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    Publication Date: 2016-07-15
    Description: In science news around the world, the United States sets final safety regulations for oil and gas drilling in its Arctic waters, Australian researchers announce that the AIDS epidemic in the country is over—but caution that too many people are still being infected with HIV, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration halts a trial of a cancer drug following the deaths of three young adults with leukemia, French researchers sharply criticize the nomination of a policy expert rather than a scientist as the next head of the country's agricultural research institute, and more. Also, an Italian judge clears bird flu expert Ilaria Capua of a series of criminal charges brought against her 2 years ago. And the world's largest population of chinstrap penguins may be in peril because of an erupting volcano on their remote south Atlantic island.
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    Publication Date: 2016-07-22
    Description: In science news around the world, a United Nations panel rules against China's claim to a vast swath of the South China Sea, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research reverses course on its controversial online peer-review system, a U.S. federal appeals court finds that the Navy failed to protect whales from its low-frequency sonar, and researchers at the International Space Station prepare to test a DNA sequencer in orbit. Also, U.K. science and universities minister Jo Johnson keeps his job amid a shakeup in the cabinet, researchers demonstrate single-atom memory storage using chlorine and copper, and scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III unveil the largest 3D map of the universe to date.
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    Publication Date: 2016-07-08
    Description: In science news around the world, NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully enters into orbit around Jupiter, the National Science Foundation's troubled National Ecological Observatory Network gets an additional $35 million, the Wellcome Trust prepares to launch an open-access journal that will publish only research funded by a Wellcome grant, more than 100 Nobel laureates sign a strongly worded letter chastising Greenpeace for its anti-GMO stance, and more. Also, Mexico faces particular challenges in adhering to the agreement it made with the United States and Canada to each generate 50% of their electricity from clean energy sources by 2025. And NASA announces the future of two spacecraft: Dawn will remain in orbit around Ceres, and New Horizons, which visited Pluto in 2015, will venture further to a rendezvous with an icy Kuiper belt object in 2019.
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    Publication Date: 2016-05-06
    Description: In science news around the world, scientists working off the coast of Mexico have drilled into the crater of a dinosaur-killing asteroid, an ExoMars mission to put a rover on the Red Planet has been delayed to 2020, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announces that its x-ray observatory Hitomi cannot be recovered, Italy's troubled geophysics institute gets a new boss, a crowdfunding effort to support a Swedish trial of a prostate cancer drug to treat pedophiles falls short of its target, and more. Also, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers concludes that the 9000-year-old Kennewick Man was Native American. And a Science survey finds that 88% of respondents think it's not wrong to download pirated papers from repositories such as Sci-Hub.
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    Publication Date: 2016-05-27
    Description: In science news around the world, a new U.S. labor law would require more pay for postdocs—or that they receive overtime pay, the World Health Organization determines that yellow fever outbreaks in urban regions of Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo do not yet constitute an international health emergency, South Africa plans to launch a new trial of an HIV vaccine approach that showed modest efficacy 7 years ago in Thailand, the French government is tightening clinical trial rules in the aftermath of the final report about a study that killed one person and landed five others in the hospital earlier this year, U.S. President Barack Obama contends that funding proposals from the Senate and House of Representatives are both insufficient to effectively combat the Zika epidemic, and more. Also, just weeks after the announcement of the privately funded Breakthrough Starshot project to send tiny spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, a U.S. lawmaker urges NASA to develop its own interstellar probes bound for our nearest star neighbor. And dog lovers are flocking to a citizen science project that aims to study the genetic basis of canine behavior.
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    Publication Date: 2016-04-08
    Description: In science news around the world, a killer bat fungus that has afflicted millions of bats in the eastern and midwestern United States jumps to the West Coast, research and educational groups express alarm about a House of Representatives panel's subpoenas for the names of scientists involved in fetal tissue research, Japanese astronomers continue to hunt for signs of the wayward Hitomi x-ray observatory, another Turkish scholar is arrested for signing a petition criticizing the government's treatment of the Kurdish minority group, archaeologists identify a second possible Viking site in North America, and more. Also, a French asthma specialist stands accused of perjury for not disclosing his financial ties to a petrol company during a French Senate inquiry into the costs of air pollution. And Science talks with GlaxoSmithKline CEO Andrew Witty about the pharma giant's plans to make cancer drugs more affordable in the world's poorest countries.
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    Publication Date: 2016-03-25
    Description: In science news around the world, SeaWorld announces that it will no longer breed orcas, China releases its first set of guidelines for the treatment of laboratory animals, a German mortician contracts Lassa fever in the first clear case of the disease's transmission outside of Africa, philanthropist Paul G. Allen launches a new bioscience research initiative, the U.S. National Science Foundation announces that it has indefinitely suspended a program to support museum biological collections, and more. Also corporate executive and leukemia survivor Greg Simon has been tapped to head Vice President Joe Biden's $1 billion "moonshot" to cure cancer. And Egypt's antiquities minister confirms that high-resolution radar scans of the walls of King Tutankhamun's tomb, taken last fall, have identified two hidden chambers.
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    Publication Date: 2016-07-01
    Description: In science news around the world, new U.S. rules on drone operations get a general thumbs up from researchers, a rare and perilous rescue mission of sick workers from the National Science Foundation's South Pole station succeeds, the World Anti-Doping Agency suspends Brazil's Doping Control Laboratory just weeks before the Olympics are set to begin in Rio de Janeiro, the European Commission extends the license of the controversial herbicide glyphosate for another 18 months, and more. Also, Science chats with conservationist Mike Sutton about a November ballot item to legalize the cultivation and sale of marijuana in California. And the International Energy Agency reports that a relatively modest global investment of $4.8 trillion in cleaner energy sources would help prevent millions of deaths due to air pollution in the coming decades.
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    Publication Date: 2016-06-24
    Description: In science news around the world, an independent review of the National Ignition Facility finds that the lab may never reach its titular goal, Australian scientists report that climate change has apparently claimed its first mammal, researchers propose the first trial of the gene-editing tool CRISPR on the human genome, the World Health Organization says that lower doses of yellow fever vaccine can be used in an emergency, and more. Also, environmental DNA holds promise as a new conservation tool for a rare cave salamander in Slovenia. And a new art installation at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, may be the most detailed piece of brain art ever made.
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    Publication Date: 2016-06-10
    Description: In science news around the world, bison fossils reveal when a habitable corridor opened between ice age glaciers in Canada, a group of researchers floats a proposal for a decade-long project to build a human genome from scratch, controversial gene drive technology gets a cautious go-ahead from the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, a successful test of the European Space Agency's LISA Pathfinder spacecraft suggests it's possible to build a gravitational wave detector in space, a poor review of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's Clinical Center leads to an uproar, and more. Also, five new low-cost 3D-printed weather stations come online in Zambia. And microbes turn out to be the engineers behind seafloor structures off a Greek island that resemble the remnants of a "lost city."
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    Publication Date: 2016-06-17
    Description: In science news around the world, traces of several "lost" medieval cities within the forests of Cambodia are revealed by LiDAR, Canada's science minister appoints a nine-member panel to take a close look at the effect of policies instituted under the former prime minister on the country's research institutions, a joint effort by U.K. and Indian researchers launches to study ocean and atmospheric conditions during the Indian monsoon, the U.S. National Institutes of Health begins a self-assessment to determine whether racial biases are affecting how grants are awarded, and more. Also, four new element names are set to be added to the periodic table. And biologists paint pictures with microbes in the American Society for Microbiology's second annual Agar Art competition.
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    Publication Date: 2016-06-03
    Description: In science news around the world, a controversial new study is reviving fears that cellphone radiation may be linked to cancer, a Department of Energy report urges the United States to continue its participation in the international fusion experiment ITER, E.U. member states agree on an ambitious new open-access target, researchers announce that mass bleaching due to a combination of global warming and El Niño conditions has caused large-scale die-offs of corals in the Great Barrier Reef, the French government scraps controversial budget cuts that would affect scientific research following an outcry by some of the country's top scientists, and more. Also, Texas lawmakers wind closer to banning the practice of snake gassing, using gasoline to drive the reptiles from their dens. And on 1 July, biochemist Jeremy Berg will become the next editor-in-chief of Science and its sister journals.
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    Publication Date: 2016-09-09
    Description: In science news around the world, NASA's Juno spacecraft sends its first close-up images of Jupiter, an Austrian archaeological dig at the ancient city of Ephesus is shut down by the Turkish government, the World Health Organization declares Sri Lanka malaria-free, new reports slam Sweden's Karolinska University Hospital and the Karolinska Institute for ignoring warning signs when they hired embattled surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, and more. Also, Oklahoma authorities shut down three dozen wastewater injection wells in the wake of a strong magnitude-5.6 earthquake. And Science chats with Kenyan economist Andrew Mude about his livestock insurance program, for which he won a 2016 Norman Borlaug Award from the World Food Prize.
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    Publication Date: 2016-05-20
    Description: In science news around the world, an atmospheric carbon dioxide station in Australia registers a global milestone, the U.S. launches an initiative to study microbes in all Earth's environments, including the human body, mountain climber Richard Parks cuts short his expedition to the summit of Mount Everest because of health concerns, a study by a U.K.-based company concludes that the country's research will suffer if it leaves the European Union, and more. Also, Science talks with Taiwan's new vice president, severe acute respiratory syndrome hero Chen Chien-jen, and the U.S. National Institutes of Health will replace the director of its Clinical Center following reports of widespread problems with patient safety.
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    Publication Date: 2016-03-18
    Description: In science news around the world, the first part of the two-part ExoMars program is on its way to the Red Planet, Google's DeepMind computer program AlphaGo beats the human world Go champion four games to one, China plans to create its own “Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency," the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announces plans to further limit methane emissions from oil and gas wells, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration green-lights a plan to release mosquitoes in Florida that have been genetically modified to be sterile, and more. Also, German defense minister Ursula von der Leyen, who was accused of plagiarism in her 1990 dissertation, was cleared of misconduct by her degree-granting institution. And a watercolor painting showing the intricate structure of an Ebola virus wins the 2016 Wellcome Image Awards' overall prize.
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    Publication Date: 2016-03-04
    Description: In science news around the world, Indian scientists decry a new spending plan announced by the government, worrisome findings about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa continue to emerge, the first company to bring nanopore DNA sequencing to market is facing a patent infringement lawsuit, a new report overturns preconceptions about the demographics of the average U.S. innovator, a budget crunch at the University of California, Berkeley, might lead to the disbanding of its historic College of Chemistry, and more. Also, controversial surgeon Paolo Macchiarini now faces dismissal from the Stockholm-based Karolinska Institute. And monarch butterfly populations may be slowly rebounding, according to the latest count of butterfly numbers following their winter migration to Mexico.
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    Publication Date: 2016-03-11
    Description: In science news around the world, Brazil begins work on a new year-round Antarctic station to replace a facility destroyed by fire 4 years ago, China plans a big boost to its investment in science as part of its latest 5-year plan, the Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to nix a conditionally approved pesticide after further study, the American Statistical Association weighs in on the proper use of p-values, and more. Also, new research shows that Mercury's ancient crust was made of graphite. And Science chats with Scott Halstead, one of the world's foremost authorities on mosquito-borne viruses, about the likely fate of the Zika virus.
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    Publication Date: 2016-05-13
    Description: In science news around the world, Louisiana's New Iberia Research Center announces it plans to release all 220 of its chimpanzees to a sanctuary, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will regulate e-cigarettes, the Cayman Islands prepare to release genetically modified mosquitoes to combat the Zika virus, the United Kingdom's new polar research ship has an official name—and it isn't Boaty McBoatface—and Mercury's transit across the sun draws audiences to observatories around the world. Also, a new study of global adolescent health from 1990 to 2013 finds, among other results, that HIV/AIDS has replaced drowning as the leading cause of death in 10- to-14-year-olds. And a biotech startup uses genome editing to produce hornless cattle.
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    Publication Date: 2016-04-29
    Description: In science news around the world, the European Commission pledges €1 billion for its third Flagship project, quantum technologies, the German government extends funding for its Excellence Initiative to create a German "Ivy League" indefinitely, an independent report finds that the Mexican government obstructed an investigation into the disappearance of 43 students from a rural teaching college in 2014, the Spanish National Research Council pushes back against lawsuits levied by postdoc and other employees seeking permanent employment, and more. Also, Science talks with Nobel laureate Richard Roberts about an upcoming science diplomacy mission to North Korea. And a sophisticated new wind tunnel constructed at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, aims to capture the details of bird flight—and could help drone engineers design more maneuverable machines.
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    Publication Date: 2016-04-01
    Description: In science news around the world, Japan loses contact with its recently launched ASTRO-H x-ray observatory, a yellow fever outbreak ravages Luanda and depletes the World Health Organization's stockpile of vaccines, Ecuador names its first marine sanctuary around some of the waters of the Galápagos islands, the U.S. House of Representatives budget committee releases a plan that would eliminate the Department of Commerce and curb many research programs at the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation, Japan's Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector begins its first test run, and more. Also, embattled trachea surgeon Paolo Macchiarini is fired from the Karolinska Institute. And a new expedition to climb Mount Everest—a joint effort between a Welsh athlete and the University of South Wales, Pontypridd, in the United Kingdom—gets underway, with an eye to studying the mechanisms that link hypoxia with cognitive decline and dementia.
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    Publication Date: 2016-04-15
    Description: In science news around the world, a severe drought in the Mekong delta sparks concerns about food security in Vietnam, the National Institutes of Health seeks more funds to combat both Zika and Ebola, a Swedish research team begins a clinical trial to assess whether a prostate cancer drug can help prevent pedophilic behavior, scientists worry about the impact of plans for logging in one of Europe's last remaining old-growth forests, the embattled head of Australia's premier research agency defends plans to shift the agency's priorities, and internet billionaire Yuri Miller teams up with physicist Stephen Hawking to announce Breakthrough Starshot, a project to send miniaturized spacecraft to the nearest stars. Also, Science talks with Hugh Possingham, a mathematical ecologist who is set to be the next chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy. And NASA announces that it has regained control of its planet-hunting spacecraft Kepler, after discovering last week that it had placed itself into "emergency mode."
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    Publication Date: 2016-09-07
    Description: In science news around the world, Italian scientists wrestle with how to communicate earthquake risk after a deadly quake last week, the U.S. National Labor Relations Board rules that graduate students at private universities are employees and can unionize, a glacier in the western Tibetan Plateau makes a rapid and mysterious collapse, California boosts its efforts to rein in climate change, the World Health Organization issues new guidelines for treating antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea, and more. Also, an Iran-born physicist who was convicted of espionage in 2012 by an Iranian court has won parole. And the U.S. White House creates the largest marine protected area on the planet.
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    Publication Date: 2016-09-30
    Description: In science news around the world, U.S. officials release new high-resolution digital elevation maps for 94% of the Arctic, China launches a cold atom clock into space, the United Nations unanimously approves a political declaration committing nations to a more active battle against drug-resistant microbes, a Swedish scientist begins trying to edit human embryo DNA, Japan considers pulling the plug on a long-idle experimental nuclear reactor, and more. Also, a "three-parent baby" is the first to be born using a controversial genetic technique to avoid mitochondrial disease. And the 26th annual Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded; among the winners is a man who created prosthetic limbs in order to spend a few days living as a goat.
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    Description: In science news around the world, Kuwaiti leaders chose to revise a controversial law mandating DNA collection from all citizens and visitors, researchers at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, admit they waited to report deaths in a cancer study, two major research institutes in California were set to merge, a researcher from the Pasteur Institute Korea breached French biosafety protocol by bringing samples of the Middle East respiratory virus on an airplane, and more. Also, researchers locate the faulty genetic switch that suppresses limb development in snakes. And Science chats with computational geneticist Yaniv Erlich of the New York Genome Center and Columbia University about his latest project, DNA.land, which aims to tap into the genetic data of up to 3 million people already tested by consumer genetic companies to make the information available to researchers.
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    Description: In science news around the world, scientists celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act—and warn that such international collaboration is needed now more than ever—a private company aiming to send a robotic lander to the moon is the first to receive permission from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to travel out of Earth's orbit, biologists embark on a controversial plan to save Australia's endangered western swamp tortoise by relocating it to a new habitat, Australian scientists are cautiously optimistic about their science minister's “about-face” on climate science, an emergency measure to stretch supplies of yellow fever vaccine is about to be used for the first time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and more. Also, a U.N. group urges nations to establish ways to designate World Heritage Sites in the two-thirds of the world's oceans outside national borders. And new evidence suggests that a “lone hand” was responsible for the elaborate human “missing link” hoax known as the Piltdown Man.
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    Description: In science news around the world, a survey of citizens of 66 countries reveals that the French are the least confident in the safety of vaccines, a U.S. National Institutes of Health workshop on the ethics of nonhuman primate research draws both cheers and boos, critics worry that a planned new Nobel Center in Stockholm will ruin the city's skyline, global supplies of the vital medical research isotope molybdenum-99 may soon dwindle, a Chinese Nobel laureate and particle physicist comes out strongly against the country's plans to build a giant new supercollider, and more. Also, Science discusses artificial intelligence and the possibility of seeding alien worlds with life with theoretical physicist Claudius Gros. And U.S. presidential candidates respond to 20 questions about science issues posed by ScienceDebate.org.
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    Description: In science news around the world, a new containment structure slides into place over a Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant reactor, scientists in Argentina brace for budget cuts in 2017, a new report finds that harm reduction strategies for illegal drug injectors are underused, a U.K. parliamentary committee warns that the government needs to ensure that research is at the center of Brexit negotiations, and the U.S. Surgeon General calls for accelerating research on alcohol and drug addiction. Also, Science discusses censorship research with computer scientist Phillipa Gill of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. And a new interactive visualization tool lets users monitor air pollution around the planet in real time.
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    Description: In science news around the world, the European Space Agency's funders give the second half of the ExoMars mission a go but kill the Asteroid Impact Mission, the hunt for gravitational waves resumes, Indonesia's government issues a permanent ban on converting peatlands for agriculture, and the U.S. Congress is poised to make a deal on legislation that determines how the National Science Foundation will fund research proposals. Also, scientists prepare to investigate the aftermath of fires that raged through the southern Appalachian Mountains last month. And a chunk of amber picked up in a Myanmar market turns out to contain an unusual treasure: a feathered dinosaur tail.
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    Description: In science news around the world, a new study finds that hundreds of mammals around the world are now being hunted to extinction, the U.S. Department of the Treasury authorizes U.S. biomedical and public health scientists to freely collaborate with their Cuban counterparts, U.K. scientists debate a controversial bill that would set up an organization to oversee the country's research funding, Brazilian scientists worry over how a pending constitutional amendment capping public spending will affect science research, and world leaders meet in Rwanda and agree to curb the use of hydrofluorocarbons. Also, a silica-rich ocean may have helped fossilize the enigmatic Ediacara biota. And an experiment in the Bolivian Andes suggests that blood cells change shape at high altitude to cope with low-oxygen conditions.
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    Description: In science news around the world, a report finds that the United States lags behind many countries in available psychiatric beds, an analysis of clinical trial records finds that results from nearly half of trials finished between 2006 and 2014 go unreported, Luxembourg makes a deal with a startup company to explore asteroid mining, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report the presence of a deadly fungus in the United States, and more. Also, a dietary supplement company loses its libel case against a physician who investigates illegal ingredients in supplements. And Science talks with Ron Howard, executive producer of MARS, an upcoming TV show that is a hybrid of documentary and dramatization.
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    Description: In science news around the world, U.S. President Barack Obama signs a continuing resolution that freezes government spending through April 2017 at U.S. agencies but spares some research-related projects, the United States signs a mammoth biomedical bill into law this week that could portend major changes for how the Food and Drug Administration evaluates stem cell therapies, U.K. biologists and ethicists debate whether human embryos should be cultured in the lab beyond 14 days after fertilization, PubPeer scores a key win in its legal battle with a researcher who claims anonymous comments on its website sullied his reputation, scientists employed by the Canadian government successfully negotiate a clause in their contracts that guarantees their right to speak to the public and the media without seeking approval first, and more. Also, a prominent French physicist and popularizer of science stands accused of plagiarism. And two new studies, one in Colombia and one in Brazil, strengthen the link between Zika virus infection of pregnant women and a range of serious birth defects.
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    Description: In science news around the world, the United States designates a region of sea canyons and submerged mountains off the coast of Massachusetts as its first national marine monument in the Atlantic Ocean, the European Commission proposes loosening rules to make it easier for researchers to mine data and text from copyrighted papers, the National Football League plans to fund $40 million in new medical research on head trauma over the next 5 years, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awards its first pilot contracts for commercial weather satellites, and more. Also, the University of Tokyo prepares to investigate anonymous claims that numerous papers by six university research groups included fabricated or falsified data. And new research finds a link between a medieval pope's edict and plump modern chickens.
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    Description: In science news around the world, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft sends its final pictures as it descends to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, an Italian official charged with manslaughter in connection with the deadly 2009 L'Aquila earthquake is acquitted, members of the U.S. House of Representatives urge the Food and Drug Administration to allow scientists more time to study a controversial chronic pain remedy before banning it, and Canada's prime minister announces plans for a nationwide tax on carbon emissions. Also, a new Pew Research Center report finds that political ideology shapes how much U.S. citizens trust climate researchers and their findings. And the U.S. Congress passes a 10-week budget extension, temporarily avoiding a shutdown and also providing $1.1 billion to combat the Zika virus.
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    Description: In science news around the world, a powerful magnitude-7.8 earthquake on a little studied fault in New Zealand rattles experts, the Indian Council of Medical Research deregisters a controversial trial that seeks to revive brain-dead accident victims, the Canadian government will issue an open call for nominations for a new science adviser for the country, Canary Islands researchers are stymied by a ban on transporting research animals instituted by two Spanish airlines, and more. Also, Science chats with a linguist to get their take on the new sci-fi blockbuster Arrival. And we summarize last week's voting results on science-related ballot initiatives around the United States.
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