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Landmark Paris Agreement ‘more fragile’ than ever, UK’s top climate diplomat warns | Science, Climate & Tech News
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The world’s landmark Paris Agreement is “more fragile” than it has ever been and disagreements risk “imploding” it, the UK’s climate ambassador has warned. The seminal treaty obliges countries to produce regular plans on how they will cut greenhouse gas emissions in order to slow climate change. Since it was signed in 2015, predicted levels…
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Google unveils ‘astonishing’ quantum computing chip called Willow | Science, Climate & Tech News
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Google has unveiled a computing chip capable of solving problems in minutes that would take one of today’s fastest supercomputers 10 septillion years to complete. As well as being extremely fast, the experimental quantum chip, called Willow, can reduce errors exponentially. That’s important because currently, quantum computers exponentially create errors, according to Google. Hartmut Neven,…
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Shell and Greenpeace settle climate protest case | Money News
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Shell and the environmental campaign group Greenpeace have settled a multimillion-pound lawsuit brought over an at-sea protest. The oil firm brought the case, described by Greenpeace as an act of “intimidation”, in London over an incident in January last year that saw four activists board a production vessel while in transit near the Canary Islands.…
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Google reveals 2024’s most searched-for topics and questions in the UK | Science, Climate & Tech News
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Google has revealed the UK’s most searched topics in 2024. After Oasis announced they were reuniting for a UK tour back in August, they instantly became the most searched musicians of the year, with ‘how to get Oasis tickets’ the second top trending ‘how to’ question of the year. Loads of us also asked when…
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Tiny frogs named after Charles Darwin flown from Chile to London to save them from deadly fungus | Science, Climate & Tech News
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Dozens of tiny frogs named after Charles Darwin have landed in London after being rescued from a killer fungus in Chile. The peculiar, pointy-nosed southern Darwin’s frog once thrived in the Parque Tantauco forests in southern Chile. But it is now plagued by the devastating chytrid fungus spread by humans, and their numbers have plummeted…
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Occasional sweet treat may be healthier than no sugar at all, study finds | Science, Climate & Tech News
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Sugary drinks are very bad for you, but the occasional sweet treat could actually be good for your health, according to a new study. Scientists in Sweden studied nearly 70,000 people over two decades and came to a sensible-sounding conclusion: a little bit of what you fancy does you good – unless what you fancy…
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‘King Kong’ of weight loss jabs just too effective for the NHS | Science, Climate & Tech News
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The ‘King Kong’ of obesity jabs is just too effective for the NHS to handle. Patients taking Mounjaro lose around a fifth of their body weight in a year and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) estimates there are 3.4 million people in England who could benefit. But when draft guidelines came…
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TikTok faces US ban after losing court battle | Science, Climate & Tech News
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TikTok has lost an appeal against plans to ban the video-sharing app in the US. The social media platform had argued the proposal was a breach of the US First Amendment, which protects freedom of speech. TikTok pushed to overturn a law that could lead to its ban in a few months. However, the petition…
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NASA delays flagship moon landing plans once again | Science, Climate & Tech News
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NASA has delayed its plans to send astronauts back to the moon yet again. The Artemis mission will see four astronauts sent around the moon and back, before blasting off to land on the moon’s surface a year later. But Bill Nelson, head of NASA, told a news conference the next Artemis mission has slipped…
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UK ‘not prepared’ for another pandemic, warns influential Lords group | Science, Climate & Tech News
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The UK is not prepared for another pandemic and may not be able to make enough vaccines if one arrives, an influential group of politicians is warning. Baroness Brown, chair of the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, said experts have “troubling concerns about [the UK’s] capacity to manufacture vaccines for future biological threats”…