Video: Bison roam England again for the first time in thousands of years
European bison were released in Kent this morning to boost biodiversity and tackle the climate crisis. The timing is pertinent
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Rogers network resuming after major outage hits millions of Canadians
Rogers Telecommunications said its network was beginning to recover late on Friday after a 19-hourservice outage at one of Canada's biggest telecom operators shut banking, transport and government access for millions, drawing outrage from customers and adding to criticism over its industry dominance.
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For the first time in generations, this tribe in Washington has land
The Snoqualmie Indian Tribe has purchased thousands of acres of ancestral forestlands in East King County.
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Britishvolt: Electric car battery plant gets government funding
Britishvolt says the money (£100m) unlocks huge private investment for a protect that will create thousands of jobs. See also Britishvolt.com The figure seems to be half of the proposed Government investment which was anticipated to be £200m - £250m in December.
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Dying in a Leadership Vacuum Why has the United States handled this pandemic so badly?
Dying in a Leadership Vacuum Why has the United States handled this pandemic so badly? The NEJM Editors asks what has gone so wrong in the US and lays the blame with the political leadership. "This crisis has produced a test of leadership. With no good options to combat a novel pathogen, countries were...
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EU says one in eight deaths is linked to pollution: The bloc's environment agency says pollution contributes to hundreds
EU says one in eight deaths is linked to pollution: The bloc's environment agency says pollution contributes to hundreds of thousands of deaths each year.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Yes you can learn surgery via YouTube
"Doctors are turning to YouTube to learn how to do surgical procedures, but there's no quality control: Tens of thousands of videos on YouTube show surgeries ranging from face-lifts to knee replacements. But the content isn't vetted or curated, and some doctors say it should be." The platform dominance...
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Boys' HPV vaccine 'to stop thousands of cancers': All boys in the UK aged 12 to 13 will be offered the vaccine from the
Boys' HPV vaccine 'to stop thousands of cancers': All boys in the UK aged 12 to 13 will be offered the vaccine from the start of the new school year.
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Climate change 'greatest threat', UN told: Naturalist Sir David Attenborough says climate change is humanity's greatest
Climate change 'greatest threat', UN told: Naturalist Sir David Attenborough says climate change is humanity's greatest threat in thousands of years.
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‘I lost my leg to diabetes’: Every year tens of thousands of Pakistanis are forced to have amputations as a result of
‘I lost my leg to diabetes’: Every year tens of thousands of Pakistanis are forced to have amputations as a result of diabetes.
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Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - Slashdot: An anonymous reader shares an excerpt
Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - Slashdot: An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report via The Guardian, written by Neil Lawrence, the founding editor of the freely available journal Proceedings of Machine Learning Research: Machine learning has demonstrated...
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IBM’s Watson versus cancer: Hype meets reality: Five years ago, IBM announced that its supercomputer Watson would revolutionize
IBM’s Watson versus cancer: Hype meets reality: Five years ago, IBM announced that its supercomputer Watson would revolutionize cancer treatment by using its artificial intelligence to digest and distill the thousands of oncology studies publish…
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UK citizens are taking air pollution monitoring into their own hands: Thousands of people are using home air quality monitoring
UK citizens are taking air pollution monitoring into their own hands: Thousands of people are using home air quality monitoring kits due to fears official figures are not capturing dangerous pollution levels, say Friends of the Earth
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The secret of passing the MRCP part 1 exam. You may not like the answer but read on ... Going on the right course? Reading
The secret of passing the MRCP part 1 exam. You may not like the answer but read on ... Going on the right course? Reading the right books? Forming a question group? Signing up to an online question bank? Doing the right job whilst sitting the exam? Joining a Facebook forum? Doing past papers? All of...
Why Roman Concrete Endured Thousands of Years of Seawater Pounding, While Ours Can't - ExtremeTech: Roman concrete's durability
Why Roman Concrete Endured Thousands of Years of Seawater Pounding, While Ours Can't - ExtremeTech: Roman concrete's durability and strength blows our own out of the water (in this case, literally). And after years of research, we're getting better at understanding why. It seems that the sea water may...
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'Thousands' of known bugs found in pacemaker code - BBC News: Thousands of bugs have been found in the code used to keep
'Thousands' of known bugs found in pacemaker code - BBC News: Thousands of bugs have been found in the code used to keep pacemakers functioning, say researchers
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Thousands of spills at US oil and gas fracking sites - BBC News: Up to 16% of hydraulically fractured oil and gas wells
Thousands of spills at US oil and gas fracking sites - BBC News: Up to 16% of hydraulically fractured oil and gas wells spill liquids each year, according to new data.
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Surprise virus in child mummy unravels thousands of years of disease history: The oldest sample of smallpox is younger than
Surprise virus in child mummy unravels thousands of years of disease history: The oldest sample of smallpox is younger than we thought, bucking ancient reports.
Source: arstechnica.com
AI helps answer thousands of health queries in Zambia via SMS: UNICEF is testing a machine learning system to boost the
AI helps answer thousands of health queries in Zambia via SMS: UNICEF is testing a machine learning system to boost the quantity and quality of health advice provided via a popular text-based service in Zambia and Uganda
Source: newscientist.com
Peer to peer breastmilk sharing - "personal social media pages and private groups [used] rather than more well-known milk
Peer to peer breastmilk sharing - "personal social media pages and private groups [used] rather than more well-known milk sharing sites". Milk Sharing in Practice: A Descriptive Analysis of Peer Breastmilk Sharing: Abstract Peer breastmilk sharing has emerged in recent years as a subject of investigation...
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