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Scientist who gave world the Covid sequence is locked out of his lab by Chinese

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The Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center insisted that Prof Zhang’s lab had been closed for “safety...
The Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center insisted that Prof Zhang’s lab had been closed for “safety reasons”, with alternative space provided while renovations were underway.But according to an online statement from Prof Zhang, seen by the Associated Press but since deleted, the scientist was only offered another ...

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German transport minister warns of weekend driving ban

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Greenhouse emissions in Europe’s biggest economy fell to the lowest level in 70 years in 2023,...
Greenhouse emissions in Europe’s biggest economy fell to the lowest level in 70 years in 2023, but the transport sector has been consistently failing to meet its climate targets.According to the current climate protection law, the ministry responsible for underperforming sectors must launch an immediate programme to...

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NASA 'shocked' by how close Russian spacecraft came to hitting satellite

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On Tuesday, Nasa launched its Space Sustainability Strategy, which aims to better map and monitor satellites...
On Tuesday, Nasa launched its Space Sustainability Strategy, which aims to better map and monitor satellites and debris, and keep orbits as clear as possible.There are currently more than 10,000 satellites orbiting the Earth – a four-fold increase since 2019 – and numbers are set to grow exponentially.Some 400,000 s...

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I'm always rejected at airport e-gates– so the Office suggested changing my name

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Gill Charlton has been fighting for Telegraph readers and solving their travel problems for more than...
Gill Charlton has been fighting for Telegraph readers and solving their travel problems for more than 30 years, winning refunds, righting wrongs and suggesting solutions. Here is this week’s question:Dear Gill,I am a British citizen living in Portugal. For some reason my old passport wasn’t being accepted at airport...

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World Population to fall for first time since the Black Death

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Dr Natalia Bhattacharjee, co-author of the study and lead research scientist at the Institute for Health...
Dr Natalia Bhattacharjee, co-author of the study and lead research scientist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, US, said the declining fertility rates “will completely reconfigure the global economy and the international balance of power and will necessitate re...

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Elon Musk's Mars colony plan is 'dangerous illusion', says Astronomer Royal

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In 2016, Musk announced plans to build a settlement on Mars and said that he hoped...
In 2016, Musk announced plans to build a settlement on Mars and said that he hoped to make humans a multiplanetary species.The long-term goal of his company SpaceX has been to design rockets and spacecraft that can land and take-off from the surface of other planets.The company recently carried out a successful orbi...

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German officials warned lockdowns cause more harm than good, documents show

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Iran may attack US water supplies, warns Biden administration

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Spanish soldiers change gender to gain benefits intended for women

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Spanish soldiers and policemen are changing their gender in order to access benefits intended for women,...
Spanish soldiers and policemen are changing their gender in order to access benefits intended for women, an investigation has found.Spain’s Left-wing government introduced a self-ID law in 2022 that made it simple to transition formally, while at the same time boosting benefits for women in the military and security...

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We 'messed up' with black Nazi blunder, Google co-founder admits

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Mr Brin, who co-founded Google with Larry Page in 1998, no longer has a formal role...
Mr Brin, who co-founded Google with Larry Page in 1998, no longer has a formal role at the company but sits on the board and, along with Mr Page, has ultimate control of the company. He has largely withdrawn from public life. Mr Brin’s thoughts on the company’s progress came amid pressure on Google chief executive S...

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The American revolt against green energy has begun

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Fortunately, the US legal system has been built in a way that protects the rights of...
Fortunately, the US legal system has been built in a way that protects the rights of all stakeholders to any industrial development. Those stakeholders include local citizens, their businesses, their local infrastructure, their archeological sites, and their government entities – those are givens. But US society has...

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Elon Musk sues OpenAI founder for 'betrayal' of company's values

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British soldiers helping fire Ukrainian missiles, Olaf Scholz reveals

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Musk accused of polluting German rivers with Tesla gigafactory

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Why the world stopped having sex

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The other effect has been an end to the injunction that liberation equals frequent sex and...
The other effect has been an end to the injunction that liberation equals frequent sex and je baise donc je suis (I f—, therefore I am).He cites prominent French-Moroccan Parisian Leila Slimani, whose first novel Dans le jardin de l’ogre (published in 2014 and later translated into English as Adèle) “recounts a woma...

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British nuclear missile 'misfires and crashes into ocean'

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Defence Secretary Grant Shapps and First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Ben Key were both on board...
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps and First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Ben Key were both on board the submarine during the test, according to the newspaper.An investigation began into what went wrong, and a search was ordered to recover the top-secret technology from the seabed, it was reported.The test, which involved a dum...

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Denmark gives all of its artillery shells to Ukraine

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AI nonsense about rat with giant penis published by leading scientific journal

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It might be considered an AI cock-up on a massive scale.A scientific paper purporting to show...
It might be considered an AI cock-up on a massive scale.A scientific paper purporting to show the signalling pathway of sperm stem cells has met with widespread ridicule after it depicted a rodent with an anatomically eye-watering appendage and four giant testicles.The creature, labelled “rat”, was also sitting upri...

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The West's humiliating electric car climbdown has begun

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There is a lesson in the humiliating climbdown. State-led industrial strategies never work. Indeed, the failure...
There is a lesson in the humiliating climbdown. State-led industrial strategies never work. Indeed, the failure of the drive into EV is a textbook example of everything that goes wrong.First, it backs the wrong industries. No one really has any idea what products people might want in five or ten years time, which is...

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BBC 'misrepresented' Covid risk to boost lockdown support, inquiry told

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He said further evidence of this was provided by a briefing dated March 22, 2020, by...
He said further evidence of this was provided by a briefing dated March 22, 2020, by a sub-group of the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) that focused on the public’s behaviour.This stated that “a substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened; it cou...

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Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than conventional

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Narcotopia by Patrick Winn, review: a thorn in China's side

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Here’s a book that offers recreational drug users the rare treat of feeling a little virtuous....
Here’s a book that offers recreational drug users the rare treat of feeling a little virtuous. It’s the story of the Wa highlanders, who have lived in the border mountains between Myanmar and China for centuries. Unlike the Tibetans or the Uyghurs, they have not been bullied by a bigger nation into ceding their auto...

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Electric cars suffer 'unsustainable' depreciation in secondhand market

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It predicted that a wave of Chinese entrants would further push down the cost of electric...
It predicted that a wave of Chinese entrants would further push down the cost of electric cars.Sales of new battery-powered vehicles in Britain rose by 18pc last year but accounted for just 16.5pc of all new cars sold - a slight decline from 2022. New electric cars are still more than a third more expensive than the...

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UK Post Office paid out bonuses for every conviction under Horizon scandal

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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) also disclosed for the first time on Wednesday that it had...
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) also disclosed for the first time on Wednesday that it had prosecuted sub-postmasters while Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, headed the organisation. While the vast majority of prosecutions were conducted by the Post Office, the CPS revealed details of a number of cases involv...

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