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• Eat breakfast, avoid sugar and don’t wear sunglasses: The science behind surviving the day after a sleepless night revealed

  16-07-2015 23:50 via
  
  Science of Us has released video explaining the do’s and don’t of surviving the day after a sleepness night – and some tips may surprise you.
  
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• Lexus hoverboard video revealed but we STILL don't see anyone riding it

  16-07-2015 23:10 via
  
  The new video stars Ross McGouran, a professional skateboarder, who says riding the Lexus Slide is 'like floating on air'. The board supposedly uses electromagnetism to levitate itself.
  
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• Google's quarterly profits rise 17%

  16-07-2015 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Google's quarterly income rises 17%, boosted by an 11% rise in revenues to $17.7bn.
  
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• Nasa teases photo of Pluto's moon Charon ahead of more images tomorrow

  16-07-2015 22:34 via
  
  The image zeroes in on a strange spike on the moon's surface which Nasa describes as a 'mountain in a moat'. Scientists say they are completely 'stunned and stumped' by the feature.
  
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• Is the Lexus hoverboard real? New footage of levitating gadget revealed (but we STILL don't get to see anyone riding it)

  16-07-2015 22:15 via
  
  The new video stars Ross McGouran, a professional skateboarder, who says riding the Lexus Slide is 'like floating on air'. The board supposedly uses electromagnetism to levitate itself.
  
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• Tesla TRIPLES amount of land it owns at superfactory battery site in Nevada

  16-07-2015 22:13 via
  
  Founder, Elon Musk, has just confirmed that he has nearly tripled Tesla's Nevada land purchases near Reno, adding 1,893 acres to the 1,000 it got hold of last year.
  
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• Speaking more than one language makes you smarter

  16-07-2015 22:10 via
  
  Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Centre found that being bilingual increases the size of the part of the brain responsible for attention span and short term memory.
  
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• Video shows drone 'made by teen' equipped with a HANDGUN opening fire

  16-07-2015 22:03 via
  
  Footage, apparently by drone enthusiast Austin Haughwout, 18, from Clinton, Connecticut, shows a robotic device with four rotor engines firing four shots in succession.
  
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• Instagram bans users from searching for photos tagged as 'curvy'

  16-07-2015 21:57 via
  
  The social media platform claims that pictures tagged with the word 'curvy' often violate its nudity policies - but risqué searches like #nipplepiercing and #noclotheson are still allowed.
  
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• Neil Young says done with streaming due to 'worst' sound quality

  16-07-2015 21:54 via
  
  Neil Young has become the latest artist to pull his music from streaming services - but rather than arguing over money, he says the sound quality isn't good enough.
  
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• Terrifying video shows home-made drone 'made by a teenager' equipped with a HANDGUN opening fire in the woods

  16-07-2015 20:36 via
  
  Footage, apparently by drone enthusiast Austin Haughwout, 18, from Clinton, Connecticut, shows a robotic device with four rotor engines firing four shots in succession.
  
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• Polar bears fail to adapt to warming

  16-07-2015 20:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Polar bears are unable to adapt their behaviour to cope with the food losses associated with warmer summers in the Arctic.
  
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• 2014 was Earth's warmest on record, and ocean temperatures are 'just ridiculous' warns annual health report for the planet

  16-07-2015 20:01 via
  
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the American Meteorological Society's annual state of the climate report concludes that the Earth is 'gravely ill'.
  
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• It’s official! Speaking more than one language makes you smarter: Bilingual people have more grey matter than those who only know their mother tongue

  16-07-2015 19:44 via
  
  Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Centre found that being bilingual increases the size of the part of the brain responsible for attention span and short term memory.
  
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• Instagram bans users from searching for photos tagged as 'curvy' - but continues to allow images labeled with 'skinny', 'thin', and even 'anorexia' 

  16-07-2015 19:44 via
  
  The social media platform claims that pictures tagged with the word 'curvy' often violate its nudity policies - but risqué searches like #nipplepiercing and #noclotheson are still allowed.
  
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• Game of Thrones video reveals secrets of the show's visual effects

  16-07-2015 19:43 via
  
  CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS: The video was compiled by London-based studio Mackevision. It reveals how visual effects and green screens were used to bring Game of Thrones to life.
  
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• Is the Gigafactory getting even bigger? Tesla TRIPLES the amount of land it owns at superfactory battery site in Nevada

  16-07-2015 19:16 via
  
  Founder, Elon Musk, has just confirmed that he has nearly tripled Tesla's Nevada land purchases near Reno, adding 1,893 acres to the 1,000 it got hold of last year.
  
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• Mammals went through an 'explosion' of evolution while dinosaurs roamed the Earth

  16-07-2015 18:56 via
  
  Rapid evolutionary changes reached their peak in the middle of the Jurassic period, between 200 million and 145 million years ago, according to University of Oxford scientists.
  
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• HTC One M8s review

  16-07-2015 18:53
  
      Yes, we know the M9 is already here, but HTC has just launched a new version of the M8. The original was a credit-worthy device, but the M8s offers some worthwhile improvements, including a new processor, larger battery and better camera, for considerably less money.
  When the HTC One M8 launched last year it cost around £540. The M8s will set you back around £160 less (and still more than the new M9) but delivers more in return.By: Dave Oliver, Continue readin
  
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• Do MOUNTAINS hold the key to why animals started walking on land? Shifting plates may have affected ocean nutrients forcing fish to crawl out of the water

  16-07-2015 18:47 via
  
  Scientists at the University of Tasmania have found nutrient levels washed into the oceans over the past 700 million years are linked to explosions in life and extinction events.
  
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• Did the Americans beat Sputnik to space? Underground nuke test may have launched MANHOLE COVER into orbit 

  16-07-2015 18:29 via
  
  During Operation Plumbbob, the codename for nuclear tests in the Nevada desert in 1957, an underground detonation blew a manhole cover into the air at five times Earth's escape velocity.
  
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• Why are screams so spine-tingling? Scans reveal they activate the same 'fear circuits' in the brain as smoke alarms

  16-07-2015 18:03 via
  
  Using an MRI scanner, researchers analysed the brains of people listening to screams at the Max Planck Institute in Frankfurt. The sound activates the fear response in the amygdala.
  
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• How to set up your own VPN

  16-07-2015 17:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Click's Kate Russell gives a step-by-step guide using a Raspberry Pi
  
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• Sperm grown in a lab used to create an 'army of half cloned mice': Man-made cells can be mass produced to fertilise eggs

  16-07-2015 17:10 via
  
  Scientists at the Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences created man-made sperm (pictured), which although cannot swim, is able to fertilise eggs and produced litters of semi-cloned mice.
  
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• Arctic deal bans North Pole fishing

  16-07-2015 16:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US and Russia are among five countries to sign a deal to prevent commercial fishing in the melting Arctic sea ice near the North Pole.
  
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• New species of winged dinosaur called Zhenyuanlong suni discovered

  16-07-2015 16:43 via
  
  The new dinosaur, Zhenyuanlong suni, was found in China. It lived during the Cretaceous Period, and lived around 125 million years ago and had short, bird-like wings but could not fly.
  
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• Watching porn on mobiles set to soar: The average phone owner will view 348 adult videos during 2015

  16-07-2015 16:39 via
  
  The figures were taken from Hampshire-based Juniper Research's Digital Adult Content report. It predicts that more than 136 billion adult videos will be watched in 2015.
  
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• Pluto rides a wave of memes and becomes the butt of internet jokers' gags

  16-07-2015 16:18 via
  
  Within hours of the photographs being released by NASA, online jokers took to Twitter and other social media to spread manipulated images of the dwarf planet.
  
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• VIDEO: Inside Japan's robot hotel

  16-07-2015 16:08 via bbc.co.uk
  A new hotel has opened in Japan and it's run almost entirely by robots.
  
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• GM moths 'can curb pest invasion'

  16-07-2015 15:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A genetically modified moth could help curb a major pest of vegetable crops around the world, research suggests.
  
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• New species of winged dinosaur discovered - and it hints that its close cousin the Velociraptor was covered in feathers too

  16-07-2015 15:34 via
  
  The new dinosaur, Zhenyuanlong suni, was found in China. It lived during the Cretaceous Period, and lived around 125 million years ago and had short, bird-like wings but could not fly.
  
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• Live kestrel trapped in car grille

  16-07-2015 15:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A kestrel that flew into a car's grille is released by garage mechanics.
  
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• 'Winged dragon' dinosaur discovered

  16-07-2015 15:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists discover a winged dinosaur - an ancestor of the velociraptor - that they say was on the cusp of becoming a bird.
  
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• Oldest lizard embryo discovered curled within 125m year old fossil egg

  16-07-2015 15:01 via
  
  Scientists used synchrotron X-ray scanning to peer inside tiny fossil eggs (pictured) found in north east Thailand. They found the embryo of a lizard from the Cretaceous period.
  
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• Cooking with the strange electromagnetic power of an induction HOB

  16-07-2015 14:56 via
  
  Induction hobs work because 'inside the stove plate you have an electromagnet that spins around and turns the pan into the element,' according to the video's maker in South Africa.
  
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• Intel delays chip-making changes

  16-07-2015 14:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Intel delays changes to its factories that would have made its chips faster and more powerful, following technical problems.
  
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• Who knew frying an egg could blow your mind! Video reveals the strange electromagnetic power of an induction HOB

  16-07-2015 14:37 via
  
  Induction hobs work because 'inside the stove plate you have an electromagnet that spins around and turns the pan into the element,' according to the video's maker in South Africa.
  
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• World's oldest lizard embryo discovered: 125-million-year-old 'baby' found inside fossil

  16-07-2015 14:37 via
  
  Scientists used synchrotron X-ray scanning to peer inside tiny fossil eggs (pictured) found in north east Thailand. They found the embryo of a lizard from the Cretaceous period.
  
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• The Weird Hotel in Japan where the front desk is staffed by ROBOTS opens

  16-07-2015 14:36 via
  
  A menacing-looking dinosaur, a humanoid with blinking lashes, and a small android greet guests at Nagasaki's Weird Hotel - the latest oddity in a country known for its quirky hotels.
  
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• Poo is more common on the shore than in the sea water

  16-07-2015 14:26 via
  
  Researchers at the University of Hawaii found that microbial communities tended to decay much slower in beach sand than in sea water when simulated in the lab using sewage.
  
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• Iron Age settlement in Dorset dating back to 100BC was home to hundreds of Celts

  16-07-2015 13:57 via
  
  The previously unknown of settlement dubbed Duropolisat Winterborne Kingston, near Blandford, Dorset, dates to around 100BC, which makes it 80 years earlier than Colchester in Essex.
  
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• United hackers get free flights

  16-07-2015 13:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US airline United has rewarded two hackers who spotted security holes in its website with a million free flight miles each.
  
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• Japan's robot-staffed Henn na Hotel opens

  16-07-2015 13:44 via
  
  A menacing-looking dinosaur, a humanoid with blinking lashes, and a small android greet guests at Nagasaki's Weird Hotel - the latest oddity in a country known for its quirky hotels.
  
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• Beachgoers beware! The sand you're sitting on might be covered in POO: Faecal matter is more common on the shore than in the sea, study reveals

  16-07-2015 13:36 via
  
  Researchers at the University of Hawaii found that microbial communities tended to decay much slower in beach sand than in sea water when simulated in the lab using sewage.
  
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• New Horizons may become first spacecraft to visit Kuiper Belt after Pluto mission

  16-07-2015 13:28 via
  
  Nasa is to consider sending the New Horizons probe to one of two frozen objects in the ring of debris orbiting four billion miles from the sun. The spacecraft has power to last 20 more years.
  
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• Have archaeologists unearthed Britain's oldest town? Iron Age settlement dating back to 100BC was home to hundreds of Celts

  16-07-2015 13:20 via
  
  The previously unknown of settlement dubbed Duropolisat Winterborne Kingston, near Blandford, Dorset, dates to around 100BC, which makes it 80 years earlier than Colchester in Essex.
  
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• Is it time to break up BT?

  16-07-2015 13:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ofcom has suggested the broadband network Openreach could be sold off to improve services for customers.
  
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• New Horizons may become first spacecraft to visit Kuiper Belt after historic mission to Pluto

  16-07-2015 12:59 via
  
  Nasa is to consider sending the New Horizons probe to one of two frozen objects in the ring of debris orbiting four billion miles from the sun. The spacecraft has power to last 20 more years.
  
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• Map reveals how long it takes radio waves to travel through space

  16-07-2015 12:31 via
  
  Called Lightyear.fm, the project (pictured) was created by New York-based computer designers Brian Moore and Chris Baker with Mike Lacher and Mikhail Chernov.
  
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• We've got Taylor Swift, but what is the rest of the UNIVERSE listening to? Map reveals how long it takes radio waves to travel through space - with distant stars only just tuning in to 40s jazz

  16-07-2015 12:20 via
  
  Called Lightyear.fm, the project (pictured) was created by New York-based computer designers Brian Moore and Chris Baker with Mike Lacher and Mikhail Chernov.
  
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