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Why scientists are counting tiny Antarctic krill from Space

Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News WWF Krill are just a few centimetres long fully grown, but are one of the most abundant animals on Earth Scientists say subtle differences in the colour of seawater will enable them to count tiny – but critically important – Antarctic marine creatures, from Space. The target of the […]

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Plane GPS systems are under sustained attack

BBC As a Ryanair flight from London approached Vilnius, Lithuania, on 17 January, its descent was suddenly aborted. Just minutes from touching down, the aircraft’s essential Global Positioning System (GPS) suffered an unexplained interference, triggering an emergency diversion. The Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 had already descended to around 850ft (259m) when the disruption occurred. Instead […]

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Behind the wave of asylum hotel protests

Tom Symonds Correspondent, BBC News Carl Court/Getty Images “We are not happy with these men in this hotel because we fear for our children,” Orla Minihane tells me. “If that makes me far-right then so be it.” Orla has lived near Epping since she was a child and describes herself as a “very boring woman […]

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Tesla Stock Rises On Reports It Disbanded Its Dojo Supercomputer Team

Please note that we are not authorised to provide any investment advice. The content on this page is for information purposes only. Tesla (NYSE: TSLA) has reportedly disbanded its Dojo supercomputer team, marking a significant strategic pivot away from a project that was once considered a key pillar of its autonomous driving and artificial intelligence […]

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More environmental data is deleted in Trump’s second term : NPR

President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 20. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP The current Trump administration has made 70% more changes to government environmental websites during its first 100 days than the first Trump administration did, and those changes are bolder, according […]

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How safe are wireless headphones?

Do noise-cancelling headphones protect our hearing? Other Side of the Story spoke to Claire Benton, president of the British Academy of Audiology, to find out more abut noise-cancelling headphones. Claire explained that they can help protect people’s hearing as focusing on one sound with all others cancelled out, means it doesn’t need to be listened […]

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Ship footage captures sound of Oceangate’s Titan sub imploding

Alison Francis Senior Science Journalist Stockton Rush’s wife Wendy asks “what’s that bang?” in footage that appears in new BBC documentary The moment that Oceangate’s Titan submersible was lost has been revealed in footage recorded on the sub’s support ship. Titan imploded about 90 minutes into a descent to see the wreck of the Titanic […]

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Gloucestershire support network helped us to breastfeed, say mums

Clara Bullock & Nicky Price BBC News, Gloucestershire Manpreet Pinder Manpreet Pinder volunteers as a breastfeeding peer supporter Two mums who struggled to breastfed their babies have said they would have struggled without the help of a peer support group. Manpreet Pinder, who has since trained as a volunteer breastfeeding peer supporter, and her sister, […]

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