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1 year ago+18 18 0Europe Is Getting Serious About Making Space-Based Solar Power a Reality
Proposals for beaming solar power down from space have been around since the 1970s, but the idea has long been seen as little more than science fiction. Now, though, Europe seems to be getting serious about making it a reality.
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1 year ago+17 17 0You can even buy a holiday home in the first hotel in space
Space tourism is no longer the stuff of science fiction — it’s just around the corner. Aside from private missions to space, like Inspiration4 and DearMoon, in which members of the general public will spend a few days in a SpaceX vehicle circling the ...
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1 year ago+14 14 0NASA scientists have discovered stars that are cool enough to touch.
Last year, NASA announced that it had discovered 14 of the coldest stars it had ever recorded. The so-called “brown dwarfs” were, at that time, listed among the coldest known stars in our universe.
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1 year ago+15 15 0Google Changed Emission Calculations in Google Flights, Making Air Travel Look Cleaner
When Google launched a carbon emissions tool for its flight tracker last fall, allowing consumers to see the individual emissions created by each flight they were browsing, it received widespread attention and praise from industry leaders and climate ...
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1 year ago+13 13 0As Stranger Things Begins Work On Season 5, Netflix Cancels Another Show After Just One Season
Netflix is the home of some of the biggest shows on television that have already run (or are guaranteed to run) for many seasons, but the streamer has also gained a reputation for canceling shows after just one batch of episodes. Now, as the writers ...
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1 year ago+12 12 0The World Burns and the Richest Profit. It Doesn't Have to Be This Way
The last time prices rose this fast was 41 years ago. The last time the UK got through prime ministers this fast was the mid-1970s. The last time there was open war between major European powers was in 1945. The last time the Northern Hemisphere was ...
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1 year ago+17 18 1Netflix loses almost a million subscribers
After enjoying a long reign as the king of streaming, Netflix faces a tough fight to keep its crown. It lost almost a million subscribers between April and July as more people decided to quit the service. The streaming giant has now lost members for ...
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1 year ago+16 16 0Robot Dog Learned to Walk in Just One Hour
Discovering how animals learn to walk and learn from stumbling was the goal of a study carried out by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS). They created a four-legged, canine-sized robot to aid them in comprehendin ...
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1 year ago+10 10 0Many Suicide Attempters Have No Active Suicidal Thoughts
Suicide attempts are not always preceded by worsening suicidal ideation.
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1 year ago+16 16 0Tony Sirico, Paulie Walnuts on ‘The Sopranos,’ Dies at 79
Tony Sirico, the actor known for playing mobster Peter Paul “Paulie Walnuts” Gualtieri on “The Sopranos,” died Friday, Variety confirmed with his manager. He was 79. Virico’…
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1 year ago+16 16 0Aging will soon be a choice as scientists close in on the fountain of youth
People will soon be able to decide when they want to age, or even age at all as scientists close in on the fountain of youth. Scientists at Haifa’s Rambam Health Care Campus and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and colleagues abroad in a n ...
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1 year ago+23 23 0Customers unaware Kmart and Bunnings are capturing their 'faceprint'
Australia's leading consumer advocacy group has raised serious concerns about major retailers
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1 year ago+19 19 0Google Engineer On Leave After He Claims AI Program Has Gone Sentient
Artificially intelligent chatbot generator LaMDA wants “to be acknowledged as an employee of Google rather than as property," says engineer Blake Lemoine.
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1 year ago+13 13 0Here are the biggest changes coming to your iPhone in Apple's new update
Apple's iOS 16 offers the biggest change to the look of the iPhone's lock screen since 2014 and includes improvements to apps such as Messages, Mail and Maps.
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1 year ago+9 9 0"First Time In History": Cancer Vanishes For Every Patient In Drug Trial
A small group of people with rectal cancer just experienced something of a miracle as their cancer simply vanished after an experimental treatment.
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1 year ago+14 14 0These nearly-extinct birds are returning to the wild after 20 years
It's been 20 years since the last Spix's Macaw has been seen in the wild, but the near-extinct species could be set to make a comeback. In a few days, the bird will be reinstated in a reserve, located in Caatinga in northeastern Brazil, tha ...
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1 year ago+11 11 0'Deadpool 3' won't be Disneyfied, say writers
Deadpool 3‘s writers has given an update on the new sequel, and have assured fans not to “worry” about the character under the ownership of Disney. While the first two films were made under 20th Century Fox before its purchase by Disney, allowing mor ...
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1 year ago+18 18 0When Trauma Isn’t Worth the Post-Traumatic Growth
On May 24th, 2022, 19 children and 2 teachers lost their lives in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Parents waited in anguish at a local civic center to learn if their child had survived. The agonizing screams of family members could be heard from ...
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1 year ago+15 15 0Bricks made of dust from the Moon and Mars could make space buildings
Baking a mixture of saltwater and materials that mimic dust from the moon or Mars at a high temperature produced sturdy bricks that could be used to build human habitats in space
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2 years ago+13 13 0Good news for Microsoft employees! CEO Satya Nadella announces salary hike
According to the alleged memo, Microsoft intends to provide merit-based compensation to employees at "all levels 67 and below."