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Tuesday December 19th, 2017 day edition

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Norway is to become the first Scandinavian country to decriminalise drugs as it focuses on treatment rather than punishment.

Sveinung Stensland, deputy chairman of the Storting Health Committee, told Norwegian publication VG: “It is important to emphasise that we do not legalise cannabis and other drugs, but we decriminalise.

Heroin Founded in 1874 by C. R. Alder Wright, heroin is one of the world’s oldest drugs.

Norway’s Country Drug Report released this year shows in 2014, the latest figures available, 266 people died from drug-related deaths.

The Norwegian Health Committee is planning a trip to Portugal in February, which decriminalised personal possession of drugs in 2001.

The country made the move following a heroin epidemic and the highest drug-related Aids deaths in the European Union (EU).

Norway could join other countries such as Portugal, the Netherlands, Uruguay, and certain US states including California and Colorado, which have liberalised drug laws. »

A new NASA sea level simulator lets you bury Alaska's Columbia glacier in snow, and, year by year, watch how it responds. Or you can melt the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and trace rising seas as they inundate the Florida coast.

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A new NASA sea level simulator lets you bury Alaska's Columbia glacier in snow, and, year by year, watch how it responds.

Or you can melt the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and trace rising seas as they inundate the Florida coast.

The new simulator, however, allows anyone with a computer to perform idealized experiments with sea level and learn about its complexities. »

FDA plans crackdown on homeopathic remedies

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Homeopathic products are similar to dietary supplements, in that the FDA does not review their safety or effectiveness before they are sold.

Hundreds of homeopathic remedies today are sold alongside over-the-counter drugs like Tylenol and aspirin at pharmacies across the U.S.

The National Institutes of Health has said there's little evidence that homeopathic medicine is effective for treating any specific condition. »

The first phone with an in-screen fingerprint sensor will come from Vivo

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In a post for Forbes, analyst Patrick Moorhead detailed his experience with a pre-production Vivo phone equipped with the technology.

Here are some pics @anshelsag and I took of the Vivo smartphone with the Synaptics in-display fingerprint reader.

The CMOS image sensor is .7mm thick and reads the fingerprint right through the OLED display. »