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• The key to good sleep? Seeing daylight when you wake up

  18-05-2017 23:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The results published in Sleep Health suggest that in office environments, being exposed to daylight or electric lights that are rich in short wave 'blue' light may be important for the health of workers.
  
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• Antarctica is warming slower than the Arctic

  18-05-2017 22:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  If Antarctica's land height is reduced to a similar height to the Arctic, temperatures respond more strongly to greenhouse gases over, contributing to an increase in Antarctic warming.
  
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• Numbers of farmland bird in Britain are up 6%

  18-05-2017 21:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Some species of farmland birds across Britain have recovered. However it is far from being enough to reverse the long term overall trend of a loss of wild birds.
  
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• NASA simulation reveals hybrid 'spiraling' of particles

  18-05-2017 21:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA researchers uncovered the pattern of electrons in an intermediate field for the first time, revealing how they meander in a ‘hybrid’ dance of spirals and bounces.
  
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• Study finds area of brain linked to fear of uncertainty

  18-05-2017 20:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Darmouth College has found that those who struggle to cope with uncertainty have an enlargement of a brain region associated with decision making and motor control.
  
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• Texas Down syndrome boy takes photo of 'guardian angel'

  18-05-2017 20:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Seven-year-old Aasher Liles, named by his parents with an extra A to reflect his extra chromosome, took the photo using his mother Kerri's phone on a flight home to Houston, Texas.
  
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• Landfills could be saving vultures from going extinct

  18-05-2017 20:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Regulations in most European countries limiting carcass disposal have deprived Egyptian vultures of their natural food source, causing them to resort to landfills in Catalonia, Spain.
  
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• Beijing claims landmark success in mining flammable ice

  18-05-2017 20:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  China has successfully mined flammable ice at sea after two decades of research work. The flammable ice was found in the South China Sea in 2007.
  
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• How to turn off Twitter's invasive new feature

  18-05-2017 20:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twitter users worldwide have been met with a message pushing them to share their personal data with advertisers. Now you can see exactly what the site knows about you.
  
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• Facebook Messenger gets a makeover

  18-05-2017 20:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There is also a bottom bar for Home, Calls, the Camera button, People and Games. The new 'simpler' design will be rolling out worldwide on iOS and Android this week.
  
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• We're more drawn to people who look like family

  18-05-2017 20:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of St Andrews asked male and female subjects in different areaswhich men and women they found most attractive from digitally-manipulated face pairs.
  
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• Prince Charles and Dame Ellen MacArthur tackle plastics

  18-05-2017 19:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Prince has long been outspoken in defence of the environment – previously leading criticism of GM foods, global warming.
  
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• Highlights from WIRED Money 2017

  18-05-2017 19:37
  
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• San Francisco Vibrator Museum reveals antique sex toys

  18-05-2017 19:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  San Francisco’s Antique Vibrator Museum, which as well as revealing the controversial past of the devices, displays dozens of antique vibrators, dating from the late 1800s through to the 1970s.
  
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• Study finds warm-bloodedneess developed 20M years earlier

  18-05-2017 18:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The University of Bonn found the remains of a Ophiacodon that lived 300M years ago grew similar to today's mammals - suggesting warm-bloodedness evolved 20M years earlier.
  
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• Orangutan's suckle for up to eight YEARS, study finds

  18-05-2017 18:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Having a long nursing period makes orangutan populations especially vulnerable to environmental perturbations, researchers at Griffith University in Australia found.
  
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• Russia slams SpaceX's plans to launch tourists into space

  18-05-2017 18:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Vladimir Solntsev, general director of Moscow-based RSC Energia is sceptical of SpaceX's plans to launch tourists into space next year, claiming that 'nobody has even seen the designs.'
  
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• Scientists say Mount St Helens is RECHARGING

  18-05-2017 18:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists with the Cascades Volcano Observatory and the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network first detected the quakes on April 21. In the last month, scientists have located 55 seismic events.
  
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• Math problem for seven-year-olds is actually impossible

  18-05-2017 17:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A question that supposedly originated on a first grade level exam has the Internet puzzled. The problem asks students to fill in blanks based on a 'number pattern' but no clear solution exists.
  
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• VR brings conditions in a Viking camp back to life

  18-05-2017 17:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An exhibition at Yorkshire Museum will recreate conditions experienced by Vikings who decided to stay and conquer England, rather than return home for winter as they had done in the past.
  
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• Trump 'can't escape climate change' impacts says Fiji PM

  18-05-2017 17:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Whether or not the US is involved in global talks, the US will also feel the impacts of climate change.
  
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• Death, determination and design: how Amanda Levete is transforming London's V&A

  18-05-2017 17:00
  
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• Nasa seeks experiment ideas for Europa lander

  18-05-2017 16:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nasa is seeking the best ideas for experiments to fly on a mission that will land on Jupiter's moon Europa.
  
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• Girl Guides could get badges for coding and science as part of massive overhaul

  18-05-2017 16:54
  
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• Abusive bosses feel bad about being bullies

  18-05-2017 16:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Florida looked at surveys of 116 leaders across a broad range of fields and found that acting abusively can harm bullying bosses' psychological welfare (stock).
  
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• UFO hunter claims satellite pictures show alien spaceship

  18-05-2017 16:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Valentin Degteryov from Nizhny Tagil in Russia claimed the unusual object is some 1,900 feet in length, and a video he posted has attracted hundreds of thousands of hits.
  
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• Men should channel women when creating Tinder profiles

  18-05-2017 16:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Michigan are the first to look specifically at how text in profiles crafted by men is perceived by the women they hope to attract (stock).
  
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• ARM signs deal for brain chips to help with paralysis

  18-05-2017 16:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of Washington and Cambridge-based ARM are working on a chip to allow paralysed people and those wearing prosthetic limbs to control the body’s muscle functions.
  
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• ExtraTorrent file-sharing site closes down permanently

  18-05-2017 15:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The global file-sharing site's closure was announced in a homepage message saying 'Extra Torrent has shut down permanently'.
  
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• UpVote episode 4: the NHS cyberattack – how, why, and who's to blame

  18-05-2017 15:54
  
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• Pringles tubes and Lucozade bottles impossible to recycle

  18-05-2017 15:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The chief executive of the UK Recycling Association said there had been 'some extraordinary progress' but manufacturers needed to pay more attention to their sometimes 'idiotic' packaging.
  
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• Ellen MacArthur launches $2 million prize to help solve plastic pollution

  18-05-2017 15:07
  
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• Customer service robots on show in Paris

  18-05-2017 15:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rory Cellan-Jones takes a look at some of the more unusual robots on show at the Innorobo exhibition in Paris.
  
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• Nasa has found a cash machine on Mars

  18-05-2017 15:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ArtAlienTV, a Bristol-based YouTube channel that regularly posts conspiracy theory videos, has posted a video on YouTube, in which it claims that the object is a cash register or typewriter.
  
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• Amazon Prime members now get books, magazines and comics for no extra cost

  18-05-2017 14:34
  
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• World’s first modular self-driving car can be customised

  18-05-2017 14:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Edit vehicle was designed by Hong Kong based OSVehicle, who wanted to make a self-driving car for everyone.
  
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• Cyber attackers behind WannaCry send eerie new message

  18-05-2017 14:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Last week's global WannaCry ransomware attack led to cyber chaos in more than 150 countries, crippling vital computer systems such as those used by the NHS.
  
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• Voice and scent are just as important as your looks

  18-05-2017 14:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at the University of Wroclaw in Poland looked through 30 years of literature and found voice and scent reveal a range of characteristics about someone (stock image).
  
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• Oxytocin is released during a relationship crisis

  18-05-2017 14:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An international team of researchers led by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology looked at the effects of oxytocin when a relationship was under threat (stock).
  
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• Electric cars could soon charge as you drive

  18-05-2017 14:00
  
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• The secret behind the frog's jump

  18-05-2017 13:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from The Royal Veterinary College in London used high-speed cameras to reveal the extreme range of jump angles frogs are capable of.
  
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• App maker's code stolen in malware attack

  18-05-2017 13:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The FBI is investigating and Apple are looking out for malicious versions of the apps after the theft.
  
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• Underground Nazi ‘city’ of bunkers built by Dutch slaves

  18-05-2017 13:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The subterranean facility was built in 1942 in a fishing village called Scheveningen when some 135,000 inhabitants had to leave their homes when the Nazis declared it a restricted area.
  
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• Alpine Fault could cause a massive earthquake 

  18-05-2017 13:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  International researchers led by Victoria University of Wellington have found the kind of extreme temperatures and pressures normally associated with volcanoes deep under New Zealand.
  
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• Thirty-five-metre super-yacht styled by Porsche costs £10m

  18-05-2017 13:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A showboat of the Porsche-styled vessel is currently being assembled by Monaco-based Dynamiq, with its first showing expected in September at the 2017 Monaco Yacht Show.
  
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• Bizarre contraptions that inspired modern gym equipment

  18-05-2017 13:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fascinating pictures of weightlifting machines from 1892 show suited men and women in full length dresses attempt to improve their fitness.
  
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• Tremble, for out of the mists comes a new edition of Cthulhu

  18-05-2017 13:00
  
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• Gallery: do not gaze at these images, lest your eyes burn in your skull

  18-05-2017 13:00
  
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• Another large cyberattack is underway and it could be worse than WannaCry

  18-05-2017 12:41
  
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• Facebook fined £94m over data claim in WhatsApp takeover

  18-05-2017 12:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The European Commission based in Brussels said the US social network provided 'incorrect or misleading' information regarding its $19 billion (£15.3 billion) takeover of WhatsApp.
  
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