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Twitter Adds 'Hide Reply' Function To Try To Improve Online Conversation
From now on, users can hide all manner of unwanted tweets — from the slightly irksome to the totally offensive. -
Amazon Appeals Pentagon's Choice Of Microsoft For $10 Billion Cloud Contract
Amazon cited "unmistakable bias" as it prepares to challenge its loss in federal court. This starts a new chapter in the contentious battle over the biggest U.S. cloud-computing contract, called JEDI. -
Bats On Martha's Vineyard Are Surviving White-Nose Syndrome
Researchers hope coastal populations could help rebuild devastated bat colonies elsewhere. -
Silver-Backed Chevrotain, With Fangs And Hooves, Photographed In Wild For First Time
Scientists say their goal was to rediscover a type of chevrotain that had been "lost to science" for nearly 30 years. Chevrotains are the world's smallest hoofed mammal, or ungulate. -
Harvard's Michael Norton Talks 'Secret Menu' Phenomenon
The Harvard Business School Professor says customers love pseudo-secrets as much as the real thing. -
CRISPR Approach To Fighting Cancer Called 'Promising' In 1st Safety Test
Attempts to use the gene-editing tool CRISPR to develop a treatment for cancer seem safe and feasible in the earliest findings from the first three patients. "So far, so good," scientists say. -
How Virtual Reality Is Providing Comfort To Elderly Hospice Patients And Others
Why senior living is embracing VR. -
Millions More At Risk Because Of Sea Level Rise Than Previously Thought, New Research Shows
The old ground-level estimate, which used satellites, mistook the tops of trees and buildings as the ground. -
Astronaut Casts Pennsylvania Absentee Ballot From Space
Voting absentee means no excuses not to vote...really. -
US Defunds Science Program Dedicated To Protecting Humans From Lethal Diseases
The program Predict will be shut down by the federal government, sparking criticism.