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• Elon Musk says Tesla will eventually allow car buyers to pay in Bitcoin again

  21-07-2021 23:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tesla CEO Elon Musk reiterated on Wednesday that the electric vehicle maker may allow car buyers to pay with Bitcoin once he is more comfortable with its energy usage.
  
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• Brown scorpion and its babies glow stunning shades of blue and purple under UV after light

  21-07-2021 22:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new video captures the mysterious glowing of scorpions that occurs when the arachnid is exposed to UV light. The clips shows a mother carrying babies on it back that turn unnatural colors.
  
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• Migraine sufferers are more likely to get dizzy on rollercoasters, study finds 

  21-07-2021 22:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People with migraines had more nerve cell activity in certain areas of the brain, and less activity in other areas while watching a roller coaster video, foundthe team from the University of Hamburg.
  
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• First ever wild albino chimpanzee is spotted in Uganda - shortly before it was killed by its pack

  21-07-2021 21:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The albino chimpanzee was brutally murdered by its own pack just four days after scientists first observed it. The chimp was no more than 19 days old when it was attacked and killed.
  
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• Chimps are spotted killing GORILLAS in Africa for the first time ever

  21-07-2021 21:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The two deadly encounters happened in 2019 at a national park in Africa, where chimps formed coalitions and attacked a group of gorillas that ended with two dead infant gorillas.
  
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• NASA's Perseverance rover is hunting for signs of life on Mars - and NASA will share initial results

  21-07-2021 21:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA's Perseverance rover has started its search for ancient life on Mars and the US space agency will hold a news conference on Wednesday at 1 p.m. EST to discuss the early results.
  
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• Student becomes first amateur astronomer to discover a moon orbiting Jupiter

  21-07-2021 21:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An amateur astronomer has discovered a new moon orbiting Jupiter.
  The new moon, which has a provisional name of EJc0061, brings the total number of moons to 80.
  
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• Paleontologists discover 308 million-year-old fossil of a new species of tiny dinosaur-like creature

  21-07-2021 21:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts have discovered a tiny 308 million-year-old fossil of a new species of microsaur, known asJoermungandr bolti, in a bog in central Illinois. It likely used its head to burrow underground.
  
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• Elon Musk confirms Tesla will open Supercharger stations to other electric cars by year's end

  21-07-2021 21:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed the company's Supercharger charging stations will be available to drivers of other electric vehicles 'later this year.' Tesla has over 25,000 stations in 2,700 locations.
  
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• Singapore, India and China among countries most likely to be impacted by climate change

  21-07-2021 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Areas most at risk from climate change were more often also the places also facing the highest risks of toxic air pollution, researchers from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana discovered.
  
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• Thumb-sized device quickly 'sniffs out' bad breath

  21-07-2021 19:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The device detects the presence of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) - the gas that makes breath bad - experts in Daejeon, South Korea report.
  
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• Instagram users can control how much 'sensitive content' they see with new feature

  21-07-2021 19:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Instagram's newly launched 'Sensitive Content Control' feature allows users to limit the kinds of posts that appear in the app's Explore area, where posts from users they don't follow appear.
  
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• Senior US Catholic resigns over Grindr allegations

  21-07-2021 19:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A newsletter obtains mobile app data allegedly showing a Roman Catholic official used Grindr and visited gay bars.
  
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• Virgin Media O2 urges customers to keep their broadband routers out of direct sunlight

  21-07-2021 18:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Virgin Media published the warning alongside a series of tips for boosting the signal to the garden and creating a mobile hotspot for when the wifi can't stretch far enough.
  
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• British man arrested in Spain over Twitter hack

  21-07-2021 18:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 2020 attack on a series of celebrity accounts targeted Elon Musk and Barack Obama, among others.
  
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• Russia sends long-delayed module to space station

  21-07-2021 17:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 13m-long, 20-tonne Nauka laboratory is finally going into orbit after a delay of 14 years.
  
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• 3D images of sharks' spiraled intestines reveal they work like Nikola Tesla's one-way valve

  21-07-2021 17:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  3D images of shark intestines show the spiral-shaped organs slow the movement of food and direct it downward through the gut, all of which is done through the use of gravity.
  
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• Researchers develop artificial spider silk that's stronger than steel and tougher than Kevlar

  21-07-2021 17:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis say they've created a new synthetic spider silk grown in bacteria that is stronger than common steel and tougher than Kevlar.
  
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• Space-based infrared imaging reveals how winds run BACKWARDS at night on Venus

  21-07-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Using the Venus Climate Orbiter Akatsuki probe, scientists at the University of Tokyo found night winds run in the opposition direction to day winds on Venus.
  
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• Scientists create the world's first genetically engineered marsupial

  21-07-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Disrupting a gene responsible for pigments allowed experts in Kobe, Japan to create albino opossum offspring.
  
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• DNA from 93-year-old butterfly confirms it's the first insect to go extinct from US urbanization

  21-07-2021 16:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The butterfly was last seen in San Francisco in the early 1940s, but a new DNA analysis confirms it is its own species. This means it is the first insect in the US to be destroyed by human.
  
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• Dog eats UK government's Hydrogen Strategy homework just as summer recess arrives

  21-07-2021 16:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  Ah shucks, industry and investors will have to wait a little bit longer The UK government looks set to delay the publication of its much-anticipated Hydrogen Strategy, Kwasi Kwarteng, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), told MPs this morning.…
  
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• National Park Service To Surveil Picnics, Family Outings, Weddings

  21-07-2021 15:49 via technocracy.news
  
  One by one, every Federal agency is being weaponized against American citizens. Spying is now ubiquitous and expected everywhere you go but the payload is the ability to control what you monitor and Technocrats lust after control. ⁃ TN EditorAccording to a notice published in the Federal Register, the Department of the Interior (DOI) is turning the National Park Service (NPS) into a mirror image of the NSA, FBI, DHS and every other three-letter spy agency you can think of.
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• Vaccine Propaganda Is Mostly Polar Opposite Of The Truth

  21-07-2021 15:24 via technocracy.news
  
  Neither propaganda nor pseudo-science is real science. Technocrat propaganda spins stories out of thin air and passes them off as real science, but they are far from it. Currently, the entire culture is trapped in this manufactured fantasy land. ⁃ TN EditorWill COVID shots drive the mutation of SARS-CoV-2, creating ever more variants? Or are the mutations primarily occurring in unvaccinated people? In the video report above, The Last American Vagabond host dives into the scientific researc
  
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• Pipe down, Jeff. You've only gone where Gus Grissom went before, 60 years ago today

  21-07-2021 15:00 via go.theregister.com
  
  Remembering the second American in space Somewhat lost in the hubbub over Jeff Bezos' jaunt into space is the 60th anniversary of Virgil "Gus" Grissom's suborbital flight aboard Liberty Bell 7.…
  
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• Top Aussie Health Officer: Don’t Even Talk To Anyone

  21-07-2021 14:59 via technocracy.news
  Technocracy is notably anti-human and anti-civilization. This Australian health official is the poster child for insanity when calling for a cessation os interpersonal communication, even when wearing a mask, saying “now is not the time.” ⁃ TN EditorThe chief health officer of New South Wales gave a press conference telling Australians that they shouldn’t “engage in conversation with each other,” even if they’re wearing masks, in order to reduce the tran
  
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• Neuroscience: Old people learn new skills faster if it helps others, unlike youngsters

  21-07-2021 14:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The finding that older people are more motivated to learn when it helps others may help find new ways to combat age-related cognitive decline, experts from Birmingham and Oxford said.
  
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• Biology: 28 novel viruses found in 15,000-year-old ice from a Tibetan glacier

  21-07-2021 13:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two cores of ice from the Guliya ice cap on the far western Kunlun Shan on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau were analysed by researchers from the Ohio State University.
  
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• Struggling to hear conversations in a noisy room increases dementia risk

  21-07-2021 13:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Health data from more than 82,000 participants over the age of 60 were studied by experts from the University of Oxford who were looking for dementia risk factors.
  
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• US life expectancy falls the most since WWII to 77.3 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, CDC report finds 

  21-07-2021 13:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Life expectancy in the U.S. fell by 1.5 years from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77.3 years in 2020, a new CDC report finds, which is the biggest drop seen since life expectancy fell by 2.9 years during World War II.
  
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• RSPB urges people to leave out fresh water in their gardens to help birds keep cool during heatwave 

  21-07-2021 12:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Many Brits have struggled with the heat amid the UK heatwave and now the RSPB has warned that it's not just humans suffering - it's birds too.
  
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• Telescope to be launched on giant stadium-sized balloon

  21-07-2021 12:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It will make its operational debut in April 2022 when it will be deployed from New Zealand by the team from the University of Toronto and NASA, operating for months at a time in the upper atmosphere.
  
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• Mountains on neutron stars are not even a millimetre tall due to extreme gravity

  21-07-2021 09:27 via go.theregister.com
  
  According to simulations, anyway The gravitational field of neutron stars is so strong that so-called mountains poking out from their surfaces only grow to a fraction of a millimetre in height in simulations.…
  
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• Eating red and processed meat can increase your risk of heart disease

  21-07-2021 08:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Analysing data from 13 different studies involving 1.4 million people allowed the team from the University of Oxford to examine the impact of meat on health.
  
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• 'Jurassic Pompeii' yields thousands of 'squiggly wiggly' fossils

  21-07-2021 07:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists are excavating one of the most important Jurassic sites ever discovered in the UK.
  
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• The NHS App has quietly become a vaccine passport

  21-07-2021 07:00
  
  More than ten million of us have downloaded it, despite the government saying vaccine passports aren’t a thing. What gives?
  
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• The Hyundai Ioniq 5 is our new favourite EV

  21-07-2021 07:00
  
  With some of the best design and tech we’ve seen yet on an electric car, Hyundai’s new flagship EV knocks it out of the park
  
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• Pegasus scandal: Are we all becoming unknowing spies?

  21-07-2021 03:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  We may be stepping into a world in which we are all spies - and at the same time are all spied on.
  
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• Cyber-flashing: 'I get explicit messages every day'

  21-07-2021 01:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Influencer Elle Edwards lets us inside her DMs to show the extent of sexual abuse faced by women online.
  
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• Final meal of the famous Tollund Man revealed

  21-07-2021 01:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Tollund Man - an unfortunate murder victim from the 4th century BC - ate fish and porridge containing a variety of seeds prior to death, experts in Silkeborg, Denmark report.
  
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• Oregon Bootleg Fire: Evacuations as largest US fire burns 364,000 acres

  21-07-2021 00:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The nation's largest active wildfire forces thousands to evacuate in the state of Oregon.
  
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