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190-Million-Year-Old 'Sword Dragon' Found On Britain's Jurassic Coast
A skeleton found on Britain's Jurassic Coast has been identified as a new species of ichthyosaur, a type of prehistoric marine reptile that once ruled the seas, scientists said Friday.
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Iceland Plume Discovery Reveals Ancient Volcanic Funnels Across North Atlantic
Sixty million years ago, Iceland’s deep plume fueled massive eruptions across the North Atlantic. Cambridge scientists discovered hidden weak zones in Earth’s crust that funneled the plume’s heat, explaining volcanic fields like the Giant’s Causeway. These ancient scars still shape today’s earthquakes and geothermal energy across Britain ...
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Scientists Reconstruct Bust Of Woman From 10,500 Years Ago
Reborn via a close partnership between science and art, Mos'anne's bust was created at Belgium's Ghent University as part of a project to explore how the region's last hunter-gatherers lived during the Mesolithic era.
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AI Can't Be Patent 'Inventor', Says UK Supreme Court In Landmark Ruling
A US computer scientist on Wednesday lost his bid to register patents over inventions created by his artificial intelligence system in a landmark case in Britain about whether AI can own patent rights.
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Europe's 'Largest Predatory Dinosaur' Found By UK Fossil Hunter
A giant crocodile-faced dinosaur, discovered on the Isle of Wight by one of Britain's best fossil hunters, was probably the largest predator ever to stalk Europe, scientists said on Thursday.
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A Green Milestone: UK Scientists Set Record In Fusion Energy Generation
Scientists in Britain announced Wednesday they had smashed a previous record for generating fusion energy, hailing it as a "milestone" on the path towards cheap, clean power and a cooler planet.
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New COVID-19 Variant Most Significant Yet Found, Says Britain
Britain said on Friday that a newly identified coronavirus variant spreading in South Africa was considered by scientists to be the most significant one yet found and so it needed to ascertain whether or not it made vaccines ineffective.
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Give The Dog A Phone: This Device Will Allow Pets To Call Their Owners
Lonely dogs could soon be able to call their absent owners using a new device invented by animal-tech scientists in Britain and Finland, they said Wednesday.
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UK Offers Booster Jabs To Over-40s; Second Dose To 16, 17-Year-Olds
Britain's booster programme for Covid-19 vaccinations is to be expanded to younger people after scientists gave the green light on Monday.
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The Climate Project That Changed How We Understand Extreme Weather
When a handful of scientists tried to publish rapid research into the role of climate change in record rainfall that lashed Britain in 2015, they were told their high-speed approach was "not science".
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190-Million-Year-Old 'Sword Dragon' Found On Britain's Jurassic Coast
A skeleton found on Britain's Jurassic Coast has been identified as a new species of ichthyosaur, a type of prehistoric marine reptile that once ruled the seas, scientists said Friday.
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Iceland Plume Discovery Reveals Ancient Volcanic Funnels Across North Atlantic
Sixty million years ago, Iceland’s deep plume fueled massive eruptions across the North Atlantic. Cambridge scientists discovered hidden weak zones in Earth’s crust that funneled the plume’s heat, explaining volcanic fields like the Giant’s Causeway. These ancient scars still shape today’s earthquakes and geothermal energy across Britain ...
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Scientists Reconstruct Bust Of Woman From 10,500 Years Ago
Reborn via a close partnership between science and art, Mos'anne's bust was created at Belgium's Ghent University as part of a project to explore how the region's last hunter-gatherers lived during the Mesolithic era.
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AI Can't Be Patent 'Inventor', Says UK Supreme Court In Landmark Ruling
A US computer scientist on Wednesday lost his bid to register patents over inventions created by his artificial intelligence system in a landmark case in Britain about whether AI can own patent rights.
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Europe's 'Largest Predatory Dinosaur' Found By UK Fossil Hunter
A giant crocodile-faced dinosaur, discovered on the Isle of Wight by one of Britain's best fossil hunters, was probably the largest predator ever to stalk Europe, scientists said on Thursday.
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A Green Milestone: UK Scientists Set Record In Fusion Energy Generation
Scientists in Britain announced Wednesday they had smashed a previous record for generating fusion energy, hailing it as a "milestone" on the path towards cheap, clean power and a cooler planet.
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New COVID-19 Variant Most Significant Yet Found, Says Britain
Britain said on Friday that a newly identified coronavirus variant spreading in South Africa was considered by scientists to be the most significant one yet found and so it needed to ascertain whether or not it made vaccines ineffective.
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Give The Dog A Phone: This Device Will Allow Pets To Call Their Owners
Lonely dogs could soon be able to call their absent owners using a new device invented by animal-tech scientists in Britain and Finland, they said Wednesday.
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UK Offers Booster Jabs To Over-40s; Second Dose To 16, 17-Year-Olds
Britain's booster programme for Covid-19 vaccinations is to be expanded to younger people after scientists gave the green light on Monday.
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The Climate Project That Changed How We Understand Extreme Weather
When a handful of scientists tried to publish rapid research into the role of climate change in record rainfall that lashed Britain in 2015, they were told their high-speed approach was "not science".
