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Now arriving: airport control towers with no humans inside

2015-09-14 21:40:08| Appliances - Topix.net

In this April 2015 photo provided by Saab AB, a plane takes off beyond a remotely controlled control tower at Ornskoldsvik Airport in northern Sweden. The dozen commercial planes that land here each day are guided in by controllers using video cameras at another airport 90 miles away.

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Are modern humans really losing DNA?

2015-09-14 17:28:21| Extremetech

A curious new paper appears to suggest that our ancestral hominin forebears -- human forebears -- had more DNA than we do now. Are geneticists really in a position to make claims like that when there are still huge gaps in our understanding of our own species evolution?

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Humans to Blame for Catastrophic Drought in California, Scientists Say

2015-08-28 16:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate News Network: One way or another, humans are to blame for the catastrophic drought in California that scientists say may be emerging as a new normal. Either humans have mismanaged the states water or human-triggered global warming has begun to help turn Americas landscape of wine and roses into a dustbowl, according to two new studies. And the arguments have relevance extending far beyond the U.S. west, as the European Drought Observatory has warned that much of mainland Europe is now caught up in the continents...

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If All the Bees in the World Die, What Would Happen to Humans?

2015-07-28 16:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: Bees play such a crucial role in our ecosystem. Some even claim if they go extinct, we would be next. Colony Collapse Disorderthe name given to the mass die off in bee populationsis a grave problem. In May, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that the U.S. honeybee population plummeted by more than 40 percent in the last year. Many groups have called for a global ban on the class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, or neonics, which have been linked to the mass die off in bees. President...

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