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The last ice age 13,000 years ago took hold in just one year, more than ten times quicker than previously believed, scientists have warned. Rather than a gradual cooling over a decade, the ice age plunged Europe into the deep freeze, German Research Centre for Geosciences at Potsdam said. Cold, stormy conditions causedby an abrupt shift in atmospheric circulation froze the continent almost instantly during the Younger Dryas less than 13,000 years ago – a very recent period on a geological scale.

The new findings will add to fears of a serious risk of this happening again in the UK and western Europe – and soon.Dr Achim Brauer, of the GFZ (GeoForschungs Zentrum) German Research Centre for Geosciences at Potsdam, and colleagues analysed annuallayers of sediments, called "varves", from a German crater lake. Each varve records a single year, allowing annual climate records from the region to be reconstructed.

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The world"s first amateur rocket designed to carry humans in to space has been developed in Denmark.The project is headed by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen and the rocket is due to be tested on August 30th, if successful another test flight will be conducted with a human on board. It might not look much. In fact, it lookspractically suicidal.

But two Danish inventors hope to launch the world’s first amateur-built rocket for human space travel. The homemade rocket is the brainchild of Danish firm Copenhagen Suborbitals, headed by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen.

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New mind-reading technology is being developed that could allow you to type a letter by simply thinking the words.Scientists at Intel are working on the new system that will create and recognise patterns in brain activity to determine what words someone is thinking and translate those to thecomputer screen.

New technology could allow people to dictate letters and search the internet simply by thinking, according to researchers at Intel who are behind the project.

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In a remarkable story this week a surgeon removed most of a man"s skull and froze it in order to save his life.The Utah man had shattered his skull in multiple places after a longboarding accident, to reduce the swelling in his brain the neurosurgeon had to remove both sides of his skull and freezeit as a last resort.

A Utah man had a 90 to 95 percent chance of dying after shattering his skull in more than 10 places until a neurosurgeon removed both sides of his head and froze it.

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