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14yo Tasmanian boy cracks national intelligence agency code in 'just over an hour'
A 14-year-old Tasmanian boy cracks four levels of code imprinted on a commemorative 50-cent coin in "just over an hour" after it was released by the nation's foreign intelligence cybersecurity agency — and the spy boss says she wants to meet him so she can "recruit him".
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Zoo Staff Refuses To Save Drowning Chimp, Suddenly Man Jumps Into Enclosure
One day, like any other day, the Detroit Zoo chimpanzee exhibit was surrounded with spectators on all sides, when suddenly, a playful chase between two chimps took an accidental turn, and one of the chimps slipped into the muddy moat surrounding the exhibit.
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New Film Studio Will Be Built in Space by 2024
Space Entertainment Enterprise (S.E.E), the company co-producing Tom Cruise’s upcoming space movie, plan to launch a sports arena and production studio in zero gravity. S.E.E. has unveiled plans to build a space station module that contains a sports and entertainment arena as well as a content studio by December 2024. (An artist’s rendering is pictured above.)
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Weird 'hot Jupiter' exoplanet is shaped like a football
A distant exoplanet looks more like a football than the usual sphere, researchers report in a groundbreaking new study. The strange shape of ultrahot WASP-103b, which is more than 1,000 light-years from Earth, is due to the planet being stretched by the gravitational forces of its parent star, according to the new research.
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Astronaut Wang Yaping snaps Earth photos and more from Chinese space station
The first woman aboard China’s new space station has snapped some glorious shots of our homeworld during a six-month mission to space. Wang Yaping flew to the Tianhe core module in October aboard the Shenzhou 13 spacecraft along with her colleagues Zhai Zhigang and Ye Guangfu.
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Man, 89, achieves lifelong dream of earning Ph.d in physics
An 89-year-old Rhode Island man has achieved a goal he spent two decades working toward and nearly a lifetime thinking about — earning his Ph.D. and becoming a physicist. Manfred Steiner recently defended his dissertation successfully at Brown University in Providence. Steiner cherishes this degree because it’s what he always wanted — and because he overcame health problems that could have derailed his studies.
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‘Floating food’: Here is what a pizza party at International Space Station looks like
Enjoying a slice of pizza with friends on the weekends maybe a common ritual on earth but when astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) decided to have a ‘floating pizza party’, the video undoubtedly left netizens fascinated.
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Watch a black hole tear a star to bits in epic new animation
The awesome spectacle of a black hole ripping a star to shreds can be seen in this striking new visualization from the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), a particle accelerator lab in Hamburg, Germany. Such events are known as stellar tidal disruptors, and they are fairly rare, occurring just once every 10,000 years in a typical galaxy, according to NASA. Stars are typically flung toward a ravenous black hole after interacting gravitationally with another star or massive object...
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Couple's incredible $800k find during romantic beach stroll
A couple’s romantic stroll along a beach in Thailand has become life-changing after they stumbled upon a precious substance that could be worth around $792,345. Veera Juengboon, 31 and his wife Monruedee, 26, travelled to Phuket, to see a friend when they noticed a yellowish lump on the beach.
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A Dolphin Saved Hundreds of Lives in the Early 1900s
It isn’t groundbreaking news that dolphins are smart. ‘How smart’ has always the question. After all, it’s not like we can give them a written test. Their cognitive abilities are part of ongoing research. For example, a recent study by Georgetown University revealed that dolphins have the longest lasting memory of any non-human species, including elephants.
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Amazed astronaut In SpaceX Capsule Shoots Video Of Our Planet
NASA astronaut Victor Glover blasted into Earth's orbit aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon craft last week. Soon after, Glover and three other astronauts safely docked to the International Space Station. Glover, the first Black astronaut expected to have an extended, six-month stay on the space station, recently tweeted his inaugural video from the craft that ferried him into orbit, some 250 miles above Earth.
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Kazakhstan adopts Borat catchphrase 'Very nice!' as official tourism slogan
There was a time when the government of Kazakhstan banned the movie Borat and threatened to sue its star Sacha Baron Cohen for his depictions of the country in the outrageous mockumentary. Those days are over. Following the release of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, the sequel to Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, the Kazakh tourism board had officially adopted the character's "very nice!" catchphrase as its slogan.
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Fictional starships size comparison
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Ikea has released instructions for building your own home fort
The furniture brand’s newest set of manuals are designed to stave off lockdown boredom, by teaching us how to build fortresses, caves and wigwams out of furniture and household items
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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through April 25)
A race is on to 3D print test swabs, and 12.3 million people attend a virtual Travis Scott concert in this week's awesome tech stories from around the web.
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Costco is refusing returns on high-demand items like toilet paper, water
As millions of people rush to stock up on goods amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Costco is starting to take hoarding seriously. Signs seen at various Costco locations have indicated that many stores will not be accepting returns for high-demand items like toilet paper, bottled water and sanitizing wipes, which have all recently flown off store shelves cross the country.
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8-year-old cello prodigy played Carnegie Hall and performed with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Cameron Renshaw has been playing the cello since he was five-years-old. While he uses a smaller version of the instrument than adults, his cello, which he named Spotlight, is still almost as big as he is. The nimble-fingered eight-year-old has been racking up music titles over the last few years - beating out other kids from all over the world. “I love playing on the stage,” Renshaw said. “I do not feel nervous at all. All I feel like is I need to give that audience my all.”
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Autonomous DeLorean drives sideways to move forward
As the DeLorean rolled to a stop and the cloud of tire smoke cleared, Jon Goh peeked out the sliver of the passenger-side window to see dozens of gathered spectators cheering and high-fiving the successful test.
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Oregon Blockbuster outlasts others to become last on Earth
There are challenges that come with running the last Blockbuster Video on the planet. The computer system must be rebooted using floppy disks that only the general manager — a solid member of Gen X — knows how to use. The dot-matrix printer broke, so employees write out membership cards by hand. And the store’s business transactions are backed up on a reel-to-reel tape that can’t be replaced because Radio Shack went out of business.
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Watch a single cell become a complete organism in six pulsing minutes of timelapse | Aeon Videos
Native to central and southern Europe, the amphibious alpine newt breeds in shallow water, where its larvae are born, hatch and feed on plankton, before sprouting legs and moving to land. This timelapse video from the Dutch director Jan van IJken tracks the development of a single-celled zygote into the hatched larva of an alpine newt. Captured in stunning detail at microscopic scales, Becoming is a remarkable look at the process of cell division and differentiation, whence all animals – from newts to humans – come. For more awe-inspiring biology from van IJken, watch The Art of Flying.
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