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• Why tapping a soft drinks can will stop it exploding everywhere

  14-06-2016 23:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nottingham Trent University explored the hack of tapping the tops of cans before opening them.The team lists numerous ways to defuse a fizzy drink, but tapping on the top seems to win.
  
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• Android users can now make Facebook's Messenger their default SMS text app

  14-06-2016 23:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Facebook pledged to ‘kill the phone number’ by 2016 and a new feature brings them one-step closer. Now the firm allows Android users to send SMS text using Messenger to any other platform.
  
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• Humans will take another 1,500 YEARS to find ET, say astronomers

  14-06-2016 23:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at Cornell University have calculated that our own radio signals have reached just one per cent of our galaxy and so it is unlikely any signals from alien civilisations could have reached us.
  
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• Global warming is causing a 'fundamental change' in the world's weather

  14-06-2016 23:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The U.N. weather agency is warning of 'fundamental change' afoot in the global climate and continued warming, accompanied recently by unusually high rainfall in parts of the US and Europe.
  
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• Virginia astronomers find 'interstellar gas' that helped form our origins

  14-06-2016 22:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of US scientists, led by a researcher in Virginia, used highly sensitive radio telescopes to discover the first complex organic chiral molecule in interstellar space.
  
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• Russia 'hacked Democrats data on Trump' says US

  14-06-2016 22:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Russian government hackers have breached the Democratic National Committee for opposition research on Donald Trump, officials say.
  
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• University of Bath scientists say the key to a perfect cup of coffee is cold beans

  14-06-2016 21:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to a study from the University of Bath and coffee shop Colonna & Smalls, chilling roasted coffee beans before grinding them will result in a better tasting and more efficient brew.
  
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• Kyoto University researchers suggests cats 'use' physics to hunt prey

  14-06-2016 21:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to a new study in Japan, cats use an understanding of ‘cause and effect’ principles and even elements of physics to predict the location of unseen prey based on sound.
  
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• Apple iPhone 360 patents show wrap-around screen that takes over entire handset

  14-06-2016 21:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple's latest patent reveals a 360-degree wrap-around display. The new design would list 5 icons across the top and bottoms row and all of thecontrols would be under the screen.
  
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• Diamondback moths could wipe out cabbage and cauliflower crops in Britain

  14-06-2016 21:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the Rothamsted Research institute in Hertfordshire are warning that high numbers of Diamondback moths (pictured) could devastate crops.
  
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• Pepper the robot begins work in Belgian hospitals to treat patients

  14-06-2016 21:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Pepper the friendly robot is taking up reception duties at two Belgian hospitals, in Ostend and Liege. The robot, which costs 30,000 euros (£24,000), has a screen on itschest and a round head (pictured).
  
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• Maps reveal global hotspots for where diseases pass from animals to humans 

  14-06-2016 20:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in New York found Europe and Russia are hotspots for disease carrying rodents while South America is a hotspot for bat spread diseases.
  
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• Orlando gunman Omar Mateen believed to have been using Android operating system 

  14-06-2016 20:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The FBI has confirmed it has seized a cell phone belonging to Orlando gunman Omar Mateen with online activity suggesting it runs on an Android system, designed by Google.
  
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• Tim Peake will be wobbly after landing - Helen Sharman

  14-06-2016 20:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tim Peake is likely to feel unsteady after landing says fellow British astronaut Helen Sharman.
  
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• Tim Peake: Watch key moments from UK astronaut's mission

  14-06-2016 20:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As UK astronaut Tim Peake comes back to Earth, BBC News has compiled some of the best Esa videos from his six-month mission.
  
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• Tim Peake: The UK astronaut's best photos and comments

  14-06-2016 20:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Has Tim Peake got the best photo album on (and off) Earth? As his space mission comes to an end, we compile some of his best shots along with his comments.
  
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• Tim Peake: A look at Sokol spacesuit used for re-entry

  14-06-2016 20:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As British astronaut Tim Peake ends his mission, BBC News takes a look at the spacesuit used for launch and re-entry.
  
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• Apple Watch app 'Breathe' is designed to reduce stress

  14-06-2016 19:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, Apple's Jay Blahnik revealed the firm hopes the new free app will help users relax and keep calm with a series of guided breathing exercises.
  
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• Forgotten fossil lay in museum for half a century found to be new species of 'British' ichthyosaur

  14-06-2016 19:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dean Lomax, a palaeontologist at the University of Manchester, has discovered a new species of ichthyosaur. He has named it Wahlisaurus massarae after two of his teachers.
  
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• US scientist explains the reasons behind the way we act when scared

  14-06-2016 19:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Freezing in the face of a threatening situation could protect you from any psychological harm, said Rachael Sharman, a psychology lecturer from the University of the Sunshine Coast.
  
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• YouTube video of panicked residents spotting mysterious UFO that appeared over Ohio

  14-06-2016 19:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The bizarre footage was captured in Cleveland, Ohio, by two witnesses who can be heard reacting in disbelief as the black disk-shaped UFO moves slowly and silently through the sky above them.
  
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• Stem cell treatment could soon help fight ageing disease in new breakthrough

  14-06-2016 19:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team in New York has described successful animal trials in which pituitary cells (illustrated), grown from human stem cells, were implanted under the skin of rats with damaged pituitary glands.
  
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• OnePlus 3 review: a true flagship phone with style and power

  14-06-2016 18:52
  
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• Drone video shows mysterious hairy figure scampering into wooded area in Idaho

  14-06-2016 18:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The drone video taken by a resident in Southeast Idaho shows what appears to be a hairy creature running across a clearing before entering a wooded area and disappearing.
  
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• Cambridge University study reveals more police on streets does help stop crime

  14-06-2016 18:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Having police patrol the streets for an extra 21 minutes a day could prevent £280.000 a year in prison costs, according to researchers from Cambridge University.
  
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• Machines that will probe secrets of the universe to start tests next month

  14-06-2016 18:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tests on the prototype robots, developed in Berkeley, will begin in early August, at Kitt Peak's 13 foot (4 metre) Mayall telescope in Tucson, Arizona.
  
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• Operation Puerto: Blood bags in Spanish cycling doping case to be handed over

  14-06-2016 17:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Blood bags used as evidence in a major Spanish cycling doping scandal must be handed over to authorities for investigation, a court rules.
  
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• 'Fossil' meteorite was from asteroid smash-up

  14-06-2016 17:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists identify a completely new type of meteorite that likely originated in a huge asteroid collision some 470 million years ago.
  
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• Japan set to 'reanimate' novelist Soseki Natsume as a ROBOT

  14-06-2016 17:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Japan's most famous novelists is set to return to his alma mater --100 years after his death. The students at Nishogakusha University are building a robot to look and sound like Soseki Natsume.
  
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• New mating position is discovered in Indian frogs called the 'dorsal straddle' 

  14-06-2016 17:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of researchers led by the University of New Delphi in India discovered the male Bombay night frog (pictured) straddles his partner instead of embracing her.
  
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• Forgotten fossil that lay in a museum for half a century is found to be a new species of 'British' ichthyosaur

  14-06-2016 17:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dean Lomax, a palaeontologist at the University of Manchester, has discovered a new species of ichthyosaur. He has named it Wahlisaurus massarae after two of his teachers.
  
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• The four tell-tale signs that reveal when you're being lied to

  14-06-2016 16:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Noah Zandan, author of TED-Ed lesson The Language Of Lying, from Austin, Texas, says there are four tell-tale signs to help you spot when somebody is telling you porkie pies.
  
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• Scientists warn of regular record breaking temperatures within 50 years 

  14-06-2016 16:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado predicts the record breaking temperatures are 80 per cent likely across most land regions in the world (illustrated).
  
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• AI app analyses your message to suggest the perfect memes, emoticons and gifs

  14-06-2016 16:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dango is a app developed by Whirlscape, a technology company based in Ontario, Canada. The app suggests emoji for you to use as you type, based on a neural network.
  
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• Add years to your life with a 15 MINUTE walk

  14-06-2016 16:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists at the University Hospital of Saint-Etienne found the more exercise older people do the better. but noted that the biggest benefit came at low level of exercise compared with none at all.
  
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• Black holes that created gravitational waves formed in a cosmic 'mosh pit' of densely-packed stars

  14-06-2016 16:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Northwestern University in Illinois simulated how a black hole merger could form from a globular star cluster. They found it is the 'most likely' explanation for Ligo's black holes.
  
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• PlayStation virtual reality is here: Sony announces new VR headset for PS4 will be available from October

  14-06-2016 15:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sony announced it will be launching a new virtual reality headset in October 2016. The technology, announced at the E3 conference in Los Angeles, will work with a range of 50 games.
  
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• New way of converting electricity into light using graphene could make microchips a MILLION times faster

  14-06-2016 15:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New research from MIT in Boston has created an intense beam of light in graphene - the 2D form of carbon. This could be used to power microchips, although this is currently theoretical.
  
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• Can YOU spot the object hidden on this car seat?

  14-06-2016 15:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The latest puzzle to sweep the web is certainly a tricky one. Created by a PlayBuzz user, this colour photo depicts a grey car seat with a mysterious object hidden on it that it's up to you to find.
  
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• The galaxy-hunting robots: Machines that will probe secrets of the universe to start tests next month

  14-06-2016 15:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tests on the prototype robots, developed in Berkeley, will begin in early August, at Kitt Peak's 13 foot (4 metre) Mayall telescope in Tucson, Arizona.
  
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• Pepper robot to work in Belgian hospitals

  14-06-2016 14:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Pepper gets a new job as a hospital receptionist as Japanese firm Softbank looks to expand its uses.
  
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• 'Biblical' moth influx threatens to devastate crops

  14-06-2016 14:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists have learned that cabbage and cauliflower crops could potentially be "devastated" by an infestation of moths from continental Europe.
  
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• Get ready for hotter summers: Scientists warn of regular record breaking temperatures within 50 years 

  14-06-2016 13:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado predicts the record breaking temperatures are 80 per cent likely across most land regions in the world (illustrated).
  
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• Bizarre cleaning hacks that will change your life

  14-06-2016 13:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From using baking soda and vinegar to unclog your drains to attaching an empty toilet roll to the nozzle of a vacuum to help you reach tight spots, FEMAIL has collated the best hacks on the internet.
  
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• Astronaut Tim Peake prepares to return to Earth after incredible six month mission

  14-06-2016 13:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Former Army helicopter pilot Tim Peake is due to touch down on the Kazakhstan steppe on Saturday 18 June after a bumpy journey back to earth at speeds of up to 17,000mph.
  
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• Amazon faces fine for shipping corrosive drain cleaner

  14-06-2016 13:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A fine of $350,000 is proposed for online retailer Amazon over allegations it breached rules when it shipped a corrosive liquid.
  
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• Equation predicts how other people's fortunes can improve your mood

  14-06-2016 13:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A study by researchers at University College London to gauge happiness found people were less happy when they were doing better or worse in a task than a stranger.
  
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• The Kermit-sutra: New mating position is discovered in Indian frogs called the 'dorsal straddle' 

  14-06-2016 13:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of researchers led by the University of New Delphi in India discovered the male Bombay night frog (pictured) straddles his partner instead of embracing her.
  
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• Can't find the right emoji? AI app analyses your message to suggest the perfect memes, emoticons and gifs while you type

  14-06-2016 13:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dango is a app developed by Whirlscape, a technology company based in Ontario, Canada. The app suggests emoji for you to use as you type, based on a neural network.
  
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• Mars was plagued by MEGA-VOLCANOES

  14-06-2016 12:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists based at Nasa's Johnson Space Center in Houston have published findings of tridymite on Mars. The crystal only forms as a result of explosive volcanism on Earth.
  
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