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A Japanese probe is expected to land on a distant asteroid Friday, aiming to blast a "bullet" into the surface to collect clues about the origins of Earth and the solar system. The Hayabusa2 probe is scheduled to touch down at 8:25am local time (2325 GMT Thursday) on the Ryugu asteroid, some 300 mi...
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Lime, one of the largest scooter-rental companies, expects to overcome this hurdle by dialing up the speed on a strategy it already employs: raising capital from investors. Lime plans to announce Thursday that Tobiason will leave his post as a managing director at the bank to become the startup’s c...
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Zombie ships brought back to the dead will not join the United States Navy.
science / science - 5 years ago
This innovative navigation tool keeps you focused on the road.
science / science - 5 years ago
“Owning a dinosaur has become a trend."
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Emissions of carbon dioxide – the greenhouse gas most responsible for global warming – could soar to levels not seen in 56 million years, scientists warned.
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Conservationists in the Galapagos Islands have found a giant tortoise from a species thought to have become extinct more than a century ago. The adult female tortoise was found on the island of Fernandina in the west of the Pacific archipelago, and is believed to be a Fernandina Giant Tortoise, als...
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Sanders, a vocal critic of high drug prices, had written to Florida-based Catalyst earlier this month, asking it to justify its price for Firdapse, a medication for a rare neuromuscular disease that affects about one in 100,000 people in the United States. It was also one of the campaign promises m...
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Italian luxury label Prada added a touch of romance to Milan Fashion Week on Thursday with a winter collection looking at both sides of a love story. Designer Miuccia Prada, considered a fashion trailblazer in the industry, looked at fear and fairy tale in romance, contrasting both in her looks, in...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Israel is aiming to land on the moon after hitching a ride with SpaceX.
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What to do when being (almost) vegan isn't making your numbers budge.
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The company says its was an oversight, but it does little to stem paranoia.
science / science - 5 years ago
E.R. doctor Jedidiah Ballard, D.O., reveals how to evade winter's silent killer
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Last year, the Japanese space program (JAXA) successfully arrived at the diamond-shaped space rock known as Ryugu. The spacecraft, known as Hayabusa2, spent the latter half of 2018 deploying tiny rovers to the asteroid's surface and relaying lots of awesome images. Now, the probe is set to attem...
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Scientists believe they may have solved the mystery of why zebras have stripes. Zebras likely evolved to have stripes in order to avert attacks from biting flies, a study, published Wednesday in the Public Library of Science ONE scientific journal, states. Researchers examined the behavior of hors...