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• Retired NASA chief scientists says it's possible to make Mars Earth-like by blocking the sun

  03-01-2022 21:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Jim Green explained the protective shield would stop the sun from stripping Mars' atmosphere, allowing the Red Planet to terraform itself to let humans walk on the surface without spacesuits.
  
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• Nature: World's rarest marsupial back from the brink of extinction - thanks to the Duke of Edinburgh

  03-01-2022 21:14 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Western Australia's Two Peoples Bay remained unspoiled and able to support the Gilbert's potoroo thanks lobbying to preserve the area by Prince Philip during a trip to Perth in 1962.
  
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• Milton Keynes to hold large-scale driverless car trial

  03-01-2022 18:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The council believes driverless vehicles could be commonplace in the town within two years.
  
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• Geology: Chemical leftovers from Earth's formation 4.5 billion years ago may sit near planet's core

  03-01-2022 18:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'Ultra-low velocity zones' on the core-mantle boundary beneath the Coral Sea were studied by researchers led from the University of Utah
  
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• Wild white-tailed deer in the US are infected with COVID and it may come from contaminate water

  03-01-2022 16:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of animals have tested positive in Illinois, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Iowa and Ohio and researchers fear the entireUS population of some 30 million may soon be infected.
  
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• Richard Leakey - fossil expert, conservationist and politician

  03-01-2022 16:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The achievements of Richard Leakey, who has died aged 77, were as remarkable as they were diverse.
  
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• Propaganda And the Fatal Attraction Of Technocratic-Fascism

  03-01-2022 15:43 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocracy employs the ultimate mind scramble of cognitive dissonance by framing falsehoods as truth and then gaslighting  you into believing their “truth”. When the anchor of reality is removed, subjects can be fed an unending stream of lies and falsehoods until their brains are no longer capable of telling truth from error. ⁃ TN EditorThe enduring beauty of fascism is that it requires so little from us… so little independent thought; just our basic belief and adh
  
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• Pandora’s Box Opened: Swedes Adopt Implanted Chips As Vaccine Passports

  03-01-2022 15:23 via technocracy.news
  
  The author rightly concludes, “Scientism is their faith. Technology is their sacrament. Their cult is a cyborg theocracy. Even if they rain fire from the sky with the press of a button, never bend the knee to their silicon gods.” The evil twins of Technocracy and Transhumanism are both rooted in Scientism. ⁃ TN EditorLast week, the world glimpsed a future in which vaccine passports are implanted under the skin. A viral video from South China Morning Post profiled a Sw
  
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• Archaeology: Funerary complex dating back up to 2,000 years dug up in Rome included a dog statue

  03-01-2022 15:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Archaeologists were called in after workers laying pipes for utility firm Acea on the Via Luigi Tosti in the city's Appio Latino quarter came across the buried tombs.
  
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• Mars Ho! The Technocrat Cult Of Outer Space

  03-01-2022 15:01 via technocracy.news
  
  Why does Congress propose $25 billion in 2022 to help fund colonization of outer space and in particular, Mars, or the incessant search for alien life in the galaxy? Apparently science is not sufficiently efficacious for solving problems on earth, so as the planet becomes increasingly unstable, humanity needs to get ready to “fly the coup”. ⁃ TN EditorSince joining NASA in 1980, Jim Green has seen it all. He has helped the space agency understand Earth’s magnetic field, e
  
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• 'Cosmic monster' star is spotted violently erupting and ejecting as much energy as one BILLION suns

  03-01-2022 14:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  During the eruption, the magnetar released the energy equivalent to that produced by the Sun in 100,000 years, according to researchers led by the University of Valencia.
  
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• To Go Green, Electric Vehicle Batteries Must Be In The Loop

  03-01-2022 13:00
  
  Powering clean cars still requires a destructive race for raw materials, but this can change with new recycling techniques.
  
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• To Fight Climate Change, First You Need to Measure It

  03-01-2022 13:00
  
  Scientists at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory are using monitoring equipment to track our impact on the planet more accurately than ever before.
  
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• Scientists Settled an Old Family Mystery Using DNA From Postcards

  03-01-2022 13:00
  
  Swiss forensic geneticists analyzed DNA recovered from postage stamps dating back to World War I and solved a century-old paternity puzzle.
  
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• 6 Ways to Delete Yourself From the Internet

  03-01-2022 13:00
  
  You’ll never be able to get a clean slate—but you can significantly downsize your digital footprint.
  
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• NASA delays the tightening of the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield

  03-01-2022 11:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  James Webb has been hit with yet another delay - this time to the tightening of its sunshield. This was originally expected to occur on January 2, but will now take place no earlier than today.
  
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• Meteor Shower: Look up tonight! Quadrantids Meteor Shower will peak this evening

  03-01-2022 09:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is the first meteor shower of 2022, and will peak on January 3 at about 20:40 GMT, appearing to emanate in the constellation Bootes, near the Big Dipper.
  
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• NHS hospital uses robot technology

  03-01-2022 07:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Southmead hospital in Bristol is using robots to help improve services.
  
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• Can fitness apps be as effective as a personal trainer?

  03-01-2022 01:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A growing number of fitness apps use artificial intelligence software to personalise workouts.
  
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• Games to look out for in 2022

  03-01-2022 01:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's gaming reporter Steffan Powell runs through what to look out for over the coming year.
  
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