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Reddit now more popular than X in the UK, says Ofcom | Science, Climate & Tech News
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Reddit, the social media platform popular with tech and gaming enthusiasts, has overtaken X to become the UK’s fifth most popular social platform, according to Ofcom. By June this year, it was the fastest growing platform of its kind in the UK and reached more than half of UK adults, according to the communication regulator’s…
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Crabs feel pain, scientists find – prompting calls for more humane ways to cook shellfish | Science, Climate & Tech News
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Crabs can feel pain, according to a new study – prompting calls for more humane ways to kill shellfish. Boiling crabs and lobsters alive is a common method of cooking them in the kitchen. But it is time to find less painful alternatives, according to researchers at the University of Gothenburg who made the discovery…
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First new treatment for asthma attacks in 50 years hailed as ‘game-changer’ | Science, Climate & Tech News
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The first new treatment for asthma attacks in 50 years has been hailed as a “game-changer” by doctors and patients. A clinical trial of the drug benralizumab showed it was far more effective than conventional steroid tablets at treating life-threatening breathing difficulties in people with a severe form of the disease. The monoclonal antibody specifically…
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Camp Century: Abandoned Cold War ‘city under the ice’ rediscovered by NASA | Science, Climate & Tech News
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NASA scientists have rediscovered a long-lost “city” buried under 100ft of ice, 58 years after it was abandoned as a US base during the Cold War. Camp Century, built in 1959 in northwest Greenland, was a never-completed secret launch site for ballistic missiles to reach the Soviet Union. As ice began to crush the site,…
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‘Dangerous’ and ‘ineffective’ labels on menus don’t reduce how many calories people eat, study finds | Science, Climate & Tech News
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Calorie labels on restaurant and takeaway food do not reduce how many calories people buy or eat, a new study has suggested. The mandatory labels, which were introduced by the government in 2022, forced all out-of-home food outlets with more than 250 employees to show the calories in their food, in a bid to tackle…
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Chemists create world’s thinnest pasta that would overcook in ‘under a second’ | Science, Climate & Tech News
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The world’s thinnest spaghetti, about 200 times thinner than a human hair, has been created by a team of UK chemists. The team at University College London (UCL) used a technique called “electrospinning” to create the nanofibres as part of master’s student Beatrice Britton’s research. “To make spaghetti, you push a mixture of water and…
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Microsoft ‘deploying fix’ after users report problems with Outlook and Teams | Science, Climate & Tech News
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Microsoft has said it has started to “deploy a fix” after users reported problems with Outlook and Teams. The technology giant said on Monday that users had been impacted due to a “recent change” to its Exchange Online programme. The issue meant users struggled to send or load attachments to emails when using Outlook, were…
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Earth’s ‘mini moon’ to disappear for 30 years | Science, Climate & Tech News
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A so-called “mini moon” that has been floating round Earth for two months will soon disappear. The harmless space rock, which scientists say could be a boulder that was blasted off the actual moon, was first spotted in August. Known as 2024 PT5, the rock began to partially circle Earth in a horseshoe-shaped path in…
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COP29 strikes last ditch deal on funding for climate measures in vulnerable countries | Science, Climate & Tech News
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The COP29 climate talks have reached a last ditch deal on cash for developing countries, pulling the summit back from the brink of collapse after a group of countries stormed out of a negotiating room earlier. The slew of deals finally signed off in the small hours of Sunday morning in Azerbaijan includes one that…
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UK in AI arms race with Russia as Putin ‘wants destruction’, minister to warn | Science, Climate & Tech News
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The UK is in a “new AI arms race” with countries like Russia and North Korea, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster will say on Monday. Minister Pat McFadden will be speaking at the NATO Cyber Defence Conference at Lancaster House, warning the UK and its allies that “cyber war is now a…