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CRISPR study questions everything we know about "love hormone" oxytocin:
Using cutting-edge gene editing technology researchers have engineered prairie voles with no oxytocin receptors.
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03 February 2023.
Samsung takes mobile photography to 200 megapixels with Galaxy S23 Ultra:
Samsung has held its first in-person Galaxy Unpacked event since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, launching new premium smartphones and a trio of 2-in-1 laptops – though the Galaxy S23 Ultra stole the limelight with its 200-MP camera.
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02 February 2023.
Why The Failure By Funders To Require Academics To Retain Copyright In Their Papers Is The Biggest Obstacle To Open Access Today:
Back in August last year, Techdirt covered a major announcement by the US government that all taxpayer-supported research should be immediately available to the public at no cost.
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03 February 2023.
India's Attempts To Censor BBC Documentary Make More People Want To See It:
The Indian government has dismissed the series, which is critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role in the 2002 Gujarat riots, as "propaganda.
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26 January 2023.
Rare Look at Bill Gates’ Wall-Mounted Periodic Table in His Office with Samples of Most Elements:
Bill Gates has many things in his office just outside Seattle, including a wall-mounted periodic table with samples of most elements.
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03 February 2023.
Top 10 AI Content Generator & Writer Tools in 2022:
Are you looking for a way to create content that is both effective and efficient? If so, then you should consider using an AI content generator.
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15 November 2022.
Space, The Boring Frontier:
Suppose you randomly go 1 million miles somewhere away from our Sun.
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28 December 2021.
Some popular accounts likely to disappear from Twitter as Elon Musk ends free access to API:
Move to pay-for-access application program interface continues platform owner’s push for revenueFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe latest set of changes to Twitter will likely spell the end of some of your favourite accounts, tools and features, as the platform’s owner, Elon Musk, continues to look for ways to increase revenue.
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03 February 2023.
Pioneering NHS trial targets brain tumours before surgery:
Exclusive: Radiotherapy prior to operation could be key to reducing likelihood of tumours regrowing quickly, researchers sayThe NHS has begun a world-first clinical trial of a pioneering treatment technique aimed at extending the lives of people with brain tumours.
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03 February 2023.
How to transfer photos from your Android device to your Windows computer:
You can transfer photos from your Android phone to your Windows PC using a variety of methods.
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03 February 2023.
Bird flu 'spills over' to otters and foxes in UK:
Scientists will monitor the virus, but UK health chiefs say the risk to the public is very low.
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02 February 2023.
Netflix’s US Password-Sharing Crackdown Isn’t Happening—Yet:
Accidental revisions to a US Help Center page sparked confusion about the streamer's next moves.
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02 February 2023.
Amazon reports its first unprofitable year since 2014:
The biggest culprit was Amazon hefty investment in the electric automaker Rivian, whose value plummeted last year.
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02 February 2023.
Probing researchers strike gold to stop the trots in pigs:
Gold nanorod probes combined with an optical microscope can now be used to detect signs of a highly contagious and lethal virus that poses a major threat to the swine industry worldwide.
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03 February 2023.
Alphabet’s Profit Falls 34% Amid Ads Slowdown:
Google’s parent company reported its fourth consecutive drop in quarterly profit, weeks after culling 6 percent of its work force to cut costs.
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03 February 2023.
Montana man spots Chinese spy balloon flying over US:
The Pentagon is tracking a Chinese surveillance balloon that has been hovering for days over continental America, on the eve of .
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03 February 2023.
These Extinct Elephants Were Neanderthals’ ‘Biggest Calorie Bombs’:
A study of butchered bones from 125,000 years ago offers what researchers call “the first clear-cut evidence of elephant-hunting in human evolution.
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03 February 2023.
A single-shot treatment to protect infants from RSV may be coming soon:
The illness sends tens of thousands of babies to the hospital each year.
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02 February 2023.
FC Barcelona Could Sell Jordi Alba And Two More Catalan Defenders In 2023:
It has been suggested that Jordi Alba and two other defenders could leave FC Barcelona this year ahead of the 2023/2024 season.
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03 February 2023.
Planting More Trees In Cities Could Cut Deaths From Summer Heat, Says Study:
Planting more trees could mean fewer people die from increasingly high summer temperatures in cities, a study suggests.
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03 February 2023.
Facebook restores Trump's account, two years after Jan. 6:
Facebook announced that it will be restoring former President Donald Trump’s personal account in the upcoming weeks.
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26 January 2023.
Rat brain injuries 'plugged' with lab-grown human minibrains in world-first experiment:
Scientists transplanted human brain organoids into rats to repair injuries to their visual processing systems.
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02 February 2023.
Meet the scientist at the center of the covid lab leak controversy:
On a foggy morning in early February last year, dozens of journalists from around the world gathered outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
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09 February 2022.
Some of the tech in my workday
Best programming language?
The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.
The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.
w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.
While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.
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