In the Long Run, Romney Wins
It is a useful exercise to think about our current moment not from where we are, or even where we will be in five years, but where we will be in 50. Viewed from that perspective, the most important thing about the impeachment of Donald Trump will probably be Mitt Romney's speech explaining his vote to convict the president of abuse of power. In the near term, that speech will do neither Romney no
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Man buys used Tesla with autopilot. Tesla remotely disables autopilot: "not a feature that you had paid for"
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Iran satellite launch fails, in blow to space programme
Iran said it "successfully" launched a satellite Sunday but failed to put it into orbit, in a blow to its space programme that the US alleges is a cover for missile development.
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Pesticides Are Killing Off the Andean Condor
Livestock owners needlessly fear these massive South American birds—and lure them to their deaths with illegal poisons. That puts the entire species at risk. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Pesticides Are Killing Off the Andean Condor
Livestock owners needlessly fear these massive South American birds—and lure them to their deaths with illegal poisons. That puts the entire species at risk. — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Youth present a plan for a sustainable world and global democracy
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How an AI trained to read scientific papers could predict future discoveries
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TomorrowScale Podcast: InSilico Medicine are using AI to generate new medicines within days
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The age of AI: supercharging Europe's tech transformation
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Make Your House A Smart Home In 2020
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Antarctica Registered Its Highest Temperature on Record This Week
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Bill Gates orders £500m hydrogen-powered superyacht
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Solar Orbiter: Sun mission primed for launch
The European probe will gather some of the most detailed ever pictures and movies of our star.
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South Carolina: Images of the Palmetto State
Today's photo story is the fifth in a year-long Sunday series, focusing on each of the 50 states in the United States of America. South Carolina is home to more than 5 million residents, and has a landscape that ranges from the salt marshes and plains of its Low Country to the heights of its Blue Ridge region in the west. Gathered here are a few glimpses into the varied and historic features of S
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Orbiter set to launch in mission to reveal Sun's secrets
The European Space Agency is set to embark upon one of its most ambitious projects to date, with the launch late Sunday from Florida's Cape Canaveral of its Solar Orbiter probe bound for the Sun.
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China seeks to restart economy despite virus outbreak
Many companies delay opening amid fears of spreading the infection
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Virus crisis challenges China's social contract
When the epidemic abates, Beijing should reflect on its model of governance
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RuPaul's Remedial Queer Comedy on Saturday Night Live
It was almost three years ago that Saturday Night Live ran a skit in which a group of burly auto-shop workers fessed up to secretly loving the lip-popping, wig-swishing, ultra-sissy antics of RuPaul's Drag Race . Last night, RuPaul, the drag queen who brought the queer underground art of cross-dressing to the cultural center , made his debut as SNL host. The episode should have been a victory str
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NASA-E.S.A. Solar Orbiter Launch: How to Watch
The spacecraft will make close observations of the sun, including first-ever looks at its north and south poles.
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Political Finance & America's Hidden Duopoly Won't Change Until We Hit Rock Bottom
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Warm winter: drought and unseasonably high temperatures threaten crops in Romania. 70% of arable land in Romania is arid, and lacks access to proper irrigation
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Blind Woman Sees With New Implant, Plays Video Game Sent Straight to Her Brain
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MIT CSAIL's TextFooler generates adversarial text to strengthen natural language models
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The Secret to Blowing Massive Soap Bubbles
This physicist-approved recipe uses a dash of polymers to create world-record-scale bubbles.
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25 år og med udgivet videnskabsartikel: Tadea har bevist, at verdenshavene stiger hurtigere
Tadea Vengs bacheloropgave er blevet til en vigtig forskningsartikel.
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Spørg Fagfolket: Hvad sker der, hvis man stikker hånden ind i en partikelstråle?
En læser undrer sig over, hvad der mon ville ske, hvis han stak hånden ind i Large Hadron Collider, mens den er i gang. Det svarer hospitalsfysiker på.
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Pebbles, Oceans, and Wasp Clocks
There are many ways to gauge planetary change — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Her Grandmother Got the Coronavirus. Then So Did the Whole Family.
"What kind of government is this?' asks a family of three generations sickened by the new virus and desperate for care in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the center of the outbreak.
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Giftig og bi-dræbende hveps har kurs mod Danmark
Aggressive, asiatiske hvepse bevæger sig op gennem Europa. Et eksemplar er nu fundet i Hamborg.
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Why Do We Laugh?
We laugh even before we can speak, but why? Science has some answers to the mystery of human laughter, and some of them might surprise you — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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A Weekend at Concours d'Lemons, the World's Worst Car Show
For those who wince at sports car showoffs, this wacky annual show is a sight for sour eyes.
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Tænkeboks: Tanker ved et kassebånd
Nu kan du dykke ned i ugens tænkeboks.
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Blind Woman Sees With New Implant, Plays Video Game Sent Straight to Her Brain
It's been over a decade since artificial retinas first began helping the blind see. But for many people, whose blindness originates beyond the retina, the technology falls short. Which is why new research out of Spain skips the eye entirely, instead sending signals straight to the brain's visual cortex. Amazingly, 15 years after losing her sight, Bernardeta Gómez, who suffers from toxic optic neu
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Why Do We Laugh?
We laugh even before we can speak, but why? Science has some answers to the mystery of human laughter, and some of them might surprise you — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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The Lodge Is an Unsettling but Underwhelming Thriller
Halfway through The Lodge , a creepy indie horror set in a remote, snowed-in cabin, someone makes the terrible and brilliant choice to turn on John Carpenter's The Thing . The homage, though unsubtle, is perfectly appropriate: The scenes from that 1982 masterpiece playing out on a tiny TV mirror the isolation, paranoia, and distrust in Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz's new film. Yet it's always
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Faked Traffic Jams, Soaring Tesla Stock, and Other Auto News
A German artist tricks Google Maps into seeing gridlock, and the market shows Elon Musk love.
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Sharp-Nosed Marine Reptile Is a Triassic Surprise
A fossil found in Alaska may help explain why a mysterious group of seagoing creatures went extinct — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Readers Respond to the October 2019 Issue
Letters to the editor from the October 2019 issue of Scientific American — Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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What is coronavirus and how worried should we be?
What are the symptoms caused by the virus from Wuhan in China, how does it spread, and should you call a doctor? Find all our coronavirus coverage here How to protect yourself from infection It is a member of the coronavirus family that has never been encountered before. Like other coronaviruses, it has come from animals. Many of those initially infected either worked or frequently shopped in the
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Bill Gates spends over $600 million to walk the talk on cutting carbon emissions. The liquid hydrogen-powered yacht, which also means that water would be its only emission, underlines Gates continuous call for investing in innovations that would help reduce climate change.
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First SETI Observations with China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope
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Machine Learning Could Make Animal Tests Obsolete: Every test that's done on a computer means one less animal caged and experimented on, and that's something that every animal advocate should celebrate. – Faunalytics
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Energy Markets Need Winter, and Climate Change Is Taking It Away. Russia's winter was so balmy that snow was trucked into downtown Moscow for New Year, and bears came out of hibernation. In Japan, ski competitions were canceled and the Sapporo Snow Festival had to borrow snow
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future technology for the hypersonic cruise missile
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US Trial Shows 3 Cancer Patients Had Their Genomes Altered Safely by CRISPR
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Low-cost, clean hydrogen from underground oil fires could kill off green H2 sector | Recharge
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Why People Get the 'Sunday Scaries'
To Alec Burks, a 30-year-old project manager at a construction company in Seattle, Sunday evenings feel like "the end of freedom," a dreadful period when time feels like it's quickly disappearing, and, all of a sudden, "in 12 hours, I'm going to be back at my desk." It's not that Burks doesn't like his job—he does. But one thing that contributes to the feeling, he told me, is that "you almost hav
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Nebia by Moen Review: A Showerhead That Made Me Really Cold
Not even a luxury, high-tech showerhead can make me turn on the mist setting in the middle of winter.
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The Universal Law of Turbulence Isn't So Unruly After All
By exploiting randomness, mathematicians have proved an elegant law that underlies the motion of rushing rivers and other chaotic fluids.
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The nitty gritty of Moon soil
Scientists develop a new way to study lunar chemistry.
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Bumblebees can fly in 'economy mode'
Exactly how they do it isn't clear, however.
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Expedition reveals the violent birth of Zealandia
Earth's hidden continent was shaped by two tectonic events.
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Science history: Fine china from China
The science and secrets of porcelain were much in demand.
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A herringbone look for the growing plant cell
Research suggests layering is important.
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Taking the fight to frostbite
Here's an inside view of what treatment can do.
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How to Avoid Despair
Well, it's over. On February 6, 2020, the Senate acquitted Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment, bringing an end to a process the president has been hurtling toward since the moment of his inauguration. The case against him turned on the specifics of his efforts to pressure Ukraine to provide negative information on Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. But in another sense, this im
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Oscars 2020: How to Watch
No TV? No problem! There are plenty of other ways to watch all the action on Hollywood's biggest night.
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How to Share Files Securely Online: Dropbox, Firefox Send, and More
You've got no shortage of options sharing documents and more with friends, family, and colleagues. These are your best bets.
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Investors Hit the Brakes on Automotive Startups
Fervor for self-driving tech cools, and an accelerator in Detroit shuts down.
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The Best Defense Against Exotic New Diseases
The 2019 novel coronavirus has caused a public-health emergency in China, a global economic superpower. Like many in my field, I worry that if and when the emergent virus takes root in poorer countries that are already tackling outbreaks of other pathogens, it could wreak havoc of an even larger magnitude. I am a physician who concentrates on outbreak preparedness against new infectious diseases,
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Why Men Vote for Republicans, and Women Vote for Democrats
For decades after the 1920 ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which extended the franchise to women, women voted less frequently than men—and, mostly, for the same candidates. Mid-century politicians and pollsters explained this phenomenon by claiming that most women didn't care about politics and would always duplicate their husband's vote, if they showed up to the polls at all. As George
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Trods tvivl om p-huses styrke under brand: Styrelse parkerer brandadvarsel
PLUS. DTU-forskere har sat spørgsmålstegn ved brandsikkerheden i nye P-huse. Flere beredskaber vil ikke længere gå ind under en brand, men myndighederne vil endnu ikke gøre noget
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Transparency Is Killing Congress
In December, when the Politico reporters Marianne Levine and Burgess Everett interviewed Senator Kevin Cramer, the freshman Republican from North Dakota offered a peculiar perspective on his job. After he answered an assortment of questions about President Trump and the Democrats with his trademark entertaining bluntness, Levine and Everett asked Cramer if his ambitions extended to rising up the
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Doctor who exposed Sars cover-up under house arrest in China, family confirms
Exclusive: Dr Jiang Yangyong's movements restricted after he wrote to authorities about 1989 Tiananmen Square protests The Chinese military surgeon who exposed the government's cover-up of the the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) epidemic in 2003 has been placed under de facto house arrest since last year, according to his friends and family. The fate of 88-year-old Dr Jiang Yanyong, a re
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How healthy buildings can help us fight coronavirus
Higher outdoor air ventilation rates, better filtration and surface cleaning all reduce risk
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Four rare mountain gorillas 'killed by lightning' in Uganda
Four endangered mountain gorillas, including three adult females, have been killed by an apparent lightning strike in a Ugandan national park, a conservation group has said.
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Four rare mountain gorillas 'killed by lightning' in Uganda
Four endangered mountain gorillas, including three adult females, have been killed by an apparent lightning strike in a Ugandan national park, a conservation group has said.
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Food-share apps seeking to help environment
Jack Convery pops into a London branch of Italian eatery Coco di Mama to grab a cut-price lunch ordered on his smartphone's food-sharing app Karma.
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"Where it begins": Young hungry locusts bulk up in Somalia
At a glance, the desert locusts in this arid patch of northern Somalia look less ominous than the billion-member swarms infesting East Africa in the worst outbreak some places have seen in 70 years.
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3 simple ways to help someone suffering from illness
When someone is critically ill, says comedy writer Jeannie Gaffigan, they need three very simple things from their friends and family: compassion, humor, and touch. We are conditioned to enter hospital rooms meekly and speak in soft whispers, but when Gaffigan was in critical condition after emergency brain surgery, unable to speak, the most healing thing was her friend visiting her and making ir
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Physicists Have Finally Figured Out The Secret of How Soap Bubbles Get So Giant
They played with bubbles for more than a year.
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Ancient Skulls in a Mexican Cave Might Reveal Surprises About Early North Americans
They're unexpectedly diverse.
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One of The Most Respected Experiment Types Can Be Deeply Problematic. Here's Why
We need to talk about this.
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Human hibernation: the restoring effects of hiding away in winter
How do you flourish through the darkest months of the year? Take a lesson from a sleepy dormouse… I sometimes think that winter doesn't truly start until February. Once the final sunny moments of autumn have gone, I'm bounced along by preparations for the festive season. Even after the final New Year corks have popped, my own reforming zeal gets me through. I may not be tempted by dry Januaries,
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How civilization could destroy itself — and 4 ways we could prevent it | Nick Bostrom
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In the future, robots could take blood samples, benefiting patients and healthcare workers alike. A Rutgers-led team has created a blood-sampling robot that performed as well or better than people, according to the first human clinical trial of an automated blood drawing and testing device.
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Why the Mars 2020 Rover Is Armed With a High-Powered Laser
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Love as a drug: can romance be medically prescribed?
Love drugs could soon be a reality and used alongside therapy to help heal broken relationships, claims a new book For some time, it has been widespread medical practice to treat a range of psychological conditions, including depression and anxiety, with what might be called mind-altering drugs, namely selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), which, as the name suggests, affect levels of
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Coronavirus deaths top Sars as backlash grows
Beijing faces calls to stop suppressing free speech as number killed passes 800
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Climate change: Why are US senators wearing this symbol?
Climate Stripes, a graphic made by a UK academic, is being worn by US politicians posted on social media.
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Coronavirus Live Updates: Deaths in China Surpass Toll From SARS
More than 800 people have died from the new virus in China. The 2002-3 epidemic, which also began in the country, killed 774 people worldwide.
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Forskare: Så kan de nya megabränderna stoppas
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Så sprids myter om anlagda skogsbränder på nätet
De förödande bränderna i Australien har gett upphov till en hätsk debatt om orsakerna till katastrofen. Teorin om att bränderna i huvudsak skulle vara anlagda – och inte en konsekvens av klimatförändringarna – har fått en rejäl skjuts på sociala medier av botar och falska konton, enligt forskare.
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WHO chief splits opinion with praise for China's virus fight
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus lauds Beijing's 'speed, scale and efficiency'
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Created a Futurology Youtube Channel and Videos inspired by popular posts here.
Hi guys, I've always been a fan on reading Futurology posts here so i decided to create a channel and currently creating videos inspired by popular posts here in this r/futurology subreddit group. I've created a video on the topic "4 days working week ethics" which became popular here on r/Futurology . https://youtu.be/Zsj7aiOnDIo I'm planning to create more futurology videos, around 1-2 videos p
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The Government Uses 'Near Perfect Surveillance' Data on Americans
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US House panel will discuss self-driving cars next week
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Tesla Model 3 takes a 45-minute joyride on Autopilot with no intervention
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What will it take for the 75% of companies that don't have climate commitments to step up?
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Automation and the future of employment
In your opinion which professions will be hit hardest by increased automation and do you think we should still be preparing children to go into those professions which may not exist by the time they hit working age? submitted by /u/kiwi8887 [link] [comments]
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How tailor made vaccines can optimize the next generation of vaccines to be much more efficient
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Bill Gates becomes first to buy a £500m hydrogen-powered super yacht. Microsoft co-founder commissions eco vessel expected to go to sea in 2024 in latest sign of his interest in alternative fuels.
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Elon Musk's Neuralink brain-machine interface is turning sci-fi into reality
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Future astronauts will face a specific, unique hurdle. "Think about it," says Stott, "Nine months to Mars. At some point, you don't have that view of Earth out the window anymore." Astronaut Nicole Stott on losing the view that helps keep astronauts psychologically "tethered" to those back home.
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Hong Kong Scientists developed an electricity generator that can power 100 small LED light bulbs with the kinetic energy from a single raindrop
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Coronavirus prompts North Korean lockdown
Experts fear country, which borders China, cannot cope with a serious health crisis
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Coronavirus death toll overtakes Sars as Britons return from Wuhan
Further deaths confirmed in China's Hubei province take global total to at least 800 The number of people killed by the coronavirus outbreak has overtaken the global death toll of the Sars epidemic, with at least 800 deaths now confirmed. With 89 more deaths in China on Saturday, the toll is now higher than the 774 killed worldwide by severe acute respiratory syndrome. The majority of people who
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Solar Orbiter launch: what is it and what's it going to do?
Many scientists are calling it the UK's most important mission for a generation.
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This Incredibly Rare Board Game Piece Dates Back to The First Viking Raids on England
The tiny relic was found on an island off the coast of England.
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