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• NASA astronaut and Russian cosmonauts to return from International Space Station next week

  25-03-2022 18:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two of them, American Mark Vande Hei (pictured) and Russia's Pyotr Dubrov have spent a total of 355 days on the orbiting observatory after blasting off to space on April 5 last year.
  
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• Britain's loudest bird the 'booming bittern' is making a recovery, RSPB claims 

  25-03-2022 17:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Bitterns can be found around wetlands with large reedbeds, especially RSPB reserves at Minsmere, Suffolk, and Leighton Moss, Lancashire.
  
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• Like father, like son! Young Caspian terns are led on their first migrations by their DADS

  25-03-2022 17:30 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Helsinki tracked entire bird families with GPS devices to understand how the animals learn to find their way from the Baltic Sea to Africa.
  
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• Jonathan Turley: DOJ Accused Of Blatant, Vindictive Assault On Free Speech And Free Press

  25-03-2022 16:18 via technocracy.news
  An important part of Technocracy’s war against humanity is shutting down Free Speech. In America, the FBI and Department of Justice were weaponized against both Free Speech and Free Press as they attacked Project Veritas staff over a lost diary belonging to President Biden’s daughter. The staff never used the diary and had already turned it over to law enforcement. ⁃ TN EditorI previously wrote about deep concerns over the FBI investigation of Project Veritas over the
  
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• Europe's Digital Markets Act Takes a Hammer to Big Tech

  25-03-2022 16:07
  
  The EU targets tech giants' walled gardens with aggressive new rules, but the smaller companies the DMA is meant to help are skeptical it will work.
  
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• No slip-ups! Video captures robot successfully peeling a banana without squashing the delicate fruit

  25-03-2022 15:52 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Robots often lack the dexterity to peel a banana without smushing the delicate fruit. Now, researchers from the University of Tokyo have developed a robot that has finally cracked it.
  
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• Salt water inside Jupiter's Europa moon could be carrying oxygen to an underground ocean

  25-03-2022 15:48 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The theory has been proposed before, but University of Texas at Austin-led experts put it to the test by building the world's first physics-based computer simulation of the process.
  
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• Russia hacked Ukrainian satellite communications, officials believe

  25-03-2022 15:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Western officials think the attack on US company Viasat hit military and government communications.
  
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• When You Die: Burial, Cremation Or… Composting?

  25-03-2022 15:13 via technocracy.news
  When your body is thoroughly composted, your loved ones can pick up the soil. One wife decided to share her composted husband with their friends: “A lot of people got a little piece of him.” When you spread the compost on your vegetable garden, you can tell your dinner guests that the lettuce is literally courtesy of uncle Milt. ⁃ TN EditorWhen we die, we’re faced with two routes through which we can depart the earthly realm: Burial or cremation.
  But what if there was ano
  
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• US Government Paid News Media $1 Billion For Propaganda to Promote mRNA Vaccines

  25-03-2022 14:54 via technocracy.news
  
  Your own tax dollars have been weaponized against you. Technocrat overlords at Big Pharma directed the U.S. government to spend $1 billion of your tax dollars to sell billions of dollars worth of mRNA-based injections. Collectively, the overall health of America declined, people died and lives were shattered. ⁃ TN EditorSTORY AT-A-GLANCE> A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by TheBlaze shows Health and Human Services spent $1 billion for a media campaign to build public confiden
  
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• 'Digital archaeologists' secretly scan Elgin Marbles inside the British Museum

  25-03-2022 13:23 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Experts from the Oxford-based Institute for Digital Archaeology hope marble blocks can be created with metal chisels, in much the same way the sculptures were created by ancient Greek architect Phidias.
  
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• Wordle has a hidden 'hard mode' - but players claim it might actually make the game EASIER

  25-03-2022 13:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  While an estimated 300,000 people play Wordle daily, many are unaware of a secret 'hard mode', which can be found within the game's settings.
  
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• You're having a laugh! Women have more TICKLISH feet than men

  25-03-2022 11:43 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Auckland developed a device called the TickleFoot to assess the effects of foot tickling in both men and women.
  
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• Astronomers reveal simulations of the early universe 

  25-03-2022 11:05 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The video simulations show how light first spread through the early universe, like flickering cosmic fireflies, report experts at MIT and Harvard, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  
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• Apple could start selling iPhones and iPads as part of a SUBSCRIPTION service from 2023

  25-03-2022 10:06 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A new report from Bloomberg claims that Apple is working on selling iPhones and iPads as part of a hardware subscription service.
  
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• RSPB: Bitterns make booming recovery in UK wetlands

  25-03-2022 08:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Record numbers of Britain's loudest bird - the bittern - are recorded in the latest RSPB survey.
  
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• Birds are laying their eggs FOUR WEEKS earlier than a century ago - and climate change is to blame 

  25-03-2022 06:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  About a third of the species nesting in Chicago have moved their egg-laying up by an average of 25 days, according to experts at the city's Field Museum.
  
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• Russia considers accepting Bitcoin for oil and gas

  25-03-2022 05:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  'Friendly' countries may be allowed to pay for energy with crypto-currency amid widespread sanctions.
  
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• Europe agrees new law to curb Big Tech dominance

  25-03-2022 04:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Under the rules major firms like Apple and Google would have to open up their systems to rivals.
  
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• Victorian rainfall data shows extreme weather events are nothing new

  25-03-2022 02:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Newly transcribed data from the Victorian era has 'smashed' current rainfall records, report experts at the Met Office and the University of Reading.
  
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• Mobile loophole for gaming drivers is closed

  25-03-2022 01:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Drivers in Great Britain can now be fined for taking a photo or browsing playlists on their phone.
  
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• Why patients are flocking to India for surgery

  25-03-2022 01:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  There has been a sharp growth in medical tourism to India but the sector needs better regulation.
  
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