Crypto: will the bitcoin dream succeed?

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The Economist @TheEconomist · 5m Bitcoin has disrupted the global financial system. One of our most popular films of 2021 asks: can it [...]

STORIES THAT MADE US SMILE IN 2021

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Reuters @Reuters · 3m ICYMI: The Queen cutting cake with a sword, a zoom cat filter mishap and more – Here are just [...]

From birth to ban: A history of the plastic shopping bag

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Reuters / 25 Apr 2018 Originally published in April 2018, this story has been updated to include the latest facts, figures and references.  [...]

Researchers have developed a new kind of material with adjustable and reversible properties. This new smart fabric is 3D- printed with interlinked particles, like chain mail.

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The smart chain mail fabric that can stiffen on demand The new 3D-printed material can switch from flexible to stiff and back again [...]

Tagging whales with cameras and sensors has allowed researchers to calculate how much food these huge creatures are consuming

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Whale-cams reveal how much they really eat Baleen whales consume twice as much krill as previously estimated. Tagging whales with cameras and sensors [...]

The first dual-mode vehicle, at home on road or rail, makes its debut in the town of Kaiyo in Japan’s Tokushima prefecture

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Reuters @Reuters · 5m The first dual-mode vehicle, at home on road or rail, makes its debut in the town of Kaiyo in [...]

«#ЮНЕСКО не успокоится, пока каждый и повсюду не получит доступ к качественному обучению».

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ООН @UnitedNationsRU · 42m Более 100 млн детей не смогут овладеть базовыми навыками чтения из-за закрытия школ в связи с COVID-19. Школы полностью [...]

World celebrates Christmas

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(BBC News)- People across the world are celebrating Christmas — one of the holiest times in the Christian calendar. However, for the second [...]

В трех городах Европы — Любляне (Словения), Понтеверде (Испания) и Копенгагене (Дания) — запрещено автомобильное движение в центре.

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ООН @UnitedNationsRU · 2h В трех городах Европы — Любляне (Словения), Понтеверде (Испания) и Копенгагене (Дания) — запрещено автомобильное движение в центре. Люди [...]

Elon Musk Wikipedia Page (English) Was Top 3 Most Requested on the Site for 2021

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Photo: SNL   (Tesmanian)-The online encyclopedia Wikipedia has been around for over 20 years and provides up-to-date information about everything. Traditionally, at the [...]