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India, the World's Second-Largest Shark Fishery, Banned Shark Finning 27 Aug 2013 | 10:05 pm
Photo: Nicholas Wang/Flickr In an effort to protect endangered sharks as well as better monitor how many and what species are being caught, India has announced a ban on the practice of shark finning....
Japan Is Opening Internet Fasting Camps Because 500,000 Students Are "Pathologically Addicted" 27 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
Image: Flickr Internet addiction is still a festering concern across the world, and Japan, at least, is taking it seriously. Between the fall and spring of last year, researchers at Nihon University ...
The Olinguito Was Found in the Wild the First Day Researchers Went Looking for It 27 Aug 2013 | 09:30 pm
Photo: Mark Gurney/Smithsonian It's been a little over a week since the world was introduced to the olinguito, the world's most recently-described carnivore and the first mammalian carnivore discover...
Not Even a 55-Character Password Is Safe Anymore 27 Aug 2013 | 09:15 pm
Photo via Flickr Passwords are already scorned as an increasingly faulty and antiquated way to protect your private information online. A few guesses can be all it takes to give hackers free reign ov...
Wake Me Up When People Are Sleep Sexting 27 Aug 2013 | 08:55 pm
Photo via BdwayDiva1/Flickr You thought that all you needed to control while you slept was your bladder, it turns out people need to control their fingers too—people are sending texts in their sleep....
Japan's Smart Rocket Is Having Trouble Getting to Space 27 Aug 2013 | 08:40 pm
Japanese engineers working with Epsilon's second and third stage connection, via JAXA Japan's bid to become a bigger force in commercial spaceflight suffered a setback today, when its first new rocke...
Why the U.S. Is Building a High-Tech Bubonic Plague Lab in Kazakhstan 27 Aug 2013 | 08:20 pm
The Central Reference Laboratory, in Almaty, Kazakhstan, is due for completion in 2015 (Photo by Ben Dalton) In 1992, Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov, a biologist from the Soviet Union, boarded a flight in Alm...
US Authorities Receive Data on Tens of Thousands of Facebook Accounts a Year 27 Aug 2013 | 07:30 pm
President Obama on the campaign trail with Mark Zuckerberg in 2011, via Obama's Flickr Facebook released its first-ever government data requests report, and as we've come to expect, the United States...
Now You Can Decorate Your Crappy Apartment with These Glossy Gun Schematics 27 Aug 2013 | 07:05 pm
Some say the classics never die, or go out of style. Just ask Justin Janes, the brains behind LA-based Calibur Prints. As it's name suggest, Calibur designs highly-detailed and "stylistic" rendering....
To Unlock Mars's Wet Past, NASA's Next Orbiter Will Scan the Martian Sky 27 Aug 2013 | 06:40 pm
MAVEN with one solar panel deployed. via When it comes to Mars, we typically get more excited about landers and rovers than orbiters. But there’s an orbiter mission launching later this year that’s g...
