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• Levels of methane in the atmosphere are growing 'dangerously fast', warn scientists

  08-02-2022 22:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A report, published in Nature, saw an international team examine data gathered by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) throughout 2021.
  
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• Amazing animation shows how a small NASA rocket will lift off from the surface of Mars

  08-02-2022 21:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Mars Sample Return mission is a joint project of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), which is building a small 'fetch' rover to gather the collected samples.
  
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• The Alt-Right on Facebook Are Hijacking Canada’s Trucker Blockade

  08-02-2022 20:39
  
  In Ottawa, a protest against vaccine mandates has become an international sensation. American far-right personalities are behind its online rise.
  
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• Neuroscience: Forgetting is a form of LEARNING that helps us access more important information

  08-02-2022 20:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  'Lost' memories are not really gone, just made inaccessible, researchers from from Trinity College Dublin and the University of Toronto have argued.
  
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• Foreign Office target of 'serious cyber incident'

  08-02-2022 19:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC understands hackers accessed its systems but were detected.
  
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• iPhone SE 3 could launch next MONTH when Apple hosts a Spring event

  08-02-2022 18:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is understood the new SE model, which was last updated by the California-based tech giant two years ago, will have a faster processor and an improved camera as well as 5G capabilities.
  
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• Scientists develop an anti-microbial lining to eliminate body odour 

  08-02-2022 18:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The lining, developed at the University of Tokyo, is less than 10 nanometres thick and consists of silver and tannic acid (TA), a type of polyphenol.
  
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• 'Alien-like' life thrives on dead matter in Arctic deep

  08-02-2022 17:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Giant sponges survive on the remains of extinct animals in cold, deep waters near the North Pole.
  
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• Inside the 'space graveyard' where the International Space Station will be buried in 2031

  08-02-2022 17:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While the area isn't particularly deep, at roughly two and a half miles, or overly remarkable, it is incredibly remote, with the nearest landmass 1,677 miles away.
  
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• Huge species of titanosaur twice the size of a London bus roamed Spain 70.5 million years ago

  08-02-2022 17:11 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Fossils of the newly-discovered species, called Abditosaurus kuehnei, have been uncovered from Orcau, in the southern Pyrenees, Catalonia, Spain.
  
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• Nature: Giant SPONGE gardens are discovered on extinct underwater volcanoes in the Arctic deep sea

  08-02-2022 17:02 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The surprisingly rich and densely populated marine ecosystems were found by researchers led from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Germany.
  
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• Europeans owe their height to Asian nomads and their blue eyes to hunter gatherers

  08-02-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Most of the contemporary European genetic makeup was shaped by movements that occurred in the last 10,000 years, according to experts led by the University of Tartu, Estonia.
  
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• Peloton boss John Foley to step down as firm axes 2,800 jobs

  08-02-2022 16:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  John Foley is being replaced as potential suitors circle amid a downturn for the exercise firm.
  
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• Spectacular footage shows a SpaceX rocket breaking up in Earth's atmosphere

  08-02-2022 16:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Some of the footage, shot over Cabo, Mexico, shows the break up of the rocket, with small pieces flying off in various directions to break up in the atmosphere.
  
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• Technocrats Demand Meat Tax to Fight Climate Change

  08-02-2022 15:54 via technocracy.news
  
  The vast majority of rank-and-file citizens disbelieve the global war on red meat, and yet the environmental extremists will not let go of their demands to destroy the industry and drive people to eat insect protein instead. This battle is intensifying everywhere and is unmistakable. The price of quality beef in the US has doubled in the last 2 years and is still rising. ⁃ TN EditorA group of environmental economists in Germany is demanding that huge taxes be imposed on meat products to fi
  
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• ‘Black Mirror-Like’ Robo-Dogs Patrol US Border, Searching For Illegals

  08-02-2022 15:38 via technocracy.news
  
  Don’t rejoice that robo-dogs are going to solve the border crisis, because they will not. Technocrats within the government are merely using the border crisis as an opportunity to test their dystopian technological solutions that are designed to autonomously herd and control groups of people. Such robots are only “search and identify” today but could just as easily be converted into “search and destroy” in the future. ⁃ TN EditorPresident Biden’s souther
  
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• mRNA Jab Deaths And Injuries Are Soaring In Europe

  08-02-2022 15:20 via technocracy.news
  
  Data scoffers, nit-pickers and trolls will come out in droves over these numbers to question credibility and gaslight people into thinking what they are seeing is false. The word “genocide” is more appropriate because all of these trials should have been halted when deaths exceeded 100. The experimental shot pushers know full well that people are dying and yet they ramp up efforts to corral even more people to take the jabs. This is Technocracy’s coup d’etat. ⁃ TN E
  
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• Meta told to overhaul policies over doxxing fears

  08-02-2022 14:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The company's Oversight Board says the sharing of private residential address should never be allowed.
  
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• Myanmar’s Fight for Democracy Is Now a Scrap Over Phone Records

  08-02-2022 14:00
  
  Norwegian Telecoms giant Telenor wants to leave Myanmar. Activists say its exit risks putting their data— and their freedom—at risk.
  
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• Geology: Mountain-sized ROCK beneath southern Japan could be acting as a 'magnet' for megaquakes

  08-02-2022 13:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Seismic data collected over the course of 20 years was run through a supercomputer by researchers led from the University of Texas at Austin to produce the first full model of the body.
  
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• They Lived in a Pandemic Bubble. Now Covid Has Arrived

  08-02-2022 13:30
  
  Some remote Pacific island nations haven't had a single case of Covid-19 for the past two years. Now they're reopening to the world, but can they handle an outbreak?
  
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• Tesla car in 'Full Self-Driving' mode hits a bollard on camera

  08-02-2022 13:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Footage captured by YouTuber AI Addict in San Jose, California, shows a Model 3 Tesla car colliding with a post separating a roadside bike lane.
  
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• TikTok acts on unhealthy eating videos

  08-02-2022 12:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The app will remove videos which encourage short-term fasting and over-exercising.
  
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• Why the Fashion Resale Market Is Here to Stay

  08-02-2022 12:55
  
  The clothing industry is embracing the demand for second-hand. Those off-trend will soon be out of vogue.
  
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• Telescope gives final glimpse of SpaceX rocket before it collides with the moon on March 4

  08-02-2022 12:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The rocket's upper stage was spotted by Virtual Telescope Project founder Gianluca Masi, who used a single 60-second exposure remotely taken with a 17 inch PlaneWave telescope in Rome.
  
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• Natural disasters can speed up AGEING in monkeys, study finds

  08-02-2022 10:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Hurricane Maria back in 2017 genetically aged rhesus macaques on Monkey Island off Puerto Rico by an average of nearly two years, corresponding to seven to eight years of human life.
  
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• UK chip firm Arm sale by Softbank collapses amid competition fears

  08-02-2022 09:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The sale of Cambridge-based Arm to Nvidia of the US has faced regulatory hurdles around the world.
  
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• NASA taps Lockheed Martin to build Mars parcel pickup rocket

  08-02-2022 07:58 via go.theregister.com
  
  The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, they said – but Perseverance samples just might make it NASA has picked Lockheed Martin Space as the developer of the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), one of the vehicles that will retrieve samples collected by the Perseverance rover on the Red Planet.…
  
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• Saliva test could detect a host of diseases from type 2 diabetes to dementia

  08-02-2022 02:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A growing body of research suggests that measuring levels of uric acid in saliva may help diagnose more than a dozen conditions, from type 2 diabetes to dementia and cancer.
  
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• Microsoft's mega-deal worries small video game makers

  08-02-2022 01:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Indie games developers are nervous they will be squeezed out if the big firms' dominance grows.
  
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• Porn sites will be legally required to verify users' age

  08-02-2022 01:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Users may be asked to prove they own a credit card or confirm their age, under new UK rules.
  
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• No silver-bullet solutions for saving used planet

  08-02-2022 00:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists issue a stark warning over the need to make hard choices about the way we use the land.
  
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