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• Cutting-edge robot space surgeon makes first incision in Zero-G

  16-02-2024 23:02 via go.theregister.com
  
  One giant leap for astronaut medicine The world's first remote-operated robot space surgeon has been successfully tested, the team behind the device said this week.…
  
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• The real-life Last of Us! Frog found with mushroom growing out of its skin baffles scientists in India

  16-02-2024 20:49 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists discovered a mushroom growing on the side of a Rao's intermediate golden-backed frog in India. The frog was alive and healthy, but experts say this is a possibly unique event.
  
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• There goes the neighborhood! Locals outrages over plan to build 200-acre 'mini-city' of 30,000 MONKEYS for medical research in Georgia

  16-02-2024 18:28 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Plans to build a 200-acre mini-city for monkeys in Georgia have been shifted this week. Local residents banded together to oppose the construction of the complex, which would house 30,000 monkeys.
  
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• Big tech vows action on 'deceptive' AI in elections

  16-02-2024 18:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Twenty firms have signed an accord pledging to stop voters being deceived but critics say it lacks teeth.
  
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• Car Dealers Slash Prices Of EVs As Demand Craters

  16-02-2024 17:54 via technocracy.news
  
  Dueling headlines in America this month: “Don’t believe what you’ve heard — electric vehicle sales in the U.S. are zooming” versus “As demand for EVs plummets, Biden’s green fantasy is pummeling U.S. auto dealers.” Increasingly, EV owners are waking up from the dream and realizing that their shiny new $60,000 car is nothing but an expensive golf cart. ⁃ TN Editor
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• Lawsuit against Tinder, Hinge and Match alleges dating apps encourage 'compulsive' behavior and 'lock users into a perpetual pay-to-play loop'

  16-02-2024 17:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A class action lawsuit accuses Match Group of addicting users to its dating apps and prioritizing profit over helping people find love. Match owns Tinder, Hinge, Match, and OkCupid.
  
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• Talk about a blast from the past! Two of the world's first desktop computers dating back over 50 years are discovered during a house clearance in London

  16-02-2024 17:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Two of the world's first desktop computers, each more than 50 years old,have been found during a house clearance in London hidden under a stack of old boxes.
  
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• Elon Musk's SpaceX is fined over 'near amputation' of employee's foot at Washington factory - adding to at least 600 injuries like crushed limbs, head wounds and one death

  16-02-2024 16:55 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  SpaceX injuries were six times higher than the industry average, Reuters found. But the under $51k in safety fines have barely dented SpaceX's $11.8 billion in NASA contracts
  
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• Top NYC surgeon exposed for using 'suspicious data' in cancer treatment studies since 2008

  16-02-2024 16:39 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A top surgeon who works at Columbia University has come under fire for recycling images of cancer riddled mice in two studies, which claimed to have found treatments to reduce tumors.
  
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• From garlic bread to a pinch of salt: The weird and wonderful ways people like to liven up their cups of tea - as a US scientist suggests adding a squeeze of grapefruit juice

  16-02-2024 16:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  An American scientist has suggested adding salt and even grapefruit to tea - but they're not the most bizarre ingredients people have been adding in the quest for a perfect cuppa.
  
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• OSIRIS-REx probe sucked up more asteroid crumbs than hoped

  16-02-2024 16:30 via go.theregister.com
  
  121 grams is the largest such sample secured, but NASA won't blow it all at once NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft snagged 121.6 grams of material from asteroid Bennu – the largest quantity ever retrieved by such a mission.…
  
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• Apps and social media influencers are wrongly making middle-aged women think they have ADHD, experts warn... so are YOUR symptoms a sign of the disorder or totally normal?

  16-02-2024 14:46 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  World-renowned University College London psychiatrist Professor Joanna Moncrieff fears the mental disorder is being over diagnosed.
  
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• Do you have one of these gathering dust in your attic? Experts reveal the 90s toys that are now worth a fortune - from an $85,000 Barbie to a $6 million Pokemon card

  16-02-2024 14:04 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From Pokemon cards fetching millions to old game cartridges now worth tens of thousands, experts say these classic toys from the 90s are now worth a fortune.
  
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• Ape-solutely adorable! Watch the incredible moment a baby gorilla is born at a Texas zoo via a rare emergency C-section

  16-02-2024 12:15 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Human doctors stepped in to perform a rare emergency C-section on a gorilla after she went into labour five weeks early.
  
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• NASA extinguishes experiment about setting things on fire in space

  16-02-2024 11:32 via go.theregister.com
  
  Saffire concludes after eight years of flaming good times NASA has concluded its Spacecraft Fire Safety Experiment (Saffire) with a test onboard a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft after it departed from the International Space Station (ISS).…
  
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• The latest addition to your tea? Grapefruit! American scientist who claimed salt was the secret to the perfect cuppa now says adding citrus can prolong the caffeine rush

  16-02-2024 11:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Michelle Francl, a professor of chemistry at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, has already sent British tempers rising by suggesting the perfect cup of tea contains salt.
  
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• An ultrasound zap could help sluggish sperm to swim faster and boost the success of IVF procedures, study finds

  16-02-2024 01:37 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The groundbreaking research from Monash University in Melbourne may hold the key to improving IVF success rates as male fertility across the world continues to decline.
  
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• Methane mega-leak exposed in Kazakhstan

  16-02-2024 01:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Extremely potent greenhouse gas leaked from a Kazakh well for over six months.
  
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• The brewing secrets behind tastier no-alcohol beer

  16-02-2024 01:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  There's huge demand for low and no-alcohol beer and breweries are competing for the best flavour.
  
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• What IS the 'hurkle durkle'? TikTok users go WILD for 19th CENTURY Scottish practice, hailing it ultimate self-care hack... so, have YOU tried it?

  16-02-2024 00:25 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  TikTok's latest trend, which is known as 'hurkle durkling,' comes from Scotland and sees people lounging in bed past their alarm. It has taken the internet by storm and is good for your health.
  
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