WORLD STORIES - 10/08/2018

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A peptide from an Australian funnel-web spider has been found to kill both human melanoma cells and cancerous Tasmania devil facial tumours that are threatening the survival of the species.

smh.com.au
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Pilot shot in helicopter crash which killed senior Putin prosecutor.

dailymail.co.uk
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Wife of Israeli prime minister goes on trial for fraud.

reuters.com
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Christine Blasey Ford still unable to live at home due to death threats, lawyers say.

thehill.com
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Taylor Swift breaks silence on politics, supports Democrats in Tennessee races.

thehill.com
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Cory Booker puts Kavanaugh impeachment on the table if Democrats take back Congress.

yahoo.com
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Smuggling a CRISPR gene editor into staph bacteria can kill the pathogen. This could offer an excellent alternative to traditional antibiotics and is "very effective" at targeting the bacteria..

sciencenews.org
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Practicing yoga can help reduce paranoid thoughts, memory problems, trouble concentrating, and obsessive thoughts in prison inmates, according to new research published in Frontiers in Psychiatry.

psypost.org
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A new calculation shows that "the volume of observable space combed so far for [extraterrestrial life] is comparable to searching the volume of a large hot tub for evidence of fish in Earth’s oceans".

sciencenews.org
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DATE: 10/08/2018

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