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• Fuel crisis threatens Nepal's forests

  07-10-2015 23:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nepal's world-renowned community forests are threatened by a sudden rise in demand for firewood following a fuel crisis, officials say.
  
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• NASA launches a sounding rocket to study the ionosphere in Virginia

  07-10-2015 23:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The event is due to take place sometime between 7pm and 9pm ET (11pm to 1am GMT) and will be visible by anyone living in the mid-Atlantic region of the US.
  
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• Israeli lander FOUND ON MOON (in 2017)

  07-10-2015 23:26 via go.theregister.com
  
  Non-profit org first to sign Google XPrize rocket mission contract Pics  SpaceIL has signed a deal to send a lander to the Moon – making the Israeli non-profit the first competitor in Google's $30m Lunar XPrize contest to ink a rocket launch contract.…
  
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• Video shows foetus 'SINGING' in the womb by moving their mouth and tongue

  07-10-2015 22:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the Institut Marques in Barcelona claim to have shown for the first time that unborn babies can hear by the time they reach 16 weeks gestation, and that they respond as if they're singing.
  
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• UFO hunters say lights above a Mexican volcano could be aliens monitoring Earth

  07-10-2015 22:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A strange series of lights above the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico has got alien hunters excited. Scientists, however, say they are probably an atmospheric phenomenon caused by the volcano.
  
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• Google unveils new system to load stories faster on phones

  07-10-2015 22:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google claims the new initiative, called Accelerated Mobile Pages, will 'dramatically improve' the performance of the mobile web.
  
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• Now that really IS an Android phone: Sharp unveils handset built into walking, talking robot that can even project movies from its head

  07-10-2015 21:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The walking, talking eight inch tall robot, called Robohon, can dance along to your music, recognise its owner and evenproject movies out of its head.
  
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• VIDEO: The smartphone that thinks it's a robot

  07-10-2015 21:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sharp has unveiled a smartphone that doubles up as a robot that can project video from its face and respond its owners' commands.
  
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• How Fukushima exclusion zone has become an overgrown wilderness

  07-10-2015 21:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new photo project offers unprecedented insight into the desolate exclusion zone surrounding Fukushima, Japan - where overgrown forest is engulfing hundreds of vehicles and homes.
  
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• Unborn 'horse' fossil still INSIDE the womb discovered at Grube Messel, Darmstadt

  07-10-2015 20:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Palaeontologists discovered the well preserved fossil in the Messel Pit, a former shale quarry in Darmstadt, Germany. They have reconstructed the foetus in the womb (circled).
  
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• Supercharging the news: Google unveils new system to load stories faster on phones

  07-10-2015 20:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google claims the new initiative, called Accelerated Mobile Pages, will 'dramatically improve' the performance of the mobile web.
  
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• Skarp razor that cuts blasts bristles with a LASER to 'melt' hair

  07-10-2015 20:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The £189 (£125) Skarp razor (pictured), built by Californian firm Skarp Technologies, is fitted with an optical fibre that contains a class one laser. that cuts through hair particles.
  
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• Most humans use same part of brain looking for a computer file as a dog for a bone

  07-10-2015 20:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  EXCLUSIVE: Psychologists from the University of Sheffield used brain scanners to see what goes on in our brains when we use inefficient ways to dig out our data
  
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• Lagi reveal how many solar panels we'd need to power the PLANET

  07-10-2015 19:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The calculations were made by the Pittsburgh-based Land Art Generator Initiative. They used US Department of Energy data to work out much energy would be needed per square metre of land.
  
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• A third of adults search Google for answers without trying to remember

  07-10-2015 19:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The report by Russian anti-virus firm, Kaspersky Labs, warns that a quarter of people immediately forget the information they have googled - a process which can mean the dissolution of memories.
  
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• Biologists hold sticks covered in FAECES under beaks of sleeping penguins

  07-10-2015 18:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Biologists working in Antarctica held sticks covered in sand, feathers or guano under the beaks of sleeping king penguins (pictured) and watched their reaction.
  
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• Google Translate works in Whatsapp and decodes messages inside Android apps

  07-10-2015 18:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Californian search giant updated its Translate app to allow it to operate within apps such as WhatsApp meaning no more switching back and forwards between apps to translate text.
  
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• WIRED2015: Alex 'Sandy' Pentland on taking action with big data

  07-10-2015 18:32
  
  Alex "Sandy" Pentland discusses tackling the challenges of a data-driven economy and taking action in a world built on big data.By: Catherine Lawson, Continue reading...
  
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• Portraits of astronauts shaving and doing DIY among 10k Nasa images on Flickr

  07-10-2015 18:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 8,400 photographs from Nasa’s moon missions have been uploaded to Flickr in high resolution by a team of enthusiasts based in Virginia.
  
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• This gold, Putin-themed iPhone 6S costs £2,000

  07-10-2015 18:27
  
  Luxury Russian jeweller Caviar has released a limited edition iPhone 6S that features a golden emblem of Vladimir Putin's head.By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Cyber criminal Stefan Rigo hijacked webcams to spy on people have sex

  07-10-2015 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Stefan Rigo, of Leeds, used malware to control strangers' cameras and spent five to 12 hours a day watching what they were doing in front of their computers (stock photograph).
  
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• Lexus has made a working car out of cardboard

  07-10-2015 17:33
  
      In its latest advertising stunt, the automaker has created a drivable cardboard car that's an exact replica of the Lexus IS saloon. It follows the release of the Lexus hoverboard in August.By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Google AMP wants to fix the 'slow and clunky' mobile web

  07-10-2015 17:12
  
  The mobile web is slow, and Google wants to fix it. The company has announced a new project to simplify mobile pages and make it easier for publishers to create content for phones and tablets.By: James Temperton, Continue reading...
  
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• Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich And Aziz Sancar for DNA repair

  07-10-2015 17:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Three scientists from the Francis Crick Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Duke University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill have been awarded the honour.
  
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• The rebirth of a natural treasure

  07-10-2015 16:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The rebirth of Mozambique's natural treasure
  
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• Eyecatcher smart bracelet shows notifications, and has a year's battery life

  07-10-2015 16:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Eyecatcher was designed by Looksee Labs in Oakland, California. It has a curved, 5-inch display that wraps around the wearer's wrist shows notifications from a connected phone.
  
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• The secret to remembering things is to read them ALOUD

  07-10-2015 16:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The research by Montreal University found increasing the number of ‘aspects’ to the informationsuch as the effort of moving the lips, and talking to someone else, made it more memorable.
  
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• Watch this beautiful new trailer for Pixar's 'The Good Dinosaur'

  07-10-2015 16:10
  
  Disney has released a new trailer for The Good Dinosaur, Pixar's upcoming movie about one boy and his Apatosaurus.By: James Temperton, Continue reading...
  
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• Trio take Nobel Prize in Chemistry for ‘pioneering’ DNA repair study

  07-10-2015 15:55 via go.theregister.com
  
  Man, those molecular mechanics made some moves Nobel Prize 2015  The chemistry Nobel Prize has been awarded to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich, and Aziz Sancar, with a citation "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair".…
  
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• How much consciousness does an octopus have?

  07-10-2015 15:38
  
  New research could allow us to objectively measure consciousness.  But how much consciousness does an octopus have? What about an iPhone? Or a person in a coma?By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• Forget smartwatches, £155 Eyecatcher 'Kindle' bracelet shows notifications, tracks your steps and lasts a YEAR on a single charge

  07-10-2015 15:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Eyecatcher was designed by Looksee Labs in Oakland, California. It has a curved, 5-inch display that wraps around the wearer's wrist shows notifications from a connected phone.
  
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• Life inside the Apollo missions: Intimate portraits of astronauts shaving and doing DIY among 10,000 Nasa images uploaded to Flickr

  07-10-2015 15:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 8,400 photographs from Nasa’s moon missions have been uploaded to Flickr in high resolution by a team of enthusiasts based in Virginia.
  
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• Photosynthesis 'began 3.2 billion years ago' rocks from ancient ocean suggest

  07-10-2015 14:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Geologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found evidence in rock cores (pictured) that may change scientists' understanding of when Earth's oxygen levels rose for the first time.
  
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• Aggressive and controlling behaviour can leave children with low confidence

  07-10-2015 14:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The University of Sussex found that a child’s self-esteem is linked to the behaviour of whoever is considered to be the head honcho at home.
  
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• Airbus files patent for 'stacked' passenger seating

  07-10-2015 14:06
  
  The plane manufacturer's latest patent suggests putting business class passengers in the space currently used by overhead luggage racks in economy.By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• 3D technology 'changes girl's life'

  07-10-2015 14:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The mother of a seven-year-old Londonderry girl with a life threatening lung disease says pioneering surgery has changed her daughter's life.
  
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• Is the world going to end TODAY? Doomsdayers change their predictions... again

  07-10-2015 13:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Doomsday prophets from the E-Bible Fellowship claimthat God has been punishing the world since the first proposed Rapture date on 11 May 2011 and this punishment is due to end 1,600 days later.
  
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• Waterstones ditches Kindles, blames poor e-reader sales

  07-10-2015 13:27
  
  The UK retailer is replacing space reserved for kindles with paperbacks due to poor sales.By: Becca Caddy, Continue reading...
  
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• Are YOU more racist than you think?

  07-10-2015 13:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study by researchers at the University of California Los Angeles showed that even liberal-minded people still have deeply ingrained prejudices about race.
  
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• How the giraffe got its long neck

  07-10-2015 13:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the New York Institute of Technology found that necks of the ancestors giraffes began growing far earlier than had been thought - up to 16 million years ago.
  
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• Reg lecture asks what’s so scary about 1.5 tonnes of metal with a mind of its own?

  07-10-2015 13:00 via go.theregister.com
  
  Your driverless car will be along shortly Reg events  The technology to run driverless cars is ready. Whether humans are ready for driverless cars is quite another matter.…
  
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• Kepler-442b is more habitable than Earth

  07-10-2015 12:53
  
  The new habitability index pulls together a wide range of data to help scientists choose which exoplanets to study.By: K.G Orphanides, Continue reading...
  
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• Volkswagen scandal: 11 million cars to be recalled in January

  07-10-2015 12:44
  
  Volkswagen is set to recall all vehicles associated with the emissions rigging scandal and repair them by the end of 2016.By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Do YOU trust Apple more than the government?

  07-10-2015 12:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The global survey of 3,563 was carried out by tech site TechRadar. Participants trusted Apple and Google the most, followed by Microsoft and the government. They trusted Facebook the least.
  
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• Twitter launches Moments to help users follow breaking news

  07-10-2015 12:10
  
  Twitter has launched a new curation tool called Moments, which lets users keep up with the best of what's happening at any given time.By: Becca Caddy, Continue reading...
  
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• DNA repair wins chemistry Nobel

  07-10-2015 11:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded for discoveries in DNA repair.
  
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• Are YOU more racist than you think? Men named Jamal are seen as being bigger and more violent than those named Connor

  07-10-2015 11:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study by researchers at the University of California Los Angeles showed that even liberal-minded people still have deeply ingrained prejudices about race.
  
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• Microsoft announces Surface Book laptop and Lumia 950 phones

  07-10-2015 11:31
  
     Microsoft's new Windows 10 hardware includes everything from laptops and health trackers to augmented reality headsets.By: K.G Orphanides, Continue reading...
  
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• Do YOU trust Apple more than the government? Poll reveals people would rather give their data to a brand than politicians

  07-10-2015 11:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The global survey of 3,563 was carried out by tech site TechRadar. Participants trusted Apple and Google the most, followed by Microsoft and the government. They trusted Facebook the least.
  
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• Kameha Grand Zurich launch space-themed hotels have 'zero gravity' beds

  07-10-2015 11:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MailOnline Travel blasts off to the best of the galactic guest houses, from Switzerland to Singapore.
  
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