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• Scientists working on an Alzheimer's cure turn to unlikeliest of sources

  22-01-2025 23:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists working to cure Alzheimer's disease have found that menstrual blood could play a key role in treating the deadly brain disorder. Menstrual stem cells could be a 'game changer' for medicine.
  
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• Scientists discover men are evolving twice as quickly as women making them 'more sexy and formidable'

  22-01-2025 22:33 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Scientists have discovered that men are evolving twice as fast as women. They found men are more sexy and formidable due to changes in their environments.
  
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• Thousands of flights cancelled as historic snowstorm kills eight overnight... how to check if you're affected

  22-01-2025 22:26 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Nearly 2,000 flights into and out of states impacted by Winter Storm Enzo have been cancelled today, as this rare storm batters the South with snow, ice and frigid cold.
  
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• Sorry singletons! Scientists confirm that married people really are happier

  22-01-2025 20:07 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Married people have significantly higher life satisfaction on average than people who are single, a study of more than 65 countries has found.
  
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• Tech giants are putting $500bn into 'Stargate' to build up AI in US

  22-01-2025 19:16 via bbc.com
  
  Trump has extolled the project as an important investment, but Elon Musk is throwing shade on it.
  
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• CIA operative reveals mental disorder agency 'actively seeks to hire' because it makes for better spies

  22-01-2025 18:41 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  A former CIA officer who worked at the agency for 14 years revealed it looks for people with a certain mental disorder as it makes them better spies.
  
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• Visitor from outer space may have warped the solar system

  22-01-2025 18:35 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune may have been forever changed by an enormous object that whizzed through our solar system billions of years ago.
  
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• Trump Backs AI Data Centers, New Generation Of mRNA Gene-Therapy Injections

  22-01-2025 18:24 via technocracy.news
  
  AI is upon us and soon to be in us. This is only one of the new consortiums to build massive data centers around the nation to run rapidly advancing AI. This one will total at least $330 billion and likely more as others jump in. My counter is set to $1 trillion for such public-private partnerships to form over the next 6 months. Larry Ellison wants to sequence 100 percent of the human DNA in America and beyond.
  The “emergency powers” that Trump refers to will pave the way for Elliso
  
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• NASA spacewalkers to swab the ISS for microbial life

  22-01-2025 18:02 via go.theregister.com
  
  Learning how to deal with the microorganisms hitching a ride with humans Two NASA astronauts are set to venture outside the International Space Station (ISS) in search of signs of life.…
  
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• The stupidest things footballers have said - as scientists claim professional players are actually 'super-clever individuals'

  22-01-2025 17:21 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  From Kevin Keegan to Michael Owen, manyfootballers have earned simple-minded reputations, but the 'stupid footballer' stereotype is way wide of the target, a new study suggests.
  
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• Ring doorbell has a new SCOTTISH accent - here's how to activate it on your device

  22-01-2025 15:50 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Ring has revealed that it's so enamoured with Scottish accents that it has launched an entirely new voice for its doorbells.
  
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• Would YOU pay to fight climate change? 40% of travellers say they'd splash out for a low-emission flight - with the biggest eco-warriors willing to pay an extra £1,000 per journey!

  22-01-2025 15:19 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Researchers from Macquarie University, Sydney found that 40 per cent of people would splash out for a low-emissions flight.
  
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• TikTokers offered $5,000 to join Facebook and Instagram

  22-01-2025 12:40 via bbc.com
  
  Meta's attempt to lure creators to its platforms comes as questions remain over the future of its main rival in the US.
  
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• Nuclear fusion breakthrough: China's 'artificial sun' reactor sets a new world record by generating a steady loop of plasma for 1,066 seconds - taking the world closer towards limitless clean energy

  22-01-2025 12:38 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  The experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST) fusion energy reactor set a new record at Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province.
  
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• Instagram users claim their accounts have automatically followed Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Melania Trump after the inauguration - here's what's going on

  22-01-2025 12:20 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Across social media, users have complained that Meta is 'forcing' them to follow the new US President.
  
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• Revealed: The 10 most beautiful supermodels in the world, according to science

  22-01-2025 11:40 via dailymail.co.uk
  
  Dr Julian De Silva, a facial cosmetic surgeon based in Londo , has used the Greek Golden Ratio of Beauty to uncover the 10 most beautiful supermodels in the world, according to science.
  
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• What does Trump's executive order mean for TikTok and who might buy it?

  22-01-2025 10:45 via bbc.com
  
  What does Donald Trump's executive order mean for the future of TikTok in the US?
  
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• China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run

  22-01-2025 09:29 via go.theregister.com
  
  1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that China’s Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has claimed a new world record for maintaining a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation, a feat needed to create a fusion reactor that in theory will produce vast amounts of energy at little cost.…
  
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• Netflix to raise prices as new subscribers soar

  22-01-2025 09:21 via bbc.com
  
  Squid Game 2 and live sports, including the Jake Paul v Mike Tyson fight, fuelled new memberships.
  
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• Google DeepMind CEO says 2025's the year we start popping pills AI helped invent

  22-01-2025 08:28 via go.theregister.com
  
  Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis thinks human trials will happen soon Clinical trials of the first drugs designed with the help of artificial intelligence could commence this year, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis suggested Tuesday.…
  
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