New discoveries about insect nanostructure, like a mosquito’s eye, could help design improved water-repellent coatings. Credit: Ling Wang, Penn State Through research on insect surfaces, Penn State researchers have detailed a previously unidentified nanostructure that can be used to design stronger, more resistant water-repellent coatings. The results of this research …
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Last March, Disney Parks announced that all smoking areas within the park at Walt Disney World and Disneyland would be phased out, to be replaced by designated smoking areas outside the park entrances. Now, Disneyland Resort has announced in a memo to its cast members that all areas of the …
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Metacritic wants people to actually play a game before reviewing it, so the site now requires users to wait 36 hours from the launch of a new game before leaving a score. The intention is to avoid review blitz campaigns, where people leave negative ratings on a title sometimes as …
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Users were blocked from websites on Friday due to a disruption to web infrastructure giant Clouflare. Angela Lang / CNET Several websites became unavailable on Friday after Cloudflare experienced outages in parts of its network. The affected system, called a DNS resolution, connects web users to the correct websites when …
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This article is republished here with permission from The Conversation. This content is shared here because the topic may interest Snopes readers; however, it does not represent the work of Snopes verifiers or editors. The representation of Jesus as a white, European man has come under new scrutiny during this …
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