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Coronavirus: Return to schools ‘good day for young people’0
- BUSINESS
- September 1, 2020
Image copyright STEPHEN DAVISON Image caption More than 300,000 children and young people will return to the classroom on Tuesday Almost all schools in Northern Ireland will open fully to pupils on Tuesday for the first time since mid-March. More than 300,000 children and young people will return to the classroom. Education Minister Peter Weir
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Balloon tech is good enough for economical star scanning • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- July 25, 2020
NASA wants to lift a 2.5-metre-long, reusable far-infrared telescope into Earth’s stratosphere using a massive high-altitude balloon in 2023 to check out the heavens more economically. The mission, known as ASTHROS, short for Astrophysics Stratospheric Telescope for High-spectral Resolution Observations at Submillimeter-wavelengths, will gather a range of data to help scientists better understand star formation.
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Amazon’s auditing of Alexa Skills is so good, these boffins got all 200+ rule-breaking apps past the reviewers • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- July 23, 2020
Amazon claims it reviews the software created by third-party developers for its Alexa voice assistant platform, yet US academics were able to create more than 200 policy-violating Alexa Skills and get them certified. In a paper [PDF] presented at the US Federal Trade Commission’s PrivacyCon 2020 event this week, Clemson University researchers Long Cheng, Christin
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Coronavirus outcome in the UK has not been good, Sir Patrick Vallance admits 0
- BUSINESS
- July 16, 2020
The Government’s top scientific adviser today dealt a hammer blow to Boris Johnson’s hopes of persuading workers to return to their offices as he said there is ‘absolutely no reason’ to change the current work from home guidance. Sir Patrick Vallance said the UK is ‘still at a time when distancing measures are important’ and
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The world’s nonsense keeping you awake in middle of the night? Good news. Go outside and see this two-tail comet • The Register 0
- TECHNOLOGY
- July 12, 2020
A two-pronged comet with billowing tails of gas and dust will streak across the sky this month. If you’re in the northern hemisphere, and gazing up at the right moment – around 4am local time, July 10 to 15, looking northeast; and potentially an hour after sunset, July 14 to 23, looking northwest – you
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A good vitamin D status can protect against cancer 0
- HEALTH
- June 15, 2020
A good vitamin D status is beneficial both in cancer prevention and in the prognosis of several cancers, according to a new research review. The anti-cancer effects of vitamin D are especially pronounced in the prevention and treatment of colon cancer and blood cancers. In addition, high vitamin D responsiveness can be linked to a
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