CU Boulder professor helps assess danger of primates' extinction and other top stories.

• CU Boulder professor helps assess danger of primates' extinction

  

  Three-quarters of the world's primates are declining in population and 60 percent are threatened with extinction, according to a new study to which a University of Colorado professor is a contributing author. "At the rate we're going, we're not taking care of our home very well," said study coauthor Joanna Lambert, a professor in CU's Department of Biological Anthropology. "The next few years will be critical." The study, "Impending extinction crisis of the world's primates: Why primates matter..

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• How to immunise yourself against fake news on climate change

  

  A "psychological vaccine" of a weakened form of a piece of fake news can make people better at identifying false claims about climate change, researchers have said.Turning one of the main tactics of fake news back on itself is an effective strategy to halt the spread of misinformation, psychologists say in a study published in the journal Global Challenges.A Japanese macaque has been spotted trying to have sex with a sika deerExposing people to a fake "fact" with either a general warning about f..

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• 3 Incredibly Cheap High-Yield Dividend Stocks

  

  Who says stocks that pay great dividends have to be expensive? While investors often do pay a premium price for stocks that boast high dividend yields, that's not always the case. In fact, three healthcare stocks with attractive yields are incredibly cheap right now. If you're looking for bargain dividend stocks , here's why you'll definitely want to consider AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) , Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD) , and Teva Pharmaceutical (NYSE: TEVA) . Image so..

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• NASA study in Hawaii paving way for human travel to Mars

  

  HONOLULU (AP) — A group of NASA-funded researchers are poised to enter an isolated geodesic dome on a remote Hawaii volcano to study human behavior in long-term space exploration, including a planned voyage to Mars. The six scientists enter their new home Thursday on the Big Island’s Mauna Loa volcano for an eight-month stay. The team will have no physical contact with people in the outside world and will work with a 20-minute delay in communications, the time it would take for an email to reac..

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• SpaceX To Use Expendable Rocket For Upcoming Launch

  

  SpaceX’s upcoming Falcon 9 launch, when it will deliver a 5.5 metric ton communications satellite for EchoStar Corporation to a geostationary transfer orbit, will be made using a reusable rocket, CEO Elon Musk confirmed in response to a question on Twitter on Saturday. The launch is scheduled to take place from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than Jan. 30.That launch is expected to be one of the last times — if not the last time — SpaceX would use an expendable Falcon 9 booster.“F..

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• Wisconsin disaster agency plans for climate change

  

  Highway 63 is washed out in the Town of Grand View in Bayfield County in July 2016 due to heavy rains. More flooding is predicited with climate change. State emergency planners posted information online last week on climate change planning.(Photo: Photo courtesy of Ready Wisconsin, Photo courtesy of Ready Wisconsin)In a shift from the practice of two other state agencies, Wisconsin emergency management officials have released new information on climate change and its implications for the state.I..

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• The Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) Shares Sold by IBM Retirement Fund

  

  IBM Retirement Fund cut its position in shares of Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE:CSC) by 6.3% during the third quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 13,118 shares of the company’s stock after selling 884 shares during the period. IBM Retirement Fund’s holdings in Computer Sciences Corporation were worth $685,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Several other large investors also recently bou..

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• Will Trump echo JFK's moonshot and vow to send humans to Mars?

  

  By Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post For drive-by readers we offer this immediate answer to the question posed in our headline: Almost certainly not, at least in the inaugural address. Maybe later. By tradition, inaugurals are broadly thematic and not specific. President-elect Donald Trump has been studying past inaugurals, according to his aides, so he understands that this is not a State of the Union address with a laundry list of proposals. That said, we feel no shame in plunging forward wi..

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