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• Earth's sixth mass extinction is HERE: Humans caused disappearance of 260,000 species since 1500

  17-01-2022 23:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new study says the Red List has underestimated the number of species that have gone extinct. Including all species suggests that a sixth mass extinction is already happening on Earth.
  
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• Rare 'rainbow-hued' blanket octopus tis spotted twirling through the Great Barrier Reef

  17-01-2022 22:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A marine biologist had a 'once in a lifetime encounter' when she captured pictures and footage of a rare blanket octopus swimming through the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.
  
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• Nature: Some East African sunbirds have been singing the same song for up to a MILLION years

  17-01-2022 20:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Isolated populations of double-collared sunbirds living up high mountains in East Africa were studied by researchers led from the University of California, Berkeley.
  
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• Australian radio telescope narrows in on the elusive signal of the universe's first stars

  17-01-2022 20:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers are using the Murchison Widefield Array near Perth to hunt for the signal of the hydrogen that pervaded the early universe before the so-called 'cosmic dawn'.
  
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• Look up for the wolf moon! First full moon of 2022 is set to rise tonight

  17-01-2022 20:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The wolf moon will rise at 4:31pm EST and peak at 6:48pm EST - and it will be appear full until Wednesday. According to NASA, there will be 12 full moons this year with the next in February.
  
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• Our brain pays attention to unfamiliar voices during sleep, study finds

  17-01-2022 19:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hearing unfamiliar voices when asleep causes the human brain to tune in during non-rapid eye movement sleep (NREM), the first stage of sleep, researchers in Salzburg report.
  
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• Government says its climate change curbs inadequate

  17-01-2022 18:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ministers say coping even with low levels could cost the country billions of pounds a year.
  
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• World's oldest fossilized flower bud could solve Charles Darwin's 'abominable mystery'

  17-01-2022 18:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The fossilized flower bud, found in China, was foundat a deposit dated more than 164 million years ago and could be the transitional stage that finally answer's Darwin's abominable mystery
  
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• Geology: Earth's interior is cooling faster than expected, study suggests 

  17-01-2022 17:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The thermal properties of bridgmanite, the primary mineral that makes up the boundary between Earth's mantle and outer core, were studied by researchers from ETH Zürich.
  
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• Vast 4,500-year-old network of 'funerary avenues discovered in Saudi Arabia

  17-01-2022 17:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ancient tombs span large distances in the northwestern Saudi Arabian counties of Al-'Ula and Khaybar, aerial surveys carried out by the University of Western Australia reveal.
  
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• Metal plate attached to 2,000 year-old Peruvian warrior's skull may be oldest evidence of SURGERY

  17-01-2022 17:17 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The 2,000 year old skull of a Peruvian warrior was found to have been fused together with metal in one of the world's oldest examples of advanced surgery, according to a museum.
  
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• Exposing Propaganda: The Vaccine For Liberty, Truth And Reason

  17-01-2022 16:50 via technocracy.news
  
  Citizens for Free Speech did a deep dive into propaganda on Thursday, January 13th: What is it, how you can recognize it and what you can do about it. Guest presenters included Patrick Wood, Joshua Philipp of The Epoch Times and Alex Newman of The Sentinel Report. This presentation should be required viewing for all Americans.
  The world is awash with propaganda. As noted below, the object of propaganda is to deceive and manipulate.
  Propaganda In The Era Of COVID Mania
  By Patrick Wood via CFFS
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• Move over exoplanets, exomoons are the next big thing

  17-01-2022 16:25 via go.theregister.com
  
  Is that an extremely large moon we see outside the solar system, astro-boffins ask themselves Scientists have spotted a new candidate for a moon existing outside of our solar system, with only a 1 per cent chance the observation could be an anomaly.…
  
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• Protect Your Head With the Finest 2022 Ski Goggles and Helmets

  17-01-2022 16:22
  
  Thankfully, it's odd to see anyone without a helmet on the slopes these days—so make sure you get a good one.
  
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• Mercola: Yes, SARS-CoV-2 Is Real Virus

  17-01-2022 16:21 via technocracy.news
  
  Mercola points out the importance and necessity of self-policing misinformation and disinformation about CARS-CoV-2 because unsubstantiated claims made by some simply adds fuel to the propaganda that claims all people who are concerned about COVID treatment and injection injuries are conspiracy theorists. ⁃ TN Editor
  STORY AT-A-GLANCE> SARS-CoV-2 has been isolated, photographed, genetically sequenced, and exists as a pathogenic entity
  > The U.S. Centers for Disease Control an
  
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• Space: Asteroids could be approaching Earth undetected thanks to quirk of the planet's rotation

  17-01-2022 15:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  This is the warning of University of Hawaiʻi experts who investigated how telescopes nearly missed a 328-feet-wide asteroid that came within 43,500 miles of Earth back in 2019.
  
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• Giant moon rocks that sank through to its mantle could have produced an intermittent magnetic field

  17-01-2022 15:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Magnetic field evidence on the moon has baffled planetary scientists for decades, but a new study, by experts from Brown University Providence, Rhode Island may have the answer.
  
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• Europe’s Unvaccinated Are Falling Out Of Society, Called ‘Unhinged Extremists’

  17-01-2022 15:09 via technocracy.news
  The inhumanity of man is incomprehensible as global society has been bifurcated into a savage apartheid based on those who want medical freedom and those who are promoting tyranny. For any nation that might resist global tyranny, building a coalition of allies would be impossible because of lack of support. ⁃ TN EditorBut somewhere along the pandemic’s long and tortuous road, which saw his native Switzerland imposing first one lockdown, then another, and finally introducing vaccinati
  
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• Climate-related deaths fall in England and Wales - ONS

  17-01-2022 14:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Lots of factors are at play in new data, including better home insulation and flu vaccinations.
  
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• Impotent man's partner accidentally deploys insulation foam inside his urethra during sex act

  17-01-2022 14:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Urologists who detailed the incident in Urology Case Reports said the man waited three weeks to seek medical attention.
  
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• NASA fixes glitch in the 'brain' of SLS megarocket ahead of its maiden flight in March

  17-01-2022 13:44 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The $20 billion Space Launch System (SLS) has been in development since 2011, and has been hit by multiple delays and problems over the past decade.
  
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• Is There Really Such a Thing as Low-Carbon Beef?

  17-01-2022 13:00
  
  The USDA is making it easier for farmers to market their meat as “low-carbon.” Not everyone is happy about it.
  
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• Gig Workers Were Promised a Better Deal. Then They Were Outsourced

  17-01-2022 13:00
  
  A new gig economy subcontractor industry is benefitting from platforms' attempts to clean up their image and comply with stricter UK employment rules.
  
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• Satellite dish-like craft completes its first untethered flight test 

  17-01-2022 12:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The full-scale electric ZEVA Aero, created by Tacoma, Washington-based firm ZEVA, performed a series of unmanned flight tests in rural Pierce County on January 9.
  
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• Amazon halts plan to block UK Visa credit cards amid talks

  17-01-2022 12:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Plans to block the cards are halted as the two sides continue to try to resolve a dispute over payment fees.
  
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• HS2 metaverse will let engineers put on a virtual reality headset to fix faults

  17-01-2022 11:32 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Sensors will detect any faults or issues on train tracks and beam data back to a 3D digital replica, or metaverse, at a nearby control centre in Washwood Heath, Birmingham.
  
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• Why satellites are key to understanding Pacific volcano

  17-01-2022 11:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  When the huge eruption happened over the weekend, a fleet of spacecraft overhead gathered key data.
  
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• SLS: Nasa fixes glitchy megarocket equipment ahead of key test

  17-01-2022 10:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nasa fixes malfunctioning equipment on a new rocket designed to take astronauts to the Moon.
  
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• Tonga tsunami: Communications 'may be down for two weeks'

  17-01-2022 10:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Internet access may be out for a while longer because of damage to an undersea cable.
  
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• Climate change: Wales has 'duty' due to coal mining history

  17-01-2022 07:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A charity director says the country's coal mining history means it has released a lot of carbon.
  
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• Water pollution is threatening to wipe out UK's life-saving leeches, experts warn 

  17-01-2022 02:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Leeches - once widespread across the country - are in as few as 25 ponds in Kent, Hampshire and Cumbria. It is the only British leech that can suck blood from humans.
  
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• How delivery apps created 'the Netflix of food ordering'

  17-01-2022 01:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Innovative food delivery apps offer everything from multiple restaurant orders to home chef cuisine.
  
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