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NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover traversed the red planet for more than a decade. Its photography—simultaneously detailed and panoramic—made a hostile environment seem almost familiar, revealing the nature of a neighbor to which both the agency and several billionaires want to send humans. On Wednesda...
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US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson is acquiring a robotics company which specialises in developing surgical tools for diagnosing and treating patients with lung cancer. The company announced that it has agreed to buy Auris Heath for $3.4bn (£2.6bn) in cash, plus an additional $2.4bn in payouts if...
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This episode of Wellness Wednesdays, a weekly series to check in on youroverall wellbeing and help you live life as your best self, is sponsored byEntresto
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A package thief was caught on camera making off with $40,000 of chemotherapy medication for a 14-year-old. Gage Haynes was diagnosed with cancer at six-months old, and has been in some form of treatment ever since. "I have Systemic Mastocytosis.
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Moscow’s next generation tank is behind schedule and will be purchased in far fewer numbers than originally planned.
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NASA on Wednesday declared that the Mars rover Opportunity is definitely out of commission, officially closing an intrepid 14-year mission that confirmed that water once flowed on the red planet.
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During 14 years of intrepid exploration across Mars it advanced human knowledge by confirming that water once flowed on the red planet -- but NASA's Opportunity rover has analyzed its last soil sample. The robot has been missing since the US space agency lost contact during a dust storm in June las...
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Meet the maverick new theory about what causes your brain to fade.
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Susan Lucci On Why She Fell On the Runway: 'I Twirled Myself Right Off My Feet In Excitement'
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture's deputy secretary said on Wednesday he is "hopeful" the administration will complete its rule allowing year-round sales of a higher ethanol blend of gasoline by summer, but the government should use "discretionary enforcement" of the summertime ban if there is a d...
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The Opportunity rover is dead, at age 15. After spending over 5,000 Martian days rumbling through the inhospitable red desert planet, NASA acknowledged on Wednesday that its sun-powered exploration rover hasn't responded to over 800 attempts at contact since June 2018, and is presumed dead. &...
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The mock attack crossed the line from peacetime exercise to intimidation.
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The U.S. Justice Department said Witt, 39, assembled dossiers on eight U.S. military intelligence agents she had worked with for Iranian hackers, who then used Facebook and e-mail to try to install spyware on their computers. "She decided to turn against the United States and shift her loyalty to I...
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It's big boy season.
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Paleontologists working in South Korea found ancient spider fossils with still-glittering eyes.Spider fossils are rare, the researchers wrote in a paper published online Jan. 28 in the Journal of Systematic Paleontology. Their bodies are so soft that they typically decay entirely soon after death, l...