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How to publish your own ebook

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Your literary empire starts here.

Thanks to the wonders of the web, you can gift your literary masterpiece to the world. No matter what genre you prefer, here's how to publish your own ebooks.

China's looking to one-up Elon Musk's hyperloop

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T Flight CASIC China Hyperloop Maglev

If created as proposed, T Flight will be faster, with more extensive routes.

Defense and space giant CASIC announces that it's pooling its resources to build supersonic levitating trains.

African wild dogs vote with sneezes on important pack issues

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Dog with impala leg

Dog democracy.

The researchers followed five packs of wild dogs for a year. They found that the number of sneezes was the most important factor that predicted departure.

Space weather may be killing sperm whales

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sperm whale

A stellar suspect in the mysterious beachings.

Birds and whales have more in common than you think—they both get mixed up by solar storms.

North Korea wants the world to know it has a working thermonuclear bomb

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Kim Jong-un inspects what appears to be a thermonuclear warhead

North Korea's latest test was the roll-out campaign for a modern nuclear arsenal

A successful thermonuclear weapon is the last piece of North Korea's deterrence puzzle.

To guard against climate change, Los Angeles is painting its streets white

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Los Angeles

They plan to lower the temperature by 3 degrees over the next 20 years.

Officials in LA plan to lower the temperature of the city by 3 degrees F over the next 20 years. To help achieve this goal, the city will coat streets with a material…

What hurricane categories mean and why we use them

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Irma

And what comes next in sorting these giant storms.

Before Harvey, or Irma, or Katrina, there was Camille.

Before trying robot judges, let's learn from robot referees

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Automated rulings in sports can help inform the development of criminal justice tech.

Decisions around the use of technology to enforce rules in sports can help researchers understand the way people feel about automated enforcement in the legal system.

Yes, humans are still evolving. Here's how you can tell.

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Even more evidence that we’re continuing to change.

The reality is that we’re all—every single living thing on Earth—evolving constantly. At least to some extent. It’s just that it’s hard to notice.

Bats' echolocation has one major blind spot

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bat colony

Our glass and metal buildings might pose a threat.

When it comes to navigating at night, bats are among the champions of the animal kingdom. But it turns out that these fuzzy fliers do have one weakness.

Predicting a hurricane's intensity is only going to get harder

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Better forecasts mean fewer deaths.

Hurricanes may grow rapidly intense—and harder to predict—as the climate warms.

This engineer spent 4 months installing a headphone jack on an iPhone 7

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DIY iphone headphone jack

Pushing the limits of DIY in Shenzhen, China.

Scotty Allen decided to add a headphone jack back into his iPhone. Here's how he did it.

Inside the deadly heart of 1964's Hurricane Cleo

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Snowcloud One's flight into the eye

In 1964, a crew of intrepid hurricane hunters flew into one of the worst storms in history

On October 4, 2016, Hurricane Matthew made landfall on Haiti. Matthew is said to be the most dangerous storm since 2007, and has drawn many comparisons to 1964's Hurricane

The massive, record-breaking Hurricane Irma is on its way to Florida

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Satellite image of hurricane irma

Here's the latest forecast for the formidable storm.

Here's the latest forecast for the formidable storm.

A new finding raises an old question: Where and when did life begin?

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Where it began

Geologists are analyzing ancient clues to tell our origin story.

A geological finding stirs questions—and controversy—about where and when earliest life emerged.

A brief history of origin theories

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Rocky ground

From spontaneous materializing to a "warm little pond."

Our thoughts on the origin of life range from spontaneous materializing (like maggots seamingly on a corpse) to creation in a "warm little pond."…

Three animals inspiring the armor of the future

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Seashells, fish, and spiders may hold the key to better bulletproof vests.

Animals sport some pretty impressive body armor, and now we’re trying to mimic it for ourselves.

Premature babies get worse healthcare if they're not white

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Something's wrong in the NICU.

Race and ethnicity might play a role in the quality of attention very low birth weight babies receive in NICUs.

8.1 magnitude earthquake is one of the strongest to ever hit Mexico

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Shake map

And a hurricane may be on the way.

A massive magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck Mexico just before midnight on Thursday.

If everyone became vegetarian, would the planet actually be better off?

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Cutting back on red meat is probably the best place to start, but eating the right types of veggies is important, too.

Losing our dependence on meat is a good start to making sure our food choices are environmentally-friendly, but looking at our food system as a whole isn't a bad idea…
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