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Space station astronauts forced to shelter as Russian satellite breaks into more than 100 pieces | Science & Tech News
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Astronauts on the International Space Station were forced to take shelter last night after a Russian satellite broke into more than 100 pieces. The nine astronauts living on the space station were told to shelter in their respective spacecraft, according to NASA, after the debris was spotted. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams boarded…
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Dolphins ‘forced to shout’ over noise pollution which could threaten population levels, study suggests | Science & Tech News
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Dolphins shout at each other over increasing levels of underwater noise pollution, new research suggests. Sounds generated by humans may force the animals to make louder and less effective whistles, according to experts from the University of Bristol. Dolphins rely on echolocation to hunt and reproduce, meaning activities like drilling and shipping could affect the…
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Anxious time for farmers forced to use winter stores in drought | Science & Tech News
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David Exwood is happy with his crop of oats. Like other cereals, they’ve benefitted from rain in the earlier part of the year and then the heatwave ripened the crop and dried it out before harvesting. But it’s still an anxious time. Not just because combining his crop on flinty soil brings the risk of…