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One-sixty-six, where are you? Oh, there you are.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-02-image-satellite-stunning.html

A rare, coastal flowering plant known as Tidestrom's lupine—threatened by native deer mice that can munch up to three-quarters of its unripe fruits under cover of an invasive beachgrass—has been given a new life with the large-scale removal of that grass, a long-term study shows.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-02-life-endangered-coastal-lupine.html

A Swiss mobile phone operator says its data systems were breached late last year and the contact details of about 800,000 customers were compromised.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-02-swiss-mobile-customers-stolen.html

Blacks, especially women, are more likely to have been unarmed when killed by police than non-blacks, and that risk appears to increase in police departments with a greater presence of non-white officers, according to a new study of nationwide data from Washington University in St. Louis.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-02-police-unarmed-blacks-women.html

Poor pesticide practices in Burkina Faso pose a threat to human health and the environment. An EPFL thesis has quantified this problem for the first time through an analysis of soil, water, sediment, vegetable and hair samples.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-02-pesticide-burkina-faso.html

The archaeological excavation of an ancient Egyptian city at Tell Edfu in southern Egypt, led by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, has discovered well-preserved settlement remains dating to an important turning point in ancient Egyptian history, when the pharaohs began to renew interest in the provincial regions in the far south of their kingdom.

Source: https://phys.org/news/2018-02-newly-reveal-clues-ancient-egyptian.html