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Surveys conducted in Germany suggest that public trust in science rose after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, while revealing different patterns of trust among different subpopulations. Rainer Bromme of the University of Münster, Germany, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on February 9, 2022.

Rare earth elements are hard to get and hard to recycle, but a flash of intuition led Rice University scientists toward a possible solution.

Researchers have developed a novel strategy for using Facebook data to measure cultural similarity between countries, revealing associations between immigration patterns and people's food and drink interests. Carolina Vieira of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, and colleagues present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on February 9, 2022.

Stahl takes its triangular X steel firepit and renders it in lightweight, travel-ready aluminum.

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What do we know about Boris Johnson’s Downing Street flat renovation?  The GuardianView Full coverage on Google News

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It appears Wendy Williams’ hiatus from her popular, eponymous show will, unfortunately, continue on.

The race is on to achieve commercial nuclear fusion. Believers in the “holy grail of clean energy” are hopeful that a breakthrough in nuclear fusion is imminent enough that the clean energy source could power a green energy transition sweeping and swift enough to help the world achieve the emissions targets set by the Paris climate accord.  In order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, leading climate scientists and policymakers from around the world agree that the global community needs... Читать дальше...

Sexual awakenings can look like all sorts of things. Maybe it’s the first time your best friend grazed your hand with her fingernails. Or a certain fuzzy fruit suddenly looked curvier than you ever thought possible. Perhaps you noticed your mom opening a package of Mr. Clean Magic Erasers and realized you’d like to…

Most of the buzz around Grid Legends, due out Feb. 25, has been focused around its Driven To Glory story mode. While Driven To Glory will likely entertain those who reveled in every tense exchange between Formula 1 team bosses in Drive To Survive, for me it’s Grid Legends’ multiplayer that’s secretly the star of the…

A Chihuahua who’s stuck in traffic, a poodle mix who’s just read a spoiler on Twitter, and other canines who are down in the dumps—and rightly so.

1. A tiny tooth unearthed from a French cave is upending what we know about early humans  CNN
2. Neanderthal extinction not caused by brutal wipe out  BBC News
3. How our Stone Age ancestors tried to colonise western Europe 10,000 years earlier than previously thought  The Independent
4. French cave tells new story about Neanderthals, early humans  Associated Press
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Enforcement will begin Wednesday afternoon to reopen traffic to the Canada-U.S. border at Coutts which is being blocked by an ongoing protest, according to RCMP.

Is China punishing Hong Kong?  Since China took over the tiny country over the past few years, individual rights have disappeared using COVID as the rationale for taking freedoms away from Hongkongers.  Now they are making it so the unvaccinated are treated as second-class citizens and banned from shopping malls, shopping centers, and wet markets.  …

Lachlan Swinton, Angus Bell, Izaia Perese and Lalakai Foketi return to face the Reds in outback Queensland this weekend.

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Ukraine Crisis, Europe

More than $550,000 in Bitcoin was donated to Ukrainian non-governmental organizations associated with the country’s military.

As tensions along the Russo-Ukrainian border have steadily escalated, with as many as 130,000 Russian troops deployed across from Ukraine’s contested Donbass region, negotiations have proceeded between American, European, and Russian officials attempting to find a solution to the crisis. At the same time, however... Читать дальше...

We are in a spicy fast food renaissance. Pizza Hut has released a Spicy Lover’s Pizza, Arby’s debuted a pair of hot Diablo Dare sandwiches, and Taco Bell’s in the process of launching a new Cool Ranch Flamin’ Hot Doritos Locos Taco. The hot, hot trend appears to be ramping up across the board, which I’ve been…

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OnePlus 9RT is an elegant phone with great cameras and long battery life.

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CAVEMEN went on holiday in the Med more than 50,000 years ago to get some Ice Age sun, researchers have found. Experts have unearthed the earliest evidence of modern humans in Europe in the sun-drenched south of France. But our ancient ancestors appeared to come and go from the area, suggesting they might have gone […]