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SpaceX completed an unprecedented 19th launch this year on Monday, while putting a U.S. record 64 satellites in orbit at once. Additionally, SpaceX made history as the first company to fly the same orbital-class rocket three times. This Falcon 9 rocket's large first stage, also known as the "boost...
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx today made its official rendezvous with a promising and potentially perilous asteroid named Bennu, after two years of closing in on it. “We have arrived,” telecommunications engineer Javi Cerna announced during a NASA webcast from mission control at Lockheed Martin Space in Colorad...
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It the 'Benihana Christmas' reboot fans never knew they needed
science / science - 6 years ago
“A lot of millennials don’t even own can openers,” said Andy Mecs, vice president of marketing and innovation for StarKist.
science / science - 6 years ago
Belief: What It Means to Believe and Why Our Convictions Are So Compelling. By James E. Alcock. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. 2018. ISBN: 9781633884038. 638 pp. In James E. Alcock’s classic 1995 Skeptical Inquirer article “The Belief Engine,” he wrote, “Our br...
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The questions that kids ask about science aren’t always easy to answer. Sometimes, their little brains can lead to big places that adults forget to explore. That is what inspired our series Science Question From A Toddler, which uses kids’ curiosity as a jumping-off point to investigate the scientif...
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Not a great idea
science / science - 6 years ago
Valuing nature is hardly natural.
science / science - 6 years ago
"Meghan probably never dreamt that she’d have a life like this"
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The agency has tapped 9 U.S. companies to help facilitate lunar exploration.
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A vast plateau of land between England and the Netherlands was once full of life before it sank beneath what is now the North Sea some 8,000 years ago. To do this, they've hauled up cores of sediment from the bottom of the North Sea in an area called Doggerland. It's named for the shoal called Dog...
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Uncovering forgotten history can help explain why science still has a masculine bias today.
science / science - 6 years ago
Dutch motivational speaker Emile Ratelband may feel like a 49-year-old but according to Dutch law he is still 69.
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Mexico, Dec. 3 (Notimex).- The Institute of Biotechnology (IBt, for its acronym in Spanish) of the UNAM presented a "Guide for the drafting and registration of patents", in order to share their experience and pave the way for those seeking to protect their scientific contributions and meth...
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The 'Chinese Frankenstein' sparked huge controversy last week after claiming he had gene-edited human embryos