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Saturday, October 25, 2014

5 Most Incredible Discoveries of the Week (Newser Daily Digest)

5 Most Incredible Discoveries of the Week

(Newser) - A dinosaur with "horrible" hands and an ancient Ukrainian temple make the list: Docs Transplant 'Dead Hearts' Into 3 Patients : An Australian heart transplant unit has been toiling for 20 years to transplant a "dead heart" (one that's not still beating in a brain-dead donor) into... More »

Newser located this story for you on Saturday, October 25, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.

Scientist Kills Spider, Gets Death Threats

(Newser) - The killing of a spider doesn't normally trigger death threats, but it does apparently if the spider's demise makes national headlines. Harvard researcher Piotr Naskrecki found this out the hard way after his account of finding a spider the size of a puppy in Guyana went viral earlier... More »

Newser located this story for you on Saturday, October 25, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.

Giant Snake Has Virgin Birth

(Newser) - Sorry, gents, you might be getting phased out of the reproduction loop—at least when it comes to the world's longest snakes. Thelma, a 200-pound, 20-foot-long reticulated python who lives at Kentucky's Louisville Zoo with her female roommate Louise, gave birth in 2012 to six female babies. This... More »

Newser located this story for you on Saturday, October 25, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.

Antarctic Thaw Reveals Explorer's 100-Year-Old Journal

(Newser) - Surgeon, zoologist, and photographer George Murray Levick took part in a 1910-1913 Antarctic expedition as part of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's crew, and while Scott perished on a journey back from the South Pole, Levick made it off the continent alive. He didn't accompany Scott to the pole,... More »

Newser located this story for you on Saturday, October 25, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.

Only One Thing May Force Jeff Bezos to Calm Down

(Newser) - Amazon stock tanked yesterday after a lousy quarterly earnings report, and the big question is whether this reality check will change the way Jeff Bezos operates, writes Brad Stone at Bloomberg Businessweek . The company "is spending wildly on new initiatives": everything from new "fulfillment centers" to grocery deliveries... More »

Newser located this story for you on Saturday, October 25, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.

What the Queen's First Tweet Said

(Newser) - Queen Elizabeth II has sent her first tweet —though not from a personal Twitter account, and it's unclear if she even personally wrote it. Today's course of events: While opening a new gallery in central London's Science Museum, the 88-year-old monarch removed a glove and used... More »

Newser located this story for you on Saturday, October 25, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.

Facebook Goes '90s With Chat 'Rooms' App

(Newser) - Facebook's "anonymity" app is finally revealed, and as PC Magazine reports, it's "a throwback to the popular chat rooms of the mid-90s"—with a few modern updates. The Rooms app , currently available only for iPhone, lets users create rooms to chat about whatever interests them.... More »

Newser located this story for you on Saturday, October 25, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.

Anonymous Bidder Wants to Buy 6K Detroit Properties

(Newser) - Someone in Detroit really wants the city's rundown residences—thousands of them. A mystery bidder has offered $3.2 million to scoop up a huge batch of foreclosures (many of them due to owed taxes) in an open auction held by Wayne County, Businessweek reports. The county, which is... More »

Newser located this story for you on Saturday, October 25, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.

Guy Beat by Police Gets $1K, Lawyers Get $459K

(Newser) - Anthony Warren doesn't have much to show for his five-year legal battle with police. The Alabama man ran over an officer during a 20-minute high-speed chase back in 2008 before he crashed and was thrown from the vehicle. It was at that point, however, that an officer's dash... More »

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Whales Got So Big After Super-Sized Shark Died Out

(Newser) - Great white sharks have nothing on the ancient megalodon, which grew up to 50 feet in length and sported teeth as long as 7 inches. And now scientists have their firmest timeframe yet for when the creature went extinct. Scientists at the University of Florida in Gainesville report this week... More »

Newser located this story for you on Saturday, October 25, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.

Guns OK in Nebraska Senior Photos If 'Tasteful'

(Newser) - It's a new twist on the guns-in-schools debate: A district in central Nebraska has told seniors it's OK to pose with firearms in their senior portraits, which are taken off campus. The students in the Broken Bow district, however, have to abide by a few rules, reports the... More »

Newser located this story for you on Saturday, October 25, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.

Easter Islanders Not as Isolated as Thought

(Newser) - Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, is such a remote speck of rock in the Pacific Ocean that it has been nicknamed "navel of the world." Yet a review of genetic data of 27 natives suggests the islanders made contact with outsiders hundreds of years before the first Europeans... More »

Newser located this story for you on Saturday, October 25, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.