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Crash landing for dream of ‘guilt-free flying’? Scientists find no clear green alternative to jet fuel | Climate News
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The quest for guilt-free flying may have been knocked off course by a broad study that has concluded there is “no clear or single net zero alternative to jet fuel”. The four most viable alternatives “offer some carbon savings but are not ideal”, according to the review by the Royal Society academy of scientists. Replacing…
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Ants can ‘sniff out’ cancer in urine, scientists find | Science & Tech News
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Ants can smell cancer in urine, scientists have found. Several types of cancer have been found to alter the smell of urine, but for the first time experts have found ants have the ability to detect the scent. In their findings, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, they said…
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Richard Branson woke in middle of night to find Elon Musk barefoot in his kitchen – and holding his baby | UK News
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Richard Branson has revealed a bizarre story about finding Elon Musk in the kitchen of his New Mexico house in the middle of the night before his first space flight. In an interview this weekend, Mr Branson said the Twitter and Tesla owner was completely barefoot, holding his fast-asleep baby X Æ A-12, and had…
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Elon Musk says he will resign as Twitter CEO ‘as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job’ | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk has said he will resign as CEO of Twitter “as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job”. The Twitter boss said following that he would “just run the software and servers teams”. It comes after Musk launched a poll asking users for their verdict on his tenure, saying he…
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New drug brings hope that decades-long slog to find Alzheimer’s cure might pay off | Science & Tech News
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Science is a slog. Not a series of “Eureka!” moments. It’s why I hate the word “breakthrough” when it comes to research discoveries. But in the case of this new drug for Alzheimer’s that word is more than justified. Not because lecanemab is a cure for the disease that is destroying the lives of hundreds…
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Elon Musk says he hopes to eventually find new Twitter boss – as he gives staff ‘hardcore’ ultimatum | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk has said he plans to reduce his time at Twitter and eventually find someone else to run the company. Musk made the remarks while testifying in the US state of Delaware, where he’s defending himself against claims from shareholders that his $56bn (£47bn) pay package at Tesla was too generous. “There’s an initial…
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Scientist ‘finally in the driving seat’ in race to find cure for daughter’s rare disease TUBB4a leukodystrophy | Science & Tech News
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A scientist in a race against time to find a cure for her daughter’s rare and deadly disease has said they are “finally in the driving seat”. Dr Michelle Teng is trying to develop the world’s first treatment for TUBB4a leukodystrophy before it is too late for her 12-year-old daughter Sofia. The life-threatening genetic condition…
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Monkeypox transmission occurs up to four days before symptoms appear, scientists find | Science & Tech News
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Monkeypox transmission can happen up to four days before any symptoms appear, scientists have discovered. The spread of the disease before symptoms arise may be much more “substantial” than previously thought, said researchers at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). In the first evidence of its kind, the study estimated more than half (53%) of…
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Scientists find answer to 66 million-year-old mystery over dinosaur extinction meteorite | Science & Tech News
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The meteorite that wiped out Earth’s dinosaurs instantly ignited wildfires up to thousands of miles from its impact zone, scientists have discovered. The six-mile-wide meteorite struck the Yucatan peninsula, in what is now Mexico, at the end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago. Its devastating impact brought the reign of the dinosaurs to…
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False widow spiders 230 times more venomous than native species, scientists find | Science & Tech News
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The bite of a noble false widow spider is up to 230 times more venomous than native Irish spiders, a study has found. A team of researchers at National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) investigated the potency of the spider’s venom to understand why it is so successful at spreading through towns and cities worldwide.…