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That box full of wires you’ve kept for years could help avert a looming crisis | UK News
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The unused cables and broken tech items you have tucked away at home could help steer the UK away from a copper crisis, according to new research. The research by campaign group Recycle Your Electricals (RYE) suggests the UK has 1.3 billion unused or binned electricals, including 627 million cables, which could hold the answer…
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AI tool that can do ’81 years of detective work in 30 hours’ trialled by police | UK News
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Some of the country’s most notorious cold cases could be solved with the help of an artificial intelligence tool that can do 81 years of detective work in just 30 hours. Avon and Somerset Police are trialling the technology which can identify potential leads that may not have been found during a manual trawl of…
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DNA stored on crystal could bring back humanity billions of years after extinction | UK News
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British scientists have stored DNA information for an entire human on a crystal, which could be used to bring back humanity if we become extinct. The team from the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) used lasers to inscribe the data on a 5D crystal, which they said can survive for billions of years.…
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Talented dogs can remember names of toys for at least two years, study finds | Science & Tech News
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Talented dogs can remember the names of their toys for at least two years, scientists have found. Previous research has shown these rare pooches, known as gifted word learners (GWL), have a unique ability to learn the names of hundreds of different objects. However, a new study, published in the journal Biology Letters, now suggests they…
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Scotland and Ireland rock formation dating back ‘hundreds of millions of years’ shows historic global freeze, study says | Science & Tech News
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A Scottish and Irish rock formation dating back hundreds of millions of years could be evidence of what scientists call snowball Earth, a new study says. The snowball Earth theory proposes that the planet’s oceans and land were covered by ice during at least two extreme cooling events between 2.4 billion and 580 million years…
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‘The coral in the coalmine’: Seas around Great Barrier Reef hottest in 400 years | Climate News
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Temperatures on the Great Barrier Reef have soared to their highest in 400 years, a new study has found. It said the “unprecedented” heat on the sea surface around the natural wonder is driving increasingly frequent mass bleaching events that are putting it in danger. Without stronger and faster action to tackle climate change, our…
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Complex life on Earth began around 1.5 billion years earlier than thought, study claims | UK News
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Complex life on Earth began around 1.5 billion years earlier than thought, according to a new study. Scientists were broadly of the view that animals first emerged on Earth 635 million years ago, but the latest study, led by a research team at Cardiff University, has found signs of a much earlier ecosystem. The ecosystem…
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Man who ate toast for five years inspires high-tech spoon enhancing flavours for dementia sufferers | UK News
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A man who revealed how he has only eaten toast for the past five years as he can no longer taste things has helped inspire a high-tech spoon which enhances flavours for dementia sufferers. The device, known as Tasty Spoon, looks like a normal one but it uses electrostimulation to enhance the flavour of foods…
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‘Year’s best meteor shower’ and the moon’s ‘whistle-stop tour’ – what to look out for in the night sky from this weekend | Science & Tech News
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July is a good month for stargazing, with meteor showers kicking off above our heads and the moon sitting near Saturn, Uranus, the Pleiades, Jupiter and Mars. Although the meteor showers won’t peak until the end of the month or later, the Delta Aquariids shower should start being visible over the weekend. Meteor spotting The…
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AI: Why Google’s greenhouse gas emissions have surged 48% in five years | Science & Tech News
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Google has admitted its greenhouse gas emissions have risen 48% over the past five years – largely because of artificial intelligence – scuppering its climate aims. AI systems require intense levels of computational power, and this has piled pressure on the tech giant’s data centres around the world. In its latest environmental report, Google went…