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#theguardian.com. #Feb.27.2025 Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez, Gayle King: all-female crew to helm next space flight on Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket. Activist Amanda Nguyen, movie producer Kerianne Flynn and former Nasa scientist Aisha Bowe will also be on flight

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#bbc.com. #Feb.27.2025 Man's brain turned to glass by Vesuvius volcano ash cloud. The pea-sized brain was found in the skull of a 20-year-old man killed in the volcanic eruption.

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#wired.com. #Feb.27.2025 DOGE’s Chaos Reaches Antarctica. Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend not only important research but the continent’s delicate geopolitics.

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#theguardian.com. #Feb.26.2025 UK ‘falling short’ in fight against rise of superbugs resistant to antibiotics. Antimicrobial resistance contributing to estimated 35,000 deaths a year in UK, and government ‘a long way’ from containing the problem, says NAO

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#bbc.com. #Feb.26.2025 Five takeaways from Canada's Liberal leadership debates. The Liberal Party of Canada will soon choose a leader that will replace Justin Trudeau and become Canada's next prime minister.

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#techcrunch.com. #Feb.26.2025 German startup wins accolade for its fusion reactor design | TechCrunch. Proxima Fusion, a two-year-old, German nuclear fusion startup, has published plans for a working fusion power plant in a peer-reviewed journal, in

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#bbc.com. #Feb.26.2025 Climate Change Committee: Half of homes need heat pump by 2040. The UK's greenhouse gas emissions should fall to 13% of 1990 levels by 2040, government advisors say.

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#bbc.com. #Feb.26.2025 BP to slash renewables investment and ramp up gas and oil production.. The energy giant will announce its strategy later after rivals also rowed back on green energy plans.

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#wired.com. #Feb.25.2025 Costa Rica Is Saving Forest Ecosystems by Listening to Them. Monitoring the noises within ecosystems reveals their health—allowing researchers to monitor changes in biodiversity, detect threats, and measure the effectiveness of conservation strategies.

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#theguardian.com. #Feb.25.2025 Ex-US security officials urge funding for science research to keep up with China. Appeal from officials, including two senior figures from Trump’s first term, comes amid reports National Science Foundation’s budget will be slashed

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#bbc.com. #Feb.25.2025 Seven planets align in UK skies this week for last time until 2040. The best chance to see as many as possible will be after sunset on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

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#wired.com. #Feb.24.2025 DOGE Is Inside the National Institutes of Health’s Finance System. At least three people linked to Elon Musk’s DOGE task force have access to NIH systems that control budgets, procurement, and more, according to records and internal documents viewed by WIRED.

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#wired.com. #Feb.24.2025 Nearly 100 Measles Cases Have Been Reported in Texas. Over the past month, the virus has spread in areas with low vaccination rates, and most of those affected are minors.

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#wired.com. #Feb.23.2025 The Saw-Toothed Function That Broke Calculus. In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.

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#theguardian.com. #Feb.23.2025 Forensic science centre that inspired BBC show Traces at risk of closure. All 24 jobs at Dundee University’s Leverhulme research centre could be axed because of £30m budget deficit

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#bbc.com. #Feb.23.2025 Watch: A real-life flying car takes to the skies. From science-fiction to the real world, flying cars are here - but could the concept actually take off?

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#bbc.com. #Feb.22.2025 YR4 asteroid: The hits and near-misses you never hear about. Since a potentially hazardous asteroid was detected in December, tens of others objects have come close to Earth.

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#theguardian.com. #Feb.22.2025 Space mission aims to map water on surface of the moon. A probe to be launched this week aims to pinpoint sites of lunar water, which could help plan to colonise the Earth’s satellite

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