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• Software shows how smiing changed during a century of yearbook photos

  24-11-2015 23:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of California used a new data mining tool to find patterns in 150,000 yearbook photos from the 1900s through to 2010.
  
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• VIDEO: Test flight for 're-useable spaceship'

  24-11-2015 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Amazon.com entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has claimed success on the second flight of his New Shepard spaceship.
  
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• Why do shared bathrooms make us so anxious? 

  24-11-2015 22:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For various reasons, public bathrooms are designed to make the experience very uncomfortable, says Harvey Molotch
  Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies, New York University.
  
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• Sneezes spray 'sheets and strings'

  24-11-2015 22:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Physicists discover a striking sequence of shifting shapes that is formed as the fluid we sneeze breaks up into droplets.
  
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• Watch animation that reveals how water flows under the Antarctic

  24-11-2015 21:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An Australian supercomputer has created a detailed animation to map the movement ofAntarctic water, showing how the densities can drive worldwide ocean currents.
  
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• Researchers find new breed of consumers will buy for the 'thrill of the bargain'

  24-11-2015 21:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Professors from San Francisco State University found that sport shoppers have similar behaviors of elite athletes. They love bargain shopping, not because they have to but because they get a thrill.
  
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• Earth's magnetic field WON'T flip within a human lifetime

  24-11-2015 21:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new study saysthe weakening intensity observed in the last few hundred years is actually simply a recovery from an abnormal high.
  
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• Danish man claims his Apple watch started glowing with heat and burned his wrist 

  24-11-2015 20:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jorgen Mouritzen from Denmark had been wearing the smart watch when claims he suddenly felt a searing pain in his arm and he looked down to find the strap smouldering.
  
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• Phew! Earth's magnetic field WON'T flip within a human lifetime: Study claims changing field is just 'normalising'

  24-11-2015 20:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new study saysthe weakening intensity observed in the last few hundred years is actually simply a recovery from an abnormal high.
  
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• Could genetically modified trees save Florida's orange crop?

  24-11-2015 20:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The University of Florida has used a gene isolated from a plant that is a member of the mustard family to create the new trees with enhanced resistance to 'citrus greening'.
  
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• Global warming is NOT taking a hiatus

  24-11-2015 20:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in the UK have teamed up to uncover the mystery of the global warming 'hiatus.' The term has been used in scientific circles for years, but researchers are now saying it doesn't exist.
  
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• Slo-mo sneezes shows disease carrying droplets are far more infectious than thought

  24-11-2015 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sneezes can travel far further than we thought - and 'sneeze clouds' continue to break up and form even as they travel across a room,MIT researchers have found.
  
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• Stringless guitar £150 Kurv uses sensors and a touchpad to play music

  24-11-2015 19:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A British start-up company has designed a digital, stringless guitar that promises to make the dreams of aspiring rock gods come true by producing music as they strum the air.
  
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• The $5 Raspberry Pi Zero could be as revolutionary as the original

  24-11-2015 18:55
  
      Raspberry Pi has launched a next-generation computer for just $5By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• Heat Harvest Table turns heat from cups of tea into ELECTRICITY to charge your phone

  24-11-2015 18:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The table design (pictured), dubbed Heat Harvest, is the brainchild of two students who attended a two week workshop at a 'future-living lab' in Copenhagen called Space 10.
  
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• 100 years of photos reveals the evolution of smiling

  24-11-2015 18:31
  
  Data-mining -- a process that analyses vast amounts of data -- can now help us study anything from online behaviour to phone call patterns. But there's one area that data-mining hasn't covered -- photographs. And now a team of academics at the University of California, Berkeley is looking to change this. By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• Do YOU hate going to the loo in public? Expert explores why shared bathrooms make us so anxious - and why poo is so taboo...

  24-11-2015 18:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  For various reasons, public bathrooms are designed to make the experience very uncomfortable, says Harvey Molotch
  Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies, New York University.
  
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• Windows 10 update removes software without permission

  24-11-2015 18:28
  
  The latest update for Windows 10 is having unforeseen consequences -- deleting potentially important programs without asking for permission first.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• MIT’s Makr Shakr can fix you a perfectly blended cocktail in seconds

  24-11-2015 18:25
  
  They may lack a human bartender's conversational skills, but the Makr Shakr's robotic arms can mix a pretty good cocktail.By: Kathryn Nave, Continue reading...
  
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• Are glaciers destroying MOUNTAINS? Ice blocks pull sediment from rocky ranges faster than tectonic plates build them up

  24-11-2015 18:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An international team of geologists have studied how climate change since the mid-Pleistocene has removed more material from St Elias Mountain in Alaska (pictured) than it has gained.
  
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• Could blocking out the SUN stop global warming? Expert reveals the plan could 'buy us time' while we curb our emissions

  24-11-2015 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The proposal was made by Hugh Hunt at the University of Cambridge, who previously worked on the Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering project (Spice).
  
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• This could be the most dangerous workplace in the world

  24-11-2015 18:13
  
      These limestone quarries in Minya, Egypt, may be one of the world's most dangerous work environments.By: Sophia Epstein, Continue reading...
  
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• This chapel has taken a leap of faith -- by perching on a hilltop

  24-11-2015 18:08
     This concrete and steel slab perched precariously on an El Salvador hillside is a chapel.By: Gian Volpicelli, Continue reading...
  
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• Why diet mixers get you drunk FASTER

  24-11-2015 18:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sugary drinks are thought to slow the passage of alcohol into the bloodstream, unlike the artificial sweeteners in diet drinks, according to researchers at Northern Kentucky University.
  
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• Mod-enhanced Star Wars: Battlefront looks as real as the movies

  24-11-2015 17:40
  
      Star Wars: Battlefront may have divided critics on its gameplay merits, but on a purely aesthetic level it's hard to knock. The game is already about as close as you can come to travelling to a galaxy far, far away -- short of virtual reality -- but there is one way to make it even more realistic.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Suck it, Elon – Jeff Bezos' New Shepard space rocket blasts off, lands in one piece

  24-11-2015 17:28 via go.theregister.com
  
  VTOL win for Blue Origin Pics and vid  The was much whooping and popping of champagne corks yesterday at Amazon supremo Jeff Bezos' space outfit Blue Origin: the company's New Shepard rocket successfully performed a VTOL flight – a vertical takeoff and landing.…
  
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• Jeff Bezos' New Shepard rocket achieves successful VTOL

  24-11-2015 17:28 via go.theregister.com
  
  Champagne corks pop down at Blue Origin The was much whooping and popping of champagne corks yesterday at Amazon supremo Jeff Bezos' space outfit Blue Origin, as the company's New Shepard rocket successfully performed a VTOL flight at the second attempt.…
  
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• Mothers who are 'anti-fat' are more likely to pass their attitudes onto children

  24-11-2015 16:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Otago in New Zealand found that while babies aged 11 months preferred to look at obese figures, by 32 months they preferred average-sized figures instead.
  
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• American Airlines passenger 'takes picture of UFO' near Area 51 military base

  24-11-2015 16:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The witness was on an American Airlines flight from San Jose, California to Houston, Texas, when he took a series of pictures of a giant metallic disc in the Nevada desert.
  
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• WIRED Retail 2015 startup stage: the future of data analytics

  24-11-2015 16:50
  In a marble-pillared drawing room at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, 16 startups entered a pitch battleBy: Wired UK Staff, Continue reading...
  
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• WIRED Retail 2015 startup stage: cool tools for commerce

  24-11-2015 16:37
  In a marble-pillared drawing room at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, 16 startups entered a pitch battleBy: Wired UK Staff, Continue reading...
  
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• HALF of our closest primate relatives are on the brink of extinction around the world

  24-11-2015 16:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have released a report on the world's most endangered primates, including the Hainan gibbon (pictured) from China and the Northern sportive lemur in Madagascar.
  
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• TV broadcast vans drive ESA from Perth

  24-11-2015 15:31 via go.theregister.com
  
  Space agency seeks quieter spot for Oz launch tracking ops Urban sprawl and interference from TV broadcast vans have obliged the European Space Agency (ESA) to shutter its Perth station in Western Australia, which until now has been handling initial tracking of spacecraft soaring aloft from Kourou, French Guiana.…
  
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• Primates in peril: HALF of our closest living relatives are on the brink of extinction around the world

  24-11-2015 15:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have released a report on the world's most endangered primates, including the Hainan gibbon (pictured) from China and the Northern sportive lemur in Madagascar.
  
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• Take Dr Sandi Mann's personality test to find out which office ANIMAL you are

  24-11-2015 15:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Sandi Mann, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at University of Central Lancashire came up with the test (screenshot) by analysing decisions we subconsciously make at work.
  
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• Bitwalking app tracks your steps and rewards you for getting fit

  24-11-2015 15:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The London-based start-up believes that a digital currency generated by human movement could help impoverished workers in developing countries raise extra income.
  
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• Australia trial for GM fruit fly

  24-11-2015 15:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Australia will carry out trials of a genetically modified fruit fly to break the breeding cycle of this crop pest.
  
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• Volcanic eruption in Mexico in the 1980s triggered a 'spurt' of global warming

  24-11-2015 15:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of climate scientists led by a group at Plymouth University said there was a series of rapid changes that occurred in ecosystems around the world between 1984 and 1988.
  
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• Pesticides are now blamed for the decline of butterflies: Banned chemicals are linked to the demise of 15 species across the UK

  24-11-2015 14:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study, based on data gathered by volunteers at more than 1,000 sites across the UK, associated declines in 15 of 17 butterfly species (small tortoiseshell pictured) with neonicotinoid use.
  
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• Dell put a security hole in your laptop: here's how to fix it

  24-11-2015 14:42
  
  Dell has responded to reports that several models of recently shipped computers contain a serious security vulnerability, saying it "deeply regrets that this has happened" and that it is "taking steps to address it". By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• COP21: Malawi's battle to hold on to forests

  24-11-2015 14:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How Malawi is tackling climate change with the help of a wood-fired cookstove that generates electricity.
  
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• 3D printing aids life-saving surgery

  24-11-2015 14:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 3D-printed model of the blood vessels inside a woman's brain has helped surgeons practise life-saving surgery.
  
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• Google Doodle celebrates Lucy the Australopithecus

  24-11-2015 14:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google's Doodle shows the Australopithecus afarensis, found in Ethiopia, walking between a chimpanzee and a human to illustrate the transition between the two species.
  
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• Dell admits computer security flaw

  24-11-2015 14:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dell acknowledges it unintentionally installed software on its computers that produced a security vulnerability.
  
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• ITV ditches ITV Player and launches new streaming Hub

  24-11-2015 13:47
  
  ITV has updated its streaming player with a new name, look, and feel.By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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• Fantastic Four sequel quietly killed by Fox

  24-11-2015 13:31
  
  This summer's Fantastic Four reboot was a fantastic flop. And now, Fox appears to have quietly cancelled the sequel.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Tiny 'row-bot' feasts on dirty water to power itself

  24-11-2015 13:29
  
  A tiny robot that powers itself by swallowing dirty water could one day play a major role in environmental clean-up efforts.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• ISS DESIS space camera will capture fires, floods and droughts on Earth

  24-11-2015 13:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The space station will be fitted with a 'space camera' able to monitor natural phenomena such as fires, floods and droughts on Earth. It has been developed at La Trobe University, Melbourne.
  
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• Facebook privacy judgement delayed

  24-11-2015 13:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A judgement which ordered Facebook to remove cookies in Belgium or face fines is held up while court documents are translated.
  
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• Randall Munroe spoke to The Reg again. We're habit-forming that way

  24-11-2015 13:00 via go.theregister.com
  
  Web comic author talks procrastination, illustration and the Thing Explainer In just over a decade Randall Munroe has become firmly established and it’s safe to say adored as the author of xkcd.…
  
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