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• VIDEO: Rise in butterfly numbers 'inspirational'

  27-02-2016 17:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The number of Monarch butterflies travelling thousands of kilometres south for winter is 'inspirational' conservationists say.
  
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• Science contest to get girls interested in STEM awards first prize to ... a boy

  27-02-2016 08:04 via go.theregister.com
  
  EDF's Pretty Curious comp kinda misses the point Energy giant EDF is in hot water for setting up a competition to encourage young women to get into science and technology careers – and then awarding the top prize to a 13-year-old boy.…
  
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• Rap music DOES 'encourage underage sex and drinking in teens'

  27-02-2016 06:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Students at a school in Houston who listened to rap music three hours each day in the seventh grade were 2.6 times more likely to have had sex by the ninth grade. Stock image.
  
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• How the mind changes its 'rhythm' when virtually transported to a new location

  27-02-2016 04:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Neuroscientists at the University of California, Davis studied the brains of epilepsy patients to gain an understanding into neural activity during 'teleportation' (Star Trek image pictured).
  
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• Chocolate and coffee at risk as pollinating bees and butterflies are driven to extinction

  27-02-2016 03:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The United Nations report was approved by a congress of 124 nations meeting in Kuala Lumpur. They have suggested a number of solutions in an attempt to solve the problem.
  
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• Humans could be hardwired to be attracted to familiar faces like your parents

  27-02-2016 03:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers say we tend to choose partners that look similar to our parents. It isn't just faces either, people will choose mates with the same height, hair and eye colour and even amount of body hair.
  
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• Cells can be programmed to switch colours and form 'surprising new patterns'

  27-02-2016 02:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Edinburgh used kidney tissue samples to re-programme the behaviour of cells so they spontaneously formed spots or stripes.
  
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• ISS astronauts spend $63,000 of funding sending novelty items to space station

  27-02-2016 02:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronaut Scott Kelly wore a gorilla costume sent to the ISS by his twin brother Mark to celebrate his birthday and British astronaut Tim Peake wore a novelty tuxedo t-shirt for the Brits.
  
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• Male sand martin birds filmed trying to mate with DEAD male amid mistaken identity

  27-02-2016 02:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Male sand martins in Japan were filmed engaging in homosexual necrophilia by researchers from the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology. It is thought they mistook the dead bird for a female.
  
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• Track your friends' SLEEPING habits with Facebook Messenger in mini hack

  27-02-2016 02:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  San Francisco-based software engineer, Søren Louv-Jansen, discovered a way to determine the sleeping habits of his friends using 'time stamps' taken from Facebook's own Messenger service.
  
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• Orangutans interbreeding in Indonesia threatening the already endangered species

  27-02-2016 02:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology studied the genetics of orangutans that were the offspring of two different subspecies, at the Tanjung Puting National Park.
  
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• Tiny ridges on penguin feathers stop them becoming walking snowballs

  27-02-2016 02:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Beihang University in Beijing found Humboldt penguins (pictured) have nanoscale ridges and hooks on their feathers that repel water and ice from forming.
  
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• Dog's repetitive behaviours such as blanket sucking and tail chasing may be genetic

  27-02-2016 02:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts at Tufts University and the University of Massachusetts Medical School have identified genetic pathways that increase the severity of canine compulsive disorder (CCD).
  
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• When female animals develop a ‘penis’ and unique evolutionary selection

  27-02-2016 02:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers explain that among animals, parental duties are the females responsibility and males compete with each other. But due to physiological changes these roles can be reversed.
  
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• Men who look 'dominant' are more attractive to women that feel at risk

  27-02-2016 02:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Leicester found women who are attracted to dominant men generally feel more at risk of victimisation - even when their risk of victimisation is low.
  
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• Mercedes replaces robots with PEOPLE on its assembly line for custom cars

  27-02-2016 02:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mercedes-Benz announced it is getting rid of the robots that assemble the customized luxury cars and replacing them with a human staff.The robots were unable to make the cars fast enough.
  
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• Nasa reveals what's REALLY in interstellar space outside our solar system

  27-02-2016 01:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new Nasa study precisely determines the strength and direction of the magnetic field outside the heliosphere, revealing the forces that dominate the galaxy beyond ours.
  
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• Being a 'perfect parent' can do MORE harm than good lowering your self-esteem

  27-02-2016 01:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A group from the University of Toronto Mississauga did two studies and found that when parents suppressed negative emotions it had an impact on the parent's bond with the child.
  
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• 24-hour unmanned shop in Sweden lets shoppers scan and pay using just an app

  27-02-2016 01:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The unmanned shop, in the southern Sweden village of Viken, uses a smartphone app (pictured) to allow customers to scan their own shopping, meaning no staff are required.
  
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• Researchers reveal the 25 signs that could mean your cat is in pain

  27-02-2016 01:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study has collected insight from international experts to reach a consensus on the tell-tale signs of a cat in pain. The team narrowed it down to 25 signs sufficient for signalling pain.
  
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• Camera first developed in the 1970s adapted to hunt for Earth-like planets

  27-02-2016 01:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A group at the Florida Institute of Technology has found that CID devices could be used for imaging earth-like planets that appear extremely faint next to their host stars.
  
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• UC Davis team reveal how teleportation could affect the BRAIN

  27-02-2016 01:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Neuroscientists at the University of California, Davis studied the brains of epilepsy patients to gain an understanding into neural activity during 'teleportation' (Star Trek image pictured).
  
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• Milk teeth reveal medieval children in Canterbury lived on bread and broth

  27-02-2016 01:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the University of Kent used pioneering 3D imaging to analyse teeth from medieval children which were found in a cemetery in Canterbury, England to reveal what they ate.
  
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• Nasa reveals what's REALLY in interstellar space: Study sheds new light on mysterious magnetic forces outside our solar system

  27-02-2016 01:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new Nasa study precisely determines the strength and direction of the magnetic field outside the heliosphere, revealing the forces that dominate the galaxy beyond ours.
  
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• New particle 'tetraquark' could help explain how matter sticks together

  27-02-2016 01:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new particle has been discovered at Fermilab and researchers say it's exhibiting unusual properties, containing four 'flavours' of quarks and antiquarks, as a possible tetraquark.
  
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• Changing leopard spots to stripes: Cells can be programmed to switch colours and form 'surprising new patterns'

  27-02-2016 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Edinburgh used kidney tissue samples to re-programme the behaviour of cells so they spontaneously formed spots or stripes.
  
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• Kyocera phone uses 'solar panels' in the screen to charge the handset using sunlight

  27-02-2016 00:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Japanese electronics firm Kyocera showcased its prototype phone with a 'WYSIPS' screen at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.
  
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• Dead herring glows a 'scary green light' that has left the internet baffled 

  27-02-2016 00:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Housewife Gulbarshin Kaydarova had bought the fish from her local market in Semey, Kazakhstan as was amazed to find that strange growths inside it (pictured) glowed in the dark.
  
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• Nasa says March 8th asteroid TX68 will pass three MILLION miles from Earth

  27-02-2016 00:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nasa's latest prediction showsasteroid 203 TX68 it will fly by 3m miles (5m km) from our planet on March 8th - and 'poses no threat to Earth'.
  
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• After The Dress left the internet baffled this Adidas jacket drives Twitter mad

  27-02-2016 00:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The colors of an Adidas track jacket are being debated online exactly one year after the social media dispute about whether 'The Dress' is black and blue or white and gold.
  
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• Ford reveals optical illusions it uses to disguise shape of its secret new cars 

  27-02-2016 00:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ford has revealed it uses 'advanced camouflage technology,' to keep its unreleased designs under wraps, disguising prototypes in vinyl stickers that create optical illusions.
  
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• How we could get to Mars in 30 MINUTES with radical laser propulsion system

  27-02-2016 00:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of California, Santa Barbara professor, Phillip Lubin, says that a wafer-thin craft could be propelled to the red planetat 174.3 million miles per hour using high-powered lasers.
  
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• Same sex marriage opponents believe homosexuals could threaten their marriage

  27-02-2016 00:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers found that many people believe gay men and women are more sexually promiscuous than heterosexuals - and could threaten their own marriages and their way of life.
  
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