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• False colour image of Pluto reveals diverse terrain on dwarf planet's surface

  12-11-2015 23:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New Horizons scientists made the false colour image of Pluto to highlight the many subtle colour differences between Pluto's distinct regions.
  
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• Now we know why Philae phouled up comet landing

  12-11-2015 23:43 via go.theregister.com
  
  Plans for Rosetta probe to crash land on comet next year Exactly a year ago, mankind's first ever attempt to land on a comet did not go according to plan - and the European Space Agency (ESA) has just released a report explaining why.…
  
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• Quantum dots covered in fool's gold may help charge your phone in 30 SECONDS

  12-11-2015 23:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The discovery was made by researchers at Vanderbilt in Nashville after they realised that fool's gold can help quantum dots last for more than a few charge cycles.
  
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• Facebook reveals record number of government demand for its user data

  12-11-2015 23:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Government requests for account data globally jumped 18 percent in the first half of 2015 to 41,214 accounts, up from 35,051 requests in the second half of 2014, Facebook said.
  
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• Melbourne Apple store ‘racist’ security guard ejected six black students

  12-11-2015 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Six black students were asked to leave an Apple store at Highpoint shopping centre in Melbourne over concerns they ‘might steal something’, in an incident which appears to be racist.
  
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• Spotify names its most streamed track of all time as Major Lazer's 'Lean On'

  12-11-2015 22:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'Lean On,' the downbeat electronic track featuring Major Lazer that has quickly become a club favorite, has soared to be the most streamed song ever on Spotify.
  
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• Giant Magellan Telescope could unlock secrets of the universe

  12-11-2015 22:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Chilean President Michelle Bachelet puthammer to stone atop Cerro Las Campanas yesterday evening to mark the start of construction of the Giant Magellan Telescope.
  
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• Unicef unveils Kushi Baby and SaoPen and hopes it can save lives

  12-11-2015 22:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Finalists announced for the 'Wearables for Good' challenge.
  A contest to design wearable and sensor technology that serves people in resource constrained environments.
  
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• UFO dubbed 'WTF' will collide with Earth tomorrow on Friday 13

  12-11-2015 22:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A mysterious piece of space debris named WT1190F is predicted to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere at around 6.20am GMT (13.20 ET) in the skies above the Indian Ocean.
  
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• Google Street View teams up with British Museum so the public can tour its treasures

  12-11-2015 21:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google sent portable gigapixel cameras into the British Museum in London to allow users to view 4,500 objects in the museums collections as they walk around using the Street View technology.
  
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• The 'lighthouse' from another galaxy: Brightest ever gamma-ray pulsar is the first to be spotted OUTSIDE the Milky Way

  12-11-2015 21:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers working on Nasa's Fermi Space Telescope discovered the puslar, called PSR J0540-6919, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy 163,000 light years from the Milky Way.
  
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• Fallout 4 leads to experts revealing basics of living in world riddled with radiation

  12-11-2015 21:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from the American Chemical Society have released a video explaining the basics of survival in a world riddled with radiation - and it is even harder than fiction would have us believe.
  
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• Elvie game designed to boost women's sex lives is controlled by kegel exercises

  12-11-2015 20:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Elvie was created by London-based women's health professional, Tania Boler, who wanted to find a better way to strengthen and tone women's pelvic floor muscles.
  
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• YouTube stars try their hand at stunts from XBox's Lara Croft game in Siberia

  12-11-2015 20:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Xbox challenged four YouTubers to take a walk in the world of Lara Croft and survive the deep Siberian wilderness. They had 48 hours to put fear and weakness aside and complete their tasks.
  
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• Mass extinctions hit large animals the hardest: Small vertebrates flourish after deadly global catastrophes

  12-11-2015 20:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania studied 1,120 fish fossils from between 419 to 323 million years ago to investigate body size trends after the Hangenberg Event.
  
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• Lost genetic history of Inca mummy

  12-11-2015 20:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  DNA analysis of a child mummy sheds light on the genetic history of the Inca civilisation.
  
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• 'Lean On' becomes top song ever on Spotify

  12-11-2015 20:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'Lean On,' the downbeat electronic track featuring Major Lazer that has quickly become a club favorite, has soared to be the most streamed song ever on Spotify.
  
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• Google's YouTube Music takes on Apple and Spotify with free music streaming app

  12-11-2015 19:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Called YouTube Music, the platform will offer songs both with and without video, and users will be able to switch instantly to an audio-only mode.
  
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• Amazon rolls out two hour food delivery service in major US markets

  12-11-2015 19:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon has expanded Prime Now to include food delivery from local vendors in 20 major cities including Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Houston,Miami, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Phoenix.
  
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• THIRD mystery 'Death Star' black orb to crash into Spanish village sparks terror

  12-11-2015 18:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The strange-looking black orb was found in the Spanish village of Villavieja in Murcia - becoming the latest instance of an increasingly bewildering phenomenon.
  
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• Fallout 4 review, day four: Pip pip, Pip-Boy

  12-11-2015 18:37
  
     It's rare for an in-game piece of paraphernalia to become as important to players as Fallout's Pip-Boy. The wrist-mounted accessory has appeared, in various iterations, in every game in the series, and serves as a canonical explanation for the menu screens you as a player will navigate.
  The gadget has taken on a life of its own though, its popularity with fans leading Bethesda to not only make it the subject of Fallout 4's collector's edition (whic
  
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• Tour the British Museum on Google Street View

  12-11-2015 18:19
  
      It's now possible to take a tour of ancient pottery, statues, tapestries, and more without stepping away from a computer.By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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• Great tits sacrifice food to stay close to their mate, Oxford University scientists find

  12-11-2015 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Great tits in the Oxfordshire woods sacrificed sustenance in order to stay close to their mate, a study has found.
  
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• Extinction of a predator can have have a knock-on effect on other species

  12-11-2015 18:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study was carried out by the Centre for Ecology and Conservation at the University of Penryn, Cornwall. The researchers studied several species of aphids and parasitoid wasps (pictured).
  
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• 'Sociable Soccer' wants to make football games sensible again

  12-11-2015 17:48
  
  A remake (or, rather, a "spiritual successor") to the classic top-game football game Sensible Soccer is seeking £300,000 on Kickstarter to make a glorious return to consoles.By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• Hypochondriacs are 'TWICE as likely to catch a cold'

  12-11-2015 17:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University asked people to assess their health as excellent, very good, good, fair or poor before exposing them to the common cold virus.
  
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• Facebook's non-AI, distant space rocks: Podcast 243

  12-11-2015 17:36
  
  
  We ponder how 'artificial' Facebook's AI is, gaze at the most distant object ever found in the Solar System and look back on our favourite science stories of 2015.By: WIRED.co.uk, Continue reading...
  
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• Cosmonaut training site: Oasis in an uncertain world

  12-11-2015 17:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Star City in Moscow continues to function as a space training centre, oblivious to events in the outside world.
  
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• Climate risk 'threatens markets'

  12-11-2015 17:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Global investment portfolios could be hit hard amid changes in short-term market sentiments, triggered by climate impact concerns.
  
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• Instagram wants to virtually TELEPORT you into the lives of other users

  12-11-2015 17:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Instagram co-founder, Mike Krieger said his Californian company would like to team up with Oculus to transport users around the world using virtual reality.
  
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• WIRED Out Of Office part four: Comic Sans' Vincent Connare

  12-11-2015 17:03
  Out Of Office with the All-New Jaguar XF part 4 - Vincent ConnareBy: WIRED Promotion, Continue reading...
  
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• Kuwait is fighting back against sandstorms -- with trees

  12-11-2015 16:55
  
      Kuwait hopes planting trees will solve its sandstorm woes.By: Kathryn Nave, Continue reading...
  
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• How black box thinking can prevent avoidable medical errors

  12-11-2015 16:25
  
  The black box recorder can teach us how to avoid medical error-induced fatalities.By: Matthew Syed, Continue reading...
  
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• DNA shows the Inca child mummy was part of mysterious Palaeo-Indians

  12-11-2015 16:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Geneticists have sequenced the mitochondrial DNA from the lungs of a mummified boy who was sacrificed 500 years ago by Incan priests on Aconcagua mountain in Argentina.
  
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• Scientists identify new STD MG that could affect thousands of adults

  12-11-2015 15:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 90 per cent of Mycoplasma genitaliumcases in men - and more than 66 per cent of women - are in people aged 25-44 years. The risk of infection rises in line with a person'snumber of sexual partners.
  
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• World of Warcraft: Legion will 'feel like you're in a piece of art'

  12-11-2015 15:03
  
      World of Warcraft has been arguably the most popular MMORPG in the world since its launch in 2004. With its sixth expansion pack, Legion, set for release next spring, the world of Azeroth faces another invasion by the demonic Burning Legion, but sees a new class of heroes dubbed Demon Hunters arise to combat them.
  With dark fel magic running rampant though, the colourful world takes on a sickly hue. Bad news for the Horde and Alliance, forced into an u
  
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• Golan Heights circle is 5,000 years old and may have been used for 'sky burials'

  12-11-2015 14:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The prehistoric stone monument of Rujm el-Hiri, or Gilgal Refaim went unnoticed for centuries in a bare expanse of field in the disputed region of the Golan Heights.
  
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• Apple Pay may soon let you send money to friends via peer-to-peer service

  12-11-2015 14:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The company is said to be in talks with US banks such as JP Morgan and Capital One about the new service, which could mean people could pay each other as easily as sending a text message.
  
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• Amphibious robot Mr Nosey travels through tunnels hunting for blockages

  12-11-2015 13:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 66lbs (30kg) cute-looking robot forms part of a host of James Bond-style equipment developed by the UK's Environment Agency which also include lasers and solar-powered cameras.
  
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• Earth's tectonic plates formed when 'massive molten plumes' ripped the crust apart: Tears formed and spread across the planet three billion years ago

  12-11-2015 13:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Geologists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich believe they have unravelled the mystery of what triggered tectonic plate activity on Earth.
  
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• Henry Hargreaves calculates exactly how much air in bags of crisps

  12-11-2015 13:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  One New Zealand blogger was so upset by the disappointing pile of crisps left in his opened bag, that he set about measuring the exact air to crisp ratio in some of his favourite brands.
  
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• Watch this robotic vending machine spew out a car

  12-11-2015 13:12
  
      The gigantic vending machine from Carvana is intended to take stress of dealing with pushy forecourt salespeople out of the equation by allowing a customer to buy a car online and pick it up from the machine.By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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• Sunhouse 360 designs solar-powered homes that ROTATE to follow the sun's rays

  12-11-2015 13:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With floor-to-ceiling windows and panoramic views, the Sunhouse360 homes proposed by a Marbella company will cost around £540,000 ($820,000) for a 2,690 square foot design.
  
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• Minecraft is finally coming to Nintendo Wii U

  12-11-2015 12:38
  
  Minecraft has conquered almost every gaming platform known to man. The only significant hold-out of the current generation? The Wii U -- but that's changing.
  According to a listing on the website for games rating body PEGI, Minecraft: Wii U Edition has been certified for release.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• NHS wants McLaren's F1 live data in hospitals by 2018

  12-11-2015 12:19
  
  A small device called Rapid is providing real-time heart rate, breathing rate and oxygen level monitoring using Formula 1 technology from McLaren.By: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• My Fitness Pal...for dogs! Exercise and calorie-counting app tells pet owners how much food to give their pooches

  12-11-2015 12:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Enter your dog's age, breed and size into the Pedigree Tracks app and it will automatically create a menu with the right amount of calories for them.
  
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• Xbox One update adds old game support

  12-11-2015 11:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A big update for Microsoft's Xbox One is due to start downloading to consoles around the world on Thursday.
  
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• EE boss: hacking attacks have risen since TalkTalk breach

  12-11-2015 11:52
  
  There's been a "heightened level" of attacks trying to access data held by EE since the successful hacks on TalkTalk, the company's boss has said.By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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• Chinese scientists invent material that could lead to invisible jets

  12-11-2015 11:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The material (pictured) was invented by researchers at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China.
  
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• Climate change will 'SHRINK sharks and make them less deadly'

  12-11-2015 11:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  During lab experiments, researchers from the University of Adelaide studied the effects of increased temperatures and CO2 levels on Port Jackson sharks in large tanks.
  
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