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Scooter firms get a lesson in manners https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45364604

Small Air Leak Detected on International Space Station https://www.space.com/41676-space-station-small-pressure-leak.html

What if Emailing During Your Commute Counted as Work? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/world/europe/uk-commuting-work-wi-fi.html

Emails while commuting ‘should count as work’ https://www.bbc.com/news/education-45333270

The four ways that ex-internet idealists explain where it all went wrong https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611805/the-four-ways-that-ex-internet-idealists-explain-where-it-all-went-wrong/

The woman who founded the ‘incel’ movement https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45284455

California man charged with threatening to kill Boston Globe employees https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-man-charged-threatening-kill-boston-globe-employees-n905081

China targets video gaming to tackle myopia in children https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-45366468

CRISPR Gene Editing Shows Promise for Treating a Fatal Muscle Disease https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crispr-gene-editing-shows-promise-for-treating-a-fatal-muscle-disease/

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THE SECRET GARDEN
How Google Earth led a team of scientists to discover an untouched mountaintop rainforest https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/28/17770988/google-earth-mount-lico-discovery-secret-mozambique-rainforest-expedition

Como os horários de refeição influenciam sua qualidade de vida https://g1.globo.com/ciencia-e-saude/noticia/2018/08/30/como-os-horarios-de-refeicao-influenciam-sua-qualidade-de-vida.ghtml

The vast scale of Iran’s online propaganda machine is becoming clearer https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/611956/the-vast-scale-of-irans-online-propaganda-machine-is-becoming-clearer/

Elon Musk repeats “pedophile” accusations against man who’s getting ready to sue him https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-ignores-tesla-board-and-keeps-tweeting/

Climate Change Likely Iced Neanderthals Out Of Existence
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/modern-humans-didnt-kill-neanderthals-weather-did-180970167/

How the Kessler Syndrome can end all space exploration and destroy modern life https://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/how-the-kessler-syndrome-can-end-all-space-exploration-and-destroy-modern-life

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California advances an ambitious climate policy that should be a model for the world https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611945/california-advances-an-ambitious-climate-policy-that-should-be-a-model-for-the-world/

Renewable energy sources can take up to 1000 times more space than fossil fuels https://phys.org/news/2018-08-renewable-energy-sources-space-fossil.html

A Squishy Border Dispute, Deep Below Texas And Mexico https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/a-squishy-border-dispute-deep-below-texas-and-mexico/

First-Ever Evidence of Higgs Boson Decay Opens New Doors for Particle Physics https://www.livescience.com/63455-higgs-decays-to-bottom-quarks.html

Physics Milestone as Scientists Finally Observe Predicted Higgs Boson Particle Decay
We’ve waited years for this. https://www.sciencealert.com/higgs-boson-particle-decay-bottom-quarks-observed-large-hadron-collider-standard-model

OneDrive will soon automatically transcribe your video and audio files https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/28/17792490/microsoft-onedrive-transcription-audio-video-features

Scientists Find a Strange New Cell in Human Brains: The ‘Rosehip Neuron’ https://www.livescience.com/63441-new-brain-cell-rosehip-neuron.html

The End of Theoretical Physics As We Know It https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-end-of-theoretical-physics-as-we-know-it-20180827/

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Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism’s Imminent Demise https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pek3/scientists-warn-the-un-of-capitalisms-imminent-demise

23andme Data Suggests Genetic Link Between Cannabis Use And Schizophrenia https://www.newsweek.com/data-23andme-genetic-cannabis-schizophrenia-1092043

In Psychology And Other Social Sciences, Many Studies Fail The Reproducibility Test https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/08/27/642218377/in-psychology-and-other-social-sciences-many-studies-fail-the-reproducibility-te

China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/health/china-flu-virus-samples.html

Beluga whales and narwhals go through menopause, too https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/08/27/beluga-whales-narwhals-go-through-menopause-too/?utm_term=.33417069f5cc

A New Trick to Keep Barnacles From Sticking to Ships https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/science/barnacles-ships-coating.html

Yemen cholera epidemic ‘controlled’ by computer predictions https://www.bbc.com/news/health-45259922

The Nuclear Power Plant of the Future May Be Floating Near Russia https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/26/business/energy-environment/russia-floating-nuclear-power.html