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Interpol Filter Scope Creep: Australia Ordering Unilateral Website Blocks
Science & Tech  (tags: technology, world, tech, safety, internet, investigation, discovery )

JL
- 4 hours ago - delimiter.com.au
Australia's financial regulator has started requiring ISPs to block websites suspected of providing fraudulent financial opportunities, opening the door for other agencies to unilaterally block sites they deem questionable.
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Space Watch: Joint Asteroid Guard to Be Set Up in Russia
Science & Tech  (tags: Meteor, space, technology, world, safety, NewTechnology, humans, design, astronomy )

James
- 13 hours ago - rt.com
Russia's science, military and space industries are now uniting to create a first-of-its-kind national space threats defense program. The project is expected to take shape by late 2013, but it will take at least five more years
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Fine for Destruction of Ancient Mayan Pyramid? $5,000
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, discovery )

Marty
- 20 hours ago - foxnews.com
The penalty for the near-total destruction of one of the biggest Mayan pyramids in Belize -- which the government called "unforgivable" and left archaeologists speechless -- may leave conservationists speechless: just $5,000
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Billion-Year-Old Water Preserved in Canadian Mine
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, discovery )

Marty
- 22 hours ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
Pockets of water trapped in rocks from a Canadian mine are over a billion years old, and the water could contain life forms that can survive independently from the sun, scientists said this week.
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Why You Should Never Trust An Ape: Researchers Reveal How Lying May Have Evolved in ANIMALS
Science & Tech  (tags: Why you should never trust an ape: Resea )

Agnes
- 22 hours ago - dailymail.co.uk
We all tell the occasional white lie - and researchers believe they have finally found out why. Scientists studying the development of co-operative behaviour in apes and monkeys believe the animals developed the ability to lie and deceive in order
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With Rising Seas, America's Birthplace Could Disappear
Science & Tech  (tags: environment, destruction, climate-change, globalwarming, history, archaeology )

Marty
- 22 hours ago - npr.org
The first successful English colony in America was at Jamestown, Va., a swampy island in the Chesapeake Bay. The colony endured for almost a century, and remnants of the place still exist
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London Is Building a Power Plant That Burns Waste Fat From Sewers
Science & Tech  (tags: Renewable Energy, Technology, NewTechnology )

Shaheen
- 23 hours ago - treehugger.com
In 2015, East London will be home to a new type of power plant that uses a unique renewable energy source -- discarded fat. Yes, fat. Everyday, fat, oil and grease (FOG is the acronym being used) build up in the city's sewer system, causing blockages
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Scientists Hack Photosynthesis for Electricity
Science & Tech  (tags: plants, electricity, discovery, research, science, scientists, environment, energy, technology )

Michael
- 23 hours ago - mnn.com
As humans scour the Earth for energy, venturing farther offshore and deeper underground, a new study suggests the answer has been under our noses all along. Rather than chasing finite fossils fuels, it focuses on Earth's original power plants: plants.
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10% of Facebook's Users Are Not Human - Including Mark Zuckerberg's Dog Beast Who Has 1.5 MILLION Followers
Science & Tech  (tags: 10% of Facebook's users are not human - )

Agnes
- 1 day ago - dailymail.co.uk
Dogs, cats, horses, toasters: You name it, it has a Facebook page. Facebook now has one billion users - but ten per cent of them are not human, according to new research.
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Meteor Crashes Into Moon, Sparks Giant Explosion
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, astronomy, space, research, nasa, science, meteors, crater, moon )

Michael
- 1 day ago - mnn.com
The moon has a new hole on its surface thanks to a boulder that slammed into it in March, creating the biggest explosion scientists have seen on the moon since they started monitoring it.
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Asteroid 9 Times Size of Ocean Liner Approaches Earth
Science & Tech  (tags: Science, Asteroid, 1998 QE2, space object, minor planet, NASA )

Angelika
- 1 day ago - rt.com
The 1998 QE2 asteroid has the physical mass to potentially deliver life on Earth a knockout punch, being 2.7km in length. It is to buzz our planet on May 31, aweing the stargazing community.
29 comments
Secret Room With Ancient Artifacts Found in Great Pyramid
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, discovery )

Marty
- 1 day ago - bubblews.com
A secret room or chamber has been reportedly discovered behind the 2nd sealed door inside the Southern shaft in the Queen's chamber in the Great Pyramid. And there are ancient artifacts inside of it
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World's Oldest Flowing Water Found Deep in Timmins Mine
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, scientists, science, research, water, discovery, news )

Michael
- 3 days ago - cbc.ca
Water found in a deep, isolated reservoir in Timmins, Ont., has been trapped there for 1.5 billion to 2.64 billion years -- since around the time the first multicellular life arose on the planet -- Canadian and British scientists say.
29 comments
What Do Tigers and Kiwi Have in Common? The Answer Lies in Their Genes | Extinction Countdown, Scientific American Blog Network
Science & Tech  (tags: animals, cats, conservation, endangered, environment, extinction, wildlife, wildanimals, tigers, slaughter, killing )

John
- 3 days ago - blogs.scientificamerican.com
At first (and probably second) glance you wouldn't think that tigers and kiwis have all that much in common, but if you look deeper...
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World's Fish Have Been Moving to Cooler Waters for Decades, Study Finds
Science & Tech  (tags: climate, climate-change, climatechange, ecosystems, endangered, environment, globalwarming, globalwarming, nature, oceans, habitat, wildlife, world, Sustainabililty, water, research, science, scientists, study, discovery )

JL
- 3 days ago - washingtonpost.com
The research, published in the journal Nature, provides more evidence of a rapidly warming planet and has broad repercussions for fish harvests around the globe.
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