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US & Canada · HarrisburgRep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA) attended his gay son’s wedding just three days after joining the majority of his GOP colleagues in voting against a House bill that would codify federal protections for same-sex marriage, NBC News reports. Said a spokeswoman: “Congressman and Mrs. Thompson were thrilled to attend and celebrate their son’s marriage on Friday night as he began this new chapter in his life.”See the Story
GOP Lawmaker Attended Gay Son’s Wedding After Vote
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Beaver Stadium to sell alcohol to general public at home Penn State football games
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ScienceA Penn State College of Medicine study suggests that e-cigarettes may help people decrease their dependence on combustible cigarettes. E-cigarettes contain an array of harmful chemicals called toxicants. The researchers enrolled 520 participants interested in reducing their cigarette intake but with no plans or interest to quit smoking.See the Story
E-cigarette use may help people decrease their dependence on combustible cigarettes
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Artificial IntelligenceSocial media users may trust artificial intelligence -- AI -- as much as human editors to flag hate speech and harmful content, according to researchers.See the Story
Users trust AI as much as humans for flagging problematic content
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EnvironmentNew research led by scientists at Penn State, Tsinghua University and the University of Texas at Austin projects that climate change will cause irreversible declines in freshwater storage in the region. The Tibetan Plateau supplies a substantial portion of the water demand for almost two billion people and is highly sensitive to climate change. The researchers used a novel neural net-based machine learning technique to relate these observed changes in total water storage to key climate variables.See the Story
Irreversible declines in freshwater storage projected in parts of Asia by 2060
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TechPenn State researchers create mechanical integrated circuit materials from conductive and non-conductive rubber materials that sense and react to tactile input, such as force. Integrated circuits are scientists' realization of information processing similar to the brain's role in the human body. Material could use mechanical force to compute complex arithmetic, or detect radio frequencies to communicate specific light signals.See the Story
Researchers engineer novel material capable of 'thinking'
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FishScientists have long debated the origins of teeth. Did they evolve from body scales that migrated into the mouths of ancient vertebrates and became adapted for eating -- an idea known as the 'outside-in' hypothesis? Or did they evolve independent of scales, originating deep within the oral cavity and ultimately mounting onto the jaws -- known as the 'inside-out' hypothesis? A new study provides evidence for the 'outside-in' hypothesis.See the Story
Sawfish fossils suggest teeth likely evolved from body scales in ancient fish
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ObesityEating one avocado a day for six months was found to have no effect on belly fat, liver fat or waist circumference in people with overweight or obesity, according to a new study. However, it did lead to a slight decrease in unhealthy cholesterol levels.See the Story
Daily avocados improve diet quality, help lower cholesterol levels, study finds
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ScienceTurning plastic waste into useful products through chemical recycling is one strategy for addressing Earth's growing plastic pollution problem. A new study may improve the ability of one method, called pyrolysis, to process hard-to-recycle mixed plastics—like multilayer food packaging—and generate fuel as a byproduct, the scientists said.See the Story
Scientists improve process for turning hard-to-recycle plastic waste into fuel
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State College · State CollegeWith a bye week for Penn State football and the annual Parents and Families Weekend, here are events happening at Penn State and in State College. The Killers will perform at the Bryce Jordan Center as part of the band's "Imploding the Mirage" tour. The Aizuri Quartet will perform its program at the Recital Hall in its Penn State debut.See the Story
Things to do at Penn State, in State College during the week of Oct.3
TreesCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public AreaPenn State agricultural engineers have developed, for the primary time, a prototype “end-effector” able to deftly eradicating undesirable apples from timber—step one towards robotic, green-fruit thinning.
The event is essential, in response to Lengthy He, assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering, as a result of handbook thinning is a labor-intensive activity, and the shrinking labor pressure i…See the Story
