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A new Florida law restricts police use of drones within the state's borders. Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed the measure Thursday, saying it will protect the state's residents from "unwarranted surveillance." Before local or state law enforcement agencies can use surveillance drones, the Freedom from ...

A new Florida law restricts police use of drones within the state's borders. Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed the measure Thursday, saying it will protect the state's residents from "unwarranted surveillance." Before local or state law enforcement agencies can use surveillance drones, the Freedom from ...

Open Your Mind to the New Psychedelic Science In recent years, a small cadre of scientists has cautiously rekindled the scientific study of psychedelics. At a recent conference, they reported new findings on how these drugs scramble brain activity in ways that might help explain their mind-bending ...

In every medical drama the scene is the same: The surgeon carefully places the delicate organ in a cooler filled with ice and snaps the lid shut. The transplant team then sprints toward the door, hoping to reach its patient in time. That speed isn't just for dramatic effect. Transplant teams rush because ...

The research team found that multidrug resistance among banded mongoose at the Botswana study site was higher in animals that live in a protected area than in village areas.

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Philippe Kahn and one of his inventions, an early camera phone. An email interview with the serial entrepreneur behind the technology inside the Jawbone Up fitness-tracking wristband. In 1983, Philippe Kahn emigrated from France to the United States with just $2,000, and a software program he created ...

eso1319a Artist’s impression of an exotic celestial pair; the pulsar PSR J0348+0432 and its white dwarf companion (not drawn to scale). The tiny and extremely heavy neutron star spins 25 times each second while being orbited every 2.5 hours by a much larger white dwarf star. Gravity ripples in spacetime ...

kwaidan (1) Kwaidan (or ‘kaidan’) is an old-fashioned term for a Japanese horror or ghost story. It’s also the name of a magical 1964 cinematic anthology of supernatural Japanese myths and legends, directed in 1964 by Masaki Kobayashi. Although you wouldn’t think it to look at it – with its simple, ...

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