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Water Pollution

[ASAP] Synthesis of Dual-Functional and Robust Underwater Superoleophobic Interfaces

Fish-scale-mimicked super oil-repelling wettability that functions under water has emerged as an important avenue for developing various functional materials. Mainly, polymeric hydrogel, brittle metal oxides, and electrostatic multilayers have been utilized f…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Food Industry

For salmonella detection, genomic tool emerges as a key

ITHACA, N.Y. - The world's food supply will become safer as the food industry shifts to high-resolution, whole-genome sequencing - which examines the full DNA of a given organism all at once. This move to make sequencing ubiquitous will lead to the consistent…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

SoftBank’s transformation into an investment powerhouse continues

MASAYOSHI SON, the founder of SoftBank, a Japanese telecoms firm turned tech investor, will not have had many more momentous days. First came the announcement of plans for a second Vision fund, whose expected capital contributions of $108bn will make it the l…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

Brexit clashes begin as UK’s Boris Johnson pushes a hard line

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks at the House of Commons in London. (Reuters) Written by Stephen Castle The bombastic new British prime minister, Boris Johnson, was never likely to offer an olive branch to the European Union that he promises to…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

Night of the Full Moon

"Night of the Full Moon" is a stand-alone card game. There is no mandatory beginners guide, no internet connection, no brush map, no ten strokes. The plot will be played in the card battle. Each NPC and BOSS are given a mission and a temperament. Different ch…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Monsanto

U.S. judge slashes $2B verdict against Bayer to $86M in Roundup case

A California judge on Thursday reduced a $2 billion US jury verdict, slashing the award for a couple who blamed Bayer AG's glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup for their cancer to $86.7 million US. Superior Court Judge Winifred Smith of the California Superi…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Doping in Cycling

How Tour de France — the biggest race on earth — is dealing with the heatwave

By Lawrence OstlereIt’s halfway through the stage, and Team Ineos have a problem. Geraint Thomas’s earpiece crackles with news from a team car behind: “We’ve run out of bidons,” he’s told. You know conditions are bad when the world’s most meticulous sports te…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Hiroshima

LUCKY AGAIN! 328-feet-wide asteroid 2019 OK came very close to Earth HOURS ago but did not collide – News Nation

On Thursday early morning, Earth had yet another close encounter with a giant asteroid. Yes, you read it right. Well, we were fortunate that the space rock named ‘2019 OK’ did not collide with Earth and just went past through our planet. A 328-feet-wide aster…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Monsanto

In Roundup case, U.S. judge cuts $2 billion verdict against Bayer to $86 million

(Reuters) - A California judge on Thursday reduced a $2 billion jury verdict, slashing the award for a couple who blamed Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup for their cancer to $86.7 million. Superior Court Judge Winifred Smith of the California…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Monsanto

In Roundup case, U.S. judge cuts $2 billion verdict against Bayer to $86 million

By Tina Bellon (Reuters) - A California judge on Thursday reduced a $2 billion jury verdict, slashing the award for a couple who blamed Bayer AG's glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup for their cancer to $86.7 million. Superior Court Judge …

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

[ASAP] Synthesis of Dual-Functional and Robust Underwater Superoleophobic Interfaces

For salmonella detection, genomic tool emerges as a key

SoftBank’s transformation into an investment powerhouse continues

Brexit clashes begin as UK’s Boris Johnson pushes a hard line

Night of the Full Moon

U.S. judge slashes $2B verdict against Bayer to $86M in Roundup case

How Tour de France — the biggest race on earth — is dealing with the heatwave

LUCKY AGAIN! 328-feet-wide asteroid 2019 OK came very close to Earth HOURS ago but did not collide – News Nation

In Roundup case, U.S. judge cuts $2 billion verdict against Bayer to $86 million

In Roundup case, U.S. judge cuts $2 billion verdict against Bayer to $86 million

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