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• NIF: US lab takes further step towards nuclear fusion goal

  26-01-2022 23:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US physicists confirm that they have achieved a stage in nuclear fusion called "burning plasma".
  
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• Elon Musk SpaceX rocket on collision course with moon

  26-01-2022 22:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Astronomers say that a rocket in space since 2015 is hurtling towards the Moon where it will explode.
  
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• World's first-ever crewed mission reaches the bottom of the Atacama Trench

  26-01-2022 21:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Explorer Victor Vescovo, Founder of Caladan Oceanic, was joined by Dr Osvaldo Ulloa, Director of the Instituto Milenio de Oceanografia on the epic voyage.
  
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• Scientists invent method to recycle lithium-ion batteries used in electric cars

  26-01-2022 20:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ascend Elements, based in Westborough, Massachusetts, created a process that shreds used batteries and turns them into cathode shells that can be turned into new electric vehicle batteries.
  
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• Climate change: Key crops face major shifts as world warms

  26-01-2022 20:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Global warming will alter the areas suitable to grow key crops like coffee, cashews and avocados.
  
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• Scientists regrow missing frog legs using a five-drug cocktail

  26-01-2022 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Using a silicone cap called a BioDome, African clawed frogs had 'almost fully functional' limbs restored, including boneless toes, report experts in Medford and Boston, Massachusetts.
  
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• Dog breeds most affected by 'cherry' eye including English bulldogs and American cocker spaniels

  26-01-2022 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Vets from the Royal Veterinary College in London found that flat-faced breeds including English bulldogs, and Neapolitan mastiffs were up to 34 times more likely to experience cherry eye.
  
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• Crypto money laundering rises 30%, report finds

  26-01-2022 19:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Cyber-criminals laundered $8.6bn (£6.4bn) worth of cryptocurrency in 2021 a new report suggests.
  
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• ESA's Solar Orbiter sneaks in bonus science by choking on the dust of a comet tail (again)

  26-01-2022 18:59 via go.theregister.com
  
  Plucky probe due to make closest pass to the Sun in March The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter followed up its whizz past Earth as 2021 drew to a close by passing through the tail of a comet. Again.…
  
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• NASA completes wind tunnel tests on a model of its 'quiet' supersonic jet

  26-01-2022 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Tests of the small scale model were conducted inside a 8ft by 6ft 'supersonic wind tunnel' (pictured) by engineers at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.
  
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• Shang-Chi: How we brought realism to the film’s dragons

  26-01-2022 17:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  WetaFX's visual effects and animation supervisors explain the challenges of making the film.
  
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• China sparks fresh spying fears as it reveals plans to launch 13 THOUSAND satellites

  26-01-2022 17:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The network is said to be part of the Chinese 5G mobile internet rollout, with the first firms given contracts to begin development work in the city of Chongqing.
  
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• Mysterious object 4,000 light years from Earth releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour

  26-01-2022 17:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The mysterious object was found by astronomers from Curtin University in Australia while they were mapping radio waves in the universe using the Murchison Widefield Array telescope in the outback.
  
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• Ubisoft pays in-game tribute to fallen player

  26-01-2022 17:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ubisoft honours player Michael "KiXSTAr" Stockley, who died in October, with an in-game tribute.
  
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• Google slammed over ad-cookie replacement flip-flop

  26-01-2022 15:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The system Google planned to replace cookies is now itself being replaced with a slightly different idea.
  
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• Tonga volcano eruption was one of the strongest EVER recorded

  26-01-2022 15:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, an underwater volcano in the South Pacific, spewed debris as high as 25 miles into the atmosphere when it erupted on January 15.
  
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• U-Turn: Pfizer Board Member Suggests End to Mask, Vaccine Mandates

  26-01-2022 15:47 via technocracy.news
  On December 31 I wrote, “I am quite certain that some positive, ‘good news’ headlines will appear in the first quarter of 2022… Omicron could be officially declared to be a nothing-burger and some major corporations might remove mask and/or vaccine requirements.” This trend is continuing with Pfizer’s major reversal.
  But don’t think Pfizer is being benevolent. They are undoubtedly jockeying to get ahead of the tidal wave of public protest and lawsuits o
  
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• Astronomers discover a rare black hole 'unlike any other'

  26-01-2022 15:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Described as 'unlike any other', the black hole was found in a star cluster called B023-G078 in the Andromeda galaxy, report scientists at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
  
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• Metaverse: Unhinged Technocrats Who Believe We Are Already Living In A Simulation

  26-01-2022 15:12 via technocracy.news
  
  For the Technocrat-minded who already live in an intellectual bubble detached from reality and believe the universe one giant simulation already, the Metaverse is the perfect and natural vehicle to create a new reality. If everything is virtual anyway, they think, what’s the problem with creating your own? One is just an extension of the other. ⁃ TN EditorImagine that when your great-grandparents were teenagers, they got their hands on a groundbreaking new gadget, the world’s f
  
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• Ivermectin Works: World’s Largest, Peer-Reviewed Research Study

  26-01-2022 14:45 via technocracy.news
  
  For all the Ivermectin skeptics who have retorted that “there are no peer-reviewed” studies proving it works, and who probably wouldn’t know how to read and understand a peer-reviewed study, will you please stop fighting this and come out of the propaganda fog? Holdouts will now likely attack the peers in an attempt to discredit them. ⁃ TN EditorThe results are in from the world’s largest study of ivermectin for COVID-19.
  Researchers in Brazil found that regular use
  
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• How your shampoo bottle could be making you fat 

  26-01-2022 14:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology looked at 34 different plastic products to see which chemicals they contained.
  
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• It's more than 20 years since Steps topped the charts. It could be less than that for STEP's first fusion energy

  26-01-2022 13:33 via go.theregister.com
  
  Anyone fancy a spherical tokamak in their backyard? Fancy a fusion power plant in your back yard? The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is looking for comments from five locations shortlisted as potential hosts for its Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) programme.…
  
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• Gibraltar Could Launch the World’s First Crypto Stock Exchange

  26-01-2022 13:00
  
  “The Rock” hopes a new stock exchange will attract crypto millionaires who want to avoid hefty taxes.
  
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• The Neoliberal Form of Capitalism Is Dying

  26-01-2022 12:55
  
  Governments, not corporations, must take the lead to solve the world’s biggest problems.
  
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• Robotic grippers are delicate enough to lift egg yolks, experts show

  26-01-2022 12:29 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The grippers are also precise enough to lift a human hair and a live fish without hurting it, reveal engineers in Raleigh, North Carolina.
  
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• James Webb Space Telescope is seen from Earth as it settles into orbit

  26-01-2022 11:08 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Rome-based Virtual Telescope Project tracked Webb through space and found it in the bowl of the Big Dipper, before using a robotic telescope to capture a five-minute exposure of the telescope.
  
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• Historians reveal plans to reconstruct a 40ft Iron Age broch in Caithness - the first in 2,000 years

  26-01-2022 10:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Historians have revealed ambitious plans to build a broch in Caithness, marking the first time such a structure has been constructed in nearly 2,000 years.
  
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• Instagram and Whatsapp stalker's lies 'ruined my life for years'

  26-01-2022 07:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Women who were targeted by Matthew Hardy speak about the impact of his avalanche of messages.
  
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• IMF urges El Salvador to remove Bitcoin as legal tender

  26-01-2022 05:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Officials say the decision poses risks to financial stability and consumer protection in the country.
  
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• Global chip shortage: US says firms' stocks have plunged

  26-01-2022 05:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The shortage of semiconductors is continuing to have a major impact on industries around the world.
  
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• Winter Olympics: Will the Beijing Games be 'green and clean'?

  26-01-2022 01:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  China is promising a greener Winter Olympics, although critics are not sure if it can deliver.
  
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• Major legal changes needed for driverless car era

  26-01-2022 01:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The company behind the driving system would be responsible, rather than the driver says Law Commission.
  
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