Lost City Discovered High Up in Remote Colombian Mountains Where Legend of El Dorado Was Born
https://www.newsweek.com/lost-city-remote-colombian-jungle-legend-el-dorado-1466314?amp=1
https://www.newsweek.com/lost-city-remote-colombian-jungle-legend-el-dorado-1466314?amp=1
Newsweek
Lost city discovered high up in remote Colombian mountains
Archaeologists uncovered the ancient city using a revolutionary imaging technology known as LiDAR, which essentially lets you "see through" vegetation.
Quantum supremacy: Google says its computer did a 10,000-year calculation in 200 seconds - CNN
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/23/tech/google-quantum-supremacy-scn/index.html
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/23/tech/google-quantum-supremacy-scn/index.html
CNN
Google claims its quantum computer can do the impossible in 200 seconds
Google claims it has designed a machine that needs only 200 seconds to solve a problem that would take the world's fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to figure out. The results announced Wednesday herald the rise of quantum computers.
How to regrow a forest: Get out of the way
https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/environment/2019/04/how-to-regrow-forest-right-way-minimize-fire-water-use
https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/environment/2019/04/how-to-regrow-forest-right-way-minimize-fire-water-use
Environment
Tree-planting programs can do more harm than good
Conventional wisdom holds that all tree planting is good for fighting climate change and supporting wildlife, but research shows some techniques can be a problem.
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Bodies in Essex truck: Why would people from China risk their lives to enter the UK? -
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CNN
Why would people from China risk their lives to enter the UK?
The deaths of 39 people found in a truck in a UK industrial park this week has sparked horror and revulsion around the world.
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NASA announces new VIPER Moon rover that will explore the lunar surface |
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NASA announces new VIPER Moon rover that will explore the lunar surface
NASA has unveiled its plan to send a new lunar rover, dubbed VIPER, to the surface of the Moon.
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Teen girls on TikTok are dancing to abusive voicemails. The new meme is as old as womenβs rage itself | TikTok |
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Teen girls on TikTok are dancing to abusive voicemails. The new meme is as old as womenβs rage itself | TikTok |
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the Guardian
Teen girls on TikTok are dancing to abusive voicemails. The new meme is as old as womenβs rage itself
Filming themselves brushing off threatening voicemails from their exes, these young women are telling each other that they arenβt alone
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Your Brain 'Shields' Itself from the Existential Threat of Death |
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Your Brain 'Shields' Itself from the Existential Threat of Death |
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Your Brain 'Shields' Itself from the Existential Threat of Death
We just can't grasp our own mortality.
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Earth can absorb a shocking amount of carbon: hereβs how
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Earth can absorb a shocking amount of carbon: hereβs how
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Science
Earth's rocks can absorb a shocking amount of carbon: hereβs how
The depths of the planet offer a rock-hard potential solution to climate change.
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βMy first βdateβ felt more nerve-racking than a romantic oneβ: how to make new friends as a grownup | Life and style |
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βMy first βdateβ felt more nerve-racking than a romantic oneβ: how to make new friends as a grownup | Life and style |
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the Guardian
βMy first βdateβ felt more nerve-racking than a romantic oneβ: how to make new friends as a grownup
When Lisa Harveyβs fiance left her, she found herself swimming in a sea of couples. She explains how she built a whole new gang
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Why do #Vietnamese people make hazardous journeys to the UK? -
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Why do #Vietnamese people make hazardous journeys to the UK? -
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BBC News
Why do Vietnamese people make hazardous journeys to the UK?
People from remote Vietnamese communities are paying as much as Β£30,000 to be smuggled into the UK.
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Assyrian Tablets Contain Earliest Written Record of Auroraβs Sky Glow |
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Assyrian Tablets Contain Earliest Written Record of Auroraβs Sky Glow |
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Assyrian Tablets Contain Earliest Written Record of Auroraβs Sky Glow
Carved references to an aurora predate known records by nearly a century.
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Tesla Model Y Will Crush The Crossover Competition, Hereβs Why
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecrothers/2019/10/27/tesla-model-y-will-kill-the-crossover-competition-heres-why/amp/
Tesla Model Y Will Crush The Crossover Competition, Hereβs Why
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Forbes
Tesla Model Y Will Crush The Crossover Competition, Hereβs Why
Don't expect established gas-engine automakers to suddenly wrest the EV market from Tesla.
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Bahareh Zare Bahari: Beauty queen says she will be killed if she is deported to Iran -
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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/28/asia/iran-beauty-contestant-philippines-asylum-intl-hnk/index.html
Bahareh Zare Bahari: Beauty queen says she will be killed if she is deported to Iran -
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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/28/asia/iran-beauty-contestant-philippines-asylum-intl-hnk/index.html
CNN
Stuck in an airport for almost two weeks, Iranian beauty queen says she will be killed if she is deported
An Iranian beauty queen who has spent almost two weeks inside Manila's international airport says she will be killed if she is sent back home and is seeking asylum in the Philippines.
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Ancestral homeland of modern humans in Botswana, study finds
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Ancestral homeland of modern humans in Botswana, study finds
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Aljazeera
Ancestral homeland of modern humans in Botswana, study finds
Scientists claim they have traced the homeland for all modern humans to a region of northern Botswana, south of the Zambezi River.
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Iran's thirsty energy industry runs up against water shortage | Article [AMP] |
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Iran's thirsty energy industry runs up against water shortage | Article [AMP] |
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Reuters
Iran's thirsty energy industry runs up against water shortage
LONDON (Reuters) - The plan to build a petrochemical plant near the Iranian city of Firouzabad had everything usually needed to get a project off the ground: approval from the nationβs top authority, funding from the Revolutionary Guards and plentiful gasβ¦
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Band 9 IELTS Essay with Ex-IELTS Examiner Commentary
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Band 9 IELTS Essay with Ex-IELTS Examiner Commentary
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https://www.ieltspodcast.com/ielts-writing-task/ielts-essay-review/
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Enormous great white shark spotted swimming upside down in Australia |
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Enormous great white shark spotted swimming upside down in Australia |
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Fox News
Enormous great white shark spotted swimming upside down in Australia
Enormous great white shark spotted swimming upside down in Australia
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FarsNews Agency - IRGC Commander: Enemies Disappointed at Military Option against Iran
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FarsNews Agency - IRGC Commander: Enemies Disappointed at Military Option against Iran
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https://en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13980806000900
Farsnews
IRGC Commander: Enemies Disappointed at Military Option against Iran
"The enemies have understood that the military option against Iran yields no result," Rear Admiral Fadavi said, addressing a forum in Tehran on Monday.
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US House says Armenian mass killing was genocide -
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US House says Armenian mass killing was genocide -
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BBC News
US House says Armenian mass killing was genocide
The vote on the mass killings during World War One was condemned by Turkey.
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A new type of black hole has been discovered, astronomers say -
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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/31/world/new-black-holes-scn/index.html
A new type of black hole has been discovered, astronomers say -
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CNN
A new type of black hole has been discovered, astronomers say
Astronomers studying black holes in our galaxy, the Milky Way, have discovered what they believe to be a new type of black hole. This previously unknown class of black holes could be smaller than others that were previously dubbed the smallest black holes.
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Amelia Bambridge: Body of Cambodia backpacker found at sea -
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Amelia Bambridge: Body of Cambodia backpacker found at sea -
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Amelia Bambridge: Body of Cambodia backpacker found at sea
Cambodian police say Amelia Bambridge was found 30 miles off the island where she was last seen.