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29 items in de category Newscientist.com in woensdag
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 World: Newscientist.com: (Laatste update: woensdag 5 december 2018 23:40:53)
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Let’s cheer workers at Google who are holding their bosses to account
Staff at Google, Amazon and Microsoft are using walkouts, work slowdowns and refusals to build to hold the tech giants to their proclaimed ethics
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 18:00:00 +0000
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Baboons live for months after getting genetically modified pig hearts
Genetically modified pig hearts have kept baboons alive for more than 90 days, a threshold that may now allow trials of this type of transplantation in people
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 18:00:00 +0000
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Fossil blubber shows ichthyosaurs were warm blooded reptiles
A fossil so well preserved that its skin is still flexible is revealing much more about the marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs that swam in the sea during the age of dinosaurs
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 18:00:00 +0000
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Gene-editing experiment widely criticised for safety and ethics issues
The scientist who led an experiment to create gene-edited babies has been criticised for acting unethically towards the couples and infants involved
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 17:30:00 +0000
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Global carbon emissions rose 3 per cent this year (which is bad)
Just weeks after a major UN report on 1.5°C warned that CO2 emissions need to fall fast, the latest figures show they are in fact rising fast
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 17:10:00 +0000
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UK DNA project hits major milestone with 100,000 genomes sequenced
The UK's 100,000 Genomes Project has hit its target for sequencing the genetic data of people with cancer and rare diseases
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 17:00:00 +0000
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Tonnes of food are thrown away daily – could meal kits be the answer?
The scale of food waste is shocking, with almost 30 per cent of US food ending up in the bin. Firms like Blue Apron and HelloFresh could offer a surprising solution
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 16:00:00 +0000
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First baby born thanks to womb transplant from deceased donor
A woman has successfully given birth after receiving a uterus taken from a dead person. The success could make womb transplants much more widely available
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 11:46:00 +0000
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New medical implants need a higher approval bar than toothbrushes
To protect patients we must make it as difficult to gain approval for medical devices as it is for medicines, says Peter Wilmshurst
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 17:30:00 +0000
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Phone app can diagnose anaemia from photos of fingernails
Two billion people have anaemia – now a smartphone app that analyses photos of their fingernails can help them monitor the condition
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 16:00:00 +0000
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Sculpted Wi-Fi waves can turn your whole office into a computer
Bouncing around specially tailored waves can turn an entire room into an analogue computer, which could help build an energy-efficient artificial intelligence
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:23:00 +0000
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We have all we need to beat the HIV epidemic – except political will
The latest figures show that preventative efforts are working, if only governments are willing to put them into action, says Deborah Gold
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 17:51:00 +0000
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Revealed: the first ever picture of the sun’s north pole
The sun has a north pole but no spacecraft has ever photographed it. Now the European Space Agency has cleverly pieced a together picture of it using other images
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 12:52:00 +0000
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LIGO found four more pairs of black holes, including the biggest yet
In a reanalysis of all of its data, LIGO spotted gravitational waves from four new pairs of black holes colliding, bringing the total detection count up to 11
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:45:00 +0000
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Astronauts launch in Soyuz rocket for first time since botched takeoff
A Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station launched successfully, ending a period of uncertainty for human spaceflight
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:31:00 +0000
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Is visiting a robot brothel ok? Most people say yes, if you are single
When people in Finland were asked about the morality of visiting a robot brothel most thought it was OK for singles to do it, but not people who were married
Mon, 03 Dec 2018 11:00:00 +0000
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NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx set to start mission at asteroid Bennu
The OSIRIS-REx mission is set to arrive at its destination, the asteroid Bennu, which gets dangerously close to Earth and may tell us about the early solar system
Sat, 01 Dec 2018 12:00:00 +0000
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Almost everything we know about social media and health could be wrong
Many studies about social media use and health have a fundamental flaw - they use unreliable self-reports about how much people use technology
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:34:00 +0000
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Space art could be so much more than a shiny satellite in the sky
Orbital Reflector, a giant balloon that will inflate in Earth’s orbit and reflect the sun’s light, is the latest attempt at large-scale art in space. But space art should do more than mimic the stars
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:01:00 +0000
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Millions of passport and credit card details exposed in Marriott hack
Half a billion people who've stayed at Marriott hotels may have had their data exposed, including passport numbers and credit card details
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:38:00 +0000
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Stone Age people may have ritually cut off their own fingers
Two French caves contain dozens of prehistoric images of hands that are missing fingers, suggesting people voluntarily had their fingers amputated
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 12:15:00 +0000
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Green car tyres can generate energy while monitoring road conditions
Car tyres embedded with silica and nanogenerators can harvest energy from the tyre rolling while also keeping track of whether the road is in good repair
Fri, 30 Nov 2018 08:00:00 +0000
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Stone tools hint that our first human ancestors lived all over Africa
We thought the first Homo species evolved in East Africa 2.8 million years ago, but stone tools from Algeria suggest our origins may have spanned the continent
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 19:00:00 +0000
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Extinct ‘Denisovan’ people may have lived on Earth’s highest plateau
The Tibetan Plateau is a tough environment so we thought humans arrived only about 12,000 years ago, but it seems someone was there 40,000 to 30,000 years ago
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 19:00:00 +0000
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Some spiders produce milk – and it’s more nutritious than cow’s milk
One species of spider seems to have worked out how to recycle unused eggs into a milk that contains four times the protein of cow’s milk
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 19:00:00 +0000
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Epic history of light reveals the universe peaked 10 billion years ago
A gamma ray telescope has revealed that the rate of star formation across the Universe peaked 10 billion years ago and has been going downhill ever since
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 19:00:00 +0000
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Prehistoric whales used to simply suck their food out of the ocean
A 33-million-year-old-fossil suggests some whales evolved baleens for filter feeding only after losing their teeth, so they must have sucked food from the water
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 16:00:00 +0000
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‘Scientists are now very sure that the babies really were gene-edited’
He Jiankui has now presented his controversial work at a gene editing summit in Hong Kong. CRISPR expert Helen O’Neill of University College London was there
Thu, 29 Nov 2018 12:32:00 +0000
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Gene therapy eases Parkinson’s symptoms by rewiring parts of the brain
A gene therapy treatment for Parkinson's blocks faulty brain circuits. This seems to help create alternate neural pathways for movement and eases symptoms
Wed, 28 Nov 2018 19:00:00 +0000
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