapse for Los Alamos National Laboratory as it faces growing criticism over its track record. | |
 | Review: Aukey mechanical keyboard brings a dance party to your desktopSome people like typing on a good old clickity-clack keyboard. |
A risky fix to repair a city's gutted streetlight gridFor years, residents in this cash-strapped city watched helplessly as thieves gutted 33 miles (53 kilometers) of streetlight wiring, plunging long stretches of roadway into darkness. The thousands of dollars criminals pocketed at off-the-books salvage yards wreaked millions of dollars in damage. | |
Medicine & Health news
 | Decades after the discovery of anti-obesity hormone, scant evidence that leptin keeps lean people lean, scientists sayDiscovered more than two decades ago, the hormone leptin has been widely hailed as the key regulator of leanness. Yet, the pivotal experiments that probe the function of this protein and unravel the precise mechanism of its action as a guardian against obesity are largely missing. |
 | Exploring the potential of human echolocationPeople who are visually impaired will often use a cane to feel out their surroundings. With training and practice, people can learn to use the pitch, loudness and timbre of echoes from the cane or other sounds to navigate safely through the environment using echolocation. |
Targeted drug shows promise in rare advanced kidney cancerSome patients with a form of advanced kidney cancer that carries a poor prognosis benefited from an experimental drug targeted to an abnormal genetic pathway causing cancerous growth, according to research led by a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientist. | |
Immunotherapy kinder than chemotherapy for patients with head and neck cancerThe immunotherapy nivolumab is kinder than chemotherapy for people with advanced head and neck cancer - easing many of the negative effects of the disease on patients' quality of life. | |
 | Fewer U.S. kids binge drinking(HealthDay)—A new federal report finds that fewer U.S. teens and young adults are indulging in frat-party style drinking because their levels of binge drinking have gone down over the past six years. |
 | A baby's skin no match for the sun(HealthDay)—Want to help protect your children from skin cancer as they get older? Make sure they never get a serious sunburn in childhood. |
 | Drug, herb interactions frequent for cancer patients(HealthDay)—Patients with cancer frequently have herb-drug interactions (HDI) and drug-drug interactions (DDI), some of which have clinical consequences, according to research published online June 19 in the Journal of Oncology Practice. |
 | Primary care pharmacy model attractive to patients(HealthDay)—Patients express preference for a pharmacy-driven model of primary care versus a pharmacy offering minimal primary care services, according to a study published online June 18 in the Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics. |
 | Blood test can detect GLUT1 deficiency syndrome(HealthDay)—A simple and rapid blood test can detect GLUT1 deficiency syndrome (DS), according to a study published online May 26 in the Annals of Neurology. |
 | Anti-TNF-alpha Rx improves sleep quality in ankylosing spondylitis(HealthDay)—Anti-tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) therapy improves sleep quality (SQ) in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) without any improvement in polysomnography (PSG) measures, according to a study published online May 29 in the International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases. |
 | High levels of brain inflammation seen in OCD(HealthDay)—Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have high levels of brain inflammation, according to a study published online June 21 in JAMA Psychiatry. |
 | Family history questionnaire ups genetic counseling for CRC(HealthDay)—For patients undergoing outpatient colonoscopy, a family history questionnaire (FHQ) sent by mail is associated with an increase in available family history and referral for genetic counseling, according to a study published online May 29 in the Journal of Digestive Diseases. |
 | Surf's up! How to plan for a safe beach vacation(HealthDay)—Heading to the beach this summer? Make safety part of your vacation planning. |
 | Ob-gyns can help ID sex workers, improve access to care(HealthDay)—Obstetrician-gynecologists can help improve recognition of sex workers and increase their access to preventive care, according to a Committee Opinion published in the July issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology. |
 | Review links conjugated linoleic acid supplementation to CRP(HealthDay)—Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) supplementation is associated with an increase in serum C-reactive protein (CRP) concentration, according to a review and meta-analysis published online May 29 in Cardiovascular Therapeutics. |
 | ACOG: shared decision-making key to breast cancer screening(HealthDay)—Shared decision-making is being emphasized in new American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) mammography screening guidelines for women at average risk of breast cancer. |
 | 10 things you should ask your doctor on your next visitGetting in to see a doctor takes time. Getting the most out of your doctor's time takes something more: an inquisitive approach. |
 | Tiny bubbles offer sound solution for drug deliveryYour brain is armored. It lives in a box made of bones with a security system of vessels. These vessels protect the brain and central nervous system from harmful chemicals circulating in the blood. Yet this protection system—known as the blood-brain barrier—also prevents delivery of drugs that could help treat patients with brain cancers and brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. The heavily guarded brain has long frustrated physicians tending patients in need of brain treatments without surgery. |
The new war on sepsisDawn Nagel, a nurse at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif., knew she was going to have a busy day, with more than a dozen patients showing signs of sepsis. They included a 61-year-old mechanic with diabetes. An elderly man recovering from pneumonia. A new mom whose white blood cell count had shot up after she gave birth. | |
 | Nevada's on-again, off-again marijuana sales back onNevada regulators reaffirmed Friday that they intend to issue licenses necessary for retailers to begin selling pot for recreational use on July 1, despite a court order that threatens to scuttle the plan. |
UN: More than 200,000 suspected cholera cases in YemenThe U.N. health agency says there are now more than 200,000 suspected cases of cholera in an outbreak in war-torn Yemen, many of them children. | |
Iran drug addicts double in six yearsThe number of drug addicts in Iran has more than doubled in six years, with opium the country's most popular narcotic, local media reported Sunday. | |
Biology news
 | Chickens may illuminate how humans developed sharp daylight visionHumans belong to a select club of species that enjoy crisp color vision in daylight, thanks to a small spot in the center of the retina at the back of the eye. Other club members include monkeys and apes, various fish and reptiles, and many birds, which must home in on their scurrying dinners from afar or peck at tiny seeds. |
 | New 3-D model predicts best planting practices for farmersAs farmers survey their fields this summer, several questions come to mind: How many plants germinated per acre? How does altering row spacing affect my yields? Does it make a difference if I plant my rows north to south or east to west? Now a computer model can answer these questions by comparing billions of virtual fields with different planting densities, row spacings, and orientations. |
 | Panda mania hits Germany as China's cuddly envoys arriveGermany had its first taste of panda mania on Saturday as two furry ambassadors arrived from China to begin a new life as stars of Berlin's premier zoo. |
Q&A: Afraid of sharks? Flu, asteroids pose far greater riskYou might want a bigger boat, but you probably don't need better odds. | |
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