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• Fossils: Huge reptile with 56ft body roamed the seas of what is now Nevada 246 million years ago

  23-12-2021 20:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The creature - 'Cymbospondylus youngorum' - may have been Earth's first giant creature, palaeontologists led from the Universities of Bonn have reported.
  
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• TikTok ousts Google to become favourite online destination

  23-12-2021 18:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tiktok.com overtook other US tech giants in 2021, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Netflix.
  
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• World's oldest family tree created using DNA

  23-12-2021 18:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists have created the world's oldest family tree from bones interred at a 5,700-year-old tomb.
  
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• Health: Meat-eating animals are more susceptible to CANCER than herbivores, study reveals

  23-12-2021 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Cancer incidence in more than 110,000 zoo-kept mammals from nearly 200 different species was analysed by researchers led from the University of Southern Denmark.
  
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• Fear of spiders may be triggered by aversion to scorpions, study says

  23-12-2021 17:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Most spiders are actually harmless, so it's thought that fear of these arachnids is based on its similarities to the generally more harmful scorpions, say experts in Prague, Czech Republic.
  
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• COVID curtails CES 2022 plans for Meta and other tech firms that cancel in-person attendance

  23-12-2021 17:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Consumer Electronics Show will be held in-person from Jan 5-8, but at least 42 companies have canceled attendance in just this week alone due to the lingering coronavirus pandemic.
  
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• Scientists are testing a hovering rover that LEVITATES by harnessing the moon's natural charge 

  23-12-2021 17:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The device, which resembles a classic flying saucer, works by taking advantage of the electric field that builds up on the moon and other airless bodies like asteroids.
  
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• Covid-19 infection detected in Ohio deer, study reveals

  23-12-2021 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Deer in Ohio have been infected with Covid-19, likely due to transmission from humans, researchers at Ohio State University in Columbus report.
  
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• Intel apologises to China over supplier advice

  23-12-2021 16:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US technology firm says sorry after it urged firms not to source products from Xinjiang.
  
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• Earth science: the Matterhorn in the Alps moves gently back and forth about once every two seconds

  23-12-2021 15:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The ordinarily imperceptible vibrations of the iconic mountain were measured by a team of seismologists led from the Technical University of Munich.
  
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• Netlicks? 'The TV screen you can taste’

  23-12-2021 15:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Japanese professor invents a prototype TV that sprays flavours onto a lickable "hygienic film".
  
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• Children's books may encourage gender stereotypes, study finds

  23-12-2021 14:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  More than 240 books written for children five years old and younger were analysed by a team from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  
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• World's thinnest Christmas tree just one ATOM thick is made from graphene

  23-12-2021 13:34 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  At only a third of a nanometre thick, the tree is 5.5 inches (14cm) long but 30,000 times thinner than kitchen film, report experts at Technical University of Denmark in Kongens Lyngbym.
  
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• Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs sparked two YEARS of darkness on Earth, study reveals 

  23-12-2021 13:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Soot from wildfires filled the sky and blocked out the Sun soon after theasteroid hit the planet, according to a team from the California Academy of Sciences.
  
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• Chinese regulator pauses partnership with Alibaba

  23-12-2021 13:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The firm's cloud computing arm "did not tell the regulator in time" about the Log4shell security flaw.
  
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• Startups Are Trying to Drive Down the Cost of IVF

  23-12-2021 13:00
  
  New techniques using artificial intelligence and automation can boost the odds of conception.
  
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• Lab-Grown Embryo Research Is Poised to Transform Medicine

  23-12-2021 13:00
  
  New advances in stem cell science could alleviate devastating early-life conditions. But this comes with a moral conundrum.
  
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• Inventor of the 'suicide pod' plans to create a lethal body implant

  23-12-2021 10:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Australian euthanasia advocate Philip Nitschke, based in the Dutch city of Haarlem, has shared his concept for lethal implants, which people could choose to have inserted in case they get dementia.
  
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• Aurora around the North Pole could be particularly strong on Christmas Eve

  23-12-2021 10:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ahuge solar storm that erupted on the Sun on Monday, December 20, could make the aurora more intense than usual, according to the UK Met Office.
  
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• Inside Bremont’s Bold British Watch Revival

  23-12-2021 07:00
  
  From its purpose-built headquarters, Bremont aims to produce British-built watches in their thousands.
  
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• James Webb Telescope launch delayed again, this time by weather

  23-12-2021 04:58 via go.theregister.com
  
  New launch date could be a marvelous Christmas gift to humanity The James Webb Telescope has been cleared for launch, only for weather to delay its ascent for at least a day.…
  
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