List of Science and Technology articles
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NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 12: Members of the U.S. Army Drill Team perform in Times Square in New York City in honor of the Army's 240th birthday on June 12, 2015 in New York City. Soldiers from the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, the U.S. Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, Soldier-musicians from The U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own" Downrange, and the U.S. Military Academy West Point Band entertained and gave demonstrations to the crowds in the historic center of Manhattan. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) America Needs a New ‘Dreadnought Strategy’
Why slow-rolling technology R&D can help the U.S. military prevent the rise of dangerous rivals.
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Volvo Cars CEO Hakan Samuelsson poses for photographer after an interview at Volvo Cars Showroom in Stockholm, Sweden, on July 05, 2017. Samuelsson said that all Volvo cars will be electric or hybrid within two years. The Chinese-owned automotive group plans to phase out the conventional car engine. / AFP PHOTO / TT NEWS AGENCY AND TT News Agency / Jonas EKSTROMER / Sweden OUT (Photo credit should read JONAS EKSTROMER/AFP/Getty Images) Volvo Goes Electric: Is This the Beginning of the End for Gas-Powered Cars?
The Chinese-owned, Swedish carmaker is the first to swear off regular engines entirely.
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GettyImages-801831576 Google Hit With EU Record $2.7 Billion Fine
The company says European regulators underestimate the benefits Google brings small merchants.
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An employee of Sanofi-Pasteur packages vaccines against the flu at the factory Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi-Aventis pharmaceutical company on November 26, 2012 in the northwestern city of Val-de-Reuil, western France. French health care giant Sanofi Pasteur will soon produce a vaccine against dengue fever near Lyon, central-easter France. Dengue causes a flu-like illness for most victims but one of its strains can cause life-threatening internal bleeding. AFP PHOTO/CHARLY TRIBALLEAU (Photo credit should read CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP/Getty Images) Science Won’t Save Vaccines From Lawsuits Anymore
Europe’s highest court has just cleared the way for vaccine-truthers to sue manufacturers, even without any evidence.
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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May delivers a statement outside 10 Downing Street in central London on June 4, 2017, following the June 3 terror attack. Forty-eight people have been taken to hospital after a terror attack in central London in which seven people died, the London Ambulance Service said Sunday. / AFP PHOTO / Justin TALLIS (Photo credit should read JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images) Theresa May Declares War on the Internet, Again
Experts say the British prime minister doesn’t fully understand how radicalization works.
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UNSPECIFIED : Jane Goodall, English primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist, with a chimpanzee in her arms, c. 1995 (Photo by Apic/Getty Images) Thoughts from Jane Goodall on How to Save the Planet
What chimpanzees and the trees of Tanzania can teach us about battling the effects of climate change.
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Hayhoe_top Yeah, the Weather Has Been Weird
People already care about climate change – the trick is getting them to realize it.
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Activists rally on Capitol Hill during the March for Science April 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. Thousands of people joined a global March for Science with Washington the epicenter of a movement to fight back against what many see as an "assault on facts" by populist politicians. / AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) How the White House Lost Its Brains
Failing to appoint scientific advisors to the president is putting national security at risk.
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A live image shows Chinese Premier Li Keqiang delivering his report at the National People's Congress opening ceremony is seen on a laptop in a restaurant in Beijing Railway Station on March 5, 2017. China's rubber-stamp congress opened on March 5, 2017 in an annual pageant of Communist-controlled democracy. / AFP PHOTO / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images) Chinese Citizens Want the Government to Rank Them
The government thinks "social credit" will fix the country's lack of trust — and the public agrees.
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MEYRIN, SWITZERLAND - APRIL 19: (EDITOR'S NOTE: Image was created as an 360° X 360° full-spherical, Panoramic ball camera. Import image into a panoramic player to create an interactive 360 degree view.) A general view of the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) cavern and detector during a behind the scenes tour at CERN, the World's Largest Particle Physics Laboratory on April 19, 2017 in Meyrin, Switzerland. ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a heavy-ion detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ring. It is designed to study the physics of strongly interacting matter at extreme energy densities, where a phase of matter called quark-gluon plasma forms. The ALICE detectors weighs 10,000-tonne and is 26 m long, 16 m high, and 16 m wide. It sits in a vast cavern 56 m below ground close to the village of St Genis-Pouilly in France. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images) The Middle East Just Got its First Particle Accelerator
The new research center aims to substitute habitual regional clashes with a subatomic variety.
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FORT HANCOCK, TX - OCTOBER 14: The U.S.-Mexico border fence stops while passing through farmland on October 14, 2016 near Fort Hancock, Texas. Throughout vast stretches of West Texas, the fence starts and stops along the bank of the Rio Grande, which is often nearly drained due to irrigation for crops. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) Final Selection Process for Border Wall Kicks Off
With no clear funding plan in place, Customs and Border Patrol will start reviewing prototypes of President’s Trump’s “big, beautiful wall.”
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Passengers arrive from international flights on March 21, 2017 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. Passengers traveling to the United States from 10 airports in eight Muslim-majority countries will be prohibited from bringing laptops, tablets and other portable electronic devices on board with them when they fly. The nine airlines affected by the US ban are Royal Jordanian, EgyptAir, Turkish Airlines, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Kuwait Airways, Royal Air Maroc, Qatar Airways, Emirates and Etihad Airways. / AFP PHOTO / DON EMMERT (Photo credit should read DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images) Laptop Ban May be Expanded to Flights From Europe
Counterterrorism experts say the move indicates terrorists may have new bomb-making capabilities.
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Screen Shot 2017-05-15 at 2.47.22 PM Who Is Really to Blame for the WannaCry Ransomware?
Microsoft, the NSA, computer users, and the nature of computer science all bear a portion of the blame.
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US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a baby during a rally in the Special Events Center of the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa, Florida on November 5, 2016. / AFP / Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) Donald Trump Is America’s Experiment in Having No Government
Yes, it seems scary. But it’s all in the name of science.
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malaria First-Ever Malaria Vaccine To Begin Tests Next Year
If effective, it would be a big deal for Africa, which bears the brunt of malaria cases and deaths.
