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Senator Obama and Senator McCain’s Science Debate answers demonstrate two very different ways of tackling this subject. McCain’s answer says nothing about any potential medical benefits of stem cell research, while Obama’s answer begins by laying out possible advances that could result before he explains his position on the issue. However, these answers resemble the candidates’ party’s lines more than their voting history. Legislation regarding stem cells first began to appear in the Senate in 2000 with S 2015, the Stem Cell Research Act of 2000....

Anker’s Alexa-enabled Roav VIVA is a smart speaker and charger for your car that plugs into the cigarette lighter. Ask it to play music, order food, or get directions. It has two USB chargers, so you can keep your phone juiced while driving. Connect it to your car via Bluetooth, Carplay, Android Auto, AUX-Out, or FM transmission. The Ainope charger is basically the size of your thumb, so it will be discreet in your car’s power socket....

Some secrets are darker than others. If you eat one scoop too many and don’t want your roommates to find out, lock up the evidence. This Euphori-Lock Ben & Jerry’s pint protector is a two piece security system that comes with a pre-programmed three digital combination. $36. These 27-inch screen protectors limit how the viewing angle of your computer screen. If a snoopy coworker is trying peek at your screen from beside you, they will only see black....

The 12min Micro Book Library supplies access to nearly 2,000 micro books spanning 24 different categories, with each requiring only 12 minutes to complete. A lifetime subscription to this package typically costs $399 but, for a limited time, it’s available at only $31.20 when you use coupon code 12MIN through Oct 15. Each month, 30 new titles are added to your library, so it’s always expanding and ever-evolving across various categories....

Prepping instruments for surgery might sound like an afterthought compared to surgery itself, but it is critical to any operation. Errors can lead to delays during surgery and potential patient harm, and improper sterilization–well, improper sterilization can cost lives (as well as lots and lots of money in unnecessary patient recovery time caused by infections that could’ve been prevented). As such, highly-trained surgical staff are generally in charge of inspecting, cleaning, and counting surgical tools by hand, a time-consuming chore that is inefficient (it can slow down the operating schedule) and susceptible to human error....

Talking to my parent friends, this struggle isn’t unique to my family. So many of us, overwhelmed by never-ending housework, need strategies to get the little ones to participate without the added stress of a fight every time we ask. Some days it seems easier to do the work ourselves than to convince the kids to help. While we may never teach our children to love doing the dishes, there are strategies psychologists and parenting experts recommend to help them understand the importance of building habits that will stay with them their whole lives....

Apart from the implications for health, biofilms have also been blamed for the rise in antibiotic resistance. The thick nature of the community inadvertently allows many members to experience lower concentrations of the drug allowing them the time to evolve and eventually tolerate the attack. Biofilm-mediated resistance as it is now known has become so troublesome that antibiotic discovery pipelines must now take this phenomenon into consideration. Controlling a biofilm is not easy....

You could use one of those fancy side-scan sonar depthfinders with the new underwater fish-eye orthographic readouts. Or you could go cut a switch of bamboo and do a little cane-pole fishing. If you choose the latter, a decent cane pole is as close as the nearest stand of bamboo. Everyday ordinary, backyard bamboo works just fine for panfish, bass, and small catfish. Make a cane pole our way, with the line anchored to the pole along its entire length, and you’ll be able to land anything that doesn’t pull you into the pond first....

Google recently showcased one of its newest projects courtesy of its partnership with Everyday Robots, a company originating within Alphabet Inc.’s X division tasked with researching “moonshot” projects such as computational agriculture and atmospheric water harvesting. Based on technology similar to what is fueling the recent wave of buzz-worthy chatbots like OpenAI’s GPT-3 text generator, Everyday Robots’ assistant utilizes Google’s advanced Pathways Language Model (PaLM) system to parse user inputs using vast troves of speech data culled from the internet and human interactions....

The fact that we can learn the story of a 22-year-old goose today is due to a large effort to digitize millions of avian profiles from paper and microfilm. Contractors did much of the labor, but a group of college-aged students also played a significant role by uploading 500,000 Bird Banding Laboratory records. The contractors made $1 per record. The students, who were autistic, earned nothing. Launched in 2012, the USGS STEP-UP program uses students on the spectrum for a myriad of projects, including typing up records from tagged birds, sorting microfossils, identifying species on trail-cam era images, cataloging rock cuttings, and more....

Samsung 55-inch The Frame QLED 4K Smart TV $1,000 (Was $1,500) For those with an aesthetic eye that don’t want to sacrifice valuable wall space for the black void of a turned-off TV screen, the Frame from Samsung is a wonderful way to incorporate art and entertainment in one. The Art Mode allows you to display over 1,400 pieces of classic art—so this TV can truly suit any design or decor....

2006 January Making a Perfect Match How do you create a mixture that can easily burst into flames, but only when you want? Just use one of the most unstable mixtures on Earth, plus Elmer’s glue March Save a Snowflake for Decades Create a lasting cast of nature’s perfect crystals with a drop of chilled superglue April Nickel Growing in TreesElectroplating makes bumpers shiny and rustproof. It also makes these beautiful bits of industrial waste...

I’ve been a fake-gold fan ever since author Damien Lewis wrote me into his 2007 spy thriller, Cobra Gold. My supposed experience making fake gold was pure fiction, yet I’m still treated as a source on the matter. I decided it’s time to call my own bluff and make some real bogus bullion. Instead of a 10-ounce ingot, I cast a two-kilogram (4.4-pound) fake the size of a Twinkie cake....

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A team of astronomers identified two small, bright stars called hot subdwarfs that had an as-of-yet unseen makeup. Another research group found a mechanism to explain how these kinds of stars could have formed. The two strange stars were “the first of their kind” to be identified and must be extremely rare, says Marcelo Miller Bertolami, an astrophysicist at the Institute of Astrophysics in La Plata, Argentina, who led the theoretical study on how such stars might form, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomy Society....

The pilot of the stealth fighter jet “was focused on their situation display and over-banked the aircraft to 135 degrees angle of bank and began to accelerate rapidly as the nose continued to fall,” the Air Force Safety Center reported. When the aircraft was at an altitude of 13,520 feet above sea level, with its nose pointed downwards, traveling at a speed of about 600 mph, a software system onboard the aircraft “initiated an automatic fly-up” and steered the fighter jet out of its descent....

In analyzing 50 years of data, researchers studying southern right whale population dynamics have discovered a concerning link between these whale populations and El Niño events. In these years, whale mortality rates increase, potentially disrupting recovery from decades of whaling. This loss could cause massive ripple effects, especially as climate change makes El Niño events more intense. “[These whales] have very critical roles in the ecosystem,” says Macarena Agrelo, the lead author on the study....

It might feel like there are more science skeptics than science enthusiasts in the world, especially if you spend a lot of time on social media. 3M’s 2019 State of Science Index (SOSI) survey has conflicting results. After surveying 14,025 people from 14 developed and emerging countries, 3M found that, while one in three people are skeptical of science, there’s also a lot of excitement about scientific innovation. Questions included in the State of Science Index ranged from how people feel about scientific and technological innovations like robots and self-driving cars to how science affects their daily lives....

That’s why Kelly posted it there. It was a huge hit, with over 19,300 likes at the time of this article. NASA has only been on Instagram since September 2013, but it has amassed over 4.6 million followers on its flagship account, in a little over two years. With images like the one above, it isn’t hard to see why. “Space is interesting to lots of different people, for lots of different reasons,” says NASA Press Secretary Lauren B....

Transforming and moving energy is an inefficient process. About 75 percent is lost when cars and planes convert fossil fuel to motion, and 68 percent when plants convert it to electricity and transmit it across the nation’s 160,000 miles of high voltage lines. Fossil fuels (mostly coal) generate nearly 70 percent of the electricity we use. The rest comes from nuclear power (20 percent) and renewable resources (10 percent.) Check out how power in the U....