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• Working the night shift makes you three times as more likely to get into a car accident: study

  19-05-2021 23:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of Missouri researchers found that working 11 pm-7 am leads to a chronic condition called 'shift work sleep disorder' and makes people 3 times more likely to have an accident.
  
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• 420-million-year-old fish with four legs that predates dinosaurs found alive in Africa 

  19-05-2021 23:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Several shark hunters came across a previously unknown population of coelacanths, a 420-million-year-old 'fossil fish' off the coast of Madagascar in the West Indian Ocean.
  
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• New paint for stealth jets is even better at hiding them from radar and lasts longer

  19-05-2021 23:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new spray-on ceramic could make stealth fighter jets faster, stronger and more invisible. Testing shows it absorbs more than 90% of energy from radar, while polymer only absorbs up to 80%.
  
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• 'Blind' robot learns to navigate a flight of stairs for the first time by feeling its way

  19-05-2021 21:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A biped robot named Cassie mastered the stairs at Oregon State University with no computer vision or sensors. Engineers taught it to use 'proprioception,' or body awareness-to navigate uneven surfaces.
  
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• Archaeologists stumble across 250 tombs cut into a rock in Egypt that date back 4,200 years

  19-05-2021 20:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Some 250 tombs were uncovered during a survey near Sohag, Egypt, on banks of the Nile River. One tomb with a false door had intact hieroglyphics and scenes of mourners making divine offerings.
  
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• Kids get better quality sleep if they share bed with their pets, study suggests 

  19-05-2021 20:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Concordia University in Montreal analysed 188 people aged 11 to 17 about sleep habits and whether they have pets at home.
  
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• Bitcoin falls further as China cracks down on crypto-currencies

  19-05-2021 20:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The price of Bitcoin fell below $34,000 for the first time in three months after China imposed fresh curbs.
  
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• Scientists develop robotic third thumb controlled by sensors on the big toes

  19-05-2021 20:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 3D-printed thumb, created by a technician at University College London, helps carry out dexterous tasks, like building a tower of blocks or opening a bottle, with one hand.
  
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• Women rate age, income and personality highly when it comes to sexual attraction

  19-05-2021 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Research from Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane suggests that while women rate age, income and personality highly, men are more focused on looks.
  
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• Petition calls for NASA to name Lunar Gateway space station after late astronaut Michael Collins

  19-05-2021 19:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A petition with more than 13,000 signatures is calling on NASA to name its 2024 Lunar Gateway after the late astronaut Michael Collins who was part of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission in 1969.
  
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• Apple Watch users can now control their smartwatch without EVER having to touch the display

  19-05-2021 19:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Assistive Touch is one of several new features announced by California-based Apple today, designed for people with mobility, vision, hearing and cognitive disabilities.
  
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• Colonial Pipeline boss confirms $4.4m ransom payment

  19-05-2021 18:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Joseph Blount told the Wall Street Journal that he authorised the payment following the cyber-attack.
  
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• Technocrat Vaccine Passports Will Inflict Economic, Social Carnage

  19-05-2021 17:51 via technocracy.news
  
  The singular Technocrat purpose of vaccine passports is to force holdouts to get vaccinated, ignoring and suppressing the fact that experimental gene therapy shots have already killed more recipients than all other vaccines since 2000, combined. ⁃ TN EditorAs the number of deaths continue to rise, this is now bordering on genocide. Experimental, untested and thus unapproved gene therapy shots have been delivered to 1.53 billion people, or roughly 20% of the world. The WHO quietly admits th
  
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• Parents' evenings 'to stay on Zoom after pandemic'

  19-05-2021 17:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The government’s Covid school catch-up tsar said the evenings were “much better” when held remotely.
  
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• Heavy metal vapours are detected in comets throughout our Solar System

  19-05-2021 17:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from the University of Liège in Belgium studied data from the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope to look into the atmosphere of comets.
  
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• Fauci Blasted As Liar, Traitor After Senate Testimony

  19-05-2021 17:12 via technocracy.news
  
  Medical researcher Del Bigtree interviews Dr. Richard M. Fleming, PhD, MD, JD, to conclude that COVID-19 was engineered as a bio-weapon by a collaboration of American and Chinese virologists, partially funded by U.S. taxpayers. ⁃ TN EditorOn May 11, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) grilled Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) about his agency’s illicit funding of dangerous gain of function research. Fauci of course denied that any such funding exis
  
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• Britons drink 120 bottles of wine or 403 pints per year, report claims

  19-05-2021 17:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report claims people in the UK drink roughly 4.4 pints of beer or 2.3 bottles of wine on average each week.
  
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• Analysis: Did Pandemic Signal The Demise Of Modernity?

  19-05-2021 16:50 via technocracy.news
  
  As Technocracy crushes personal human autonomy, government by citizen representation and true scientific innovation, the world is reverting back to tribalism and neo-feudalism. This is the regression of civilization, dominated by the priestly-kings of pseudo-science. ⁃ TN EditorDaniel Hannan – Lord Hannan of Kingsclere – is today among Britain’s wisest and most articulate champions of classical liberalism. He’s also today very pessimistic about the future of liberal
  
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• Pics or it didn't happen: First images from China's Mars rover suggest nothing has gone Zhurong just yet

  19-05-2021 16:35 via go.theregister.com
  
  Probe's cams show red planet's surface while clips capture descent The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released images and video snapped during the landing process and checkout of its Zhurong Mars rover.…
  
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• A 'mysterious mass' of 'finger-shaped clear sacks holding white eggs' washed up North Carolina coast

  19-05-2021 16:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A mysterious blob that appears to have fingers and white orbs has washed up on the North Carolina coast in the past few months. Experts have not been able to identify the mass.
  
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• China's Zhurong rover sends back its first photos of the Martian surface 

  19-05-2021 15:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Chinese rover, Zhurong, successfully touched down on Utopia Planitia, a vast northern lava plain on Mars, last Saturday (May 15).
  
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• World's biggest iceberg breaks away from the Antarctic ice shelf, European Space Agency reveals 

  19-05-2021 14:42 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The iceberg, dubbed A-76, was spotted in images captured by the ESA Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission on May 14, and is now floating in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.
  
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• Twitch 'hot tub streamer' has ads pulled by streaming site

  19-05-2021 14:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Streamer Amouranth said Twitch has pulled ads because she is "not advertiser friendly".
  
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• Apple Powerbeats 2 headphone customers receive payout

  19-05-2021 13:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The compensation is from a $9.75m class action lawsuit settled last year.
  
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• Stunning simulation is the first high-resolution model to show an entire gas cloud where stars form

  19-05-2021 13:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team including astrophysicists from Illinois's Northwestern University developed the most realistic, highest-resolution 3D simulation of star formation to date.
  
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• China on Mars: Zhurong rover returns first pictures

  19-05-2021 13:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Imagery comes back from the six-wheeled robot that landed successfully at the weekend.
  
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• Google unveils AI tool that can identify 288 skin conditions

  19-05-2021 13:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The tool, which Google hopes to launch as a pilot in Europe later this year, will let users take and submit three images of the area of concern - either skin, hair or nails - from different angles.
  
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• How retail tech could change how we shop in the future

  19-05-2021 11:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Concept store Cornershop is trialling retail technology to find out what people want from stores.
  
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• Drinking any amount of alcohol is harmful to the brain, study warns 

  19-05-2021 11:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There's 'no safe dose of alcohol for the brain', according to a team of scientists from the University of Oxford.
  
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• Charlie Bit My Finger video to be auctioned as an NFT

  19-05-2021 11:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The viral video of brothers Harry and Charlie - now 17 and 15 - will be taken off YouTube.
  
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• Nike’s concept Air Jordan 3 RTNA puts butterfly tech on your feet

  19-05-2021 11:02
  
  From the flash of a hummingbird’s feathers to the dazzle of a butterfly, the science of high-impact hues has been cracked
  
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• Toxic flame retardants are discovered in the blubber of KILLER WHALES for the first time

  19-05-2021 09:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The chemicals were found in the body of a newborn orca (pictured) analysed in Norway, in low levels indicating they had been passed on by its mother.
  
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• Indonesia: Climate change destroying world's oldest animal painting

  19-05-2021 07:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Higher temperatures have accelerated build-up of salts, which causes the art to flake off the walls.
  
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• Nigeria is quietly rewriting fintech’s rulebook

  19-05-2021 07:00
  
  Africa’s biggest economy is a hotbed of financial innovation, blending tech and tradition
  
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• How Apple screwed Facebook

  19-05-2021 07:00
  
  Apple’s iOS 14.5 update has triggered an unstoppable collapse in Facebook’s ability to collect user data
  
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• University of Pittsburgh study finds making music can help those with dementia and cognitive issues

  19-05-2021 06:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  University of Pittsburgh researchers who analysed nine studies of almost 500 people between 2010 and 2021 found that making music can help those with dementia and mild cognitive impairment.
  
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• UK government to pay older farmers to retire

  19-05-2021 01:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Older farmers will be paid to retire under a UK government scheme to bring new blood into the trade.
  
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• UK must do better over electric cars - MPs

  19-05-2021 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  They're still too expensive and there are not enough charging points, a report warns.
  
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• Astronauts on the ISS are helping NASA learn about how space impacts the spine

  19-05-2021 00:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nine astronauts were scanned before heading to the ISS and upon return, scientists take a second scan to compare how their spines have been affected while spending six months in space.
  
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