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Mandatory Credit: Photo by Allison Bailey/Shutterstock (12626939f) Members of Herndon Reston Indivisible call for abortion rights at the Supreme Court as the justices hear oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. JWHO is challenging the constitutionality of a Mississippi law prohibiting abortion after 15 weeks, claiming that it violates the 1973 Roe decision by banning abortion before fetal viability. Pro-choice and pro-life protests at Supreme Court for Mississippi abortion case, United States Supreme Court, Washington, DC, USA - 01 Dec 2021

People opposed to abortion in the US would still help a friend get one

18 February 2022

A survey of more than 1500 people in the US found that people who are morally opposed to abortion would help a close friend or family member seeking the procedure


Scene from the Romance of Lancelot of the Lake. Artist: Gautier

We have lost 90 per cent of the original copies of Medieval literature

17 February 2022

A statistical tool borrowed from ecology suggests that there were originally 40,600 copies of stories about King Arthur and other western European heroes – but only 3648 survive


Life reconstruction of Iberospinus natarioi (ML1190)

Newly identified dinosaur had teeth that were constantly replaced

16 February 2022

Iberospinus natarioi, a new species of spinosaur dinosaur found in Portugal, constantly grew new teeth to replace those it broke while hunting fish and other aquatic animals


DJ0W3Y The orangutans are the two exclusively Asian species of extant great apes. Native to Indonesia and Malaysia.

Orangutans can learn how to use stone tools as hammers and knives

16 February 2022

Captive orangutans that had never seen stone tools could work out how to use them to hit or cut things – but they couldn’t get the hang of making them


A man and a woman

We seem to find people with a strong immune system more attractive

16 February 2022

Previous research has shown that we are attracted to the body odour of people with better health, and now it seems the strength of your immune system is reflected in your face


Lil Peep https://www.europapress.es/cultura/musica-00129/noticia-muere-21-anos-lil-peep-promesa-emergente-rap-20171116172646.html

AI can erase tattoos from photos to help face recognition systems

15 February 2022

Tattoos can hinder face recognition software, but deep learning algorithms can be trained to remove them, which reduces the rate of errors


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