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| White House announces ban on transgender people serving in military Critics have argued that the discriminatory policy will cause significant disruptions in the military, force trans members to hide their identities, deprive the military of talented people and reinforce harmful and inaccurate stereotypes about trans people. The president's orders have reversed Barack Obama's ...
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| Science at Department of Energy gets a hefty raise in final 2018 budget For researchers supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in Washington, D.C., a 6-month wait for a federal budget may have been worth it. DOE's basic research wing, the Office of Science, gets a 16% boost, to $6.26 billion, in a 2018 omnibus spending bill passed by Congress this week.
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| Britain needs its allies in Europe more than ever After months of tense Brexit negotiations, this week brought a rare victory for British diplomacy. Theresa May, the UK prime minister, won EU leaders' "unqualified" support in condemning the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter and pointing to Russian involvement as the only plausible explanation.
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| Baidu gets the green light to test self-driving cars in China Chinese search giant Baidu has received approval to begin testing its self-driving cars in Beijing, Reuters reports. It is a sign of China's strong support for the industry in the wake of the first pedestrian death from an autonomous Uber vehicle in the US. Baidu, which is known as China's version of Google, ...
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| Stabilizing electrochemical interfaces in viscoelastic liquid electrolytes Electrodeposition is a widely practiced method for creating metal, colloidal, and polymer coatings on conductive substrates. In the Newtonian liquid electrolytes typically used, the process is fundamentally unstable. The underlying instabilities have been linked to failure of microcircuits, dendrite formation ...
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New home sales fall for third straight month in February Sales of new U.S. single-family homes unexpectedly fell for a third straight month in February, weighed down by steep declines in the Midwest and West. The Commerce Department said on Friday new home sales dropped 0.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 618,000 units last month.
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| School district in Pennsylvania to arm students and teachers with rocks A rural school district in Pennsylvania is arming teachers and students with buckets of rocks as a last resort should an armed intruder burst in, the superintendent has said. Every classroom in the district about 90 miles (145km) north-west of Philadelphia has a five-gallon bucket of river stones, said Blue ...
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