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Plants Suck Up More CO2 Than Thought
(Newser) - Some rare good news in the fight against climate change: Plants are an even greater ally than we knew, absorbing around 16% more carbon than previously thought, according to new research. University of Texas researchers took a fresh look at climate models and at how CO2 is absorbed by plants,... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Home Buyers Pay Extra $120K for Family's Cat
(Newser) - It's difficult to put a price on a family's love for their cat, unless you're in Australia, where $122,000 seems to do the trick. A buyer bid that amount over the asking price for a home valued at about $2 million—as long as the owners... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money, Lifestyle.
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Archaeologists Find Rare Iron Age Chariot Parts
(Newser) - Archaeologists digging around the site of an ancient community in England have made what one calls a "once-in-a-career discovery"—bronze fittings from a chariot dating back to the Iron Age, reports LiveScience . The intricately designed pieces were crafted around the second or third century BC and seem to... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Why You Should Stop Being a Voicemail Hater
(Newser) - Like many people under 40, Leslie Horn used to hate voicemail. Why not just text, or let the "missed call speak for itself"? But after her dad died unexpectedly in July, she changed her tune, and she explains why on Gizmodo . After his death, her phone rang constantly,... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology, Lifestyle.
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Hackers Exploited Windows Flaw to Spy
(Newser) - Microsoft is releasing a patch today to fix a vulnerability in its Windows OS—but not before a cyberespionage campaign against Ukrainian government employees and an American expert on Russia took place. According to the iSight cyberintelligence firm, which discovered the bug last month, hackers sent malicious PowerPoints to users... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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78-Year-Old Man's Obituary Opens With Penis Joke
(Newser) - With a name like Howard Cocks Dickinson IV, it's no wonder this New Hampshire man's obituary opens with a penis joke. "He walked through heaven's gate 'prick first,' just as he would have wanted," reads the obituary in the Conway Daily Sun . It... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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It's Time to Destroy Nerd Culture
(Newser) - Pete Warden is a self-described nerd with two decades in the computer industry to back up the claim. In an essay at Quartz , however, he no longer sounds very proud of it. Nerds, he points out, just aren't what they used to be. Twenty years ago, they were the... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Bay Area Due for Seriously Big Earthquake: Scientists
(Newser) - At least three major faults in the San Francisco Bay Area seem to be stuck—and when they come unstuck, they could wreak major havoc, NBC News reports. There's an almost 70% chance that one of four "locked" sections of the Hayward, Rodgers Creek, and Green Valley faults... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Ohio Groom Killed in Crash Just Hours After Wedding
(Newser) - On Sunday, Andrew Bloomfield married his bride. "Three hours later or so," the Ohio 27-year-old was dead and his new wife hospitalized. Bloomfield, wife Ruth Driskill, and friends Elizabeth Shelton and Timothy Tebbe had driven to Tebbe's house and, per the AP , were en route back to... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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New Hermaphrodite Snail Gets Unusual Name
(Newser) - Scientists in Taiwan snuck in a nod to gay marriage when they named a snail that was newly identified on the island. The mollusks, which are hermaphrodites and thus possess both male and female reproductive organs, have for years been mistaken for A. subchinensis, a closely related land snail discovered... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Apple, Facebook Perk: Egg-Freezing Coverage
(Newser) - Silicon Valley already leads in tech innovation—why shouldn't it lead in procreation, too? Facebook has expanded employee coverage to include egg freezing, and Apple will start providing similar coverage in January, company reps tell NBC News . Both companies—thought to be the "first major employers to offer... More » Newser located this story for you on Wednesday, October 15, 2014 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology, Lifestyle.
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