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Why Birds Are Igniting Midair Over California
(Newser) - A cutting-edge solar technology in California's Mojave Desert may have a bit too much cut. Wildlife officials say they've counted one bird being scorched to death every two minutes by intensely focused rays of light at the BrightSource Energy plant, considered the largest solar thermal power plant of... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Feds: Slaughterhouse Swapped Heads to Fool Inspectors
(Newser) - Workers at the Rancho Feeding Corp. were up to something pretty stomach-churning while inspectors were on their lunch break, according to a federal indictment: They slaughtered cows with eye cancer, hid the heads in gut bins, and placed the heads of healthy cows next to the carcasses. The co-owners and... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Iceland Volcano May Threaten Flights
(Newser) - Four years after Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano seriously disrupted aviation , another tongue-twister may be set to blow. Iceland's meteorological office says the area around the Bardarbunga volcano has experienced its strongest earthquake since 1996 and there is a chance the "current activity will result in an explosive subglacial... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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The Next Trend? Try a 'Facekini'
(Newser) - Looking for hot new beachwear before the summer fades away? Then you might—or, let's face it, might not—try a facekini, one of those colorful masks that drew attention on Chinese beaches in 2012, Global Post reports. What first looks like a pastel terrorist hood has actually been... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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How Smartphones Could Someday Correct Your Vision
(Newser) - If you're blind as a bat with Coke-bottle glasses, there may be hope for you—new research out of MIT could make it easier to read your tablet, smartphone, or eReader, LiveScience reports. Scientists there have developed a transparent "vision-correcting display" that goes on the screen of an... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology, Science.
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Jesus Statue Has Actual Human Teeth
(Newser) - A 300-year-old statue of Jesus seems ordinary except for one little thing: It has real human teeth, LiveScience reports. "We said 'Ah, it's not possible!'" said Fanny Unikel Santoncini, who was restoring the statue from a small-town parish in Mexico. But her anthropologist spotted the... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Report: Raising Today's Child Tops $245K
(Newser) - A child born in 2013 will cost a middle-income American family an average of $245,340 until he or she becomes an adult, with families living in the Northeast taking on a greater burden, according to a report out today. Those costs—food, housing, childcare, and education—rose 1.8%... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money, Lifestyle.
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Hackers Hit Hospital Network, 4.5M Patients' Data
(Newser) - Hackers hit Community Health Systems, a company that operates 206 hospitals across the United States, accessing the records of some 4.5 million patients, reports CNN . What they got, as per the AP : patient names, addresses, birthdates, and phone and Social Security numbers. That affects anyone treated at any location... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Bezos-Owned Washington Post Asks Readers to 'Buy It Now'
(Newser) - About a year ago, Amazon boss Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post —and this weekend, Post readers noticed something unusual. Mentions of books in Post articles featured a button within the text allowing readers to "buy it now" from Amazon, Mashable reports. Several such buttons appeared, for instance,... More » Newser located this story for you on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money, Technology.
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