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Giant cloud rat species once roamed Earth thousands of years ago, say scientists

The now extinct species were fluffy with big, bushy tails, researchers say, and humans may have had a role in their disappearance.

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MI5 reveals 'secret to successful spying' in first Instagram post

Director general Ken McCallum has said he wants MI5 to "open up and reach out in new ways".

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Disrupted sleep can increase risk of death, study suggests

Women are almost twice as likely to suffer from serious heart problems when experiencing regularly disrupted sleep.

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Google’s FeedBurner moves to a new infrastructure but loses its email subscription service

Google today announced that it is moving FeedBurner to a new infrastructure but also deprecating its email subscription service.If you’re an internet user of a certain age, chances are you used

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UK set to reach herd immunity 'milestone' within days, say scientists

Real-time modelling indicates the nation is at a point where enough resistance is built up to combat the spread of infection.

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Don't bank on summer of freedom as scientists predict third COVID wave at height of holiday season

Hospital admissions could be as high at the end of July and the start of August as they were in January, experts warn.

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NASA prepares its Ingenuity helicopter for first flight on Mars

The tiny helicopter, which weighs just 1.8kg, is still attached to the Perseverance rover but will be deployed in weeks.

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'Hear that?' NASA shares first recording of rover driving on Mars

You can hear the bangs, pings and rattles of the Perseverance rover's six metal wheels driving across Mars' surface.

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Revealed: Test and Trace barely used pub and restaurant check-in data, putting thousands at risk

The report admitted the app was "not fully" utilised, despite a nationwide campaign to encourage its use.

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Twitter expands 'warning labels' to target misleading COVID vaccine posts

The social media platform is also starting a strike system that "determines when further enforcement action is necessary".

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'Licence to fail': £800m for new scientific agency that will focus on high-risk, high-reward projects

The Advanced Research & Invention Agency (ARIA) is to be the brainchild of Boris Johnson's former chief adviser Dominic Cummings.

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Perseverance rover sends back first pictures from Mars after successful landing

It took more than 11 minutes for news of the safe landing to arrive on Earth.

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Could NASA's Perseverance rover prove life on Mars?

The Mars Perseverance rover should help answer one of the most fundamental questions of all: is life on Earth unique?

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Perseverance rover sends back first pictures from Mars after successful landing

It took more than 11 minutes for news of the safe landing to arrive on Earth.

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Yext brings more answers to its site search by processing unstructured data

Yext Answers allows businesses to provide a better search experience on their own websites — but as the name implies, the goal is really to make sure consumers get the answers they’re looking fo

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Lockdown is working! Dramatic fall in England COVID infection rate

The survey tested more than 85,000 volunteers between 4 and 13 of February to examine infection levels in the general population.