Chilean cabbies block traffic in protest against Uber
Thousands of Chilean taxi drivers honked their horns and blocked traffic Thursday in a protest against ridesharing service Uber.
Business
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US proposes to cut methane from oil, gas by nearly half
The Obama administration issued a final rule Thursday to sharply cut methane emissions from U.S. oil and gas production, a key part of a push by President Barack Obama to reduce methane emissions by nearly half over the next ...
Environment
May 12, 2016
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Women's preference for smaller competition may account for inequality
When applying for a job or to college, women seek positions with fewer applicants than men, according to a new University of Michigan study.
Social Sciences
May 12, 2016
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Award enables research for more efficient accelerators
Grigory Eremeev wants to double the efficiency of some of the most efficient particle accelerators being used for research. Now, the staff scientist at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility ...
General Physics
May 12, 2016
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Badges acknowledging open practices significantly increase reported data
Sharing research data and materials facilitates the scientific process by making a publication's findings open to critique, replication, and extension. However, relatively few researchers engage in these practices because ...
Social Sciences
May 12, 2016
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Fatal attachment: How pathogenic bacteria hang on to mucosa and avoid exfoliation
Mucous surfaces in the nose, throat, lungs, intestine, and genital tract are points of first contact for many pathogens. As a defensive strategy, most animals (and humans) can rapidly exfoliate these surfaces (i.e., shed ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 12, 2016
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Post-conflict reconciliation led to societal healing, but worsened psychological health
Civil wars divide nations along social, economic and political lines, often pitting neighbors against each other. In the aftermath of civil wars, many countries undertake truth and reconciliation efforts to restore social ...
Social Sciences
May 12, 2016
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Space mission first to observe key interaction between magnetic fields of Earth and Sun
Like sending sensors up into a hurricane, NASA has flown four spacecraft through an invisible maelstrom in space, called magnetic reconnection. Magnetic reconnection is one of the prime drivers of space radiation and so it ...
Space Exploration
May 12, 2016
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Shrinking shorebird pays the bill for rapid Arctic warming while wintering in the tropics
Red knots migrate between their breeding grounds in the Arctic and their wintering grounds in West Africa. Chicks currently born under rapidly warming conditions attain smaller sizes before migration starts, because they ...
Ecology
May 12, 2016
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Found: Surviving evidence of Earth's formative years
New work from a team including Carnegie's Hanika Rizo and Richard Carlson, as well as Richard Walker from the University of Maryland, has found material in rock formations that dates back to shortly after Earth formed. The ...
Earth Sciences
May 12, 2016
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