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• Human SKELETON that hasn't been seen in 8,000 years found underwater in Mexican cave

  14-09-2022 22:58 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A prehistoric human skeleton that dates to the end of the last ice age was unearthed in a cave system in Mexico.
  
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• How US is fighting a plague of the spotted lanternfly as states spend HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS

  14-09-2022 22:27 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The spotted lanternfly has invaded 14 states in the US since it was first detected in Pennsylvania in 2014. The bugs are native to Asia and are feasting on, mating and laying eggs in trees.
  
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• ALIENS could be discovered within 25 years when more powerful telescopes are built

  14-09-2022 22:12 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A scientist said we can find alien life outside of our solar system in 25 years, but the James Webb Space Telescope is not quite powerful enough to find evidence of extraterrestrial life.
  
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• How US is fighting a plague of lanternflies as states spend HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS

  14-09-2022 21:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The spotted lanternfly has invaded 14 states in the US since it was first detected in Pennsylvania in 2014. The bugs are native to Asia and are feasting on, mating and laying eggs in trees.
  
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• Is YOUR Thanksgiving under threat? Extreme drought hits Massachusetts cranberry harvest

  14-09-2022 20:16 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Extreme drought impacting Massachusetts is impacting this year's cranberry harvest - threatening Thanksgiving cranberry sauce and straining a $1 billion industry.
  
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• Ancient dung reveals evidence of world's first farmers at a 12,800 year-old Stone Age village

  14-09-2022 20:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from the University of Connecticut and Durham University found evidence in ancient dung samples that indicate farming began up to 12,500 years ago at the Abu Hureyra site in Syria.
  
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• Biden Uses Executive Order To Institutionalize Eugenics, Transhumanism

  14-09-2022 19:21 via technocracy.news
  The National Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative was created by President Biden’s Executive Order on September 12, 2022. It virtually guarantees that transhumanism and genetic manipulation of citizens will be the main topic of the 2024 election cycle.
  The EO is tectonic in that it aligns and mandates all agencies “to coordinate a whole-of-government approach to advance biotechnology and biomanufacturing… to help us achieve our societal goals.”
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• Adventurer Vanessa O'Brien unveils pictures of her trip to space on Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket

  14-09-2022 18:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Vanessa O'Brien, 57, went on a Blue Origin flight on August 4, on the US company's sixth crewed mission. She said the 10-minute 30-second trip was 'out of this world' but a bit sweaty coming into land.
  
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• BBC streaming Queen Elizabeth II lying in state

  14-09-2022 18:34 via bbc.co.uk
  The global stream is for those wanting to pay their respects but who are unable to travel to London.
  
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• Sun's magnetic mystery solved by ESA NASA Solar Orbiter

  14-09-2022 18:30 via go.theregister.com
  Understanding solar switchbacks is key to understanding solar winds, and scientists think they've got it Our star harbors one less scientific mystery thanks to data from the Solar Orbiter probe showing how "solar switchbacks" that cause the Sun's magnetic field to flip are formed. By furthering astronomer's understanding of solar winds, they hope the discovery will protect astronauts and equipment.…
  
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• Chinese scientists say it's EXTREMELY unlikely asteroid is alien ship despite US professor's claim

  14-09-2022 17:56 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists in China say it's very unlikely that the oblong Oumuamua asteroid that zipped into our solar system is an alien spacecraft - despite the claims of a Harvard professor to the contrary.
  
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• Shaking face and pink heart are among the new emojis coming to your phone over the next year

  14-09-2022 17:53 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The Unicode Consortium have today approved a set of 31 new emojis that include a shaking face and pink heart. Support for the emojis will be rolled out on different platforms over the next few months.
  
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• Germany Mulls Full Nationalization Of Largest Utility Company Uniper

  14-09-2022 17:13 via technocracy.news
  Germany’s largest utility and importer of natural gas, Uniper, is hemorrhaging cash at a catastrophic rate, even after a $15 billion bailout package in July. Once nationalized, Uniper and other energy companies will drag Germany into bankruptcy. This is all due to foolish alternative energy policies over the last 20 years. ⁃ TN EditorUniper is in discussions with Germany about transferring an even bigger stake of the troubled utility to the government, Uniper said in a Wednesday stat
  
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• Scientists develop painless tattoos that can be self-administered in minutes

  14-09-2022 17:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The tattoo patch, created by experts at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, is made up of small microneedles that puncture the skin.
  
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• NASA reshuffles dates for Artemis I launch attempt

  14-09-2022 16:30 via go.theregister.com
  Could it be third time lucky? The odds are not in space agency's favor NASA has once again pushed back the launch of the Artemis I mission to send the SLS rocket and Orion capsule beyond the Moon.…
  
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• Climate change prevention plans 'way off track', says UN

  14-09-2022 16:15 via go.theregister.com
  To stay under threshold of 1.5°C of warming, the world needs to work seven times harder, says the UN's WMO The world quickly undid emissions reductions that were an unintended perk of the COVID-19 pandemic, leading a multi-organizational UN group to issue a bleak warning: We need to be working seven times harder to meet climate change goals.…
  
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• US Life Expectancy Falls In ‘Historic” Decline

  14-09-2022 16:10 via technocracy.news
  War always produces dead bodies, and yet the Technocrat/Transhuman war on the entire world is not yet acknowledged or understood. The aftermath of the most lethal drug in history is still wreaking havoc and the long-term effects are still ahead of us. Instead of stopping mRNA injections, Biden’s EO just handed us over to the biotech drug cartel. ⁃ TN EditorSTORY AT-A-GLANCE> According to the latest statistics, life expectancy in the United States dropped precipitously in 2020 and
  
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• Video showing a developing zebrafish embryo wins Nikon Small World In Motion 2022 Competition 

  14-09-2022 15:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A striking video of a developing zebrafish embryo has won the 12th annual Nikon Small World In Motion competition. It shows lateral line cells and melanocytes migrating through the fish's body.
  
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• Google loses appeal over record EU anti-trust Android fine

  14-09-2022 15:48 via bbc.co.uk
  An EU court has largely upheld a £3.5bn fine against Google over its Android platform.
  
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• Ethereum Merge: A cryptocurrency 'going green'

  14-09-2022 15:08 via bbc.co.uk
  The second biggest cryptocurrency is to switch to a new operating model that it says uses 99.9% less energy.
  
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• Nike launches a trainer-cleaning ROBOT in its London store

  14-09-2022 14:13 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nike has unveiled a new robot called the Bot Imitated Longevity Lab (BILL) at Nike Town London that's designed to clean and repair shoes.
  
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• Two dinosaur eggs dating back to the Cretaceous period are discovered in East China 

  14-09-2022 14:00 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The almost perfectly round dinosaur eggs were recovered from the Qianshan Basin of Anhui Province, East China, researchers say.
  
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• NASA struggles to regain control of its $30 million Capstone spacecraft

  14-09-2022 13:54 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Toward the end of a major engine burn last Thursday (September 9), CAPSTONE experienced an anomaly that put the probe in a protective 'safe mode', the mission team in the US said.
  
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• What Charles the ‘Activist King’ Means for the Climate

  14-09-2022 13:00
  With a long record of environmental campaigning as the Prince of Wales, how will King Charles III’s accession to the throne translate to public policies?
  
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• Ukraine’s Cyberwar Chief Sounds Like He’s Winning

  14-09-2022 13:00
  Yurii Shchyhol gives WIRED a rare interview about running the country’s Derzhspetszviazok and the state of the online conflict with Russia.
  
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• 32 of the Best Shows on Disney+ Right Now

  14-09-2022 13:00
  Looking for what to watch? Here are the best shows on Disney+
  
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• ESA's Solar Orbiter records a mysterious magnetic switchback

  14-09-2022 12:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the reversal of the Sun's magnetic field on camera for the first time.
  
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• Queen Elizabeth II: Flight carrying coffin most tracked plane in history

  14-09-2022 11:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Nearly six million people tried to follow the plane's route, causing the Flightradar24 site to crash.
  
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• NASA's asteroid deflection test explained

  14-09-2022 10:51 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  It is the US space agency's first ever attempt at such a mission and will involve a spacecraft crashing into an asteroid 6.8 million miles from Earth at 15,000mph in two weeks' time.
  
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• Rare hexagonal diamond formed by crash of dwarf planet and asteroid, scientists believe

  14-09-2022 08:32 via go.theregister.com
  'Lonsdaleite' is even harder than normal diamonds and its genesis shows how we might make more A rare type of diamond that's even stronger than the usual form of the crystal was created when a large asteroid smashed into an ancient dwarf planet 4.5 billion years ago, researchers assert.…
  
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• Ethereum Merge: How one big cryptocurrency is going green

  14-09-2022 01:26 via bbc.co.uk
  Ethereum, which currently uses as much energy as a medium-sized country, is to halt cryptomining.
  
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