Kemi Badenoch says death threats have ‘intensified’ since publication of Nadine Dorries book – UK politics live | Politics

Kemi Badenoch says death threats have ‘intensified’ since publication of Nadine Dorries book Kemi Badenoch has said she has received more death threats since the release of The Plot, Nadine Dorries explosive book on the downfall of Boris Johnson. In The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson, Dorries put forward elaborate conspiracies about …

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NASA’s new mission will study microscopic plankton and aerosols from space

Who knew you could see plankton from space? NASA, of course. The space agency successfully launched a new mission today called PACE — short for the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite — that will study its namesake. It’ll examine microscopic plants and particles — things so small they’re invisible to the naked eye …

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Chinese astronomers find radio pulsar in a supernova remnant

Dual-wavelength image of SNR CTB 87: NVSS 1.4 GHz radio continuum image in red, and Chandra X-ray (0.5–7 keV) image in blue. The white cross indicates the location of the X-ray point-like source. Credit: Liu et al., 2024. Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers from the Nanjing University in China and …

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5 amazing things discovered by the eROSITA X-ray telescope

The Spektr-RG spacecraft, illustrated here, carries the eROSITA X-ray telescope https://www.flickr.com/photos/dlr_de/48092029201/in/album-72157709154538987/ DLR (CC-BY 3.0) The widest X-ray survey of the night sky has revealed some of the most extreme and violent processes in the universe, from forbidden stars to pulsating supermassive black holes, as well as tracing the universe’s overall web-like structure. The eROSITA …

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Old milk can be used to extract gold and other metals from e-waste

A gold nugget obtained from electronic waste Raffaele Mezzenga An aerogel made from old milk can extract highly pure gold nuggets from discarded computer motherboards. Discarded electronics, known as e-waste, often contain large amounts of gold and other heavy metals. Scientists have come up with methods to recover the valuable metals, but these processes …

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Paleontologists Are Still Unraveling the Mystery of the First Dinosaur | Science

Paleontologists are still investigating what the carnivorous dinosaur Megalosaurus looked like. De Agostini via Getty Images The reptilian giant found in England’s Stonesfield quarry needed a name. Throughout the 18th century and into the 19th, European naturalists in had been pondering strange and giant bones of long-dead creatures uncovered in quarries and sent to …

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AI cannot be used to deny health care coverage, feds clarify to insurers

Enlarge / A nursing home resident is pushed along a corridor by a nurse. Health insurance companies cannot use algorithms or artificial intelligence to determine care or deny coverage to members on Medicare Advantage plans, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) clarified in a memo sent to all Medicare Advantage insurers. The …

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