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• NASA's crewed lunar mission could be pushed back AGAIN to 2026

  01-03-2022 21:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Speaking at the House space subcommittee hearing on the Artemis program, NASA's Inspector General Paul Martin, outlined details of his review into the mission.
  
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• UK allows emergency use of bee-harming neonicotinoid pesticide

  01-03-2022 20:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK government has authorised the emergency use of a type of pesticide almost entirely banned in the EU because of the harm it can cause to bees.
  
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• Elon Musk's Starlink arrives in Ukraine but what next?

  01-03-2022 18:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The SpaceX founder sends Starlink dishes to Ukraine but how do they work and how might they be used?
  
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• TikTok ditches its three minute limit and will now let users post videos up to 10 minutes long 

  01-03-2022 17:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The expanded video length will allow users of the Chinese social network more flexibility when filming clips such as beauty tutorials, cooking demos and comedic sketches.
  
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• Solar panels successfully grow spinach by pulling in water vapour, experts report

  01-03-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new system, called WEC2P, consists of solar panels coated with hydrogel - a kind of squishy water loving polymer, researchers in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia report.
  
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• Entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Richard Branson are more likely to have a symmetrical face

  01-03-2022 16:31 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Although having prominent cheekbones makes people more likely to become an entrepreneur, it has no bearing on whether they will be a successful one, according to University of Cyprus-led researchers.
  
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• CDC Withheld Troves Of Critical Data To Suppress ‘Vaccine Hesitancy’

  01-03-2022 16:19 via technocracy.news
  
  Americans should be demanding that the CDC be abolished for its role in stampeding unsuspecting Americans into accepting unapproved, experimental drugs. They didn’t want to give fuel to vaccine skeptics, anti-vaxxers or advocates for true informed consent.
  As a result, thousands have died and hundreds of thousands have been “vaccine injured”. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky should face criminal investigation. ⁃ TN EditorSTORY AT-A-GLANCE> Data such as U.S. hospitali
  
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• Global Warming And Pandemic: Two Scams Seen Merging To Try To Scare Us To Death

  01-03-2022 15:44 via technocracy.news
  
  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is merging climate alarmism with health risks – an unholy alliance. Now its “heat-related human mortality” that could kill billions by the end of the century unless we all adopt Sustainable Development, aka Technocracy, NOW! ⁃ TN EditorA new report from a United Nations climate panel is warning of the deadly effects of climate change both now and in the future — and finding that they are currently worse than scien
  
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• Red States Quietly Adopting National Vaccine Passport

  01-03-2022 15:26 via technocracy.news
  
  While the all-distracting war rages in Ukraine, Technocrats at home are sneaking in a system of national vaccine passports with the disingenuous carrot that “Having digital access to personal health records empowers the individual.”
  The polar opposite is true. The data collectors are empowered while those from whom the data is extracted are tracked, analyzed and manipulated.
  It is likely not state legislatures letting this in, but rather the state governors and their respective healt
  
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• How 'vacuum bombs' work as Ukraine claims Russia has detonated one

  01-03-2022 14:47 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  There has been no official confirmation that vacuum bombs have been used in the conflict in Ukraine, but footage has shown thermobaric rocket launchers on Russia's TOS-1 vehicles.
  
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• Simple cheek swab could tell risk of premature birth

  01-03-2022 13:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  US researchers, who studied 40 sets of parents, spotted biomarkers among fathers and mothers who had babies preterm.
  
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• TikTok Was Designed for War

  01-03-2022 13:00
  
  As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine plays out online, the platform’s design and algorithm prove ideal for the messiness of war—but a nightmare for the truth.
  
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• The Most Intriguing Launches at MWC 2022 Weren’t Phones

  01-03-2022 13:00
  
  Laptops and 2-in-1 devices were out in force at the Mobile World Congress convention in Barcelona. And they stole the show.
  
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• How Ukraine's Internet Can Fend Off Russian Attacks

  01-03-2022 13:00
  The besieged country's complex internet infrastructure has evolved to promote resiliency.
  
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• Genetic Databases Are Too White. Here’s What It’ll Take to Fix It

  01-03-2022 13:00
  
  Most genetic research is done on people of European descent. That’s led to misdiagnoses, inaccurate tests, and missed opportunities for new treatments.
  
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• NatWest and RBS banking apps are back up following two-hour outage

  01-03-2022 12:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Down Detector, the issues started at around 08:48 GMT today, and have just been resolved.
  
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• NatWest and RBS banking apps are DOWN

  01-03-2022 10:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  According to Down Detector, the issues started at around 08:48 GMT today, and are affecting customers across the UK.
  
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• ESA-Russia Mars rover launch on ice due to Ukraine invasion

  01-03-2022 09:29 via go.theregister.com
  
  Rosalind Franklin still can't catch a break The joint ESA-Roscosmos Mars rover Rosalind Franklin is "very unlikely" to launch this year after Russia was hit with fresh economic sanctions for invading Ukraine.…
  
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• ESA-Russia Mars rover launch on ice after Ukraine invasion

  01-03-2022 09:29 via go.theregister.com
  
  Rosalind Franklin can't catch a break The joint ESA-Roscosmos Mars rover Rosalind Franklin is "very unlikely" to launch this year after Russia was hit with fresh economic sanctions for invading Ukraine.…
  
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• The red light that could stop short sight getting worse

  01-03-2022 04:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers found that spending just six minutes a day looking into a binocular-like device that emits a special red light slowed the progression of myopia by almost 70 per cent.
  
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• Wildfires may slow recovery of ozone layer - study

  01-03-2022 02:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Smoke from Australian wildfires affects the layer that shields the Earth from harmful UV rays.
  
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• T.Rex might actually have been THREE species, fossil analysis reveals 

  01-03-2022 02:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Physical differences in thethighbones of Tyrannosaurus fossil specimens warrant the creation of two new species, says a Baltimore-based paleontologist.
  
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• Jackie Weaver and the new era for council meetings

  01-03-2022 01:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Councils are debating whether to spend thousands of pounds to continue live steaming their meetings.
  
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• Teenagers' report tics affected by increased social media use during Covid pandemic

  01-03-2022 00:03 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Half of respondents said that increased online activity during the pandemic had made their condition more severe but an expert said more research is still needed.
  
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