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NewsRound-up: the key decisions to protect wildlife from the CITES summit
One of the world’s largest international wildlife trade summits wrapped up in Geneva yesterday, with some animals being awarded stronger protections. Here are the 7 key decisions that were made at a meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
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NewsBananas have benefited from climate change – but they won’t in future
Climate change has been relatively kind to banana suppliers so far – but in the decades to come, friend may turn to foe. Temperatures are likely to get so hot that the annual production gains enjoyed by banana suppliers will begin to drop. And in some places, total banana yields ...
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NewsMicroplastics in the Arctic and the Alps may have blown in on the wind
Tiny particles of plastic have been found in high concentrations in snow samples from the Swiss Alps, parts of Germany and the Arctic, even places as remote as the island of Svalbard and in snow on drifting ice floes. These microplastics may have drifted there on wind currents.
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NewsAldi targets affluent consumers with new ‘icon’ wine range online
Aldi is targeting affluent wine consumers with the launch of a 50-strong premium and fine wine own label range that will only be available exclusively online, in a move that will double the number of core lines sold online
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NewsAldi brings back sell-out Le Creuset inspired cookware range
Some pans are an incredible £200 cheaper than a similar Le Creuset dish - and they’re in store next week
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NewsDevelopers to unveil plans for new Aldi on vacant site in Lydney
Residents will be able to have their say on the developers’ ideas tonight before a formal planning application is submitted
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NewsWe could breed climate-friendly cows that belch less methane
Cows could be selectively bred to cut their significant contribution to global warming in half, researchers have proposed.
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NewsDiageo Isn't The Only Drinks Giant That Could Make You A Fortune
For those looking to load up in Britain’s beverages sector it is hard to look past FTSE 100 colossus Diageo. Thanks to market-leading labels like Johnnie Walker whisky, Captain Morgan rum and Guinness stout, Diageo can look forward to reliable revenues growth even in times of broader economic pressure. And ...
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NewsShocking evidence shows people in vegetative states may be conscious
1 in 10 people thought to be permanently unconscious as a result of brain trauma may actually be aware. The hunt is on for ways to rescue them from their limbo
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NewsHave mice really been cured of HIV using CRISPR gene editing?
What have researchers achieved?The claim is they have eliminated HIV from living animals for the first time, by cutting it out of its hiding places in the body – in other words, that they have cured the animals. How did they do it?They used a gene-editing system called CRISPR, which ...
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NewsIs organic food better for you? Here’s the truth about the benefits
#FactsMatter | Claims about the health benefits of organic foods are often linked to their higher levels of vitamins and antioxidants. Is organic food really better for you?
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NewsWill robots take my job? No, but they will break it into tiny bits
This changes everything | Robots will take our jobs in name only. They are actually fragmenting them in a way that undermines our ability to find full-time work, warns Annalee Newitz
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NewsHow Watch Dogs Legion and Cyberpunk 2077 probe our dystopian fears
At last week’s games mecca, E3, titles like Watch Dogs Legion and Cyperpunk 2077 played on our uneasiness about tech, channelling the darkness of Netflix’s Black Mirror
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NewsAI learns to gamble illogically like humans to predict our behaviour
AIs are becoming irrational gamblers. Artificial intelligence trained on human-made gambling decisions has picked up our illogical habits, but that could help machines better predict human behaviour.
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NewsInstagram will ask users to rethink posting something offensive
Instagram will ask users to think again if they are about to post something that could be considered offensive. The social media site has started rolling out the new feature and early tests have found it can encourage some people to undo their comment and share something less hurtful, says ...
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NewsWhy Ian McEwan doesn’t see his latest novel as being science fiction
What would the 1980s have been like if Alan Turing had lived? Ian McEwan talks about his exploration of a speculative past for AI in his novel Machines Like Me. Our feelings about a new gadget follow a familiar cycle: there is excitement at a fresh toy, then confusion as ...
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NewsWant to stop climate change? Jared Diamond says nations need therapy
In his new book Upheaval, polymath Jared Diamond says nations need a special kind of therapy to solve big problems like climate change, Brexit and nuclear proliferation. JARED DIAMOND is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He started out working in electrophysiology and became a ...
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NewsAngela Saini video interview: The return of race in mainstream science
In her latest book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, Angela Saini examines what she calls the “subtle” return of race within mainstream science. She tells New Scientist that part of the reason she wrote the book was to understand our beliefs on race, and whether scientific beliefs have really ...
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NewsTrue AI creativity is coming and will reveal the minds of machines
Stories abound of machines that are writing, painting and making music. Are we about to enter the creative singularity, asks Marcus du Sautoy. In October 2018, a portrait of Edmond Belamy sold at Christie’s in New York for $432,500, nearly 45 times its maximum estimated price. ...
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NewsAargau Verkehr AG
Public transport company operating across Aargau canton. Amongst its operations are two formerly independent light railways, the Wynental-und Suhrentalbahn, to Schöftland and Menziken, running up parallel valleys south of SBB at Aarau.
