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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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Daily home activities – like folding clothes and sitting on a sofa – could give off clouds of microplastics, scientists warn | Science, Climate & Tech News
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Routine domestic activities could expose people to a cloud of plastic particles so small that they can be inhaled deep into the lungs, according to research seen exclusively by Sky News. The study at the University of Portsmouth found a fitness workout on a synthetic carpet could result in up to 110 plastic fibres or…
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Scientists claim breakthrough to bringing back Tasmanian tiger from extinction | Science & Tech News
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The Tasmanian tiger, a wolf-like marsupial that once stalked the forests of Tasmania, could be brought back from extinction after a team of US and Australian researchers claimed a series of scientific breakthroughs. Also known as the thylacine, the labrador-sized beast was Australia’s only native apex predator. The last one died in a Hobart zoo…
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British Google AI boss Sir Demis Hassabis among scientists awarded Nobel Prize for chemistry | UK News
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Briton Sir Demis Hassabis has been awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry, jointly with two other scientists. The trio of Sir Demis, as well as Americans Professor David Baker and Dr John Jumper, were honoured on Wednesday for their work on decoding the structure of proteins and creating new ones. The research has helped advances…
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Nobel Prize for medicine goes to American scientists who worked on microRNA | Science & Tech News
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This year’s Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine has been awarded to two American scientists who discovered how “microRNA” controls the decoding of genetic information in living organisms. Studying the tiny nematode worm C “elegans”, Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun independently discovered that small sequences of RNA were essential in determining whether certain genes are…
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Mount Everest is getting taller – now scientists think they know why | Science & Tech News
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Mount Everest has grown by around 15 to 50 metres in the last 89,000 years, and it’s increasing every year. Now, scientists say that’s because the mountain’s water system captured a river. When the Arun River joined with another nearby river, the new path created the deep Arun Gorge near Everest. Now, the river network…
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Bird flu may be ‘evolving under the radar’, scientists say | Science & Tech News
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Bird flu could be “evolving under the radar” because of failures to monitor and control the spread of the virus, a leading pandemic scientist has warned. Dr Thomas Peacock, a specialist in animal-to-human spread of viruses at The Pirbright Institute, said H5N1 could be transmitting undetected in the US because of “months of missing data”…
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Tiny knee bone linked to arthritis may have helped humans walk upright, scientists suggest | Science & Tech News
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A tiny knee bone linked to a common type of arthritis may have helped humans to evolve from walking on all fours to standing upright, scientists suggest. Little is known about the lateral fabella, a bone buried in the tendon below the knee which is about the size of a sesame seed and is found…
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Dengue fever: Popular European holiday hotspots at risk of being hit by tropical disease, warn UK scientists | Science & Tech News
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Scientists tracking the spread of dengue fever have named popular European holiday destinations they say are at risk from future outbreaks. The disease is carried by Asian tiger mosquitos, which are becoming more common in Europe, including parts of southern France, Italy and Spain. The mosquito was even spotted at the Paris Olympics this summer.…
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Scientists ‘working blindly’ to track and tackle mpox in Africa as disease spreads | World News
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Scientists are “working blindly” in Africa to track and tackle mpox, an infectious disease expert, who also chairs the WHO’s mpox emergency committee, has said. Experts studying the virus said it has spread out of the Democratic Republic of Congo, often in areas where experts lack the funding and equipment to properly track it. That…