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From the Wild Sea review: Inside the fight to save the ocean's mammals
As marine life pays the price for ecosystems wrecked by humans and climate change, attempts to save some mammals makes troubling viewing in a striking debut documentary at the Berlin International Film Festival
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Should we all wear sensors to avoid being run over by driverless cars?
Pedestrians should wear radar reflectors to avoid being hit by self-driving cars, says a team of researchers that has created a device to make people more visible to a vehicle’s artificial intelligence
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Covid-19 news: WHO chief supports waiving covid-19 vaccine patents
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How will zero-covid countries safely reopen their borders?
As plans are made for international travel to resume, covid-free countries may have to achieve herd immunity through vaccination before letting the rest of the world in
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Photonic laser thruster could power spacecraft from Earth
The Photonic Laser Thruster can move a 750-gram object along a low-friction rail – a small step to using the technology to push satellites rapidly between planets
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Planet hotter than most stars spotted 25 light years away
Astronomers may have detected a planet around one of our closest stars that is potentially the second hottest exoplanet ever found
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Coronavirus vaccines may reduce or eliminate symptoms of long covid
People with lasting symptoms after a covid-19 infection, known as long covid, are more likely to recover than get worse after receiving a vaccine, according to an online survey
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AI has a specific Spider-Man 'brain cell' just like humans do
Human brains have neurons related to specific people, called grandmother cells, and now these have also been identified in artificial neural networks
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Effects of Finnish evacuation during second world war visible in DNA
The second world war left a major mark on the genetic composition of Finland, researchers have found, though the work may not have included minority ethnic groups
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Covid-19 news: Vaccines for new variants could be fast-tracked in UK
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People of European descent evolved resistance to TB over 10,000 years
Analysis of ancient DNA shows that a genetic variant that increases susceptibility to tuberculosis has drastically decreased in Europe since the Bronze Age
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Some frogs have noise-cancelling lungs to dampen other species’ calls
To better hear a male’s mating call, some female frogs have noise-cancelling lungs, which resonate at frequencies that filter out the sounds of other species
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X-raying eggs while they cook reveals how egg white becomes solid
When an egg is heated, its proteins unfold and form bonds with each other – an X-ray analysis has shown this happening on the micrometre scale over the first 160 seconds of cooking
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Facebook AI learned object recognition from 1 billion Instagram pics
Artificial intelligence built by Facebook has learned to classify images from 1 billion Instagram photos. The AI used a different learning technique to many other similar algorithms, relying less on input from humans.
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Over one-sixth of all food produced ends up being thrown in the bin
Consumer food waste hit 931 million tonnes in 2019, 17 per cent of global production. Although this figure includes non-edible waste such as bones, it suggests huge amounts of food are going uneaten
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Changing sounds reveal impact of Amazon fires on animal life
Recordings reveal that the Brazilian Amazon sounds different after it has been burned several times, suggesting acoustic monitoring as a tool to measure ecosystem degradation
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Green energy app lets your car charge when electricity is cheapest
Renewable energy supplier Bulb has created a specific off-peak tariff for electric cars and an app to simplify how people charge their vehicles
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Eagle-inspired robot flies by flapping its feather-covered wings
A robot that looks like a bird, flaps its wings like a bird and flies like a bird could be used as a stealthy, camouflaged drone
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Did time flow in two directions from the big bang, making two futures?
Why time only flows forwards is one of the great mysteries of physics. A new idea suggests that it actually went in two ways from the big bang – and, even more radically, that time emerges not from entropy, but from the growth of structure
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Unexpected beauty of cancer research revealed in competition shortlist
These strikingly beautiful images are shortlisted in the UK Institute of Cancer Research’s Science and Medical Imaging Competition and show a wealth of techniques at work
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