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Canada geese return twice as quickly if you try to shoo them away

Canada geese return twice as quickly if you try to shoo...

Geese chased out of a park in Chicago returned to the area twice as quickly on days...

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Watch this robot bird use a talon-like claw to land safely on a perch

Watch this robot bird use a talon-like claw to land safely...

A talon-like claw with sharp ends and a softer middle helps this flying robot grasp...

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COP15: China calls for action as biodiversity talks break down

COP15: China calls for action as biodiversity talks break...

Negotiations at the COP15 biodiversity summit in Montreal broke down over how to...

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Twin planets orbiting a distant star may be half water

Twin planets orbiting a distant star may be half water

A pair of twin planets called Kepler-138 c and d appear to be water worlds, with...

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COP15: Countries debate how to share profits from Earth’s genetic data

COP15: Countries debate how to share profits from Earth’s...

The question of how best to share revenues from products developed using genetic...

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Biggest science news stories of 2022 as chosen by New Scientist

Biggest science news stories of 2022 as chosen by New Scientist

Nuclear fusion, infectious diseases and an incredible new space telescope were ongoing...

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Gout linked to 376 genetic variants in a study of 2.6 million people

Gout linked to 376 genetic variants in a study of 2.6 million...

As well as being caused by eating an indulgent diet, gout has been linked to hundreds...

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Strep A kills 500,000 people a year, so why isn’t there a vaccine?

Strep A kills 500,000 people a year, so why isn’t there...

A vaccine for strep A may not be very profitable for pharmaceutical companies and...

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COP15: What is the 30 by 30 biodiversity target and is it enough?

COP15: What is the 30 by 30 biodiversity target and is...

Under the 30 by 30 biodiversity target, countries would pledge to protect 30 per...

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COP15: How much money do we need to stop biodiversity loss?

COP15: How much money do we need to stop biodiversity loss?

Several high-income countries have made pledges at COP15 to fund programmes to protect...

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Microsoft adds full Teams integration to HoloLens 2 headsets, letting users view calendars and more, the first major update since co-creator Alex Kipman left (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Microsoft adds full Teams integration to HoloLens 2 headsets,...

Tom Warren / The Verge:Microsoft adds full Teams integration to HoloLens 2 headsets,...

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GitHub brings its free secret scanning service, which scans repositories for 200+ known token formats and alerts users of potential leaks, to all public repos (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

GitHub brings its free secret scanning service, which scans...

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:GitHub brings its free secret scanning service,...

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Brain-computer interface developer Synchron raised $75M from ARCH Venture, Bezos Expeditions, Gates Frontier, and others, bringing its total funding to $145M (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)

Brain-computer interface developer Synchron raised $75M...

Sarah McBride / Bloomberg:Brain-computer interface developer Synchron raised $75M...

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About 200 companies in China and Hong Kong, including Alibaba and JD.com, no longer face the threat of a US delisting after US inspectors reviewed their audits (Bloomberg)

About 200 companies in China and Hong Kong, including Alibaba...

Bloomberg:About 200 companies in China and Hong Kong, including Alibaba and JD.com,...

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Sources: Meta reviews some of its 11 in-development data center projects globally and lays off a Danish contractor, as part of a design change for AI workloads (Sebastian Moss/DCD)

Sources: Meta reviews some of its 11 in-development data...

Sebastian Moss / DCD:Sources: Meta reviews some of its 11 in-development data center...

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Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.53B, Digital Media revenue up 10% YoY to $3.3B, and Digital Experience revenue up 14% YoY to $1.15B; stock is up 5%+ (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.53B, Digital...

Jordan Novet / CNBC:Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.53B, Digital Media...