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• 3D-printed robot 'ants' can link up, complete complex tasks and call for help

  08-11-2021 23:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Inspired by the collaborative nature of ant swarms, engineers at Notre Dame developed a squadron of six-inch robot 'insects' that could link up into long chains to traverse uneven terrain.
  
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• Climate change is causing record warming in the Great Lakes that will likely fuel lake effect snow

  08-11-2021 23:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  All of the five Great Lakes have been one to two degrees above normal since October, which will likely fuel lake-effect snow, disrupt fish and impact accessibility to freshwater for residents.
  
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• The brain can make a person sick by storing and retrieving past inflammations

  08-11-2021 22:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers believe they discovered the part of the brain that could make a person sick by storing and retrieving episodes of past illnesses, according to a newly published study.
  
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• REvil: Day of reckoning for notorious cyber gang

  08-11-2021 21:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A global police operation has dealt a major blow to one of the most prolific cyber gangs in history.
  
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• Interstellar objects that accumulate like pebbles to form planets, study suggests 

  08-11-2021 21:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists think that interstellar objects may have play a role in constructing planets, accumulating like pebbles over hundreds of years, according to a newly published study.
  
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• Four diaper wearing astronauts undock from the ISS as they prepare to splashdown TONIGHT 

  08-11-2021 21:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Four astronauts leaving the ISS today will be wearing diapers due to their bathroom being out-of-order - the capsule's toilet is broken. The team will undocked from the ship at 2:05pm ET.
  
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• Over 25,000 tonnes of 'Covid plastic' is in our oceans, study says

  08-11-2021 21:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A hefty 8.4 million tons of pandemic-associated plastic waste has been generated globally by 193 countries, as of August 2021, claims a research team led by UC San Diego.
  
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• Walmart is testing fully autonomous delivery trucks in Bentonville, Arkansas, hometown

  08-11-2021 20:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Walmart is using fully autonomous trucks to make deliveries to a store in Arkansas, the first time a human driver has been removed from a delivery route on the middle mile anywhere in the world.
  
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• Twitter is back online after an hour-long crash that hit worldwide

  08-11-2021 19:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The crash was impacting users worldwide who said they were having issues with Twitter's website and app. Users said tweets are not refreshing or they are being kicked out of their accounts.
  
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• Ancient Earth was hit by rain storms hundreds of miles wide, study reveals 

  08-11-2021 19:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Earth likely experienced 'hothouse' periods of intense dryness in the distant past and will experience them again hundreds of millions of years from now, Harvard University scientists report.
  
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• Twitter is DOWN for thousands of users worldwide

  08-11-2021 19:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The crash is impacting users worldwide who say they are having issues with Twitter's website and app. Users say tweets are not refreshing or they are being kicked out of their accounts.
  
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• Archaeology: More than 1,200 Mesolithic tools unearthed along Aberdeenshire river 

  08-11-2021 19:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The flints - which include blades, scrapers and waste material - were collected by volunteers with archaeology group Mesolithic Deeside from 13-17 March this year.
  
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• Fathers of newly discovered 'hip-pocket' frog species carry tadpoles on their bodies

  08-11-2021 18:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The father sits on the eggs for about six days until the tadpoles hatch and climb into small pouches located on the adult frog's legs  - and the young stays there until they develop their own legs.
  
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• Protein switch lets ants achieve a 'queen-like status', study finds

  08-11-2021 18:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Worker ants can transition from a worker to a queen-like 'gamergate' that's able to reproduce sexually. A protein called Kr-h1 orchestrates this transition, biologists in Philadelphia report.
  
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• Record number of new gravitational waves are detected

  08-11-2021 17:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ripples in space time were captured by a global network of detectors, and then catalogued by an international team of scientists, led by British institutions.
  
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• Underwater drone footage captures fish rubbing against great white sharks to exfoliate their skin 

  08-11-2021 17:09 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Footage of fish chafing against sharks to slough off parasites included multiple incidents of leervis fish in South Africa rubbing up against a great white shark, the ultimate apex predator of the oceans.
  
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• Fossils: Ancient 'penis worms' used other creatures' shells to protect themselves, like hermit crabs

  08-11-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  New penis worm specimens recovered from the 'Guanshan biota', rock deposits that outcrop around Kunming city in China, were presented by researchers led from Yunnan University.
  
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• Four diaper wearing astronauts are leaving the ISS TODAY after a delay on Sunday due to high winds

  08-11-2021 16:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Four astronauts leaving the ISS today will be wearing diapers due to their bathroom being out-of-order - the capsule's toilet is broken. The team will undock from the ship at 2:05pm ET.
  
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• Fishing gear seller caught in hacker's net

  08-11-2021 16:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fishing gear seller Angling Direct is taken offline by hackers - and redirected to an adult site.
  
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• Sky Glass is Not a Good Television

  08-11-2021 16:22
  
  It’s an alluring, convenient and high-spec package, but Sky Glass has more than a few issues with picture quality.
  
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• Six genetic changes in DNA show the link between anxiety and Irritable bowel syndrome

  08-11-2021 16:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers believe they have discovered the root cause of Irritable bowel syndrome: it's found in six changes in a person's genetic code and may help explain why it is linked to anxiety.
  
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• Italy’s ‘From Covid’ Death Count Drastically Reduced By Over 97 Percent

  08-11-2021 15:30 via technocracy.news
  
  Global Technocrat shills who pumped death-rate hysteria to the media, along with dystopian policies, have been exposed in Italy. Worldwide, it is now likely that over 90 percent of deaths were “with COVID” and not “from COVID.” This could go down in history as the biggest con the world has ever seen, and with the most deadly consequences. ⁃ TN EditorThe Italian Higher Institute of Health has drastically reduced the country’s official COVID death toll number by
  
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• New Earth-observing spacecraft sends first images of the planet

  08-11-2021 15:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Landsat 9 spacecraft, run by NASA and the US Geological Survey (USGS), launched on September 27 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
  
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• Australia COVID Hysteria: Bank Accounts Raided, Property Seized

  08-11-2021 15:11 via technocracy.news
  
  Shades of Nazi Germany’s police state are rapidly descending on Australia and there is no end in sight. Government actions are far beyond any relation to health emergencies, and thus far the citizens of Australia have proven impotent to put a halt to the madness. ⁃ TN EditorAs if the dystopian hell Australians are dealing with wasn’t bad enough already, residents of the country’s 2nd largest state are now at risk of losing the money in their bank accounts, their
  
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• All the Decent Early Black Friday Deals You Can Buy Right Now

  08-11-2021 15:05
  
  It’s November and the early Black Friday deals have begun, with Apple, LG, Amazon, Shark and more kicking things off.
  
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• Social Security Website Acknowledges Technocracy

  08-11-2021 14:52 via technocracy.news
  
  On its website page, Historical Background And Development Of Social Security, the Social Security Administration lists Technocracy as one of many precursors to Social Security. It concludes, “Oddly enough, alone among this collection of radical movements of the 1930s, the Technocracy movement survives, if not quite thrives, into the present day.” ⁃ TN EditorTechnocracy:
  “Out of America’s fascination with technology came another eccentric “reform” moveme
  
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• TikTok: Missing girl found after using viral call for help sign

  08-11-2021 14:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The hand gesture asking for help led to the rescue of a missing teenager in the US.
  
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• The Next Big Thing for RNA? Fixing Moldy Food

  08-11-2021 13:00
  
  Covid vaccines alerted to the world to RNA's potential. Now the technology is being used as an alternative to pesticides.
  
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• How To Fix Email … With Science!

  08-11-2021 13:00
  
  Email isn’t broken—it’s the people who are the problem. But if you start treating it like old-fashioned snail mail, suddenly it makes sense again.
  
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• A New Dementia Test Raises More Questions Than Answers

  08-11-2021 13:00
  
  A 5-minute assessment on an iPad could transform how we screen for dementia—or overwhelm the health care system with worried test-takers.
  
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• COP26: Rich countries ‘pushing back’ on paying for climate loss

  08-11-2021 12:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Poorer countries say they are not able to get compensation for the damage caused by climate change.
  
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• Red sauce on the Red Planet! Heinz makes ketchup from tomatoes grown in Mars-simulated conditions 

  08-11-2021 12:22 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A team of 14 scientists and students spent more than 2,000 hours, over two years, experimenting with different types of lighting inside a greenhouse at the Florida Institute of Technology.
  
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• Asteroid the size of the Eiffel Tower is set to race by Earth next month

  08-11-2021 11:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It won't be very close in terrestrial terms, coming 2.5 million miles from the planet - or about ten times farther than the moon - so will pose no threat to the Earth.
  
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• COP26: UK pledges £290m to help poorer countries cope with climate change

  08-11-2021 09:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As the COP26 summit enters its second week, government ministers gather in Glasgow for more talks.
  
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• COP26: Fossil fuel industry has largest delegation at climate summit

  08-11-2021 01:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  There are more participants than from any single country, a study shared with the BBC suggests.
  
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• The space telescopes inspired by lobsters

  08-11-2021 01:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  By mimicking the way lobsters’ eyes work, scientists have designed new X-ray space telescopes that can survey much larger areas.
  
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• Karaoke: Free Sky Q, Fire TV, Android TV and Google TV app lets you sing along to 140,000 tracks

  08-11-2021 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  ROXi - whose music service is said to have boomed during lockdown - is aiming to do for music on TV what apps like Netflix and Disney+ have done for streamed video.
  
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• Small scale nuclear to get green light this week

  08-11-2021 00:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Plans for a generation of new smaller nuclear reactors will become more concrete this week.
  
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