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• COP26: Act now for our children, Queen urges climate summit

  01-11-2021 23:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  It is the "time for action", the monarch says in a video address at the COP26 climate summit.
  
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• NASA has successfully grown and harvested green peppers on the ISS and made TACOS with them

  01-11-2021 22:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA has announced that it has successfully grown the first chile peppers in space as part of the Plant Habitat-04 investigation.
  The peppers were used to make tacos, a NASA astronaut said.
  
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• Greenland's ice sheet is melting at such a fast pace it is 'heightening worldwide flood risks'

  01-11-2021 22:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  One third of this rise occurred in just two summers -2012 and 2019 - when warm weather flowed up to the region and caused record-breaking levels of ice to melt.
  
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• Unlike everyday stressors, natural disasters bring married couples closer together

  01-11-2021 21:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Couples that are unsatisfied in their relationship can see a boost after a natural disaster, say researchers at the University of Texas at Austin. But it only lasts about a year
  
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• Amazon says it will launch its first two internet satellites in late 2022

  01-11-2021 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Amazon will launch its first Project Kuiper internet satellites into orbit next year to test and demonstrate the technology before its starts building a constellation of more than 3,000 devices.
  
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• Women NOT less competitive than men and prefer to share the winnings, study finds 

  01-11-2021 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Putting volunteers in groups and asking them to complete a series of maths problems helped researchers from the University of Arizona in Tucson to study gender differences.
  
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• 'Genetic goldmine' that could help crops survive hotter and drier climates unearthed

  01-11-2021 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It has been unearthed plants growing in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile, one of the driest places on Earth, by experts from New York University.
  
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• Roblox CEO apologies after three-day blackout

  01-11-2021 19:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Roblox was back online on Sunday evening, after an outage that began on Thursday.
  
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• NASA picks a satellite the size of a SHOEBOX to look at the origins of plasma in the sun's corona

  01-11-2021 19:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  NASA said on Monday it has selected a cube satellite roughly the size of a shoebox to measure the sun's corona and understand the origins of hot plasma in the dangerous area of the sun.
  
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• Energy: Britain's consumption has fallen by 13 per cent over the last 30 years, new figures show

  01-11-2021 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ONS report, which focussed on UK household behaviours, revealed that the last decade has seen residential recycling rates increase from 40-45 per cent.
  
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• Nature: Barn owls make mental maps of their surroundings while flying, researchers say

  01-11-2021 18:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The brain activity of barn owls as they flew back-and-forth between two perches was recorded by researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology
  
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• Meta's ultra-thin synthetic skin for robots enables them to 'feel' objects to build its metaverse 

  01-11-2021 18:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Called ReSkin, the synthetic skin is just a few millimeters thick and is placed on robots to let them 'feel' objects. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees this helping the firm build its metaverse.
  
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• Hermit crabs getting stuck in tires on the sea floor in 'ghost fishing' that results in cannibalism 

  01-11-2021 18:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers in Japan found the hermit crabs can climb into the concave tires but they can't get out. Trapped inside, the crabs fight for food and shelter and may even resort to eating each other.
  
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• Autonomous vehicles get 'X-ray' vision to detect hidden obstacles

  01-11-2021 18:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The clever 'X-ray' technology is now being commercialised following trials on public roads in Sydney, Australia.
  
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• Statue heads of ancient Greek deities dating back 5,000 years found in Turkey

  01-11-2021 17:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The heads depict Aphrodite, the goddess of love, and Dionysus, the god of wine. The statue bodies were found at a previous dig, but show Greeks held on to their beliefs under Roman rule.
  
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• Sky Glass users complain of technical issues

  01-11-2021 17:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The company will release a software update this week to address the problems.
  
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• Sweating in sync indicates attraction on a first date, study finds

  01-11-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  In-sync sweating and heart rates are much better indicators of attraction than copying body language and mannerisms on a blind date, experts at Leiden University in the Netherlands say.
  
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• Apple's mixed reality headset will support the newest Wi-Fi and be truly wireless, analyst claims 

  01-11-2021 16:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple's upcoming mixed-reality headset will use the newest form of Wi-Fi and eventually allow it to be completely wireless and not tethered to an iPhone or Mac, according to an analyst report.
  
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• Chinese version of Fortnite to close in November

  01-11-2021 16:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Epic Games has not explained the decision to end the Fortress Night game in the country.
  
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• Rosalind Franklin Mars rover is a step closer to blast-off after 'bakeout' test

  01-11-2021 16:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The rover sat inside a vacuum chamber for five days at the Thales Alenia Space facility in Rome, Italy, where it experienced 95F (35C) temperatures.
  
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• Saudi Arabia begins construction on the Line, 105-mile car-free 'linear city' of the future

  01-11-2021 15:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Digging has begun for The Line, a 105-mile long series of urban areas along a central 'spine' in northwest Saudi Arabia.Developers predict the first residents will move in some time in 2024.
  
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• Metaverse: Blurring The Lines Of Reality With NWO Transhumanism

  01-11-2021 15:44 via technocracy.news
  
  With the metaverse at your fingertips, you can literally own nothing and be happy in your fantasy world, perhaps enhanced with a little ‘magic mushroom’ hallucinogenic for extra thrills and connections. Will your reality be where you exist in the physical universe or in the metaverse? ⁃ TN EditorWelcome to the ‘metaverse’: A strange new world where the same billionaire globalist elites who destroyed the lives of millions using a pandemic as their main battering
  
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• Apple's $200 Beats Fit Pro earbuds are officially on sale

  01-11-2021 15:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Apple's rumored Beats Fit Pro earbuds officially launched in the US on Monday for $199.99. Shipping starts Nov. 5 and the earbuds come inBlack, White, Sage Gray and Stone Purple.
  
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• Wall Street Launches New Asset Class To Dominate Nature

  01-11-2021 15:22 via technocracy.news
  
  Wall Street’s “financialization of nature” is a twisted scheme that turns nature into a commodity, allowing investors to speculate on it. This is comparable to the massive derivative markets where value is hypothesized into betting instruments. Despite the rhetoric, it will not help to save the environment. ⁃ TN EditorA project of the multilateral development banking system, the Rockefeller Foundation and the New York Stock Exchange recently created a new asset class that
  
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• Hubble Space Telescope snaps picture of a dying star likened to a witch's cauldron

  01-11-2021 15:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The US Space agency's image shows the star CW Leonis, which sits 400 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Leo, and is a type of red giant with a carbon-rich atmosphere.
  
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• Internet Of Bodies: Using CRISPR To Electrically Connect And Control The Genome

  01-11-2021 15:02 via technocracy.news
  
  The article concludes, “similar to  how DNA based vaccines are being electroporated into the human body to fight Covid-19,  we may expect that electrogenetic promoter circuits will be inserted into human cells to open a new modality of bioelectronic signaling.”
  The ultimate hacking of the human body will be “electrogenetics”, where human DNA can be selectively switched on and off by electronic signals. ⁃ TN EditorJust like Internet of Things (IoT), IoB ref
  
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• Apple's next iPhones and Apple Watches could detect car crashes and dial 911 automatically

  01-11-2021 14:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The next Apple iPhone and Watch could have a feature that detects a car accident and dials 911 automatically using a
  'crash detection' feature which could be unveiled as soon as next year.
  
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• Humans aren't predisposed to optimism, study finds

  01-11-2021 14:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Monty Python told us to 'always look on the bright side of life', but it seems optimism isn't as ingrained in human nature as previously thought, a new study led by the University of Bath claims.
  
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• Archaeology: Rare 1,100-year-old Maya canoe found submerged in a freshwater pool in southern Mexico

  01-11-2021 13:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The wooden artefact - more than five feet in length - was found near the ruined city of Chichen Itza in modern Mexico by Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia experts.
  
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• Google lab proposes solar-powered moisture farming to provide water for billions

  01-11-2021 13:13 via go.theregister.com
  
  From Tatooine to Earth Star Wars-style moisture farming could provide safe drinking water for approximately 1 billion people here on Earth, according to research from a Google-owned research lab.…
  
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• COP26: World at one minute to midnight over climate change - Boris Johnson

  01-11-2021 13:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As world leaders arrive at COP26 in Glasgow, Prime Minister Boris Johnson says action is needed.
  
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• Stop Telling Kids They’ll Die From Climate Change

  01-11-2021 12:00
  
  Many young people feel like their future is in peril. To make progress on climate change we must move past doomsday scenarios.
  
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• Merck’s Antiviral Could Be Just What Covid Was Waiting For

  01-11-2021 12:00
  
  The pharmaceutical giant is making its oral antiviral drug widely available for all the world. But could Covid outsmart it?
  
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• 6 Ways to Fix Your Recruitment Problem

  01-11-2021 12:00
  
  It’s time for companies to listen to candidates, understand the skills they actually need, and use technology when it helps.
  
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• England's only wild beaver colony is threatened by sewage spills, experts say

  01-11-2021 11:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sewage from Honiton treatment works in Devon is contaminating the colony along the River Otter, according to Devon Wildlife Trust.
  
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• COP26: Charles to say 'war-like footing' needed

  01-11-2021 04:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Prince of Wales will address the opening ceremony of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
  
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• COP26: The issues that stand in the way of progress

  01-11-2021 02:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As the serious business of negotiation finally begins in Glasgow, we look at the key barriers to progress.
  
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• Can we stomach the latest emerging food innovations?

  01-11-2021 01:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Our growing appetite for novel food tech - from lab grown meat to nano-packaging.
  
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