A self-driving Uber SUV struck and killed a pedestrian in suburban Phoenix in the first death involving a fully autonomous test vehicle—a crash that could have far-reaching consequences for the new technology.
Business
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It's been nearly two decades since a UC Santa Cruz research team announced that they had assembled and posted the first human genome sequence on the internet. Despite the passage of time, enormous gaps remain in our genomic ...
Biotechnology
Mar 19, 2018
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Death is certain for all living things, including the body's cells. The act of dying is in fact as sophisticated as any process a cell might perform during its lifetime—and when glitches in cell death occur, they can lead ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 19, 2018
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Reproducibility of scientific findings has long been an important indicator of the validity of data gleaned from research, a process deemed even more critical in this age of ever-changing technologies and methods.
Social Sciences
Mar 19, 2018
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In "Black Lives Matter and the Call for Death Penalty Abolition," published in Ethics, Michael Cholbi and Alex Madva defend the central arguments of the Black Lives Matter movement's abolitionist stance on capital punishment. ...
Social Sciences
Mar 19, 2018
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One in five Muslim Canadians say they have experienced discrimination due to their religion, ethnicity or culture at least once in the past five years.
Social Sciences
Mar 19, 2018
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Targeted geoengineering to preserve continental ice sheets deserves serious research and investment, argues an international team of researchers in a Comment published March 14 in the journal Nature. Without intervention, ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 19, 2018
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History can tell us a lot about environmental upheaval, say Princeton University historians John Haldon and Lee Mordechai. What is missing in today's debate about climate change is using what we know about how past societies ...
Environment
Mar 19, 2018
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Short-term pain for long-term gain. When applied to the reform of global fisheries, this strategy could yield enormous benefits.
Ecology
Mar 19, 2018
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Three hundred years ago, enormous herds of bison, antelope and elk roamed North America, and the land was pristine and the water clean.
Environment
Mar 19, 2018
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