The Solheim Cup starts this week, and Team USA is ready

    Portal origin URL: Greatest Eclipse and Greatest Duration: What’s the Difference?Portal origin nid: 407739Published: Thursday, August 17, 2017 - 10:34Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: Two points along the shadow’s path are of particular interest to eclipse viewers seeking the longest-lasting totality: the point of greatest eclipse and the point of greatest duration. But neither is necessarily greater than the other. So what is the difference between the two?Portal image: partial map of 2017 total solar eclipse pathScience Categories: Sun

    U.S.-South Korea military exercises next week come amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and North Korea.       

    C'mon, everybody. He's not going anywhere.       

    America again owes more money to China than any other nation.

    Genomic instability is the main risk factor for tumor development in humans. Therefore understanding its origin and and exploring therapeutic targets is paramount. Histone 1 silences a region of the genome that causes irreparable DNA damage when translated and is lethal for the organism.

    A team of archaeologists has uncovered a vast trading network which operated in Vietnam from around 4,500 years ago up until around 3,000 years ago.

    There is a reason why whisky is diluted with water before being bottled. The same reason also makes many whisky enthusiasts add a few drops of water in their glasses – it makes the whisky taste better. But why is this so? Researchers have now presented an answer to this question.

    Filtering information for search engines, acting as an opponent during a board game or recognizing images: Artificial intelligence has far outpaced human intelligence in certain tasks. Researchers are showing how ideas from computer science could revolutionize brain research. They illustrate how a self-learning algorithm decodes human brain signals that were measured by an electroencephalogram (EEG).

    Researchers are mapping the distribution of all proteins in mitochondria for the first time.

    With the House having again approved permanent repeal of the estate tax, the issue now moves to the Senate, where, although Republicans are in the majority, enthusiasm for wiping out what conservatives like to call the "death tax" is considerably more muted.

    The daily ride has given rise to audio books, the travel mug and a 7-Eleven Inc. trademark, Dashboard Dining. The national motto has become grab and go, and legions of businesses work feverishly to fill a near-sacred space: the cup holder.

    It's the season to scam. I think I've used the phrase "low-life bum" more than I care to as I've read story after story this past year of investors being ripped off in new and old scams.

    MCI Inc.'s board of directors embraced a cash-rich offer from Qwest Communications International Inc. after months of saying the company was a financially weaker and strategically less desirable merger partner than Verizon Communications Inc.-The Washington Post

    States that saw large coverage gains under Obamacare would suffer most under the Senate bill, according to an Urban Institute report.

    (Global Alliance for Genomics and Health) Francis Collins and Harold Varmus will discuss the importance of international open science in a joint keynote address at the 5GA4GH 5th Plenary Meeting in Orlando, Florida, USA on Oct. 17, 2017. The event is an official ASHG ancillary meeting and will afford attendees the opportunity to learn more about important changes to GA4GH that aim to enable responsible, real-world genomic data sharing by 2022.

    (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) Cedars-Sinai neuroscience investigators have found that Alzheimer's disease affects the retina -- the back of the eye -- similarly to the way it affects the brain. The study also revealed that an investigational, noninvasive eye scan could detect the key signs of Alzheimer's disease years before patients experience symptoms.

    (University of California - Santa Cruz) The City of Santa Cruz Economic Development Office recently sat down with Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative Founder Olena Morozova and UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Scientific Director David Haussler to learn more about how UC Santa Cruz is working to better understand and better treat cancer in children -- all without the benefit of a medical school.

    (St. Michael's Hospital) Physicians at St. Michael's Hospital are studying how full-time income support workers hired by health-care clinics can help vulnerable patients or those living in poverty improve their finances and their health.

    (Pensoft Publishers) Having conducted a survey of the earthworms in the Western Ghats mountains, India, a team of four scientists discovered two species new to science. Both belong to a primitive family. They are described in the open access journal ZooKeys.

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    OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Marian Cleeves Diamond, a neuroscientist who studied Albert Einstein's brain and was one of the first to show that the brain can improve with enrichment, has died....

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Spacewalking cosmonauts set free the world's first satellite made almost entirely with a 3-D printer on Thursday....

    DENVER (AP) -- Researchers say they have found a new clue into the mysterious exodus of ancient cliff-dwelling people from the Mesa Verde area of Colorado more than 700 years ago: DNA from the bones of domesticated turkeys....

    JEFFERSON, Ohio (AP) -- A school district in Ohio has canceled classes on Monday over concerns about students damaging their eyes while looking at the solar eclipse....

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- While Monday's total solar eclipse in the U.S. will be a once-in-a-lifetime sky show for millions, there's a small group of people who have experienced it all before and they can't get enough of it....

    Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe debate Conor McGregor's chances against Floyd Mayweather.

    Shannon Sharpe talks Chris Long and the Philadelphia Eagles. Will Long's support of Malcolm Jenkins have an impact on the NFL?

    There is yet another fantasy rookie impressing this season, this time in Boston. Elsewhere, a pitcher has returned to dominate the league, a closer has hit the DL and a Yankees outfielder is struggling - and it's not Aaron Judge.

    Michael Cuddyer will be inducted into the Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame after an 11-year career with the team.

    Michigan's notorious secrecy is getting called out again

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Turner Sports is the latest TV company to announce a sports streaming service as traditional television companies chase millennial audiences....

    CINCINNATI (AP) -- Robots are secretly plotting to kill us. Or enslave us. Or, at best, they will take our jobs, one by one....

    DETROIT (AP) -- The new CEO of Ford Motor Co. says the company isn't taking its eyes off the present as it prepares for transportation in the future....

    MORIYA, Japan (AP) -- Thousands upon thousands of cans are filled with beer, capped and washed, wrapped into six-packs, and boxed at dizzying speeds - 1,500 a minute, to be exact - on humming conveyor belts that zip and wind in a sprawling factory near Tokyo....

    NEW YORK (AP) -- HBO says it has regained control of its social media accounts after the latest security breach to hit the entertainment company....

    BERLIN/WEIMAR, Germany (Reuters) - For the past decade, the pupils of the Manfred von Ardenne school in Berlin have been visiting a local cemetery to tend the graves of victims of the Nazis. By honoring those who died doing forced labor for Adolf Hitler's regime and learning their stories, pupils gain a clearer, more visceral understanding of their country's crimes 75 years ago. "It is very important for us to bring our pupils closer to what happened to make sure it never happens again," said Annemarie Sardisong, the school's head teacher.

    The top U.S. securities regulator on Friday dropped its civil lawsuit accusing two former JPMorgan Chase & Co traders of trying to hide some of the bank's $6.2 billion of losses tied to the 2012 "London Whale" scandal. The decision by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to dismiss charges against Javier Martin-Artajo and Julien Grout came four weeks after the U.S. Department of Justice abandoned its criminal case against both men, who have denied wrongdoing. Prosecutors said their case ran into trouble after testimony from Bruno Iksil, a cooperating witness who had been dubbed the London Whale, proved unreliable.

    President Donald Trump is losing friends in the Republican party after his controversial remarks following the Charlottesville attack and the terror attack in Barcelona that left more than a dozen killed. CNN's Athena Jones has more.

    It’s the “Appalachia of the Pacific Northwest,” a place known for poverty, drugs and death. Grays Harbor County, Washington, also voted majority Trump. Can his renewed “War on Drugs” help save it? AP Video by Martha Irvine. (Aug. 18)       

    Whatever the attacker's identity, the method has become commonplace.       

    Mudslides and devastating floods have left 245 people dead in Sierra Leone.

    The death toll from this week's devastating mudslides in Sierra Leone has passed 400, with hundreds of people still missing, a government tourism minister told CNN.

    First, top CEOs abandoned President Trump. Now, major organizations are canceling plans to hold events at the president's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

   

    Spaniards have expressed shock over two deadly terror attacks that hit the region of Catalonia just hours apart, having enjoyed years of calm since a decades-long separatist insurgency burned out.