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The world’s largest iPhone factory is offerings $1,500 signing bonuses — more than a month’s salary — to lure workers amid China’s Omicron lockdowns
Foxconn is giving returning workers a signing bonus of up to 9,500 Chinese yuan ($1,498.) New joiners will get up…
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Support for populist politics ‘collapsed’ during the pandemic: global report
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Support for populist parties and politicians, and agreement with populist sentiment, has diminished during the pandemic,…
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U.S. Military Evidence That Epstein-Barr Virus Causes Multiple Sclerosis
Epstein-Barr Virus illustration. A new analysis of data from U.S. military recruits suggests multiple sclerosis (MS) – a disease considered…
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Scientists Discover How To Halt and Control Cellular Death Process – Previously Thought To Be Irreversible
A composite image of a cell throughout pyroptosis. Credit: Gary Mo A study published by researchers at the University of…
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5 cheap and easy ways to upgrade your old tech
This story has been updated. It was originally published on May 20, 2019. You might be used to throwing out…
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Newly discovered carbon may yield clues to ancient Mars
A selfie taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover on Sol 2291 at the “Rock Hall” drill site, located on Vera…
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The Great Reset: Support for Populist Politics “Collapsed” Globally During the COVID Pandemic
Support for populist parties and politicians, and agreement with populist sentiment, has diminished during the pandemic, according to a “mega-dataset”…
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NASA Analysis: 2021 Tied for 6th Hottest Year in Continued Warming Trend
Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2021 tied with 2018 as the sixth warmest on record, according to independent analyses…
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Mississippi’s Jackson airport evacuated passengers and employees after receiving ‘verbal security threat’
Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport evacuated passengers and employees on Monday. The Mississippi airport had received a “verbal security threat,”…
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Shifting ocean closures best way to protect animals from accidental catch
Deploying streamer lines behind boats in Alaska longline fisheries has saved thousands of seabirds from being accidentally caught each year.…
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ICU workers in the UK are experiencing probable PTSD rates during the pandemic comparable to Afghanistan war veterans, a new survey finds
New research out of the UK has illustrated the severe toll COVID-19 has taken on frontline workers. A study finds…
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Ancient Mars may have had a liquid ocean despite freezing temperatures
A model based on Earth’s oceans and atmosphere explains how Mars could have been cold and wet 3 billion years…
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New Species Discovered: The Youngest Pangolin From Europe
The humerus bone of a new pangolin species was found at Graunceanu, a famous Pleistocene fossil deposit in Romania, confirming…
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Unknown voices spark more brain activity in sleep than familiar ones
Unfamiliar voices seem to put the sleeping brain on alert in a way that familiar voices don’t Humans 17 January…
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Awesome Games Done Quick sets new record with more than $3.4 million raised for charity
What just happened? Awesome Games Done Quick, the winter version of the bi-annual speedrunning marathon for charity, wrapped up over…
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Ozone pollution causes $63 billion damage per year to East Asian crops
Rising levels of ground-level ozone in China and nearby countries are having a big effect on the yields of staple…
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Apple is reportedly telling staff to get their booster shots
A hot potato: Apple is reportedly going a step further than those companies requiring employees to get a Covid vaccine…
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Bone growth inspired ‘microrobots’ that can create their own bone
The black material is an electroactive polymer, the volume of which changes when the researchers apply a low voltage, which…
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New Materials Synthesized for Extremely High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells
The materials developed at KTU were tested in the laboratories of Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Switzerland. Credit:…
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PCI Express Bandwidth Test: PCIe 4.0 vs. PCIe 3.0 Gaming Performance & Limited VRAM Memory Buffers
This month AMD will finally release their first entry-level RDNA2-based gaming product, the Radeon RX 6500 XT. This new GPU…
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How to Use a Free Password Manager—and Make Your Logins Safer
Some of my old usernames and passwords are floating around the internet, and maybe yours are, too. After repeated notices…
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UFC 270 Francis Ngannou vs Ciryl Gane: Start time, how to watch or stream online
Ngannou defends his UFC heavyweight title at UFC 270. Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC The UFC has good and bad news for…
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Dimming Sun’s rays should be off-limits, say experts
Scientists have long known that injecting a large quantity of reflective particles into the upper atmosphere could cool the planet.…
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Fire at vital tech factory could worsen global computer chip shortage
ASML Holding, which supplies a vital technology used in computer chips, has reported a fire at a manufacturing plant, but…
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Protecting Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Stations From Cyberattacks
As the number of electric cars on the road grows, so does the need for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations…
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Serial Break-Ups and Years Lived Alone Strongly Linked to Inflammation in Men
Findings most likely indicate heightened risk of ill health and death, suggest researchers. Living alone for several years and/or experiencing…
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Sen. Tim Kaine says most recent version of spending bill is ‘dead’ but ‘the core of the bill’ will likely pass
Democratic Senator Tim Kaine said there’s hope the social and climate spending bill will pass. Kaine said while the current…
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A new way to solve paradoxes can help you think more clearly
By Margaret Cuonzo A WOMAN once approached me with a curious problem concerning her husband. Like most people who choose…
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Trump has been talking trash about Ron DeSantis in private, saying the Florida gov. has a ‘dull personality’ and is ungrateful: report
Trump has been trash-talking Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in private, per an Axios report. Behind closed doors, Trump has been…
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Have we got the science of obesity back to front?
By David S. Ludwig Michelle D’urbano IN PRINCIPLE, it sounds simple: eat less and move more. This dietary advice for…
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How Wordle and Wordle! teamed up for charity | Digital Trends
Digital Trends may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site. Following the sudden explosion of love…
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Newly Discovered Type of “Strange Metal” – Material That Shares Fundamental Quantum Attributes With Black Holes
A new discovery could help scientists to understand “strange metals,” a class of materials that are related to high-temperature superconductors…
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Jurassic World Evolution 2 review: Let the dinosaurs unleash chaos
By Jacob Aron You can run a safe theme park. Or you can unleash chaos. Which is more fun? Frontier…
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Everything we know about Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League | Digital Trends
Rocksteady made a name for itself as one of the first teams to make a universally acclaimed superhero game with…
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Explosion of Supergiant Star Captured by Astronomers
An artist’s impression of a red supergiant star in the final year of its life emitting a tumultuous cloud of…
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See inside this California oceanfront mansion that’s on the market for $160 million and has 10 beds and 21 bathrooms
Known as The Sanctuary at Loon Point, the property covers 22 oceanfront acres and 2,129 feet of coastal bluff. Jim…
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At your fingertips: The nail art that opens doors to the metaverse
Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Humans 5 January 2022 Josie…
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New Silicon Carbide Qubits Bring Us One Step Closer to Quantum Networks
By U.S. Department of Energy January 16, 2022 Chromium defects in silicon carbide may provide a new platform for quantum…
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Sen. Mitt Romney says Biden was elected ‘to stop the crazy’ and argues that voters weren’t asking him ‘to transform America’
Sen. Mitt Romney on Sunday said that President Joe Biden was not elected to “transform America.” Romney said that people…
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Extreme air pollution from US wildfires now affects millions of people
The simultaneous occurence of extreme levels of ozone and particulate matter have increased significantly in the past decade due to…
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Key Molecule Identified That May Lead to New Treatments for COVID
Researchers from the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering examined the protein Nsp13, which is involved in the COVID virus’s replication…
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One in 12 new cases of asthma in children linked to NO2 air pollution
Researchers estimate that 1.85 million new childhood asthma cases in 2019 were linked with exposure to nitrogen dioxide, a toxic…
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Newly identified tree species named in honour of Leonardo DiCaprio
By Chen Ly The new species – Uvariopsis dicaprio Lorna MacKinnon A tropical, evergreen tree from Cameroon, the first plant…
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If Mario Kart 9 is Coming, We Want These 4 Features | Digital Trends
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost eight years since the last entry in the Mario Kart series. Mario Kart…
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Score 3-month access to the #1 coding app for kids for only $9.99
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Teach a kid to code and they’ll be…
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Should gaming embrace NFT? Both sides of the debate weigh in | Digital Trends
It was the frequency of those three little letters on my Twitter feed that originally caught my eye. “NFT.” I…
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Study nixes Mars life in meteorite found in Antarctica
The meteorite labeled ALH84001 is held in the hand of a scientist at a Johnson Space Center lab in Houston,…
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Producing Clean Hydrogen From Solar Power and Wood Chips
Proposed facility design for solar-powered zero-carbon emission hydrogen production. Credit: KyotoU/Shutaro Takeda In the global race to curb climate change…
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2 reasons why now is not the time to buy the dip in beaten-down innovation stocks championed by Ark Invest, according to DataTrek
Spencer Platt/Getty Images Investors shouldn’t buy the dip in disruptive innovation stocks, according to DataTrek Research. The steep decline in…
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Rolling Stones on Mars: More Than Meets the Eye
By European Space Agency (ESA) January 16, 2022 Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO There’s more to this image of…
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