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Ryan in to clinch with Trump about migrantenproject
WASHINGTON – Chairman Paul Ryan of the U.s. House of Representatives, president Donald Trump called on not to stop the immigrantenproject DACA that under Barack Obama is introduced. The Republican Ryan said that it is not the job of Trump is to see what is going on with the project to be done, and that…
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Earthquake south of Rhodes
ATHENS – More than 50 km south of the Greek holiday island of Rhodes has a Friday at the beginning of the evening, an earthquake with a strength of 5.0 occurred. That has the European seismological centre EMSC published. The epicentre was closest to Lardos. EMSC estimates that more than a half a million people…
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Again, fire at chemical plant in Houston
HOUSTON – At a chemical plant in the vicinity of Houston is re-fire. On the images of CNN is to see how flames and black smoke from one of the buildings. In the same factory were earlier explosions. The explosions were caused by the cooling was lost after hurricane Harvey flood had made, and therefore,…
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Ancient, Sharp-Toothed Whales Are Upending Cetacean History
Fossilized ancient whale skull. (Image: Ben Healley/Museums Victoria) All living whales are descended from terrestrial mammals, but how these aquatic creatures evolved into giant filter-feeders remains a biological mystery. New research shows that ancient whales had razor-sharp teeth similar to land-based carnivores—an observation that’s upsetting a prevailing idea that ancient whales used their teeth for…
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Mission Control Keeps the Heart of the Space Community Beating During Harvey
Photo: AP This week, NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC)—home of the space agency’s Mission Control—became an island in a sea of floodwater. After staggering amounts of damage in Houston, today, Tropical Storm Harvey made landfall once again bringing torrential downpours to areas of Southeast Texas and Louisiana. Somehow, against difficult odds and several feet of…
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How Spammers Hijack Abandoned URLs to Spread SEO Garbage Across the Internet
Illustration: Jim Cooke/Gizmodo “Was The Morningside Post website hacked?” a friend asked me. The site, which I once co-edited, seemed to have died, and returned as a zombie version of itself. About five months ago, my successors at TMP—the student-run news publication at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs—accidentally allowed their site’s web…
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Reports of Russia’s Election Hack Keep Getting Scarier
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North Korea Appears to Challenge the US to a Dance Off In Latest Propaganda Video
GIF Guys, I’ve got some good news. North Korea looks like it may have abandoned its plans to develop nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles and is instead challenging the US to a dance off. At least that’s my reading of their latest propaganda video. North Korean state news agency DPRK Today has released a new video…
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How Cats (and Other Good Animals) Helped Pave the Way For Human Spaceflight
All cats are amateur physicists. We know this because they insist on constantly knocking things over to make sure gravity still exists. But just because cats are interested in science doesn’t make them great candidates for space travel. Of course, that didn’t stop the Air Force from putting that to the test. Archival video footage…
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Squeeze Out a Bag for Juicero, Which Is Dead Now
GIF Image: Chrissy Trampedach Dozens of people will no longer be able to use an over-engineered machine to squeeze cold press juice from a bag in the near future. Juicero, the startup that became a symbol of the tech industry’s mission to solve problems no one has, is officially shutting down. The Mad King of…