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Arctic Warming Produces Mosquito Swarms Large Enough Kill Baby Caribou
2015-09-16 17:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Some Alaskans joke that mosquitoes are "Alaska`s state bird," but the pesky insects are becoming no joke. Warming Arctic temperatures have caused their numbers to swell immensely in the region in recent years. Lauren Culler has been studying insects in Greenland for the last several years. Culler, a postdoctoral researcher for Dartmouth Colleges Institute of Arctic Studies, along with a team of researchers published a study yesterday in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Why the Arctic's mosquito...
Researchers hack a pacemaker, kill a man
2015-09-08 19:23:43| Wireless - Topix.net
Researchers decided you don't need to be a pen tester to wirelessly hack a pacemaker, to successfully launch brute force and denial of service attacks that can kill iStan simulated humans. It's not every day that a person would come home from their university class and say, "Today I wirelessly hacked a pacemaker and killed the patient.
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As Others See It: Let the free market kill coal
2015-09-02 13:04:46| Energy - Topix.net
Coal-fired electricity is becoming ever less profitable. That's the good news - or it should be, since it gives power companies greater incentive to embrace cleaner and cheaper sources of energy.
Sugarcane conditions kill: The deadly epidemic confectioners and soft ...
2015-08-29 04:24:12| Beverages - Topix.net
'It requires as much energy as running a half marathon everday for six days a week' - Sugarcane cutters of Central America face deadly epidemic, says Solidaridad. Photo credit: Ed Kashi Perilous working conditions for sugarcane growers in Central America have claimed around 20,000 lives in the past decade and supply chain advisor Solidaridad says the food and drink industry can no longer ignore the epidemic.
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There is no asteroid coming to kill us all: NASA
2015-08-21 17:00:39| Extremetech
Such is the world we live in these days that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration feels the need to issue an official statement on how we're all not going to die in an Earth-shattering collision with a giant asteroid next month.
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