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[:eu]Spinning sail technology is poised to bring back wind-powered ships[:]

Over 200 years after steamships first began crossing the ocean, wind power is finding its way back into seafaring. Global shipping firm Maersk is planning to fit spinning “rotor sails” […]
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[:eu]How Artificial Intelligence and the robotic revolution will change the workplace of tomorrow[:]

What do we need to learn today about the jobs of tomorrow? Two things are clear. The robots and computers of the future will be based on a degree of […]
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[:eu]Why gluten-free food is not the healthy option and could increase your risk of diabetes[:]

People with coeliac disease need to avoid gluten, but a gluten-free diet is otherwise best avoided. It raises the risk of type 2 diabetes.
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[:eu]The next scientific breakthrough could come from the history books[:]

Treating the history of science as a linear story of progression doesn’t reflect wholly how ideas emerge and are adapted, forgotten, rediscovered or ignored. While we are happy with the […]
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[:eu]If atoms are mostly empty space, why do objects look and feel solid?[:]

The reason you feel things as solid is all to do with electrons.
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[:eu]Why cancer rates are increasing disproportionately in women – and what we can do about it[:]

The World Health Organisation has estimated that two fifths of the 14m cases of cancer that are diagnosed every year are preventable. The main preventable causes of cancer are diet, […]
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[:eu]‘Seeing’ music or ‘tasting’ numbers? Here’s what we can learn from people with synaesthesia[:]

Researchers are trying to train synaesthesia-like associations in people who don’t have the condition.
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[:eu]How we can make super-fast hyperloop travel a reality[:]

Musk originally intended the Hyperloop to cover the 600km route from Los Angeles to San Francisco at an average speed of about 960kph, reducing what’s currently a 12-hour train journey […]
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[:eu]First ‘animal cells’ could have been created by viruses[:]

When a virus infects a living cell, it hijacks and reprograms the cell to turn it into a virus-producing factory. Now scientists at the University of California have for the […]