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• Insect with leaf-shaped GENITALS is discovered in Uganda

  27-01-2022 23:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The new species of leafhopper, called Phlogis kibalensis, was found in the rainforest of the Kibale National Park in western Uganda.
  
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• Google Has a New Plan to Kill Cookies. People Are Still Mad

  27-01-2022 20:26
  
  Google has scrapped FLoC, its controversial cookie replacement. Now it’s back with Topics—but rivals and privacy experts are still nervous.
  
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• China is planning ultra-fast SPACE PLANE that will fly at over 2,600 miles per hour

  27-01-2022 19:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Beijing-based Space Transportation has been developing the spacecraft since 2018, and describe it as being a 'rocket with wings', with the hope of launching in 2025.
  
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• Pets: Nearly HALF of Britain's pet cats are now obese, with more than 54,000 suffering from diabetes

  27-01-2022 19:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Royal Veterinary College is asking owners in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and London to enrol their diabetic cats in a new dietary trial.
  
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• Water flowed on Mars longer than previously thought, NASA says

  27-01-2022 18:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals water flowed on Mars as recently as 2 billion to 2.5 billion years ago, say researchers at Caltech, Pasadena, California.
  
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• Holocaust Memorial Day: TikTok launches plan to fight Holocaust denial

  27-01-2022 18:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The video-sharing platform teams up with Unesco and the World Jewish Congress to educate users.
  
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• Space: 3D model shows the 'Great Eruption' that was briefly the second brightest object in the sky

  27-01-2022 17:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The digital model - built from data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory - shows Eta Carinae in visible, ultraviolet and X-ray light.
  
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• Mystery of strange 'finger like features' hidden within solar flares finally solved 

  27-01-2022 17:18 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers, from Harvard University, say this discovery could help create more accurate space weather forecasts, and limit damage from eruptions reaching Earth.
  
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• AI predicts up to 300,000 METEORITES lie undiscovered in Antarctica

  27-01-2022 16:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  AI predictions, based on satellite data, allowed experts from the Free University of Brussels in Belgium, to create a 'treasure map' of potential meteorite sites in Antarctica.
  
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• Musk: Robots to be bigger business than Tesla cars

  27-01-2022 15:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In an earnings call, Elon Musk talks up his plans to build humanoid robots - but what's involved?
  
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• Experts Balking Over Elon Musk’s Brain Implants

  27-01-2022 15:05 via technocracy.news
  
  The world’s top Technocrat, Elon Musk, has no ethical concerns about harnessing the human brain with wires and computer chips, but many scientists do. Dr. Nita Farahany, a scholar on emerging technologies at the Duke University School of Law, correctly notes, “Our brain is our last bastion of freedom, our last place for privacy.”
  Musk says that in addition to helping paralyzed people do things again, you will be able to stream music directly to your brain. ⁃ TN EditorThe
  
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• Scientists Revisit Study To Predict Year When Society Will Collapse

  27-01-2022 14:49 via technocracy.news
  
  Be afraid. Be very afraid. Technocrat scientists want you to know when the end will come. This purely propaganda story hits on all cylinders: Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth, Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb, James Lovelock’s earth-as-an-organism Gaia hypothesis, sustainable development.
  Welcome to the Club of Rome, where the author is an official advisor. The original study in 1974 was commissioned by the Club of Rome in an attempt to panic people into following their crazy envi
  
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• Kicked Off Heart Transplant List For Not Taking mRNA Injection

  27-01-2022 14:09 via technocracy.news
  
  David Ferguson wants to live but he desperately needs a heart transplant. He declined an mRNA injection because it might kill him but the hospital kicked him off the transplant list, guaranteeing his untimely death – he is only 31 years old.  Without a shred of evidence, the doctors say that the “vaccinated” have a better chance post-surgery of surviving.
  When medical Technocrats dig in their heels with what to them is absolute truth, all other reason is thrown out the doo
  
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• Space: Nearly 1,000 magnetic filaments are dangling 'inexplicably' at the heart of the Milky Way

  27-01-2022 13:57 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The strange spatial strands, some of which stretch up to 150 light years across, were first discovered by astronomers at Northwestern University back in the early 1980s.
  
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• Burning plasma signals step forward in race for nuclear fusion as researchers get bigger capsule for their 192-laser experiment

  27-01-2022 13:32 via go.theregister.com
  
  But work at US security-linked lab falls short of true ignition. 'This is physics,' they say US scientists have succeeded in demonstrating self-heating plasma in a crucial step towards self-sustaining fusion energy.…
  
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• Burning plasma signals a step forward in the race for nuclear fusion as researchers get a bigger capsule for their 192-laser experiment

  27-01-2022 13:32 via go.theregister.com
  
  But work at US security-linked lab falls short of true ignition. 'This is physics,' researchers say US scientists have succeeded in demonstrating self-heating plasma in a crucial step towards self-sustaining fusion energy.…
  
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• Did Eating Meat Really Make Us Human?

  27-01-2022 13:00
  
  For decades, scientists thought that being more carnivorous set our ancestors along their evolutionary path. New evidence casts doubt on this theory.
  
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• Orcas are found to kill and EAT blue whales, scientists report

  27-01-2022 12:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Staff at the Cetacean Research Centre in Western Australia spotted orcas hunting and killing an adult blue whale off Bremer Bay in Western Australia.
  
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• Climate change could threaten the future of the Winter Olympics, report warns

  27-01-2022 11:24 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The report, led by experts from Loughborough University, comes just days before the start of the Winter Olympics in China, which will be the first to rely on almost 100 per cent artificial snow.
  
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• Something 4,000 light years away emitted strange radio bursts. This is where we talk to scientists for actual info

  27-01-2022 09:24 via go.theregister.com
  
  'This experience has taught me that it's worth trying out looking at the sky in entirely new ways' Astronomers have picked up something strange we've never seen before in space: bright bursts of low-frequency radio waves emitted three times an hour from a source within our Milky Way.…
  
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• Australia scientists find 'spooky' spinning object in Milky Way

  27-01-2022 06:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Australian scientists say the spinning object is unlike anything astronomers have seen before.
  
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• What is the quantum apocalypse and should we be scared?

  27-01-2022 02:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Security experts say a quantum computing leap could crack open all our secrets - so should we worry?
  
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• How streaming services left us with too much to watch

  27-01-2022 01:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Multiple platforms streaming new TV shows and films risk leaving people overwhelmed by choice.
  
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• Tesla expects 50% growth despite supply chain woes

  27-01-2022 01:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Elon Musk said 2021 was "a breakthrough year for Tesla, and for electric vehicles in general".
  
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