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on 2022-01-21

The record-breaking long-lived bubble was designed and produced by a team of physicists from the University of Lille, in France.

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Radian Aerospace, based in Bellevue, Washington, claims its spaceplane will completely transform travel – both in space and around the world.

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According to Down Detector, a website that monitors such issues, there were more than 8,000 reports of problems across the UK and Europe.

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Shep-en-Isis was found in 1819 at Deir el-Bahari, a complex of temples and tombs on the west bank of the Nile River in Egypt, before being transported to Switzerland.

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The same molecules that produce UV patterns in sunflowers also help the plant respond to stresses such as drought or extreme temperatures, experts from the University of British Columbia found.

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The near-miss occurred on Tuesday (January 18), Beijing’s China National Space Administration (CNSA) has said, based on tracking data of Tsinghua and the debris.

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Amazon has continued to drop incredible deals in their New Year sale, and if you’re looking to upgrade your smart home, we’ve found Amazon device deals you won’t want to miss.

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Jim Parsons, 57, of Huntsville, Alabama, was brain dead – and therefore declared officially deceased – in September, but scientists performed the transplant on him with his family’s blessing.

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Consumer group Which? said its findings suggest possible discrimination and a potential breach of UK law by the popular dating app. Tinder said the claims were ‘categorically untrue’.

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The Doomsday clock remains at 100 seconds to midnight for the third year in a row. The decision was based on nuclear war risks, climate change, the spread of misinformation and conflict in space.

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Neuralink posted a job listing for a clinical trial director who will ‘work with Neuralink’s first Clinical Trial participants.’ This suggests the company will soon implant its brain chips in humans.

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Instagram is testing subscriptions with 10 creators in the US, who can set their own monthly fee that users pay to access exclusive Live videos and Instagram Stories.

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The video selfie is taken on a mobile device and then uploaded to ID.me, along with the person’s government ID. The site uses its facial recognition software to verify the individual.

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Space Entertainment Enterprise (SEE) , based in London, has revealed plans for a film, TV, sport and entertainment broadcast module for the ISS, to launch in 2024.

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Sharing food and kissing are among signals babies and infants use to interpret whether people are emotionally close, reveal experts at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Hundreds of ancient burial mounds can be found dotted across the Japanese Islands, the largest of which are known as Kofun, and shaped like a keyhole.

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Black-browed albatross populations living on New Island, in the Falklands, were studied using accelerometers, depth sensors and GPS by researchers led from the University of Oxford.

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The $10 billion Webb telescope has been in space for nearly a month, and is close to being at the end of its deployment – something that happened faster than expected.

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No anatomical feature like an oral plug has even been seen before in any other animal, reported the research team from the University of British Columbia.

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Among people aged 65+, sharing a joke with friends reduces the risk of disability by around 30 per cent compared with those who laugh alone, reveal researchers at Nagoya University in Japan.

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The I-124 had been on a secret mission laying mines off the coast of Darwin when it suffered irreparable damage from dozens of depth chargers detonated by the HMAS Deloraine.

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A bug has been uncovered in Apple’s Safari 15, the firm’s latest search engine. The flaw exposes users’ internet activity and personal data to other websites. Apple is said to release a fix soon.

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SpaceX has been launching an increasing number of internet satellites since 2018, with over 2,000 now in low Earth orbit, about 340 miles above the planet.

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New evidence from the Hubble telescope shows a black hole at the heart of dwarf galaxy Henize 2-10 that’s creating stars, not gobbling them up, report experts from Montana State University.

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The limb muscles of Thecodontosaurus, a small dinosaur that lived in the UK in the Triassic, was reconstructed by a team of researchers from the University of Bristol.

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Humanity will learn its fate tomorrow during a live event that will unveil Doomsday clock for the 75th time. The clock’s hand has remained at 100 seconds to midnight for the past two year.

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The Rwanda genocide may be over, but the terror lives on in the DNA of victims and their offspring. A study found chemical modifications in genes linked to mental disorders like PTSD.

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People who watch TV for four hours or more a day are a third more likely to suffer from blood clots than those who watch for two-and-a-half hours, University of Bristol researchers have found.

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The massive slab of ice released the fresh water when it scraped past the island of South Georgia last year, according to researchers from the University of Leeds.

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Ocean researchers searching for the sunken WWII USS Johnston came across the world’s deepest-dwelling squid – a juvenile bigfin squid at more than 20,000ft below the surface.