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Powerful New Antibiotic Could Crush Superbugs
(Newser) - Are superbugs about to meet their match? There hasn't been a major new antibiotic discovered in 25 years, but researchers say a drug called teixobactin that has been extracted from dirt in Maine could be the biggest breakthrough in a generation, Fast Company reports. The experimental drug has so... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, January 8, 2015 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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App Tells You When Your Breath Stinks
(Newser) - Sticking a sensor into your mouth to calculate your hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen disulfide, and methyl mercaptan levels may sound at first like something you'd see in a sci-fi movie or in NASA astronaut training, but it's actually designed for a more practical, everyday purpose: to measure how bad... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, January 8, 2015 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Couple Married 69 Years Dies 8 Hours Apart
(Newser) - It's another uncanny story about an elderly couple dying just hours apart : In this case, 88-year-old Gene Warrington died on Dec. 27, and his wife of 69 years, Pat, followed eight hours later, reports the Advertiser-Tribune of Tiffin, Ohio. Both had been in hospice, and son Phil tells AP... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, January 8, 2015 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Lifestyle.
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NYC Relents, Lets Kids Bring Phones to School
(Newser) - New York City's school teachers might want to check themselves into detention because the city is ending its ban on cell-phone-wielding schoolkids, clearing the way for some 1.1 million students to skip into class with iPhones in tow. Well, sort of: As the New York Daily News reports,... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, January 8, 2015 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology, Lifestyle.
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Machine Turns Poop Into Drinking Water
(Newser) - Poop isn't just poop, not if you're creative and dedicated to solving the world's sanitation problems. Now, thanks to a machine called the OmniProcessor, fecal matter can become clean water and electricity. "The water tasted as good as any I’ve had out of a bottle.... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, January 8, 2015 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Look Out, Internet: We Gain a 'Leap Second' This Year
(Newser) - The powers that be in the world of time management have decreed that the world needs to gain an extra second this year. More precisely, the folks at the International Earth Rotation Service in Paris have decided to add one second to June 30, 2015, to sync our atomic clocks... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, January 8, 2015 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Billionaire's Ex Rejects Check for Nearly $1B
(Newser) - If nothing else, the not-so-amicable divorce negotiations between oil tycoon Harold Hamm and ex-wife Sue Ann Arnall have produced one of the most remarkable checks you'll ever see. On Jan. 5, the CEO of Continental Resources wrote one out to Arnall for $974,790,317.77, reports CNNMoney . Arnall,... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, January 8, 2015 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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2.4K Old-School MS-DOS Games Are Now Online
(Newser) - "Prince of Persia," "Oregon Trail," and "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?" are once again ours for the playing—but this time, they're on the Web. The Internet Archive, purveyor of "universal access to all knowledge" through portals such as the Wayback... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, January 8, 2015 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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In an Order of McDonald's Fries, a Human Tooth
(Newser) - Things you don't expect to hear from McDonald's: There is no indication that a human tooth found in an order of fries was fried. That from the fast-food giant's Japan unit, which has been digging into the discovery of the tooth, which turned up in an order... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, January 8, 2015 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Money.
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Sun's Activity During Birth Could Affect Your Death
(Newser) - If the sun was calm when you were born, you might look forward to a longer life than someone born in a period of high solar activity. The sun's cycles last about 11 years, typically including three years of "solar maximum"—when activity like solar flares, sunspots,... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, January 8, 2015 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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Stockbroker Loses Job Over Hit-and-Run 'Joke'
(Newser) - Humor is all about knowing your audience, and 21-year-old Brit Rayhan Qadar apparently didn't really know his. The stockbroker made an ill-advised "joke" on Twitter Monday morning and lost his job over it. The offending tweet (his account is now private, CNET notes): "Think I just hit... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, January 8, 2015 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Technology.
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Why Colds Are More Common in the Cold
(Newser) - That old wives' tale about catching a cold in the cold may have some truth to it, according to new research out of Yale. While the common cold is still caused by viruses and not actual cold temperatures, it turns out that our immune systems become weaker when our noses... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, January 8, 2015 7:03 AM. The story matched your section(s) Science.
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