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• Fossil tooth of a massive 18m long megalodon shark discovered

  21-08-2015 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A giant tooth believed to be that of a Megalodon Shark has been found in a Croatian river. Fossil remains suggest that this giant shark reached maximum length of 18 metres.
  
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• Footage of U.S.S. Macon that sunk off the California cost in 1935 

  21-08-2015 22:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of specialists have used remotely operated underwater vehicles to explore the wreck of the USS Macon, a lighter-than-air rigid airship that was the Navy’s last flying aircraft carrier in the 1930s
  
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• Money 'pouring in' to pay for world's first head transplant

  21-08-2015 22:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Valery Spiridonov has confirmed major donations have started to arrive, allowing surgeon Sergio Canavero to continue planning the operation to remove his head and place it on another body.
  
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• Samsung is working on a 18.4inch screen tablet

  21-08-2015 21:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The gadget, codenamed Tahoe, is expected to be aimed at the living room when it is revealed later this year, and will go up against Panasonic's 20inch Toughpad tablet (pictured).
  
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• Middle East wars 'improve the air'

  21-08-2015 21:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Armed conflict and civil disturbance in the Middle East since 2010 have had the unintended consequence of making the air cleaner.
  
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• Forget the Phablet: Samsung is working on a tablet with a massive 18.4inch screen

  21-08-2015 20:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The gadget, codenamed Tahoe, is expected to be aimed at the living room when it is revealed later this year, and will go up against Panasonic's 20inch Toughpad tablet (pictured).
  
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• Could this wormhole be used as an invisibility cloak?

  21-08-2015 20:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Physicists at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain have built a device (pictured) that can make magnetic fields appear to tunnel through space by making them invisible.
  
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• Even as two-year-olds, girls are more self-sufficient and sociable than boys

  21-08-2015 20:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Stavanger in Norway found that at just age two-and-a-half, girls are more capable of feeding and dressing themselves, as well as socialising at kindergarten.
  
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• Are 'beer goggles' just a myth?

  21-08-2015 20:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bristol University researchers conducted a 'real world' study that involved recruiting drinkers in three pubs in the city (stock image).
  
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• Earliest ever baboon discovered: 2 million-year-old skull reveals the monkeys lived alongside our early human ancestors

  21-08-2015 19:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The oldest remains of a baboon ever to be discovered have been found at a site where the ancestors of early humans once lived. The find will help to accurately date other fossils in the area.
  
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• Could this wormhole be used as an invisibility cloak? Scientists create 'portal' that conceals electromagnetic fields

  21-08-2015 19:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Physicists at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain have built a device (pictured) that can make magnetic fields appear to tunnel through space by making them invisible.
  
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• Motorola Moto G (2015) review

  21-08-2015 19:20
  
      The latest incarnation of Motorola's budget star Moto G comes with 4G and Android 5.0 Lollipop, plus some improved water protection -- and it's still a bargain for the price.By: Dave Oliver, Continue reading...
  
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• Spotify says sorry after privacy row

  21-08-2015 18:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek has apologised in a blogpost following anger from users about the music streaming service's new data privacy policy.
  
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• Independent women! Even as two-year-olds, girls are more self-sufficient and sociable than boys

  21-08-2015 18:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Stavanger in Norway found that at just age two-and-a-half, girls are more capable of feeding and dressing themselves, as well as socialising at kindergarten.
  
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• Are 'beer goggles' just a myth? Debate rages on as study finds alcohol DOESN'T make people seem more attractive

  21-08-2015 18:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bristol University researchers conducted a 'real world' study that involved recruiting drinkers in three pubs in the city (stock image).
  
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• Rare wolf pack spotted in California

  21-08-2015 17:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The appearance of the five grey wolf pups and two adults could signal a return of the animals, which haven't been found in the state since 1924.
  
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• 'Oldest' message in a bottle found

  21-08-2015 17:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A message in a bottle that washed up more than 108 years after it was thrown into the sea may be the world's oldest, a marine association says.
  
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• USAF's F-35 stealth fighter fire 3k bullets a minute from its machine gun

  21-08-2015 17:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The F-35A stealth jet is undergoing the latest phase in ground testing at California's Edwards Air Force Base. The controversial jet is hailed as the most expensive weapon in history.
  
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• Oldest message in a bottle ever found was found in Germany and returned to Britain

  21-08-2015 16:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The bottle, pictured, was found on the island of Amrum in the North Sea and was one of 1,020 sent from Plymouth between 1904 and 1906 by marine biologist George Parker Bidder, pictured.
  
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• University of Washington study finds that feelings of gratitude can make you crave sugary treats

  21-08-2015 16:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researcher Ann Schlosser, from theUniversity of Washington Foster School of Business, claims that metaphors for emotions, in this case 'sweet', translate into actual behaviours.
  
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• There are specialised bullets so you can SHOOT Drones down

  21-08-2015 16:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An Idaho-based ammunition manufacturer has developed Drone Munition (pictured) as 'the first line of self-defence against drone based threats'.
  
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• Vitiligo has caused Scrappy's coat to turn a patchy white

  21-08-2015 16:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scrappy is thought to have developed vitiligo when he was seven, when his black coat developed white patches, which a Sussex-based vet says is incredibly rare.
  
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• VIDEO: Bionic hand boy 'youngest in world'

  21-08-2015 15:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A nine-year-old boy from Fife is the youngest person in the world to be fitted with a bionic hand.
  
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• iPad covers to get a built-in display as new cases will show notifications

  21-08-2015 15:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new covers would resemble its current ones but with panels on the outside that show widgets while it's closed and interact with apps when it folds into a stand for the device.
  
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• Rock reboot and the Welsh windy wonder: Centre for Alternative Technology

  21-08-2015 14:50 via go.theregister.com
  
  Biomass and the pit Geek's Guide to Britain  There are plenty of tourist attractions scattered around the coast of Cardigan Bay in Wales. But for the last four decades, the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) has provided something appropriately... alternative. There is an early sign of this in the car park – a huge wind turbine blade, placed as if to diminish the fossil-fuel powered vehicles alongside it.…
  
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• Rock reboot and the Welsh windy wonder: Center for Alternative Technology

  21-08-2015 14:50 via go.theregister.com
  
  Biomass and the pit Geek's Guide to Britain  There are plenty of tourist attractions scattered around the coast of Cardigan Bay in Wales. But for the last four decades, the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) has provided something appropriately... alternative. There is an early sign of this in the car park – a huge wind turbine blade, placed as if to diminish the fossil-fuel powered vehicles alongside it.…
  
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• Geoneutrinos suggest 70 per cent of Earth's heat is generated from radioactivity

  21-08-2015 14:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have shed light on the origins of the barely-there neutral subatomic particles (illustrated) in an underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy.
  
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• Live forever with new social network

  21-08-2015 14:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New site Eter9 promises digital immortality using a kind of artificial intelligence to scan your posts.
  
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• Euro X-ray 'scope snaps Milky Way's 'tumultuous heart'

  21-08-2015 14:31 via go.theregister.com
  
  It's all go at the lively centre of the galaxy, XMM-Newton reveals A new image from the European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton X-ray 'scope gives a nice view of the wild party at the Milky Way's "tumultuous heart".…
  
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• VIDEO: 'Real life' zombie game goes viral

  21-08-2015 13:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  People logging on to messaging services Chat Roulette, Omegle and Skype got a surprise at the weekend when confronted with a "real life" zombie computer game to play live.
  
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• One Direction's video reviewed by space expert

  21-08-2015 13:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It's the first music video Niall, Liam, Louis and Harry have released without Zayn.
  
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• iPad covers to get a built-in display: Patent reveals how next generation of cases will show notifications

  21-08-2015 13:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new covers would resemble its current ones but with panels on the outside that show widgets while it's closed and interact with apps when it folds into a stand for the device.
  
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• Elon Musk's vacuum train could be sped up by crowdfunded test track

  21-08-2015 13:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A crowd-funded start-up called Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) has said it will break ground on its own test track next year in Quay Valley, California.
  
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• Packages could be delivered by unicycle drones that swarm together

  21-08-2015 13:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Transwheel drones (pictured), designed by engineers at Shenkar School of Engineering and Design in Israel, would use a single self-balancing wheel and a robotic arm to carry packages.
  
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• Study dismisses fears that nursery turns infants into 'little savages'

  21-08-2015 13:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Boston College in Massachusetts researchers suggest that time spent in the care of other adults can actually improve a child’s behaviour.
  
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• Google ordered to delete news links

  21-08-2015 13:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Google has been ordered to remove nine links to news stories by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) under the "right to be forgotten".
  
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• A Hyperloop build-off! Crowdfunded test track could speed the arrival of Elon Musk's ambitious vacuum 'train'

  21-08-2015 13:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A crowd-funded start-up called Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) has said it will break ground on its own test track next year in Quay Valley, California.
  
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• Move over Amazon! Packages could one day be delivered by unicycle drones that swarm together to transport heavy parcels

  21-08-2015 13:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Transwheel drones (pictured), designed by engineers at Shenkar School of Engineering and Design in Israel, would use a single self-balancing wheel and a robotic arm to carry packages.
  
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• 'Farewell' pictures of Saturn moon

  21-08-2015 12:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Cassini probe to Saturn returns its final close-up images of the Dione moon as it begins its "long goodbye".
  
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• Ceremonial boulders were hit like 'gongs' to call the community to funerals

  21-08-2015 12:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists at the University of Haifa in Israel claim stone age humans pounded large limestone mortars (pictured) to summon surrounding communities to burial ceremonies.
  
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• 'Ghost particles' ARE coming from the centre of the Earth: Geoneutrinos suggest 70 per cent of Earth's heat is generated from radioactivity

  21-08-2015 12:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have shed light on the origins of the barely-there neutral subatomic particles (illustrated) in an underground Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy.
  
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• Making the electric car sound sexy: GLM's ZZ model will have built-in sound effects so you can show off when you rev-up the engine

  21-08-2015 11:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Japan's first mass-marketed electric sports car is to get a synthesiser boost to replicate engine sounds. GLM who builds the ZZ model is partnered with synth maker Roland for the project.
  
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• Did Stone Age man invent church bells 15,000 years ago? Ceremonial boulders were hit like 'gongs' to call the community to funerals

  21-08-2015 11:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists at the University of Haifa in Israel claim stone age humans pounded large limestone mortars (pictured) to summon surrounding communities to burial ceremonies.
  
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• NASA reveals Cassini probe's last glimpse of Saturn's icy moon Dione

  21-08-2015 09:33 via go.theregister.com
  
  Ringed planet grants sunlight for souvenir shots. NASA has released images from the Cassini probe's last fly-by of Saturn's moon Dione.…
  
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• GM trees 'strangled' by red tape

  21-08-2015 08:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US researchers say it has become "virtually impossible" to plant genetically modified trees in any part of the world.
  
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• July was hottest month worldwide since records began in 1880

  21-08-2015 05:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This July was the all-time highest monthly temperature since records began in 1880. The news comes three months before world leaders seek to reach a climate agreement in Paris.
  
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• Curiosity selfie shows the rover and its Mars surroundings

  21-08-2015 05:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For this self-portrait, the rover team positioned the camera lower in relation to the rover body than for any previous full self-portrait of Curiosity at its seventh rock drill target called 'Buckskin'.
  
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• Milky Way's 'scars' from black hole revealed in images

  21-08-2015 05:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Captured by the X-ray satellite XMM-Newton, the images reveal enormous X-ray emitting bubbles, tens of light years across, creating giant cavities in the gas, dust and plasma.
  
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• NASA denies rumours of asteroid impact bringing worldwide destruction

  21-08-2015 05:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nasa has issued an exasperated statement in response to viral internet rumours that an asteroid is due to impact off the coast of Puerto Rico between 15 and 28 September.
  
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• Ohio State University scientists claim they've grown a human brain in a jar

  21-08-2015 03:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is the stuff of Frankenstein nightmares. Imagine yourself as a functioning brain kept in a laboratory jar. White-coated scientists are torturing you by feeding an endless stream of terrifying images and sensations into your nervous system.
  
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