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Government to fund £120 blood test that could detect 12 most common cancers Mionco screening has potential to be a ‘gamechanger’ in five years, says health secretary, Wes Streeting

UK government to fund £120 blood test that could detect 12 most common cancers.

“Just a couple of drops of blood could tell you if you had lung, breast or bladder cancer, helping end months-long waits for tests and scans".
🧪🩸 🧠🦴🫁 #medsky

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This is wonderful David is the video available anywhere in a format that I could show to my Sixth Form students?

In case you don’t believe the same equations describe motion in the atmosphere and the ocean.

Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars - defector.com/neither-elon...

Rats, mould, damp: UK’s biggest student homes provider faces legal action over poor accommodation A tenants’ rights group is fighting for justice for residents of university halls who claim health affected by conditions

Rats, mould, damp: UK’s biggest student homes provider faces legal action over poor accommodation

How to Address Two Environmental Crises at Once Solar fields turn out to be ideal for pollinators, too.

We know the benefits of Agrivoltaics, but maybe Solarwilding could be even more beneficial ? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

How ‘green’ electricity from wood harms the planet — and people Many nations have embraced burning wood pellets to produce electricity — under the assumption that it is carbon neutral. But research shows this approach can boost greenhouse-gas emissions and threate...

This is truely shocking switching to biomas for generating electricity will increase atmospheric carbon for a hundred years(!) before it starts to be one carbon neutral because of how long it takes to grow new trees www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The best thing about this story is if you actually read the text, half of the projected number left before the election was even called. Almost as though this is a completely spurious framing.

Ihour 20minutes …two hours feels too long doesn’t it?

The Black divers excavating slave shipwrecks: ‘I’m telling my ancestors: I’m with you’ Members of Diving With a Purpose search out and investigate the vessels’ remains, bringing history to light and memorializing lost lives

The Black divers excavating slave shipwrecks: ‘I’m telling my ancestors: I’m with you’

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It is very worrying if bad actors are able to pollute out scientific knowledge base so insidiously

Huge disaster for Vietnam. JTWC: Yagi will hit Haiphong (pop. 2 million) as a 115-kt Cat 4. Yagi “WILL BE SLOW TO WEAKEN AS IT TRAVERSES THE MARSHES OF THE RED RIVER DELTA, DUE TO THE BROWN-WATER EFFECT…A 100-KT TYPHOON OVER OR VERY NEAR HANOI IS A DEFINITE POSSIBILITY.” 8.6 million live in Hanoi.

King William's College to absorb VAT changes for academic year King William's College says the 20% charge will not be passed on for the spring and summer terms.

Are we going to have to have a headline about what every private school does.
Because I could offer various on the theme:
State school cuts back on extra-curriculum provision to cut costs
Junior School absorbs cost of absent SEND provision.
Parents paying more for less
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Nasa setback prompts questions about Boeing’s future in space As the aerospace giant’s woes mount analysts ask whether it should exit a small but prominent business unit

Nasa setback prompts questions about Boeing’s future in space

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Wikipedia: DSOC first light was achieved on November 14, 2023. The experiment successfully transmitted a 15-second ultra-high definition video on December 11 from a location 19 million miles away from Earth (31 million kilom ters, or about 80 times the Earth-Moon distance). The pre-loaded video of a cat named Taters was sent at the system's maximum bit rate of 267 megabits per second (Mbps) and took 101 seconds to reach Earth. (131

the taters video (orange cat on a dark couch chasing a laser pointer with all sorts of fake data stuff superimposed)

last year NASA used a superconductor sensitive to single photons to download a video of a cat named Taters from deep space

likes and claps for Taters and the infrared laser that sent him

Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it? Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter, I and many others have been looking for alternatives. Who wants to share a platform with the likes of Andrew Tate and Tommy Robinson?

Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it?

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#Copper taught humans basic metallurgy. Humans have been mining, smelting, and crafting tools, blades, wires, and beads for thousands of years. These arrows are replicas of 8,500 yo artifacts from Wisconsin.
#MinCup24
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Fuck yes UK.

*stares at Biden & Harris hoping for a scintilla of moral clarity and courage here*

Social media: Why algorithms show violence to boys An insider tells the BBC why teenage boys are being targeted with extreme content.

How it starts on TikTok: '...he was alarmed to find how some teenage boys were being shown posts featuring violence and pornography, and promoting misogynistic views, he tells BBC Panorama. He says, in general, teenage girls were recommended very different content based on their interests.'

Global ocean carbon uptake enhanced by rainfall - Nature Geoscience About 6% of the total uptake of carbon dioxide by the ocean is due to rainfall, according to an analysis of satellite observations and ERA5 reanalysis data from 2008 to 2018.

The effect of rain on air-water gas exchange and CO₂ fluxes is a topic I started researching 30 years ago. I’m really pleased to see our latest paper — showing that rain enhances ocean CO₂ uptake — finally in print in @natureportfolio.bsky.social. 🌊

Sorry, Labour, but ChatGPT teachers are a lesson in how not to transform our schools | Gaby Hinsliff The government seems to think AI will allow it to do more with less. But there are plenty of reasons to be doubtful, writes Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Excellent.
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This is a really useful, thought provoking resource

Detecting starships via gravitational waves as their warp bubbles collapse Yes, seriously. Also: Me on Penn and Teller’s old TV show debunking stuff.

Is it possible to actually detect gravitational waves emitted from the collapse of starship warp core bubble IRL?

Um. Yes.

Yes it is.

With some caveats, of course.

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The awkward AI homework question | InnerDrive The awkward AI homework question is based around two problems that both stem from no one being able to detect AI work. Find out more about AI and homework.

My first blog of the new academic year (and releasing it on BlueSky first).

🤖 The awkward AI homework question 🤖

“The game has changed. Pandora’s box has been opened and there is no going back. This stuff is impacting student learning right now”.

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Whales are doing well so it’s time to scrap the body that once protected them, says former head The International Whaling Commission has become a ‘zombie’ and should vote to disband itself, insists Peter Bridgewater

This is up there with
"people aren't dying in car accidents so let's remove seatbelt laws."

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I love the thought that there was a recharging network in the US in 1914. Were there similar networks in other countries?