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‘Great’ dad slipped at work and was dead within weeks

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A ‘loving and wonderful’ father died after a horrific workplace accident. On November 30, 2016, 37-year-old father-of-four Michael Densmore from Halewood was erecting scaffolding at a chemical factory in Northwich. During the task, he stepped over a trough containing a liquid chemical, calcium hydroxide (commonly known as ‘milk of lime’) that had been heated to … Read more

Plastic-eating sea fungus found in Great Pacific Garbage Patch

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According to National GeographicThe Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a collection of marine debris in the North Pacific Ocean. Also called the Pacific Debris Vortex, it consists of two distinct collections of debris bounded by the vast subtropical gyre in the North Pacific Ocean. Now scientists have examined plastic waste floating in the Great Pacific … Read more

Surprising evolutionary insights revealed by first complete chromosome sequences of great apes

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Researchers have mapped the entire X and Y chromosomes of several great ape species, revealing significant evolutionary variations, especially in the rapidly evolving Y chromosome. This study, which highlights both stable and dynamic genomic regions, provides new insights into primate and human evolution, as well as the conservation of these endangered species. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Complete … Read more

2024 Chromebook Showcase: Google announces a flood of great new features

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I’m so happy that we can finally talk about the new Chromebook Plus features that the ChromeOS team introduced at the very cool event they recently held in New York City. We’ve known about many of these features and the new hardware that will show them off for a while now, so I’m really excited … Read more

Galacticare review: a crazy space sim in the Bullfrog tradition, with a great sense of humor

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Crazy space station management sim Startopia and crazy hospital sim Theme Hospital are two of my favorite older games, so I was really happy with the concept of Galacticare, a crazy space station hospital management sim. And you know what? It is awesome! From the first reveals and previews, I thought it might happen at wacky, but the tone is right, has some really standout levels, and bugs in previous builds have been squashed (much like you can manually splatter little parasites that enter your hospital). I can see this becoming a go-to comfort game for me.

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