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It’s back to the future. Three decades after the Reagan Administration’s Strategic Defense Initiative, Trump wants to explore space-based missile defenses.
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"As a defense against ICBMs, the SM-3 might not work. And even if it does, it might only make America less safe."
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The Trump administration wants the U.S. military to develop new lasers, drones and missiles in order to destroy enemy missiles in the first few minutes after the missiles launch toward their target. That might not be so easy.
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Migraine is often misdiagnosed as these conditions, due to overlapping symptoms.
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President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to boost America's missile defense systems, including by investing in technology to protect against the growing threat of hypersonic weapons and cruise missiles. Speaking at the Pentagon, Trump unveiled the Miss...
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Protests also broke out in five other cities in some of the most widespread disturbances since unrest began on Dec. 19. The Sudan Doctors' Committee, a group linked to the opposition, said a doctor and a child were killed by gunshot wounds to the he...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Saturn may have flown solo for billions of years — almost its entire existence — before getting its stunning set of rings, a new study suggests.
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"My upcoming budget will invest in a space-based missile defense layer," Trump said in remarks at the Pentagon on Thursday.
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Between two and three times as many asteroids have struck the Earth and the Moon since the age of the dinosaurs, when one massive space rock collision wiped them out forever, researchers said Thursday. The mounting pace began around 290 million year...
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NASA says the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 is back to doing science observations, a week after it went dark due to a telemetry glitch. Basically, engineers hit the reset button to clear up the telemetry problem. After going through te...
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Scientists said on Thursday a calculation of the mass of the rings based on gravitational measurements of the planet collected by Cassini indicated they formed between 100 million and 10 million years ago in roughly the final 2 percent of Saturn's cu...
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A Japanese Epsilon rocket will launch a suite of seven experimental satellites this evening (Jan. 17), including one little cubesat that will test out creating artificial meteors.
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is set to launch the...
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The sale will see a portion of its research and development team currently working on the technology moving to Google. "The addition of Fossil Group's technology and team to Google demonstrates our commitment to the wearables industry," Stacey Burr,...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope's premier camera is back in action, after a shutdown of just over a week.
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Neanderthals and their Denisovan cousins likely formed a new species, an A.I. says. That muddies human evolution even further.