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• NASA satellite sees stunning partial solar eclipse

  26-05-2017 23:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The phenomenon was captured on May 25 by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), during a lunar transit that lasted nearly an hour. During this time, the moon covered 89 percent of the sun.
  
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• Melting glacier released a 6.7 gigaton 'megawave'

  26-05-2017 23:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The study found that during Greenland's hottest summers on record, 2010 and 2012, the ice in Rink Glacier on the island's west coast slid through the glacier's interior in a gigantic wave
  
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• Lack of sleep causes your brain to EAT ITSELF

  26-05-2017 22:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The cells, known as astrocytes, act like mini Hoovers in the brain, sweeping up cells as the brain's connections become weak and break apart, according to Italian researchers.
  
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• US troops to get 'tactical augmented reality'

  26-05-2017 22:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The tiny headset can project everything from maps, the locations of friends and foes and even night vision feeds into a soldier's vision.
  
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• Mind-controlled brace helps paralysed stroke patients move their hands

  26-05-2017 22:00
  
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• NASA to reveal new details on mission to 'touch the Sun'

  26-05-2017 21:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Solar Probe Plus will see a spacecraft orbit within four million miles of the sun’s blazing-hot surface, according to NASA. This is seven times closer than any craft has ventured before it.
  
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• Trump budget cuts West Coast quake warning system funding

  26-05-2017 21:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump's budget proposal would cut funding for the ShakeAlertearthquake early warning system for California, Oregon and Washington state.
  
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• Paris school using AI to monitor if pupils are distracted

  26-05-2017 21:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Starting in September, two online classes from the ESG business school will be using a facial recognition program called Nestor to measure students’ engagement and attention.
  
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• PepsiCo experimenting with WORMS as a protein source

  26-05-2017 21:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  PepsiCo has done 'extensive work' with and is no longer interested in cricket powder and meal worm powder - whole meal worms ground into a finer powder as a high-protein source.
  
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• In Age of Anxiety, Pixx takes on our social media addiction

  26-05-2017 21:00
  
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• Terrorists' moral judgment probed in psychology test

  26-05-2017 20:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Researchers say their study identifies "cognitive factors" that might lie behind brutal acts.
  
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• The different factors that influence emoji choice

  26-05-2017 20:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While the majority of emojis used seem to say similar things and look similar, researchers at the University of Michigan found that people don't interpret them similarly.
  
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• Global warming steadily ruining our sleep, study says

  26-05-2017 20:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With summer nearing, the extra heat is already causing many of us to toss and turn. But that is set to get much worse by 2050, with soaring temperatures set to rob us of even more sleep, US scientists say.
  
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• Prehistoric henge is found on farmland in Warwickshire

  26-05-2017 19:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The site, in Newbold-on-Stour, dates between 4,000 and 3,000BC, and its purpose is unknown. Five skeletons, though to date to the late Bronze Age, were also found nearby.
  
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• The biggest things ever moved on the road revealed

  26-05-2017 19:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In 2012 a Saudi Arabian logistics company smashed the record for the Heaviest Item Moved by Road Freight, when it delivered a water desalination unit weighing in excess of 4,800 tonnes.
  
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• The iPhone 8 WON'T have a fingerprint sensor on the back

  26-05-2017 19:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company revealed the lack of a home button on the redesigned OLED iPhone, owing to Apple's use of 'an optical fingerprint sensor'.
  
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• Iceland is being torn apart as tectonic plates drift

  26-05-2017 19:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Iceland’s position on the boundary between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates means it’s ‘slowly being split apart’ – and, some areas could be due for a ‘Big One,’ experts say.
  
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• Volvo unveil automated garbage trucks

  26-05-2017 19:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Volvo truck (pictured), which has sensors that guide it around obstacles, is currently in a testing phase in northern Sweden.
  
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• iPhone 8 set to be unveiled on September 17th

  26-05-2017 18:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An Apple memo told staff they can't take any holiday between 17 September and 4 November - which some claim means we will the handsets unveiled on the 17th.
  
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• Exploring America's UFO state of Nevada

  26-05-2017 18:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  MailOnline Travel dropped in to the aptly-named Little A'Le'Inn in Rachel, the nearest town to Area 51, to have a chat with the owner about the area’s strange goings on.
  
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• Body language shows what Trump is really thinking at NATO

  26-05-2017 18:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  DailyMail.com spoke to a body language expert to find out what Donald Trump was really thinking during his NATO misadventures on Thursday - and her insights are shocking.
  
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• Russia is building the world's largest civilian submarine

  26-05-2017 18:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A gigantic new submarine is being developed bythe Rubin Design Bureau in Saint Petersburg which will be twice the size of the world's largest commercial passenger jet and will feature a winged design.
  
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• Life on land began with an INVASION, researchers find

  26-05-2017 18:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Portsmouth studied thousands of ancient trace fossils, marks that are left behind by travelling animals including footprints and burrows.
  
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• Nokia hype, Facebook moderation: Podcast 319

  26-05-2017 18:01
  
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• This neural network lets you transform graphic designs into functioning code

  26-05-2017 17:22
  
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• Terrorists justify violent actions through end result

  26-05-2017 17:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While most people judge an action by both its intentions and outcomes, terrorists largely ignore motives, a new study from Favaloro University, Buenos Aires, Argentina, has found.
  
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• Why people will follow you if you speak confidently

  26-05-2017 17:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research led by UCL Wellcome Centre for Neuroimaging found confidence is infectiouswhich means people will think you know your stuff even if you don't (stock image).
  
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• 'Nowcasting' tool can help forecast the next earthquake

  26-05-2017 17:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of California have used a technique that allows them to calculate the risk of cities being hit by devastating earthquakes.
  
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• Nasa's Juno probe captures Jupiter's rings from the inside

  26-05-2017 16:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, California, has released images captured from inside Jupiter'slooking outward, with Betelgeuse and the Orion constellation clearly visible in the frame.
  
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• 'Do not tell Elon': Ex-SpaceX man claims firm cut corners on NASA part tests

  26-05-2017 16:11 via go.theregister.com
  
  Firm: Not what he was saying before we sacked him A fired SpaceX worker has accused the company of leaning on its employees to forge test records for parts destined for NASA.…
  
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• Nokia 3310 review: the retro fun is short lived

  26-05-2017 15:50
  
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• Nokia 3310 review: reliving your youth is fun for about five minutes

  26-05-2017 15:50
  
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• How the world's best football clubs use data

  26-05-2017 15:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Advanced training systems at Sport Lisboa e Benfica - one of Portugal's most successful clubs - have earned the team four successive league titles and £270 million ($350 million) in transfer fees in 6 years.
  
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• Google's Sergey Brin to build world's biggest aircraft

  26-05-2017 15:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Google co-founder Sergey Brin (pictured) has been building a zeppelin-like airship inside Hangar 2 at the Nasa Ames Research Centre in Silicon Valley, according to a new report.
  
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• Net neutrality: 'Dead people' signing FCC consultation

  26-05-2017 15:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Campaigners say 'hundreds' have complained about their details being used to post fake comments.
  
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• Russia to use DNA 'to check if tsar lived in disguise'

  26-05-2017 14:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Rumours have persisted that Alexander I, who was declared dead at the age of just 47 from typhus on December 1825, lived on as Monk Feodor Kuzmich who died three decades later in Siberia.
  
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• UFO hunters zoom in on faded Roswell photo

  26-05-2017 14:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  UFO experts claimed to have deciphered a memo, seen in a 1947 photograph (pictured), which states that a 'disc-shaped craft and victims' were recovered from Roswell, New Mexico.
  
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• Scientists are counting atoms to figure out when Mars last had volcanoes

  26-05-2017 14:41 via go.theregister.com
  
  Astroboffin-in-training makes dating breakthrough Astroboffins have figured out a new way of dating planets and meteorites by counting individual atoms in rock samples snatched from the depths of space.…
  
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• Kites will power more than 5,000 British homes by 2020

  26-05-2017 14:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Twenty of the enormous kites, which will work in pairs, will fly in 100-mile-per-hour (160 kph) circles to rapidly spin a ground-based generator. The farm will most likely be built in Scotland.
  
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• Radio energy is from giant cradle of stars not aliens

  26-05-2017 14:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  These mysterious bursts of radio energy come from a small galaxy called FRB 121102 which has been studied by researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (stock image).
  
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• Zuckerberg's Harvard commencement captions garbles words

  26-05-2017 14:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The billionaire Facebook founder's talk at Harvard University in Massachusetts was live-streamed on his own social network on Thursday - but the caption software malfunctioned spectacularly.
  
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• Britain's great explorations now online

  26-05-2017 14:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Royal Geographical Society is releasing films of its scientific explorations from the early 20th Century.
  
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• Paralysed man flies a drone using virtual reality

  26-05-2017 13:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Agustin Zanoli from Cordoba, Argentina, was left with quadriplegia after a motorbike accident but he can now fly a drone at high speeds using a specially adapted VR headset.
  
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• The Nokia 3310 is back so here's a celebration of all things 2000

  26-05-2017 13:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It's been 17 years since the Nokia 3310 first appeared in shops and the world has changed quite a lot.
  
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• Gatwick launches app to stop you missing your plane

  26-05-2017 13:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  London's Gatwick Airport has installed around 2,000 beacons across its two terminals providing an indoor navigation system that is much more reliable, it claims, than GPS.
  
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• The truth behind the 'toxic haze' caused by the UK heatwave

  26-05-2017 13:10
  
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• Hunted by the Taliban, Maria Toorpakai refused to cower. Hear her message to Manchester

  26-05-2017 13:06
  
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• Researchers create a computer that writes own folk music

  26-05-2017 13:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The computerised composer, developed by scientists at Kingston University and Queen Mary University marks a significant step forward for the capabilities of artificial intelligence (stock image).
  
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• The Brighton Festival turns the whole city into a pop-up theatre

  26-05-2017 13:00
  
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• Green bags don't make a difference to the environment

  26-05-2017 13:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Reusable shopping bags are thicker than regular plastic bags and require more energy to make, as Australian researchers uncover the number of times they must be used to have any benefit.
  
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