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• Toothbrush to check your DNA for onset of diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's

  25-04-2015 20:52 via
  
  Your toothbrush could warn you about the onset of diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's, technologists have said.
  
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• Tiny robots can climb walls carrying over 100 times their own weight

  25-04-2015 17:53 via
  
  The nine-gram robots - built by mechanical engineers at Stanford University in California - can haul more than a kilogram up a vertical wall. They have tiny 'spikes' on their feet, like a gecko.
  
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• Should sitting desks be banned in classrooms?

  25-04-2015 13:50 via
  
  Scientists at Texas A&M University found that children increased their focus by as much as 12 per cent when asked to stand during their lessons.
  
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• Why Nepal is so vulnerable to quakes

  25-04-2015 12:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Magnitude 7.8 Nepal earthquake has occurred in what is one of the most seismically active regions in the world.
  
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• Changing the signals on Britain's railways

  25-04-2015 03:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Is there about to be a cure to 'signal failure'?
  
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• Should sitting desks be banned in classrooms? Children pay more attention to lessons when standing, claims study

  25-04-2015 02:37 via
  
  Scientists at Texas A&M University found that children increased their focus by as much as 12 per cent when asked to stand during their lessons.
  
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• Attractive men get less job offers because they intimidate bosses

  25-04-2015 01:35 via
  
  Researchers at the University of Maryland found that if the interviewer saw the candidate as a potential competitor, the interviewer discriminated in favour of unattractive men.
  
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• 'We print people': The world of 3D portraiture

  25-04-2015 01:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An up-close encounter with the new mini you
  
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• Hastings fishermen seek 'fair share'

  25-04-2015 01:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In the tightly contested seat of Hastings and Rye, it is the topic of fishing quotas that has become a key election issue
  
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• Mars conspiracy theorist says he can see 'a bunker, people and missiles'

  25-04-2015 00:26 via
  
  The radical claim was made by 58-year-old Canadian Andre Gignac who says he saw the 'bunker' in a photograph released by Nasa and taken by the Mars rover Opportunity.
  
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• VIDEO: 'My son told me to use social media'

  25-04-2015 00:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nasa astronaut Chris Hadfield talks about using social media in space, including recording "Space Oddity" and taking photos at 8kms a second
  
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