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• Researchers find seven new species of tiny-frogs in Brazil

  04-06-2015 23:43 via
  
  Part of the Brachycephalus family, these tiny frogs from the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest are among the smallest terrestrial vertebrates, with adults usually no bigger than 1cm (0.3 inches) in length.
  
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• Mystery of Greenland's disappearing lakes solved: Scientists say giant cracks cause meltwater to vanish in HOURS

  04-06-2015 23:43 via
  
  A team of U.S. researchers says it has figured out the bizarre phenomenon and that it could help them forecast global sea-level rise.
  
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• First backboned animals to step out of water and walk on land were from Australia

  04-06-2015 23:20 via
  
  Researchers made the discovery when they analyzed a 333-million-year-old broken arm bone. of a very primitive amphibian which looked like a cross between a crocodile and a fish.
  
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• Say G'Day to the family: First backboned animals to step out of water and walk on dry land were from Australia, new study claims

  04-06-2015 22:19 via
  
  Researchers made the discovery when they analyzed a 333-million-year-old broken arm bone. of a very primitive amphibian which looked like a cross between a crocodile and a fish.
  
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• Test unravels history of infection

  04-06-2015 22:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US researchers claim to have developed a single test that is able to identify past exposure to every known human virus infection, using a single drop of blood.
  
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• Scientists doubt warming 'pause'

  04-06-2015 22:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US researchers say new evidence casts doubt on the idea that global warming has "slowed" in recent years.
  
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• Virgin Galactic 'owes it to dead pilot' as Dave Mackay speaks out

  04-06-2015 22:03 via
  
  Dave Mackay, from from Helmsdale in the Scottish Highlands, describes the moment SpaceShipTwosplit into pieces as it fell to Earth over California's Mojave Desert.
  
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• The frogs that can fit on your FINGERNAIL: Researchers find seven new species of tiny-amphibians in the cloud forests of Brazil

  04-06-2015 21:56 via
  
  Part of the Brachycephalus family, these tiny frogs from the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest are among the smallest terrestrial vertebrates, with adults usually no bigger than 1cm (0.3 inches) in length.
  
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• Pilot involved in crashed Virgin Galactic craft speaks out for first time

  04-06-2015 21:56 via
  
  Dave Mackay, from from Helmsdale in the Scottish Highlands, describes the moment SpaceShipTwosplit into pieces as it fell to Earth over California's Mojave Desert.
  
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• Pilot involved in crashed Virgin Galactic craft speaks out for first time - as company gears up to restart testing within months

  04-06-2015 21:21 via
  
  Dave Mackay, from from Helmsdale in the Scottish Highlands, describes the moment SpaceShipTwosplit into pieces as it fell to Earth over California's Mojave Desert.
  
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• Google really DOES want to get inside your head: Search giant's engineering director claims humans will become hybrids who can upload their brain by 2030

  04-06-2015 21:21 via
  
  Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google made the claims at the Exponential Finance conference in New York - but also admitted he thought we would have self driving cars by 2009.
  
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• Global warming is NOT slowing down, new evidence reveals

  04-06-2015 21:21 via
  
  North Carolina researchers say there has been no global warming hiatus (new data shown in graph). 2000 to 2014 rose 0.116°C per decade, compared to 0.113°C in 1950 to 1999.
  
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• Israel PM attacks Orange over deal

  04-06-2015 20:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Israel's Prime Minister has attacked the boss of the French telecom giant Orange for looking to pull out of a deal with an Israeli partner.
  
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• Only two-thirds of adults achieve spelling level expected of primary school children 

  04-06-2015 20:29 via
  
  A Dublin-based gaming firm assessed 1,000 adults to see how their spelling compared with young children. The results were alarming, and put down to a modern day reliance on digital spellcheckers.
  
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• What your music taste reveals about your social status

  04-06-2015 19:48 via
  
  Sociologists at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, found that our musical tastes can betray our position on the social pecking order.
  
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• easyJet trials automated safety checks and 3D printing of replacement parts

  04-06-2015 19:17 via
  
  Budget airline conducted its first test of an automated drone around one of its aircraft in a hanger at Luton airport. It hopes to roll out the technology to other airports by 2016.
  
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• People with autism have 'supercharged' brains: Those with the condition are 'over-sensitive to the world - and not impaired'

  04-06-2015 19:14 via
  
  Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne found evidence to support the theory that those with autism are hyper-alert to their environment, causing anxiety and fear.
  
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• 'Hellboy', the long-lost relative of Triceratops with 'comically small' horns

  04-06-2015 19:09 via
  
  Bones belonging to a nearly intact skull (pictured) of an unusual horned dinosaur called Regaliceratops peterhewsi were discovered sticking out of a cliff in Alberta, Canada.
  
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• PayPal users face robot cold calls

  04-06-2015 19:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  PayPal is updating its user agreement in July to force customers to accept automated cold calls from it and its affiliates.
  
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• Hyperloop and games of the future: Podcast 221

  04-06-2015 19:02
  
  
  An entertaining weekly 45-minute look at the most interesting technology and science stories from the last seven days, with WIRED.co.uk's Michael Rundle, Katie Collins and James Temperton.By: Katie Collins, Continue reading...
  
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• Meet 'Hellboy', the long-lost relative of Triceratops with a crown-like frill and 'comically small' horns

  04-06-2015 18:33 via
  
  Bones belonging to a nearly intact skull (pictured) of an unusual horned dinosaur called Regaliceratops peterhewsi were discovered sticking out of a cliff in Alberta, Canada.
  
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• Letting children use phones before school damages their concentration

  04-06-2015 18:25 via
  
  Clinical psychologist Linda Blair said children coming to her clinic with suspected (ADHD) would generally see some improvement if they practised ‘screen management’.
  
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• Would you fly on a plane inspected by DRONES? easyJet trials automated safety checks and 3D printing of replacement parts

  04-06-2015 18:17 via
  
  Budget airline conducted its first test of an automated drone around one of its aircraft in a hanger at Luton airport. It hopes to roll out the technology to other airports by 2016.
  
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• Letting children use phones before school is damaging and homework on computers should be banned, claims psychologist

  04-06-2015 18:17 via
  
  Clinical psychologist Linda Blair said children coming to her clinic with suspected (ADHD) would generally see some improvement if they practised ‘screen management’.
  
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• Humpback whale performs mid-air barrel roll in amazing photos

  04-06-2015 18:09 via
  
  The stunning images were taken by Norwegian Researcher and Biologist Karl-Otto Jacobsen, who was delighted to see the whale breaching out of the water so close to his ship.
  
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• Pong and Doom enter game Hall of Fame

  04-06-2015 17:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Six computer games, including Pong and Doom, have been inducted into the first Video Game Hall of Fame.
  
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• Windows 10 PC squeezed inside plug

  04-06-2015 17:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Microsoft shows off unusual computers capable of running its forthcoming Windows 10 software, including a system contained in a plug.
  
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• Staring pain in the face: Computer tracks a child's facial expressions to determine how much agony they are in

  04-06-2015 17:16 via
  
  Doctors at the University of California San Diego used facial pattern recognition software to detect the signs of pain (like those pictured) in 50 young hospital patients who had undergone surgery.
  
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• Drones used by Chinese officials to stop students cheating in gaokao

  04-06-2015 17:16 via
  
  The new anti-cheating technology will be used in Luoyang in central China during the 'gaokao' university entrance exams,sat by more than nine million teenagers across the country every year.
  
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• Hound takes on Siri with superfast, accurate voice recognition

  04-06-2015 16:49 via
  
  California-based SoundHound has revealed its voice recognition assistant. Called Hound (shown), it provides information in similarly to Siri and Google Now but is much faster.
  
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• Apple Watch goes on sale in stores in TWO WEEKS - and the device will be available in seven more countries by the end of June

  04-06-2015 16:05 via
  
  The Watch will be available in Italy, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland and Taiwan on 26 June. Apple didn't give an exact date for when in-store sales will start in other regions.
  
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• A spellbinding discovery: New species of ancient reptile with self-sharpening teeth is named after a curse in Harry Potter

  04-06-2015 16:05 via
  
  An undergraduate at Bristol University's School of Earth Sciences, showed that fossils from the previously unstudied Woodleaze Quarry belong to the new species.
  
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• Rosetta's kamikaze mission revealed: Probe could be crashed into comet 67P in a final flourish next year

  04-06-2015 15:47 via
  
  The proposal has been put forward to the European Space Agency. It would see Rosetta (illustrated) slammed into the surface in September 2016. By this point it will be too low on fuel to continue.
  
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• Hound takes on Siri: Superfast and extremely accurate voice recognition tool could leave Apple's software in the dust

  04-06-2015 15:47 via
  
  California-based SoundHound has revealed its voice recognition assistant. Called Hound (shown), it provides information in similarly to Siri and Google Now but is much faster.
  
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• Kijini app uses your VOICE to reveal which diet will suit you best

  04-06-2015 15:28 via
  
  A team based in Nevada is developing an app (pictured) to monitor a user's health. Called Kijini, it apparently works by simply recording your voice for 30 seconds.
  
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• Egyptian fossils reveal a whale inside a whale, eaten by a shark

  04-06-2015 14:46 via
  
  The 60 ft (18 metre) long basilosaurus skeleton, discovered in Wadi al-Hitan, Egypt, known as the Valley of Whales, is the only one to be found intact.
  
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• Saxon buried beneath Lincoln Castle's Experts face reconstructed

  04-06-2015 14:37 via
  
  Experts used the male's skeleton, discovered on the site of an old church at Lincoln Castle in 2013, to reconstruct what he would have looked like (pictured).
  
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• Now THAT's a sea monster: Massive shark longer than a TWO-STOREY building hunted the oceans 100 million years ago

  04-06-2015 14:28 via
  
  Three fossilied vertebrae were discovered on a trip to Duck Creek Formation, just outside Fort Worth, Texas. They are believed to have belonged to a Leptostyrax macrorhiza (pictured bottom).
  
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• Do you love reggae and hate easy listening? You must be UPPER CLASS: What your music taste reveals about your social status

  04-06-2015 14:28 via
  
  Sociologists at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, found that our musical tastes can betray our position on the social pecking order.
  
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• Baidu disqualified from AI test

  04-06-2015 14:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chinese search engine Baidu's unexpected victory in AI test has been cancelled after it emerged that it broke the contest's rules.
  
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• Fallout 4 teaser trailer giving hints at what Bethseda's next game will feature

  04-06-2015 14:01 via
  
  Fallout 4 will be the first video game in the post-apocalyptic series to be released since 2010. The game appears to be set in Boston providing glimpses of key landmarks.
  
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• Kijini app uses your VOICE to reveal which diet will suit you best - and claims to identify disease using 30 seconds of speech

  04-06-2015 13:16 via
  
  A team based in Nevada is developing an app (pictured) to monitor a user's health. Called Kijini, it apparently works by simply recording your voice for 30 seconds.
  
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• Seven new tiny frog species found

  04-06-2015 13:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists discover seven new species of tiny frog living on seven different mountains in south-eastern Brazil.
  
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• Who was the Saxon buried beneath Lincoln Castle? Experts reconstruct face of the mystery man in a bid to try to identify him

  04-06-2015 12:30 via
  
  Experts used the male's skeleton, discovered on the site of an old church at Lincoln Castle in 2013, to reconstruct what he would have looked like (pictured).
  
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• Fossils reveal a whale inside a whale, eaten by a shark: Grave of 40-million-year old marine creatures found in Egypt 

  04-06-2015 12:30 via
  
  The 60 ft (18 metre) long basilosaurus skeleton, siscovered in Wadi al-Hitan, Egypt, known as the Valley of Whales, is the only one to be found intact.
  
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• Hubble studies Pluto's wobbly moons

  04-06-2015 11:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hubble reveals fascinating new details about Pluto's four smaller moons - Styx, Nix, Kerberos and Hydra.
  
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• Fallout 4 teaser released: Trailer gives hints at what the next game in the best-selling series will feature

  04-06-2015 11:43 via
  
  Fallout 4 will be the first video game in the post-apocalyptic series to be released since 2010. The game appears to be set in Boston providing glimpses of key landmarks.
  
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• Google's Sergey Brin refuses to release self-driving car crash details

  04-06-2015 11:35 via
  
  Brin outlined his rationale Wednesday during a sometimes-testy exchange with a long-time critic at the company's annual shareholders meeting in Mountain View, California.
  
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• Take Ubble's 'death test' to see if you will YOU die in the next 5 years

  04-06-2015 11:27 via
  
  The scientists behind the quiz claim their research, published today in the Lancet medical journal, is the most accurate indicator of five-year mortality ever created. It does not look at weight, diet or drinking.
  
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• Simple USB trick reveals how to make sure your cable is the correct way up EVERY time

  04-06-2015 11:11 via
  
  USB connectors have a metal seam that marks the underside of the cable or flash drive, as can be seen above. Putting this on the bottom or to the left will ensure it plugs in on most computers.
  
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