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• Sixth-century complex in Egypt shows large-scale urban planning, including shops and hospital

  23-08-2021 23:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists in Marea, an ancient settlement near Alexandria, Egypt, have uncovered a 6th century urban complex with uniform 'modules' used as baths, latrines, shops and a hospital.
  
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• Wild lake trout are spotted in Lake Erie for the first time in 60 years

  23-08-2021 23:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Lake trout fry, baby trout, have been born naturally in Lake Erie - the first time this has happened in 60 years. Officials say the milestone follows decades of water and habitat maintenance
  
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• Stunning 'Einstein Ring' is spotted by the Hubble Telescope 3.4 billion light-years from Earth

  23-08-2021 23:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'Einstein Ring' formed when a quasar was magnified as it passed through the gravitational field of two galaxies that are much farther away. Albert Einstein called this gravitational lensing.
  
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• Astronomers find asteroid with the fastest orbit in the solar system: 0.6-mile wide space rock

  23-08-2021 22:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Astronomers discovered an asteroid with the shortest-known orbit, flying around the sun once every 113 days. The space rock, known as 2021 PH27, is 3,280 feet wide and was discovered on August 13.
  
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• Monkeys also struggle with tasks when the rewards are higher, study finds 

  23-08-2021 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Three rhesus monkeys were trained to perform a challenging 'reaching task' for varying rewards, by a team from the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.
  
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• Another pandemic on the scale of Covid-19 is likely to strike within the next 60 YEARS, study warns 

  23-08-2021 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Studying the spread of diseases around the world over the past 400 years allowed the team from the University of Padua in Italy to predict future outbreaks.
  
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• Peloton to release a rowing machine: Code buried in Android app reveals details of upcoming launch

  23-08-2021 20:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Peloton is reportedly getting ready to unveil a new rowing machine, according to lines of code seen in a breakdown of the fitness hardware company's Android app.
  
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• Stunning 'Einstein Ring' is spotted by the Hubble Telescope 65 million light-years from Earth

  23-08-2021 20:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 'Einstein Ring' formed when a quasar was magnified as it passed through the gravitational field of two galaxies that are much farther away. Albert Einstein called this gravitational lensing.
  
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• Virgin Hyperloop explains how new pods will travel at 670mph using 'magnetic levitation engines'  

  23-08-2021 20:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new video shows how Virgin Hyperloop uses electric propulsion and a passive magnetic levitation to limit drag and reach speeds of 670 mph. Up to 22 people can fit in the roomy passenger pods.
  
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• Everyone's going to Mars: Rocket Lab joins the Red Planet Fan Club

  23-08-2021 20:02 via go.theregister.com
  
  An interplanetary ESCAPADE via Photon spacecraft and a NASA commercial rocket Small satellite launcher Rocket Lab has been tapped to provide a pair of Photon spacecraft for a mission to Mars in 2024.…
  
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• Ancient sperm whale was attacked by a massive shark as gouges were taken out of its tooth 

  23-08-2021 19:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have found the first evidence of a 'megatoothed' shark, perhaps the megalodon, attacking a giant sperm whale after examining
  a 4.5-inch tooth of the whale for marks.
  
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• Covid: Most popular Facebook link in US spread vaccine doubt

  23-08-2021 19:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The social media giant has revealed its most clicked-on links in the first quarter of 2021 in the US.
  
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• Divers are making a digital map of 17th century warship 'The London'

  23-08-2021 18:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The impressive 120-foot ship mysteriously exploded in the Thames Estuary near Southend Pier in Essex and sank, on March 7, 1665, killing 300 people.
  
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• 'Living' building materials containing genetically modified bacteria can detect damage and self-heal

  23-08-2021 18:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tiny 3D building blocks made from genetically modified bacteria include sensors that detect damage, allowing the 'living' material to self-heal a break or hole in just three days.
  
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• Breaking Down Medical ‘Fact-Checking’ Propaganda

  23-08-2021 18:09 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocracy News & Trends readers should learn how to analyze “fact-check” or “debunking” stories that are frequently thrown in their face as “evidence” of ignorance and misapplication of otherwise real data. Here is a short analysis of one such article.
  A publication in Ireland called The Journal claims to debunk reports based on the EU and US vaccine injury databases with the title: Debunked: No, EU and US databases do not show that thousands of people h
  
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• Fossils: T. rex had complex nerve sensors in the tips of its jaws, study finds

  23-08-2021 18:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The fossilised lower jaw of a Tyrannosaurus rex that was unearthed from the Hell Creek rock formation in the US was CT scanned by experts from the Fukui Prefectural University who reconstructed its structure.
  
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• Wildfires have released record 4.7 gigatons of CO2 in 2021 so far, more than entire European Union 

  23-08-2021 17:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Wildfires have unleashed 4.7 gigatons of CO2 so far in 2021, compared to 2.7 gigatons released by the EU, according to the International Energy Agency. Massive blazes in Siberia are a major factor.
  
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• Three glasses of red wine a week can lower blood pressure, study finds

  23-08-2021 17:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Drinking three standard-sized glasses (125ml) of red wine a wee can lower blood pressure, experts in Belfast and Kiel, Germany report.
  
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• 'Vegetarian' giant tortoise is filmed attacking and killing a seabird

  23-08-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The encounter was likely caused by the increasing population of noddy tern seabirds living on the Seychelles' Frégate island, according to experts from the University of Cambridge.
  
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• Symptomatic COVID-19 patients are FOUR TIMES as likely to spread the virus to close contacts

  23-08-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Symptomatic COVID-19 patients are four times as likely to transmit the virus, a study from the University of Georgia and the Zhejiang Provincial Center for Disease Control finds.
  
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• Homosexuality: Genes linked to same-sex behaviour are also found in straight people, study claims

  23-08-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The genomes of 477,522 people from both the UK and the US - as recorded by the UK Biobank and 23andMe - were analysed by researchers led from the University of Queensland
  
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• Bitcoin comes to UK PayPal - but not for payments

  23-08-2021 16:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  PayPal will allow cryptocurrency investment - but the assets cannot be used to make payments.
  
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• Neolithic cemetery is unearthed in Transylvania where bodies were buried with vessels on their heads

  23-08-2021 16:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A number of graves were found with skeletal remains that had pottery vessels on their head or feet that experts say were used as offerings when the dead traveled to the afterlife.
  
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• Kissinger: The Genesis of U.S. Government Population Control

  23-08-2021 16:32 via technocracy.news
  
  Henry Kissinger was a founding member of the elitist Trilateral Commission that spawned todays drive toward Technocracy, aka the UN’s Sustainable Development. Kissinger also force-fed population control to the UN. The infamous “Kissinger Report” in 1974 laid the groundwork.
  This is a must-read article for anyone pondering the population control aspect of COVID-19 hysteria. Its modern genesis is almost 50 years old. Kissinger is still alive at 97 years of age. ⁃ TN EditorT
  
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• More than half of the objects at the edge of the solar system are from interstellar space 

  23-08-2021 16:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists believe there may be as many as 100 trillion Borisov-like interstellar comets in the solar system in the Oort cloud, according to a newly published study.
  
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• You should get a week off to help with burnout

  23-08-2021 16:00
  
  From Bumble to Hootsuite and LinkedIn to Mozilla, company shutdowns are easing the strain of burnout
  
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• France Launches Health Pass As Protests Grow To Hundreds Of Thousands

  23-08-2021 15:54 via technocracy.news
  
  French citizens are in the streets by the hundreds of thousands all across France, protesting the government’s edicts on vaccination, vaccine passports and restrictions on their freedoms. World citizens are pushing back hard as Technocracy clamps down with iron teeth. ⁃ TN EditorThousands marched Saturday in cities across France to protest the COVID-19 health pass that is now required to access restaurants and cafes, cultural venues, sports arenas and long-distance travel.
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• Nature crisis: Talks resume on global plan to protect biodiversity

  23-08-2021 15:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UN negotiators have resumed work on a plan to protect at least 30% of the world's land and oceans.
  
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• Earth's deepest diamonds are made up of former organisms, study finds

  23-08-2021 14:59 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ultra-rare 'super-deep continental diamonds' have levels of a carbon isotope that suggest they're formed from organic matter, researchers in Perth, Australia reveal.
  
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• Judge dismisses objections to spaceport in Scotland from billionaire who also wants to build spaceport in Scotland

  23-08-2021 13:28 via go.theregister.com
  
  What do we want? Rockets! When do we want them? In the next few years Scotland has taken another step towards commercial vertical launch capability with the dismissal of objections instigated by Danish billionaire Anders Povlsen.…
  
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• Japan reveals plans to bring back soil samples from Mars' MOON Phobos by 2029

  23-08-2021 13:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The sample-return from Phobos will be part of the wider Martian Moon Exploration (MMX) mission, run by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
  
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• Meditation: Ten minutes a day causes changes in ability to switch between states of consciousness

  23-08-2021 12:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Evidence for these changes appeared in brain scans of ten students after just eight weeks of making the practice a habit, experts led from Binghamton University found.
  
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• Zoom goes DOWN: Video conferencing app crashes around the world

  23-08-2021 11:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to DownDetector, the issues started at around 08:45 BST, and affected users worldwide.
  
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• Scientists reveal which plant-based burgers SMELL the most like real beef

  23-08-2021 11:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With the rise in plant alternatives to burgers, researchers from Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky explored the smell of the various options.
  
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• China's Mars rover assigned extended mission after exceeding life expectancy

  23-08-2021 09:45 via go.theregister.com
  
  But first, a holiday while Mars is on the other side of the Sun China's National Space Administration has announced that the Zhurong Mars rover has ticked off everything on its to-do list, and is still ticking over, so has been assigned an extended mission.…
  
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• Chip giant's IPO hit by Beijing crackdown on business

  23-08-2021 08:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The share listing of BYD Semiconductor has been suspended due to a regulatory investigation.
  
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• China’s digital yuan is a warning to the world

  23-08-2021 07:00
  
  The digital yuan was born as China’s answer to Facebook's Libra. But it’s much more than that
  
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• Why phone scams are so difficult to tackle

  23-08-2021 01:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Phone fraud, both via calls and text messages, has soared during the pandemic.
  
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