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• 'There will be no electronic warfare Pearl Harbor': Military bosses hit out at claims US has fallen behind in electromagnetic 'doomsday weapon' development

  07-12-2015 23:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Army's Electronic Warfare chief at the Pentagon has pledged 'we are committed to this,' following a report that claimed the US is falling behind in the area of electromagnetic weapons.
  
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• Are half of the exoplanets found by Kepler GHOSTS?

  07-12-2015 23:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Half of the objects in Kepler's 'candidate of planets' are likely eclipsing stars or brown dwarfs, rather than larger gas giants, according to researchers in Portugal.
  
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• Stunning new image shows 'Earth's evil twin' Titan up close

  07-12-2015 23:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is one our best ever glimpses of the haze of  'Earth's evil twin', and a tantalising view of Saturn's moon, which many believe could harbour alien life.
  
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• VIDEO: Arnie: 'Use technology to help climate'

  07-12-2015 23:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger calls on world leaders to take action on climate action
  
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• How old are you REALLY? Blood test can tell your biological age

  07-12-2015 22:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  By analyzing the proteins in a blood sample, researchers have found that they can determine a person's biological age using a simple new blood test.
  
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• USS Zumwalt heads out to sea on its maiden voyage

  07-12-2015 22:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 200 shipbuilders, sailors and residents gathered to watch as the futuristic 600-foot, 15,000-ton USS Zumwalt glided past Fort Popham, Maine, on Monday.
  
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• Small gestures can make other people nicer in return, claims study

  07-12-2015 22:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the Brain and Creativity Institute of University of Southern California observed people's reaction to others holding the door open for them, and found 50% returned the favour.
  
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• Solving the mystery of the Chaco Canyon houses

  07-12-2015 22:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The great houses, some of which are partially standing today, are located in the high desert landscape of New Mexico, where ancestors of Puebloan people called home centuries ago.
  
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• Researchers unveil first biologically powered 'chimera' computer chip and say it could be able to taste and smell

  07-12-2015 22:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Columbia University have developed an electronic chip that has both biological and solid-state components.
  
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• Japanese hack gets space probe back on track

  07-12-2015 22:16 via go.theregister.com
  
  The little engines that could It took five years of painstaking work but the Japanese NASA has got its Akatsuki probe back on track.…
  
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• Early dinosaurs are 10 MILLION years younger than first thought: Fossils reveal the creatures lived during the Late Triassic

  07-12-2015 22:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Utah have dated geologic samples from a fossil-rich formation in Argentina to discover that fossils in the region are five to ten million years younger than thought.
  
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• The changing landscape of America: Incredible images show how the Lyell Glacier has lost nearly 80% of its surface area since 1883

  07-12-2015 22:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Lyell Glacier, which was once Yosemite National Park's biggest glacier in California, has shrinking from about half a square mile (1.22 square km) to a tenth of a square mile (0.27 square km).
  
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• Spotify's Year in Music reveals which songs YOU have streamed in 2015

  07-12-2015 22:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Spotify Year In Music (pictured) site collects information about your streaming habits and reveals which song you started the year listening to, and your favourite artists.
  
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• Spy camera that can see around CORNERS

  07-12-2015 21:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh have developed a camera system that uses infrared laser light reflected off the floor to track objects or people hidden around a corner.
  
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• Chinese engineers design rocket-propelled ‘sweeper’ that eats space garbage

  07-12-2015 21:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A rocket-powered space-sweeper that feasts on debris could clear Earth’s orbits (illustrated) from junk. Engineersfrom Tsinghua University, Beijing designed the engine.
  
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• Twitter gets a picture boost: Firm adds bigger uncropped photos to web site in bid to take on Instagram

  07-12-2015 21:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twitter is uncropping photos to create a more ‘immersive’ experience for its users. The platform announced that larger displays of single and multiple-photo spreads will now be a part of the feed.
  
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• Are half of the exoplanets found by Kepler GHOSTS? Probe's data may be far less accurate than thought, say scientists

  07-12-2015 20:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Half of the objects in Kepler's 'candidate of planets' are likely eclipsing stars or brown dwarfs, rather than larger gas giants, according to researchers in Portugal.
  
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• Elusive Klipspringer deer is snapped hiding in plain sight on South Africa hillside

  07-12-2015 20:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  On closer inspection, an elusive Klipspringer deer can be seen hiding in plain sight at Shikumbu kop in South Africa.
  
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• Defences against the indefensible?

  07-12-2015 20:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Can flood defences always protect vulnerable communities from the impact of "exceptional" weather events, such as Storm Desmond?
  
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• Your phone could soon be powered by 'PAPER'

  07-12-2015 19:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The material (pictured) is made of nanocellulose - cellulose fibres similar to those used in paper that have been broken down by high-pressure water to produce fibres just 20 nanometres thick.
  
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• Japan's Akatsuki 'dawn' spacecraft enters the orbit of Venus after failed 2010 mission

  07-12-2015 19:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Japan’s space agency has confirmed its Akatsuki probe (illustrated) has entered into orbit around Venus, after failing to do so upon its launch in 2010, when it drifted to a heliocentric orbit.
  
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• Would you want to know how old your body REALLY is? Blood test claims to be able to reveal our 'biological age'

  07-12-2015 19:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  By analyzing the proteins in a blood sample, researchers have found that they can determine a person's biological age using a simple new blood test.
  
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• Twitter will now display your photos in full

  07-12-2015 18:51
  
  Twitter is great for many things -- communication, social movements, memes -- but one thing it's never excelled at is image sharing. Although your experience will vary depending on which app you use or browser plug-ins you may have active, the platform isn't brilliant for photography.
  It's an area the social media giant is looking to correct with its latest update. As of today, images shared via tweet will be displayed in full as you browse the core Twitter.com, rather than the a
  
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• Anonymous declares December 11 'Isis Trolling Day'

  07-12-2015 18:48
  
  Following the hacking of several hundred Isis Twitter accounts, Anonymous has announced it will carry out an 'Official Isis Trolling Day'. By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner, #JeSuisParis, Harry Styles and THAT black and blue dress top the 2015 Year on Twitter 

  07-12-2015 18:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The hashtag #JeSuisParis, used to show solidarity with the French capital in the wake of its second terrorist attack, marked the most talked about moment of the year on Twitter.
  
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• Human's flat faces are an 'oddity' caused by a loss of bone after Neanderthals

  07-12-2015 18:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the Natural History Museum in London and New York University analysed bone growth on several skulls including a five-year-old Neanderthal child and four 400,000-year-old hominins.
  
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• Toshiba faces £40 million fine over accounting scandal

  07-12-2015 17:57
  
  Toshiba recently admitted to overstating its earnings by ¥224.8billion (£1.2billion) over seven years -- and now it's been hit by a ¥7 billion (£40 million) fine. By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• Samsung's Galaxy S7 could be 10% CHEAPER than its S6 in an attempt to steal users from Apple

  07-12-2015 17:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Samsung is expected to announce details of its new flagship phone the Galaxy S7 early next year. It is expected to keep the design of the Galaxy S6 Edge (pictured) but will have 3D Touch interface.
  
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• Volumique's digital games mix origami art with smartphones

  07-12-2015 17:49
  
  Designer Etienne Mineur is reuniting digital and physical through board games by blending origami art with smartphones.By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Continue reading...
  
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• Old mobile phones are helping to save the rainforest

  07-12-2015 17:41
  
  Give your old mobile to Topher White and he'll use it to save the rainforest. The founder and CEO of San Francisco-based non-profit Rainforest Connection has made a cheap, solar-powered surveillance network of discarded mobilesBy: Kathryn Nave, Continue reading...
  
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• New sightings of Loch Ness Monster at their highest in more than a decade

  07-12-2015 17:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Gary Campbell, keeper of the official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register, said it had been a vintage year for 'sightings' of the famous creature in Scotland.
  
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• Spy camera that can see around CORNERS: Technology can track people who are out of sight and spot cars at blind junctions

  07-12-2015 17:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh have developed a camera system that uses infrared laser light reflected off the floor to track objects or people hidden around a corner.
  
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• These walls eat smog

  07-12-2015 17:29
  
      The white walls of the Italian Pavilion at the Milano 2015 Expo act like a forest.By: Sophia Epstein, Continue reading...
  
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• What a load of junk! Chinese engineers design rocket-propelled ‘sweeper’ that eats space garbage and turns it into fuel 

  07-12-2015 17:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A rocket-powered space-sweeper that feasts on debris could clear Earth’s orbits (illustrated) from junk. Engineersfrom Tsinghua University, Beijing designed the engine.
  
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• ISS gets first resupply in eight months after the massive Antares explosion

  07-12-2015 17:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 191ft-tall (58 metre) Atlas V booster (shown) lifted the spacecraft off the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station near to Nasa's Kennedy Space Center.
  
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• NTNU study finds men DO have a better sense of direction

  07-12-2015 17:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology scanned the brains of male and female volunteers as they completed navigation tasks. Stock image.
  
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• Your phone could soon be powered by 'PAPER': Flexible sheets store record-breaking levels of electricity and can be folded and bent to fit any shape

  07-12-2015 17:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The material (pictured) is made of nanocellulose - cellulose fibres similar to those used in paper that have been broken down by high-pressure water to produce fibres just 20 nanometres thick.
  
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• CO2 emissions 'to stall, even decline'

  07-12-2015 17:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  For the first time, global emissions of carbon dioxide are likely to stall and perhaps decline this year, even as the world economy grows, according to new research.
  
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• Second time lucky! Japan's Akatsuki 'dawn' spacecraft successfully enters the orbit of Venus after failing its first mission in 2010 

  07-12-2015 16:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Japan’s space agency has confirmed its Akatsuki probe (illustrated) has entered into orbit around Venus, after failing to do so upon its launch in 2010, when it drifted to a heliocentric orbit.
  
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• Emperor penguins get so hot in their huddles they EAT snow to cool down 

  07-12-2015 16:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the University of Strasbourg in France have found the huddles (file image) regulate the penguins' temperatures in a more complicated way than previously thought.
  
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• Moment a curious polar bear got a bit too close for comfort to photographer

  07-12-2015 16:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The adult male bear was captured on camera as it came in for a closer look at a boat on the sea ice north of the island of Spitsbergen, Norway.
  
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• How evil are YOU test reveals whether you have Machiavellian traits

  07-12-2015 16:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The quiz (title page pictured), created by Manchester-based BBC Future was inspired by questionnaires developed by psychologists Delroy Paulhus and Daniel Jones.
  
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• Stonehenge may have been first built in Wales bluestone evidence reveals

  07-12-2015 15:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers have discovered two prehistoric quarries in Pembrokeshire, 140 miles from Stonehenge, which appear to be the origin of the bluestones used to build the monument.
  
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• Minecraft is definitely coming to Wii U

  07-12-2015 15:45
  
  First it was, then it wasn't, but now Minecraft definitely is coming to Wii U.
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• Brit 'naut Tim Peake will run the London Marathon – in space

  07-12-2015 15:32 via go.theregister.com
  
  ISS chap will also get 28,000km/h head start Brit astronaut Tim Peake will participate in next year's London Marathon – albeit at an altitude of 400km and travelling at 28,800 km/h, relative to his fellow competitors.…
  
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• Beijing issues first smog 'red alert'

  07-12-2015 15:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Schools in Beijing are to close and outdoor construction to stop after the Chinese capital issued its first "red alert" over smog levels.
  
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• Beijing smog hits 'red alert' level as city chokes

  07-12-2015 15:10
  
  Beijing has been issued its first ever red alert over smog levels, with schools closing and construction work put on hold. Expected to continue for the next three days, it's the highest warning level possible for pollution at more than 24 times safe levels.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• The sticky, stretchy and smart 'Band-Aid of the future'

  07-12-2015 13:47
  
  Researchers at MIT have designed what they're referring to as "the Band-Aid of the future" -- a sticky, stretchy hydrogel that includes temperature sensors, LED lights and drug delivery channels.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• VIDEO: US 'wants binding climate deal rules'

  07-12-2015 13:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As politicians make a final push for a global climate pact in Paris, the US energy secretary says the processes around verification and climate targets should be binding.
  
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• The Empire is back: J.J. Abrams on making 'The Force Awakens'

  07-12-2015 13:09
  
      Ahead of Star Wars: The Force Awakens' UK release on 17 December, director J.J. Abrams talks with WIRED UK about Lucas, the special effects, and moreBy: Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Continue reading...
  
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