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• MooseRoots reveal the most popular names among those with high IQs

  13-01-2016 23:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MooseRoots gathered 14,750 names of philosophers, writers, mathematicians, scientists, inventors, artists, composers and Nobel laureates to find out what the top genius names are.
  
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• Britons warned NOT to use Facebook and Twitter at work after European Court ruling

  13-01-2016 23:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The judgment centred on the case of a Romanian engineer who was fired in 2007 after his company discovered he was using Yahoo Messenger to chat with his fiancee and brother at work.
  
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• Japan's Wearable Expo opens with gadgets including electronic kimonos

  13-01-2016 23:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From electronic kimonos to sensors that know what your pet is feeling, the Japan’s Wearable Expo, Jan 13-15, promises to reveal some of the most creative technological innovations.
  
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• SPERMBOTS could battle infertility: Microscopic machines propel slow swimming sperm toward the egg

  13-01-2016 23:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Institute for Integrative Nanosciences at IFW Dresden is developing spermbots, a microscopic metal coil that slips on the sperm cell and propels it to the egg, to treat low sperm motility.
  
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• Tsinghua University scientists propose scheme to teleport the MEMORY of a creature 

  13-01-2016 23:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The experiment has been proposed by Professor Tongcang Li at Purdue University and Dr Zhang-qi Yin at Tsinghua University. Quantum teleportation of an organism has never been achieved.
  
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• Climate change could delay the next ICE AGE by 100,00 years, researchers find in 'mind boggling' discovery

  13-01-2016 22:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The effects of global warming on the planet is so great it will  suppress the beginning of the next ice age, a new study has found.
  
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• Carbon emissions 'postpone ice age'

  13-01-2016 22:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The next ice age may have been delayed by more than 50,000 years because of the greenhouse gases put in the atmosphere by humans, scientists in Germany say.
  
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• Google's self-driving cars have needed humans to avoid crashes 13 times

  13-01-2016 22:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google's futuristic self-driving cars needed some old-fashioned human intervention to avoid 13 crashes during testing on California roads, the company has said.
  
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• University of California scientists say video games 'could spark rise in teen smokers'

  13-01-2016 22:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of California San Francisco and Truth Initiative experts warn young people are overexposed to glamorous images of smoking, which could inspire them to take up the habit.
  
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• Rosetta exposes water ice on the surface of 67P and sheds light on icy comets' formation

  13-01-2016 22:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The probe, which has been orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko since August 2014, discovered grains of water ice in two different places on the surface.
  
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• 'Back door' in the brain 'bypasses self-control, linking impulse with habitual behavior'

  13-01-2016 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the University of Cambridge found anew pathway that skips the prefrontal cortex, the area responsible for self-control, possibly explaining why some addicts struggle to give up.
  
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• iPhone maker Apple is keeping a close eye' on Time Warner as selloff rumours intensify

  13-01-2016 21:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The media giant is seen as a 'sitting duck', according to the New York Post, with Apple's top dealmaker tasked with monitoring the firm.
  
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• Nasa's female pioneers could be the first humans on Mars

  13-01-2016 21:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The team recently gave Glamour exclusive access to watch them train at Nasa's facilities in Houston as they prepare themselves for deep space travel.
  
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• Genetically-modified embryos could be made in British labs 'within months'

  13-01-2016 21:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority willmeet ttomorrow to decide if London'd Francis Crick Institute researchers can alter the DNA of human embryos for the first time.
  
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• Female sex hormone estrogen 'reduces the flu's ability to replicate in women'

  13-01-2016 21:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Johns Hopkins University scientists revealed the female sex hormone estrogen has antiviral effects against the influenza A virus - and that estrogen therapies could be used to treat the flu.
  
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• Mathematicians reveal behind why you won’t win the Powerball (but give you some tips anyway): Study shows there is a 1 in 292 MILLION chance of hitting the jackpot

  13-01-2016 20:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A professor from Georgia Tech has done the calculations, and he says there’s just a 1 in 292 million chance of winning the jackpot. But, he’s offered some tips to help your chances anyway.
  
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• Man moves his robotic arms with his MIND: brain-controlled prosthetic attaches to implant in patient's bone

  13-01-2016 20:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A mind-controlled prosthetic arm could revolutionize movement for amputees. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are working with a test patient to perfect this technology
  
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• The Great Plague in the 17th century was spread by Black Death bacteria

  13-01-2016 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists in Germany think that Yersinia pestis, the bacterial culprit believed to be responsible for the Great Plague in17th century Europe, hid in an unknown reservoir since the Black Death.
  
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• Stone tools in Indonesia suggest early humans crossed from Asia 200k years ago

  13-01-2016 19:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Anthropologists have discovered stone tools that suggest an unknown species of human braved the ocean crossing to Sulawesi, Indonesia, up to 150,000 years before Homo sapiens.
  
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• Spies 'could collect medical data'

  13-01-2016 19:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Theresa May refuses to reveal the kinds of personal data being accessed by Britain's security services, in evidence to a committee of peers and MPs.
  
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• Theresa May's snooping defence remains inherently contradictory

  13-01-2016 19:01
  
  Home Secretary Theresa May is set to be grilled the controversial 'snoopers' charter' as pressure grows on the government to justify its planned surveillance powers.By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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• New Jersey 'dinosaur graveyard' may date back to the time of mass extinction

  13-01-2016 18:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Palaeontologists have uncovered a ‘mass death assemblage’ at a quarry pit in the Mantua Township in central New Jersey, which dates closely to the mass extinction 65 million years ago.
  
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• Robot Wars will return to BBC Two for six episodes

  13-01-2016 18:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new six-part series will be filmed in Glasgow. It will feature a bullet-proof, purpose-built fighting arena and 'state-of-the-art cameras' to capture every destructive move. The original arena is pictured.
  
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• Agar.io was searched for more on Google last year than Fallout 4

  13-01-2016 18:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The game, Agar.io, was created by a Brazilian student and reduces players to cells hunting inside a virtual petri dish (screenshot shown).
  
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• Anonymous drives Nissan offline

  13-01-2016 18:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nissan takes its global and Japanese websites offline after being attacked by Anonymous, which is protesting against dolphin hunting.
  
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• Twin Peaks won't return until 2017

  13-01-2016 18:16
  If you're a fan of cult TV hoping to return to the curious little town of Twin Peaks this year, prepare to be disappointed. The long-awaited -- as in, almost 25 years long -- third season won't be airing until 2017.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Mini Street View filmed with tiny cameras

  13-01-2016 18:14
  
     Using a modified camera, Google has created a 360 map of Miniatur Wunderland in Germany -- the world's largest miniature railway. Boasting 13,000km of track and 200,000 exceptionally well-behaved citizens, Miniatur Wunderland contains tiny reconstructions of Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon and Hamburg Airport. At the heart of the display is Knuffingen, a fictional city in the depths of the Swiss Alps. By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• HTC Vive pre-orders open on 29 February and the full-body system could cost $1,500

  13-01-2016 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In an interview, the Taiwanese firm's boss Cher Wang said pre-orders for the gadget (pictured) will open on 29 February with the device going on general sale in April.
  
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• Robot Wars veterans expect a brutal new series of RC death

  13-01-2016 17:10
  
  Robot Wars is coming back to BBC television and with it could come some of the classic robots. By: Matt Burgess, Continue reading...
  
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• Faster than a speeding bullet: 'Runaway' stars generate fuzzy red arcs in space as they race at 55,000mph through the galaxy

  13-01-2016 17:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers from the University of Wyoming have discovered almost close to 80 of the fastest-moving stars in the Milky Way galaxy from the fuzzy red bow waves they cause.
  
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• Scientist makes case to edit embryos

  13-01-2016 16:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A scientist is making her case to be the first in the UK to be allowed to genetically modify human embryos.
  
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• In pictures: The Detroit motor show

  13-01-2016 15:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Highlights from the US' auto show
  
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• Bananaman: The Musical heading to theatres. Yes, really

  13-01-2016 15:54
  
  The greatest, stupidest superhero the world has ever known is coming to the stage, with Bananaman: The Musical set to go into production.
  Yes, Bananaman. No, this isn't a joke (as far as we know).By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• Boffins tentatively fire up grav wave sniffer

  13-01-2016 15:51 via go.theregister.com
  
  ESA LISA Pathfinder spacecraft gradually comes to life European Space Agency (ESA) scientists have begun to fire up systems aboard the LISA Pathfinder spacecraft - designed to "test the technology needed to develop future space-borne gravitational wave detectors".…
  
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• World's largest canyon is found beneath the Antarctic ice sheet

  13-01-2016 15:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The previously unknown chasm measures 621 miles (1,000km) long and is located in Princess Elizabeth Land, below the white box pictured. Itbelieved to have been carved by water.
  
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• Aaron Wypyszynkski designs a wingboard allowing people to SURF the sky

  13-01-2016 15:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The engineer from Huntsville, Alabama, has designed an aerofoil-shaped board that can be ridden as it is towed through the air behind a light aircraft (illustrated).
  
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• You may have a smaller 'emotional brain' if you're always angry

  13-01-2016 14:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the University of Chicago have found that people with intermittent explosive disorder (stock image) have less grey matter in the frontolimbic regions of the brain that regulate emotions.
  
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• Drivers stopped Google cars crashing

  13-01-2016 14:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Google drivers had to intervene to stop its self-driving cars from crashing on California's roads 13 times between September 2014 and November 2015.
  
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• Mobile Virtual Dementia Tour reveals what its like to suffer from the condition

  13-01-2016 14:45 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Mobile Virtual Dementia Tour, travelling the UK, takes away people’s primary senses, to let them experience the fear and frustration dementia sufferers go through on a daily basis.
  
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• Employers 'can read private messages'

  13-01-2016 14:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Judges in the European Court of Human Rights say an employer that read a worker's private messages and then sacked him was in the right.
  
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• Winch Design renderings show superyacht with a landing pad for a plane

  13-01-2016 14:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The concept yacht from London's Winch Design is so large that it can accommodate a TiltRotor aircraft, which can take off and land vertically and switch from helicopter to aeroplane mode in flight.
  
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• 'Gigantic chasm under Antarctic ice'

  13-01-2016 13:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A vast, previously unrecognised canyon system could be hidden under the Antarctic ice sheet, say scientists.
  
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• Has the mystery of the 'alien Wow! signal' been solved?

  13-01-2016 13:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers have been searching for the source of an elusive radio signal detected by a telescope in Ohio in 1977, but a new theory suggests it may have come from comets in our own solar system.
  
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• Nervous flyers look away: What air travel was REALLY like in the 1930s when planes were so loud cabin crew needed megaphones and flights from the UK to Australia took 11 days

  13-01-2016 13:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The era marked the biggest leaps in the expansion of the industry in the U.S, with the amount of people using aeroplanes to travel shooting from 6,000 to 1.2million annually.
  
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• Star Wars Episode IX director hints at Rey's identity

  13-01-2016 13:10
  
  The Force Awakens may be still tearing up box office charts, but incoming director Colin Trevorrow is already dropping hints about what to expect from 2019's Episode IX.By: Matt Kamen, Continue reading...
  
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• New Jersey 'dinosaur graveyard' may date back to the moment of mass extinction

  13-01-2016 12:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Palaeontologists have uncovered a ‘mass death assemblage’ at a quarry pit in the Mantua Township in central New Jersey, which dates closely to the mass extinction 65 million years ago.
  
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• Your employer can read your private messages, court says

  13-01-2016 12:30
  
  The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that companies can monitor their employees' private communicationsBy: Cara McGoogan, Continue reading...
  
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• Activate! Robot Wars is coming back to the BBC

  13-01-2016 12:30
  
  In possibly the biggest boost to the robotics industry since the re-invention of the robot kitten, the BBC has ordered a full reboot of Robot Wars.By: Michael Rundle, Continue reading...
  
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• Google Maps will soon work out where you're going by itself

  13-01-2016 12:29
  
  They say the best relationships are the ones in which you can finish each others sentences. Enter Google Maps' newest Android feature: Driving Mode.By: Emily Reynolds, Continue reading...
  
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• Why 2016 will be the year we civilise the brutal online jungle

  13-01-2016 12:04
  
  Post-Gamergate, abusive behaviour will be taken seriouslyBy: Daniel Nye Griffiths, Continue reading...
  
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