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• Russian women locked together for eight days emerge from space test

  06-11-2015 23:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The unique experiment, atMoscow's Institute of Biomedical Problems, was designed to test how an all-female crew would interact on a trip to the moon and back.
  
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• 'Gene repair' could be tested on people in 2017: Start-up wants to use controversial technique to treat hereditary blindness

  06-11-2015 23:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Human trials of Crispr editing are being proposed by Massachusetts-based start-up Editas Medicine to treat a rare form of blindness knwon as Leber congenital amaurosis.
  
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• Christian and Muslim children found to be less altruistic than offspring of atheists

  06-11-2015 23:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Children from households identifying as Christian and Muslim were significantly less likely than children from non-religious households to share, researchers found.
  
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• Mysterious firm backed by one of China's richest men set to build billion dollar factory to take on Tesla and Apple with electric car

  06-11-2015 22:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Faraday Future has revealed it will build a billion dollar electric car factory in the US. The firm is backed by Chinese multibillionaire Jia Yueting and has promised to create 'intelligent vehicles.'
  
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• Beware of the MEGARAT: Researchers find fossils of the biggest rodent in history, ten times the size of today’s pests 

  06-11-2015 22:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The discovery, by the Australian National University, was made after finding fossils of seven giant rat species in East Timor. The terrifying creatures were the same size as a small dog.
  
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• Spacewalkers encounter leaking ammonia, spoils radiator work

  06-11-2015 21:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Spacewalking astronauts encountered leaking ammonia and minor glove damage while performing plumbing work outside the International Space Station.
  
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• Play with your cat via Skype using a remote-controlled toy

  06-11-2015 20:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from Ochanomizu University have developed a system named Itaneko that allows a cat owner to remotely control a cat-toy by a computer mouse, while communicating with the cat via video phone.
  
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• Does growing in a religious family make you MEAN? Christian and Muslim children found to be less altruistic than offspring of atheists

  06-11-2015 20:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Children from households identifying as Christian and Muslim were significantly less likely than children from non-religious households to share, researchers found.
  
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• Russian women locked together for eight days emerge from space test, and say they missed their family more than showering

  06-11-2015 20:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The unique experiment, atMoscow's Institute of Biomedical Problems, was designed to test how an all-female crew would interact on a trip to the moon and back.
  
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• Elephants using their trunks like 'LEAF BLOWERS' to reach hard to grasp food

  06-11-2015 20:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mineko and Suzuko, two female Asian elephants at Kamine Zoo in Japan, were observed using their trunks to blast air atfood, directing it within reach.
  
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• Apple patent reveals plans to use fingerprints to call the emergency services 

  06-11-2015 20:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Apple patent could make your iPhone protect your data and call emergency services when touched with a specific finger. It could be used in case of robbery or accident.
  
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• Overwatch, StarCraft II, Hearthstone: Blizzcon 2015's biggest announcements

  06-11-2015 20:01
  
  Blizzard Entertainment has revealed a host of new details for its upcoming games at its annual dedicated convention in Anaheim, CaliforniaBy: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• WarCraft movie trailer revealed at Blizzcon 2015

  06-11-2015 19:33
  
     The first trailer for the long-in-development WarCraft movie has been revealed, during the opening ceremony for Blizzcon 2015.
  "It was super important to us and to Legendary to be true to Warcaft and make you proud," Blizzard president Mike Morhaime told the Blizzcon crowd, who rapturously received the debut footage from the movie. The early look is promising, showing an accurate adaptation the popular fantasy strategy game.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Video shows skunk pull a handstand in Saguaro National Park to warn off predator

  06-11-2015 19:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The stinky spotted skunk was captured performing its warning dance in Happy Valley, Saguaro National Park in Arizona.
  
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• Facebook Music Stories lets you listen to 30-second clips from Apple and Spotify

  06-11-2015 19:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Called Music Stories, Facebook said its new feature (pictured), which links to Apple Music and Spotify, is designed to enable ‘better music discovery and sharing'.
  
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• Bizarre megastructure was NOT built by aliens: Experts rule out 'Dyson sphere' theory but admit they still don't know exactly what it is

  06-11-2015 18:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers at the Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute, Seti, trained its Allen Telescope Array located 311 miles (500km) from San Francisco on this star for more than two weeks.
  
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• Obama rejects Keystone XL pipeline

  06-11-2015 18:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US President Barack Obama rejects an application to build the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada because it will not help the economy, he says.
  
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• Did our solar system once contain DOZENS of Earth-like planets? Simulations suggest these rocky worlds may have been kicked out by the gas giants billions of years ago

  06-11-2015 18:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Computer simulations by astronomers from Northwestern University have cast serious doubt on the widely-accepted 'Nice' formation model, proposed in 2005.
  
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• How a plane crash is investigated

  06-11-2015 18:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How a plane crash is investigated
  
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• WIRED Retail: how Ocado wants to make grocery shopping 'pleasurable'

  06-11-2015 17:58
  
  Paul Clarke, director of technology at Ocado, will talk about how he helped turn the weekly shop into a painless clickBy: Catherine Lawson, Continue reading...
  
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• WIRED Retail: how Ocado want to make grocery shopping 'pleasurable'

  06-11-2015 17:58
  
  Paul Clarke, director of technology at Ocado, will talk about how he helped turn the weekly shop into a painless clickBy: Catherine Lawson, Continue reading...
  
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• TEDx Berlin and Marriott take the (un)conference back to the hotel

  06-11-2015 17:53
    Marriott hotel group and TEDx Berlin are breaking down the walls of the conference hall through an innovative partnership that enables transformative debateBy: WIRED.co.uk, Continue reading...
  
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• What it's really like to listen to Sennheiser's £30,000 Orpheus headphones

  06-11-2015 17:05
  
      Sennheiser has revamped and reissued its famous limited-edition Orpheus headphones, but they will cost you £30,000.  By: Jeremy White, Continue reading...
  
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• John Lewis's Christmas advert 2015 Man on the Moon breaks records

  06-11-2015 16:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The two-minute production – which cost £1million, with a further £6million going on booking TV slots – features a six-year-old girl who is determined to get a message to a lonely old ‘Man on the Moon’.
  
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• Robot toddler learns to stand -- simply by imagining it

  06-11-2015 16:33
  
  Toddlers often teeter rather precariously, and adorably, on the boundary between falling over and staying upright. And Darwin is no different -- except that it's a robot.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• Greenpeace loses Indian registration

  06-11-2015 16:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The environmental pressure group Greenpeace says its charitable registration to operate in India has been revoked.
  
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• vOICe glasses translates images into different noises to help blind people 'see'

  06-11-2015 15:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have created a device which can help the blind detect their environment without needing hundreds of hours of training.
  
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• New Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer arrives out of nowhere

  06-11-2015 15:24
  
  A new trailer for JJ Abrams' 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' has been released seemingly out of nowhere.By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• Panda whisperers: Chinese scientists have decoded the language of these cuddly bears after five years of research

  06-11-2015 15:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Central China have said they now understand 13 different sounds pandas make, including the sound 'gee-gee’ which means ‘I am hungry.'
  
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• Space travel and lack of gravity mess with astronauts' brains

  06-11-2015 14:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Since last year, Nasa has been studying the brains of astronauts by scanning them before and after space travel to the ISS, and putting them through various tests while on board.
  
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• Playing with death and digital futures at The Rooms Festival

  06-11-2015 14:30
  
      The Rooms Festival is bringing life to abandoned public buildings in Bristol from 5 to 7 November. By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Dawn of gene-editing medicine?

  06-11-2015 14:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Does the smiling face of Layla Richards mark a new era in genetic medicine that could change all our lives?
  
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• Move over Monty! John Lewis's Man on the Moon Christmas ad breaks records with 23,000 online mentions in just TWO HOURS

  06-11-2015 14:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The two-minute production – which cost £1million, with a further £6million going on booking TV slots – features a six-year-old girl who is determined to get a message to a lonely old ‘Man on the Moon’.
  
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• Why the next Guardians of the Galaxy adventure is animated

  06-11-2015 14:04
  
      After bucking expectations and storming the global box office, 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy firmly established Marvel's cosmic band of scoundrels as the sci-fi heroes of a new generation. While the comic book adventures of the team are currently going in a very different direction -- with the X-Men's Kitty Pryde taking Peter Quill's place as Star-Lord and The Thing from the Fantastic Four joining the line-up -- the new animated se
  
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• Gene editing technique is 'landmark' in cancer battle

  06-11-2015 13:58
  
  An innovative new gene editing technique has been tested for the first time on a baby girl with inoperable leukaemia.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• Astronaut Tim Peake discusses his upcoming mission to the ISS

  06-11-2015 13:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Major Peake (pictured) is preparing to travel to the International Space Station next month. He took part in a Q&A session at the Science Museum in London this morning.
  
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• Think you've been abducted by aliens? It was probably just sleep paralysis: Psychologist attempts to logically explain 'encounters of the fourth kind'

  06-11-2015 13:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Christopher C French, an expert inthe psychology of paranormal belief at Goldsmiths, the University of London, said there are plausible explanations for why people think they have been abducted.
  
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• Watch this AI rap generator spit algorithmic bars

  06-11-2015 13:27
  
  A team of computer scientists have created an artificially intelligent rap lyric generator. By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• Astronaut Tim Peake hopes his upcoming mission to the ISS will 'generate as much excitement as the moon landings'

  06-11-2015 12:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Major Peake (pictured) is preparing to travel to the International Space Station next month. He took part in a Q&A session at the Science Museum in London this morning.
  
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• Beam Messenger that shows what you’re typing rolls out to iOS

  06-11-2015 12:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Beam Messenger app originally launched on Android in 2014 and is now available on iOS (pictured) and the Apple Watch in the UK and US. The Android version has also been redesigned.
  
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• Toyota makes £600m bet on artificial intelligence

  06-11-2015 11:51
  Toyota's investing more than £600m in artificial intelligence and robotics for its self-driving cars and robots. 
   By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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• New TalkTalk data: 157,000 had details stolen

  06-11-2015 11:45
  
  Scam calls and emails from criminals pretending to be TalkTalk or a bank remain a "real issue", according to the company.By: James Temperton, Continue reading...
  
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• UK astronaut to rekindle space buzz

  06-11-2015 11:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  British astronaut Tim Peake says he hopes his mission to the space station will generate excitement similar to that seen during the Apollo Moon missions.
  
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• Seeing with SOUND: Glasses translate images into different noises to help blind people visualise the world around them

  06-11-2015 11:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena have created a device which can help the blind detect their environment without needing hundreds of hours of training.
  
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• Twitter VP 'truly sorry' over diversity 'confusion'

  06-11-2015 10:55
  
  Twitter's senior VP of engineering has responded to a claim by a former employee that Twitter has "diversity issues".By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• VIDEO: Timelapse: Huge storm rolls into Sydney

  06-11-2015 10:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Timelapse footage has emerged showing a huge shelf rolling onto mainland Australia from the sea. Courtesy Sarah Estela.
  
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• Anonymous unmasks 1,000 KKK 'members' on Pastebin

  06-11-2015 10:30
  Anonymous has released the names of around 1,000 people they claim are associated with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
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• Anonymous unmask 1,000 KKK 'members' on Pastebin

  06-11-2015 10:30
  Anonymous has released the names of around 1,000 people they claim are associated with the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
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• YouTube now supports 3D virtual reality video

  06-11-2015 10:22
  
  YouTube now supports 3D virtual reality video, Google has announced.By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• VIDEO: How astronauts train for space missions

  06-11-2015 09:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In December history will be made when Tim Peake becomes the first official, government backed, British astronaut to go to the International Space Station.
  
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