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Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial

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A British girl has had her hearing restored after becoming the first in the world to...
A British girl has had her hearing restored after becoming the first in the world to take part in a groundbreaking new gene therapy trial.Opal Sandy, aged 18 months, was born completely deaf due to the condition auditory neuropathy, which is caused by the disruption of nerve impulses travelling from the inner ear to...
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Dick Rutan, who flew nonstop around the world, is dead at 85

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Burt Rutan was alarmed to see the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel...
Burt Rutan was alarmed to see the plane he had designed was so loaded with fuel that the wing tips started dragging along the ground as it taxied down the runway. He grabbed the radio to warn the pilot, his older brother Dick Rutan. But Dick never heard the message.Nine days and three minutes later, Dick, along with...
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Humans now share the web equally with bots

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Humans now share the web equally with bots, according to a major new report – as...
Humans now share the web equally with bots, according to a major new report – as some fear that the internet is dying.In recent months, the so-called “dead internet theory” has gained new popularity. It suggests that much of the content online is in fact automatically generated, and that the number of humans on the ...
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Second Boeing whistleblower dies after raising concerns about 737 MAX

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A second Boeing whistleblower has died after a sudden illness.Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at...
A second Boeing whistleblower has died after a sudden illness.Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Spirit AeroSystems, went public with claims that the company’s leadership ignored manufacturing defects in Boeing’s 737 MAX. Spirit AeroSystems is a Boeing supplier, The Seattle Times reports. Dean, 45, had an acti...
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Scientists say they have found evidence of an unknown planet in our solar system

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Scientists say they have found new evidence that there is a hidden planet in our solar...
Scientists say they have found new evidence that there is a hidden planet in our solar system.For years, some astronomers have been suggesting that unusual behaviour on the edge of our solar system is best explained by another, undiscovered planet. That helps explain the orbits of objects that lie at the very far re...
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A growing number of Americans end up in Russian jails

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A journalist on a reporting trip in a Ural Mountains city. A corporate security executive traveling...
A journalist on a reporting trip in a Ural Mountains city. A corporate security executive traveling to Moscow for a wedding. A dual national returning to her hometown in Tatarstan to visit her family.All of them are U.S. citizens, and all are behind bars in Russia on charges of varying severity.Arrests of Americans ...
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Fish 'full of contraceptive pill, antidepressants and cocaine'

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Time spent on computer linked to increased chance of erectile dysfunction

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Spending a lot of time on the computer may be linked to an increased risk of...
Spending a lot of time on the computer may be linked to an increased risk of erectile dysfunction in men, researchers have said.A study of more than 200,000 men indicates that for every additional 1.2 hours spent using a computer, the chances of experiencing erectile dysfunction increased by 3.57 times.The analysis,...
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Long-term leisure computer use 'linked to increased erectile dysfunction risk'

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Spending a lot of leisure time on the computer may be linked to an increased risk...
Spending a lot of leisure time on the computer may be linked to an increased risk of erectile dysfunction in men, research suggests.A study of more than 200,000 men indicates that for every additional 1.2 hours spent using a computer, the chances of experiencing erectile dysfunction increased by 3.57 times.The analy...
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Oil giant fined just $780k after 'one of biggest ever' methane leaks

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The authorities in Kazakhstan have imposed a fine of $780,000 on an oil company responsible for...
The authorities in Kazakhstan have imposed a fine of $780,000 on an oil company responsible for one of the worst methane leaks ever recorded following a prolonged fire at one of its fields last year.Buzachi Neft, a private oil company, saw a months-long fire at its Karaturun field in southwestern Kazakhstan during d...
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Mushroom sprouting from live frog in India leaves scientists stunned

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Scientists have made a baffling discovery of a frog with a small mushroom sprouting from its...
Scientists have made a baffling discovery of a frog with a small mushroom sprouting from its leg in the lush foothills of India’s Western Ghats.The finding marks the first ever time a mushroom has been spotted growing on live animal tissue, researchers affiliated with the World Wildlife Fund say.Since the frog was n...
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A man has been swatted 47 times for making a joke about Norm Macdonald

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For 18 months, a teenager allegedly operated a “swatting” service out of his father’s California home...
For 18 months, a teenager allegedly operated a “swatting” service out of his father’s California home where criminals could call in a hoax bomb threat or mass shooting almost as easily as ordering a burger on UberEats.Alan Winston Filion, 17, is suspected of targeting hundreds of high schools, mosques, historically ...
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Europe's deepest mine to become giant gravity battery

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An abandoned mine in Finland is set to be transformed into a giant battery to store...
An abandoned mine in Finland is set to be transformed into a giant battery to store renewable energy during periods of excess production.The Pyhäsalmi Mine, roughly 450 kilometres north of Helsinki, is Europe’s deepest zinc and copper mine and holds the potential to store up to 2 MW of energy within its 1,400-metre-...
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Filmmaker Ken Burns calls Mark Zuckerberg an `enemy of the state' (2021)

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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is not a fan of Mark Zuckerberg.Burns recently said in a podcast...
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is not a fan of Mark Zuckerberg.Burns recently said in a podcast interview with The New York Times tech journalist Kara Swisher that Zuckerberg is “an enemy of the state” who he hopes to see incarcerated."This is an enemy of the state, and I mean the United States of America,” explain...
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Ossian, the ‘Homer of the North’, the greatest literary hoax (2016)

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CultureBooksNewsIan JohnstonFriday 21 October 2016 00:03 BSTCommentsOssian plays a harp and sings of Fingal to Malvina,...
CultureBooksNewsIan JohnstonFriday 21 October 2016 00:03 BSTCommentsOssian plays a harp and sings of Fingal to Malvina, a name probably made up by James Macpherson that became popular in Norway amid the success of the epic poems, in this 1810 painting by Johann Peter KrafftIt has been described as the greatest-ever ...
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Nuclear battery produces power for 50 years without needing to charge

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A Chinese startup has unveiled a new battery that it claims can generate electricity for 50...
A Chinese startup has unveiled a new battery that it claims can generate electricity for 50 years with the need for charging or maintenance.Beijing-based Betavolt said its nuclear battery is the first in the world to realise the miniaturisation of atomic energy, placing 63 nuclear isotopes into a module smaller than...
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