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• Newly discovered tiny rain frog is named after climate activist Greta Thunberg 

  13-01-2022 23:10 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Greta Thunberg Rainfrog, Pristimantis gretathunbergae, doesn't exactly bear a close resemblance to its namesake.
  
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• You are more likley to be attacked by a shark during a full moon, bizarre new study finds

  13-01-2022 22:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The research, titled Shark Side of the Moon: Are Shark Attacks Related to Lunar Phase?, found an increase in shark attacks when the moon is fuller.
  
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• SpaceX readies for Transporter-3 launch this morning

  13-01-2022 21:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Liftoff from Launch Complex 40 was just after 10.20am EST and ten minutes later, the 162-foot booster created a sonic boom which rattled locals windows.
  
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• 'Fitbit for the face' attaches to any face mask to turn it into a smart monitoring device

  13-01-2022 20:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The FaceBit, or 'Fitbit for the face', is a quarter-sized sensor which attaches to a face mask using a small magnet and tracks a user's respiration rate, heart rate, and how long they've worn the mask.
  
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• Huge asteroid passes Earth at 43,000 miles per hour next week 

  13-01-2022 20:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The space rock, called 7482 (1994 PC1), poses no threat to the Earth as it will be five times further away from the planet than the Moon, as it shoots by at 43,000 mph.
  
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• Joanna Lumley sets off detonation to show how blowing up WW2 bombs at sea deafens marine life

  13-01-2022 19:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The actress was joined at the Broadmead Quarry in Somerset by the Secretary of State for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, George Eustice.
  
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• Apple removes Wordle clones from App Store

  13-01-2022 18:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The viral word puzzle, which pledged to remain free, is facing competition from apps.
  
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• Scientists have captured the brain making memories for the first time

  13-01-2022 18:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  With the help of a tailor made microscope, researchers were able to record how brain cells of the fish - which are transparent when young.
  
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• Gene more than doubles the risk of becoming severely ill with Covid

  13-01-2022 18:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The gene is the fourth most important factor determining how seriously a person suffers from Covid, according to scientists at Medical University of Bialystok, Poland.
  
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• Estate Planning Nightmare: Death Benefits Might Be Denied If You Die From COVID Without Being Vaccinated

  13-01-2022 18:07 via technocracy.news
  Survivors of patients who die from COVID without having received an experimental mRNA injection are potentially in for a crushing discovery when they are denied life insurance benefits. Thus, if you are hospitalized with COVID, taking the shot may kill you, but it could protect your loved ones from financial impoverishment.
  This is twisted and so wrong on all levels. Technocrats could care less about human dignity and even life itself, but are only interested in implementing their own scientific
  
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• Largest darknet stolen credit card site closes

  13-01-2022 17:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The anonymous owners of UniCC are retiring after making an estimated $358m (£260m) since 2013.
  
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• Durham University fibre-optics help largest 3D map of Universe

  13-01-2022 17:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Their Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument has already broken all records for 3D galaxy surveys.
  
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• Twitter agrees to Nigeria's demands to end seven-month ban

  13-01-2022 17:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Following a seven-month ban, the micro-blogging site will register in Nigeria and pay tax locally.
  
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• Smart Oceans: Cell Towers On The Ocean Floor?

  13-01-2022 17:02 via technocracy.news
  
  Technocrats invent because they can, not because there is a demonstrated need or call to do so. High-speed communication such as 5G has penetrated land and space, but now Technocrats are focused on the oceans as well, to create “Smart Oceans” and the “Internet of Underwater Things” (IoUT). ⁃ TN EditorIn 2018, on land and in space, preparations to deploy millions of antennas were very publicly being made and advertised, for “5G,” “Smart Cities,&rdqu
  
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• Astronomers report an exomoon almost three times the size of Earth

  13-01-2022 17:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  What's believed to be an 'exomoon' - a moon outside our solar system - is orbiting a Jupiter-sized planet called Kepler 1708b, say scientists at Columbia University in New York.
  
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• The most detailed 3D map of the universe EVER is under construction

  13-01-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) has completed its first seven months of a survey that is expected to take a total of five years.
  
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• Archaeology: Cut marks on animal bones show our ancestors DID begin hunting two million years ago

  13-01-2022 16:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Animal bones from Kanjera South, an archaeological site near Lake Victoria in western Kenya, were studied by a team of researchers from the University of San Diego.
  
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• Tesla removes the promise of '2022' production on its much maligned Cybertruck from its website 

  13-01-2022 16:36 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  As recently as December, the website had promised customers that they could complete the 'configuration' of their vehicles 'as production nears in 2022'.
  
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• Wesley J. Smith: Defeating Technocracy Is Crucial to Life

  13-01-2022 16:35 via technocracy.news
  If you are looking to Technocracy to protect human life, you will be greatly disappointed. Technocracy does not value human life any more than insects or bacteria. This was a core principle of historic Technocracy and clearly stated in the Technocracy Study Course (1934). It persists today. ⁃ TN EditorPro-life advocacy and policies are implacably opposed by the elites of the West. The United Nations promotes abortion access as an international norm. Leaders of the European Union continuall
  
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• NASA begins process of bringing new space telescope into focus

  13-01-2022 15:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Mission control engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland are fine-tuning Webb's individual optics into one huge, precise telescope.
  
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• Earth is at the centre of a 1,000-light-year-wide 'Swiss cheese' bubble

  13-01-2022 15:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There are thousands of young stars at the edge of this bubble, according to astrophysicists from the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
  
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• Kylie Jenner becomes first woman with 300 million Instagram followers

  13-01-2022 15:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ariana Grande, previously the app's most popular woman, is now tied in second place with Selena Gomez.
  
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• Environment: No English river is free from pollution, report warns

  13-01-2022 13:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Environment Audit Committee criticised government inaction and budget cuts that are tying the hands of the Environment Agency in the fight against pollution in rivers across England.
  
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• CES 2022: Dog facial recognition and smart taps

  13-01-2022 13:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chris Fox tries out some of the gadgets on display at the convention's area for start-ups.
  
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• Scientists regrow knee cartilage with an electric current

  13-01-2022 13:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A tiny mesh could be implanted into damaged joints to encourage the growth of new cartilage, with the help of steady electrical currents, report experts in Storrs, Connecticut.
  
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• Game Studios Are Turning Play Into Work

  13-01-2022 13:00
  
  Video games are being split into titles geared toward fun and those that beguile us into productivity with points, rewards, and even NFTs.
  
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• Water pollution: How clean are the UK's rivers and lakes?

  13-01-2022 11:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England's rivers are contaminated by a "chemical cocktail" of pollution- what's being done to tackle the issue?
  
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• Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit is set to fire seven satellites into space TODAY

  13-01-2022 11:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Richard Branson's space firm will put small satellites into a 310 mile orbit, launching from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California from 16:00 ET (21:00 GMT).
  
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• No English river is free from pollution - Parliament report

  13-01-2022 08:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tyres and wet wipes are soiling rivers but the biggest polluters are farms and water companies.
  
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• 'Chemical cocktail’ polluting English rivers - MPs warn

  13-01-2022 08:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tyres and wet wipes are soiling rivers but the biggest polluters are farms and water companies.
  
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• Chemical cocktail’ polluting English rivers - MPs warn

  13-01-2022 08:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tyres and wet wipes are soiling rivers but the biggest polluters are farms and water companies.
  
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• Archaeology: Rare Roman wooden figure is found in a Buckinghamshire ditch by HS2 archaeologists

  13-01-2022 01:01 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The discovery - the first of its kind in 100 years - was initially dismissed as a piece of degraded wood when it was discovered in Twyford during work on HS2 last July.
  
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• People who are bored behave more sadistically to mitigate the effects of being disinterested

  13-01-2022 00:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  People who are bored will behave more sadistically to mitigate feelings of being disinterested. This includesviewing images of injured people or even thinking about harming others.
  
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