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Bird flu viruses may pack tools that help them infect human cells

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Bird flu viruses may pack a little taste of home to help them adapt to life in new hosts.

Viruses usually infect only certain types of hosts. For instance, many viruses that infect humans don’t infect other animals. But influenza viruses often seem to jump from birds to other species. In 2009, the H1N1 “swine flu” made the leap from birds to pigs and then into people, setting off a pandemic (SN: 12/18/09). Even now, an outbreak of

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How does Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip work? A step-by-step guide to the controversial technology – as the first human is implanted

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Despite a controversial history of animal testing, the first human has had a chip implanted by Elon Musk’s company Neuralink. 

After gaining approval for human experiments, the firm has now put its first Neuralink device, called ‘Telepathy’, inside a person’s brain. 

Musk claims Telepathy enables control of your phone or computer, and in turn almost any other device, ‘just by thinking’. 

The billionaire entrepreneur hopes it will allow users with disabilities like Stephen Hawking to ‘communicate faster than an auctioneer’. 

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What parrots can teach us about human intelligence

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Bruce the kea is missing his upper beak, giving the olive green parrot a look of perpetual surprise. But scientists are the astonished ones.

The typical kea (Nestor notabilis) sports a long, sharp beak, perfect for digging insects out of rotten logs or ripping roots from the ground in New Zealand’s alpine forests. Bruce has been missing the upper part of his beak since at least 2012, when he was rescued as a fledgling and sent to live

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Human Rights Watch kritisiert tschechische Haltung zum Israel-Gaza-Konflikt – EURACTIV.com

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Andrew Stroehlein, Leiter der europäischen Medien- und Redaktionsabteilung von Human Rights Watch, äußerte in einem Interview am Mittwoch Kritik an einigen europäischen Staaten, insbesondere an der Tschechischen Republik, für das, was er als Versäumnis ansieht, Israels Vorgehen in Gaza zu verurteilen.

Stroehlein warf Tschechien vor, eine unausgewogene Sichtweise an den Tag zu legen und sich trotz des breiteren Kontexts der Menschenrechtsverletzungen ausschließlich auf die Verbrechen einer Seite im Konflikt zu konzentrieren.

„Der größte Teil der Welt hat diese schrecklichen Verbrechen

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Now Brad Pitt ‘hits back’ after adopted son Pax branded Hollywood star a ‘world class a**hole’ and ‘f***ing awful human’ in explosive Instagram post

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Brad Pitt appeared to hit back last night after his adopted son branded the Hollywood actor a ‘world class a**hole’ and ‘f***ing awful human’ in an explosive Instagram post.

Pax Jolie-Pitt, 19, called his father a ‘terrible and despicable person’ who makes his four youngest children ‘tremble in fear’ in an explosive rant posted to social media for Father’s Day 2020.

Pax posted the broadside at Pitt to the stories section of his private Instagram account when he was 16,

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UFO hunter who has studied ‘alien’ mummy for over a decade claims remains are an ancient species of tiny, cave-dwelling human

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Chile’s mysterious, oblong-headed ‘Atacama skeleton’ may have once been a small class of terrestrial humanoid living in the high caves of the South American Andes, at least according to the man who has spent a decade studying the being.

This Spanish businessman and researcher who now owns the eerie, but tiny, skeletal mummy dropped his new theory on Spain’s Mitele TV network late last week. 

Sensational origin stories have trailed Chile’s ‘Atacama skeleton’ ever since the six-inch-long ‘alien’ mummy was

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Annals of Human Rights Nachrichten, Meinungen und Analysen – The New Yorker

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