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• Panda's aren't lazy - they're got a thyroid problem! 

  09-07-2015 23:48 via
  
  Scientists from The Chinese Academy of Sciences and Aberdeen University calculated a giant panda uses just half half the amount of energy as a stationary human.
  
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• Global warming shrinks range of pollinating bumblebees in America and Europe

  09-07-2015 23:26 via
  
  Global warming is shrinking the terrain where bumblebees live in North America and Europe, researchers have found.
  
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• Seas could rise 6 metres even if governments curb warming - study

  09-07-2015 23:04 via
  
  Sea levels could rise by at least six metres (20 feet) in the long term, swamping coasts from Florida to Bangladesh even if governments achieve their goals for curbing global warming.
  
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• The science of Magic Mike: Researchers reveal why male strippers get their kit off 

  09-07-2015 22:43 via
  
  A study by the University of Colorado Denver has found that male strippers continue to perform because it makes them feel desirable, rather than simply for the money.
  
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• Facebook overhauls news feed so you see updates from your REAL friends

  09-07-2015 22:09 via
  
  The new feature allows users to choose the friends and pages they want to see at the top of the news feed first each time you log on.
  
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• Warming 'squeezing out' bumblebees

  09-07-2015 21:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The natural habitats of bumblebees are shrinking because of higher temperatures in Europe and North America, threatening their survival, researchers say
  
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• Barista makes an iced latte in latest ASMR hit video

  09-07-2015 21:17 via
  
  Known as Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, some claim the video's soundtrack, which is full or rustles and crunches, gives them pleasure.
  
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• VIDEO: Coding brothers inspired by Google

  09-07-2015 21:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Brothers Osine and Anesi have developed an Android web browser, calling it Crocodile Browser Lite.
  
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• Does watching a barista make an iced latte give YOU a 'braingasm'? Latest ASMR hit video revealed

  09-07-2015 20:46 via
  
  Known as Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, some claim the video's soundtrack, which is full or rustles and crunches, gives them pleasure.
  
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• AUDIO: When jazz collided with physics

  09-07-2015 20:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Large Hadron Collider and jazz pianist Al Blatter make an unlikely musical duet at the Montreux Jazz Festival
  
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• VIDEO: Fox hunting vote 'set for next week'

  09-07-2015 20:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  MPs could vote on changes to existing laws on fox hunting in England and Wales as early as next week.
  
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• Cannabis scientists SEPARATE medicinal benefits and hallucinogenic effects

  09-07-2015 20:16 via
  
  Scientists at the University of East Anglia and the University Pompeu Fabra hope the breakthrough will pave the way for safe cannabis-based therapies that have no mind-altering side-effects.
  
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• NASA's NuSTAR telescope picture makes sun look like a giant marble

  09-07-2015 20:02 via
  
  This image, presented today at the Royal Astronomical Society's National astronomy meeting in Llandudno, Wales, was taken by NASA's NuSTAR telescope.
  
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• Enterprise Edition will have a larger prism than Google Glass

  09-07-2015 19:46 via
  
  The Enterprise Edition (EE) will have a larger prism than the original Google Glass (pictured) and an Intel Atom processor, according to rumours.
  
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• New material could produce super-sound proofing allowing noise to pass only one way

  09-07-2015 19:42 via
  
  Scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich say their material (pictured) could be used to produce new super-silent rooms for testing materials or even focus sound like a lens.
  
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• Court forces government to release German UFO files

  09-07-2015 19:22 via
  
  The German Supreme Administrative Court in Leipzig ordered the Bundestag to make the UFO files available, but no date has yet been confirmed for their release.
  
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• VIDEO: The vest that helps exam cheats

  09-07-2015 18:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Justin Rowlatt looks at the technology designed to help people cheat in exams in India.
  
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• The UK Space Agency sets sights on Mars and pledges to send humans into space

  09-07-2015 18:51 via
  
  The UK Space Agency has said it wants to take a giant leap into manned space missions with its first strategy for human spaceflight. It plans to send astronauts to the ISS and even to Mars.
  
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• Flaw found in French nuclear reactor

  09-07-2015 17:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A weakness has been discovered in a French nuclear reactor of the type set to be built at Hinkley in Somerset.
  
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• Will a Briton be the first person on MARS? UK pledges to send humans into space for the first time and sets sights on red planet

  09-07-2015 17:31 via
  
  The UK Space Agency has said it wants to take a giant leap into manned space missions with its first strategy for human spaceflight. It plans to send astronauts to the ISS and even to Mars.
  
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• Ancient Chinese script may prove Asians discovered America 3,300 years ago

  09-07-2015 16:26 via
  
  Author and researcher John Ruskamp claims to have found pictograms from the ancient Chinese Shang Dynasty etched into rocks in New Mexico, California and Arizona.
  
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• Zoadiac Seats' hexagonal seating for planes means you FACE other passengers

  09-07-2015 16:20 via
  
  A patent has just been filed by Zodiac Seats for a new 'Economy Class Cabin Hexagon' which consists of alternating forward and backward facing seats.
  
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• Chameleons can switch from stereo to mono vision to accurately catch prey

  09-07-2015 15:57 via
  
  Researchers from the University of Haifa in Israel investigated the chameleon's unusual eyesight by baiting colour-changing lizards with computerised prey projected onto a wall.
  
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• Web giants fined for 'morbid' photos

  09-07-2015 15:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook and Google are fined 50,000 Brazilian real (£10,000) for ignoring a ban on the dissemination of "degrading images" in Brazil.
  
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• Vegetarianism 'could save the world' by cutting greenhouse emissions

  09-07-2015 15:01 via
  
  Our insatiable appetite for everything from burgers to barbecued chicken (pictured) is having a serious effect on the environment, researchers from the UK and Germany claim.
  
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• Disney wins starwars.co.uk battle

  09-07-2015 14:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Disney makes a UK-based fancy-dress retailer surrender starwars.co.uk and six other web addresses related to its sci-fi film franchise.
  
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• Nutritionists reveal the World Food diet could help you beat disease

  09-07-2015 14:45 via
  
  Red wine drunk in France contains an ingredient which encourages the body to to make calorie-burning 'brown' fat. Here, nutritionists share other tips from foods around the globe...
  
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• IBM chips 'contain smallest parts'

  09-07-2015 14:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  IBM says it has overcome technical hurdles threatening to delay the manufacture of silicon chips with the smallest components so far.
  
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• UK to develop 'universal' satellite

  09-07-2015 14:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The development is approved of a completely novel type of telecommunications satellite, which will be built in the UK.
  
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• Five Water socks are water-resistant ending the misery of squelchy, rainy walks

  09-07-2015 14:16 via
  
  Detroit-based entrepreneur Jaspreet Singh came up with the Five Water Socks (pictured) after growing tired of having wet feet when he went out running.
  
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• Is your medication affecting your MORALS? Antidepressants make people behave selflessly, while Parkinson’s drugs make you selfish, study claims

  09-07-2015 14:02 via
  
  Researchers at University College London found that citalopram-takers were willing to pay almost twice as much to prevent harm to others than those given placebo drugs in an experiment.
  
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• Volcanic eruptions 'collapsed Roman empire allowing Muslims to spread'

  09-07-2015 13:39 via
  
  Scientists at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno have reconstructed the timing and climate forcing of 300 individual volcanic eruptions extending as far back as the early Roman period.
  
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• Did volcanoes aid the rise of Islam? Huge eruptions brought famine and disease to Roman empire allowing Muslims to spread

  09-07-2015 13:13 via
  
  Scientists at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno have reconstructed the timing and climate forcing of 300 individual volcanic eruptions extending as far back as the early Roman period.
  
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• Apple Watch wearers share photos of rashes caused by device on Twitter

  09-07-2015 13:07 via
  
  A handful of Twitter users including an app developer from Yorkshire have shared pictures of rashes and 'burns' they say are caused by Apple's Watch.
  
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• Ancient Chinese script may prove Asians lived in America 3,300 years ago

  09-07-2015 12:02 via
  
  Author and researcher John Ruskamp claims to have found pictograms from the ancient Chinese Shang Dynasty etched into rocks in New Mexico, California and Arizona.
  
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• What will Pluto mission discover?

  09-07-2015 11:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The key questions about Nasa's Pluto flyby
  
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• VIDEO: Trialling the tech to track birds

  09-07-2015 10:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  London Zoo is currently trialling miniature technology that can track birds
  
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• Pluto snapped from eight million km

  09-07-2015 10:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nasa's spacecraft New Horizons acquires another stunning view of Pluto as it bears down on the dwarf planet, ahead of its 14 July flyby.
  
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• All you need to know about Uber

  09-07-2015 10:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What drives the upstart car pick-up firm?
  
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• Inside Czech Republic's 'Skull Church' made up of over 70k skeletons

  09-07-2015 10:23 via
  
  The spine-tingling Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic is estimated to hold the remains of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, many of whom died in the plague in 1318.
  
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• Air force drops dummy nuclear bomb in Nevada in first controversial test to update cold war arsenal

  09-07-2015 04:36 via
  
  The B61-12 nuclear bomb, which did not have a warhead, was tested at Tonopah Test Range in Nevada. The controversial tests are designed to extend the lifespan of the weapon.
  
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• Gene therapy that restores hearing in mice could be used on humans in five years

  09-07-2015 04:28 via
  
  Scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne claim an injected virus could someday treat a hereditary form of human deafness.
  
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• Childhood stresses of parents' divorce and deaths can fuel weight gain later, claims study

  09-07-2015 02:45 via
  
  Childhood may be a critical period for creating patterns that have a long-term impact on women's weight over time, according to a study by Michigan State University.
  
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• US Air force drops bomb in first test designed to update nuclear arsenal 

  09-07-2015 01:42 via
  
  The B61-12 nuclear bomb, which did not have a warhead, was tested at Tonopah Test Range in Nevada. The controversial tests are designed to extend the lifespan of the weapon.
  
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• Man charged over Facebook naming

  09-07-2015 01:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Doncaster man is charged for naming a victim of a sexual offence on South Yorkshire Police's Facebook page.
  
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• Group photography app lets anyone film Matrix style ‘Bullet Time’ footage

  09-07-2015 01:32 via
  
  Columbia University researcher Yan Wong has created an app, dubbed CamSwarm, which allows anyone to generate Matrix-worthy action shots using a group of smartphones.
  
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• VIDEO: Saving plants from a 'mass extinction'

  09-07-2015 00:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An ambitious project was launched Wednesday to collect the genomes of the planet's major plant groups and put them into deep freeze.
  
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• Theory claims US Navy photos taken in the 1970s show ET hunting for oil

  09-07-2015 00:25 via
  
  The black and white images are believed to have been taken from the USS Trepang SSN 674 submarine as it travelled between Iceland and Norway's Jan Mayen Island.
  
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