'Second Skin' May Reduce Wrinkles, Eyebags, Scientists Say and other top stories.

• 'Second Skin' May Reduce Wrinkles, Eyebags, Scientists Say

  

  Dr. Murad Alam, a professor of dermatology at Northwestern University, who also was not associated with the study, was impressed, too, but he cautioned that it was still early.“This is a first step,” he said, “and all these applications will require further work.” But, he added, if the testing is successful, “I think it will be very popular.”The idea for second skin originated more than a decade ago when Dr. R. Rox Anderson, a professor of dermatology at Harvard Medical School, was approached b..

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• Royal Botanical Gardens: Mixed report on the world's plants

  

  A Nymphaea Thermarum, an endangered plant, grows at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London, Monday, May 9, 2016. Kew Gardens held the launch of the first ever State of the Worlds Plants report. The report is the first of its kind in the plant world.

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• Facebook now directly denies report of biased trends, says there's no evidence

  

  Facebook is now strongly refuting claims that it suppressed conservative Trends after issuing a more vague and indirect PR statement earlier today about having neutrality guidelines. Facebook VP of search Tom Stocky Facebook has “found no evidence that the anonymous allegations are true” wrote VP of search Tom Stocky on the social network tonight at 9:30pm pacific May 9th, regarding a Gizmodo report from sources who said they were formerly on the team that chose what Trends appeared on Faceboo..

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• T-Mobile customers can roam in Cuba this summer

  

  T-Mobile has struck a roaming deal with state-owned Cuban carrier Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba SA (ETECSA), letting visitors to the island nation use voice, text, and data services from this summer. The move follows the Obama administration's loosening of travel and trade restrictions between the US and Cuba last year; Verizon and Sprint both made similar arrangements in the fall. Google is also looking into expanding internet access in the country. "The historic opening of Cuba is a n..

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• The Transit of Mercury Across the Sun's Face Has Begun: First Videos

  

  GREENBELT, Md. — The small planet Mercury is making a rare transit of the sun today (May 9), the first such event of its kind in a decade, as the world looks on. Case in point: this awesome NASA video captured just as Mercury began its journey across the sun, as seen from Earth. Credit: Space.com Store NASA's powerful Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded this first Mercury transit video as the planet began a 7.5-hour trip across the face of the sun. Another video shows the Mercury..

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• 'Final Fantasy X' re-released again, this time on Steam

  

  Final Fantasy XV finally launches this September, but publisher Square Enix wants you to take a look back in the vaults ahead of that. Final Fantasy X and its direct sequel X-2 got the HD remaster treatment on PlayStation 4 last year and now the double pack is headed to PCs by way of Steam. That means a remastered soundtrack, better-looking graphics and a few bits and bobs from the International Editions like a special boss fight mode for the first. No word on improved voice acting, though. How..

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