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“I am enjoying the time saved from being off of Twitter," Sachs said by email Wednesday without directly addressing why he shut his account. Sachs, who is director of Columbia’s Center for Sustainable Development, had more than 260,000 followers on...
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As few as 300 companies will remain by the end of the year, according to an estimate from Shanghai-based Yingcan Group. Chinese leaders are dramatically shrinking a market that spawned the nation’s biggest Ponzi scheme, protests in major cities, and...
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Sending supplies and other cargo to the International Space Station is something that has to happen on a regular basis in order for crew to continue living their lives as they carry out missions while orbiting Earth. Exactly how that cargo gets deliv...
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Queen guitarist Brian May releases new song dedicated to NASA's New Horizons mission, which flew past Ultima Thule New Year's Day.
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Scientists in the UK have finished testing a Martian robot that will make its own decisions about where it explores when it reaches the planet. The rover, using artificial intelligence to work out where to go and how to get there, will be able to dri...
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe arrived at its target, a large space rock known as Bennu, in early December. The spacecraft's mission will take several years to complete, but it hit a major milestone to close out 2018 by entering orbit aroun...
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Greater Manchester Police were, however, continuing to investigate the attack because of suspected links to terrorism, they said in a statement. A witness, a BBC producer who was at the busy station full of New Year's Eve revelers, said a man stabbe...
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LAUREL, Md. (AP) — NASA's New Horizons spacecraft pulled off the most distant exploration of another world Tuesday, skimming past a tiny, icy object 4 billion miles from Earth that looks to be shaped like a bowling pin.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in an order late on Monday that it would grant Google a waiver to operate the Soli sensors at higher power levels than currently allowed. The FCC said the sensors can also be operated aboard aircraft....
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The Russian Navy is developing an advanced iteration of its Borei-class submarine line, called Borei II or Project 955A.
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Makers of chips, lenses and other components of smartphones are likely to offer high growth opportunities this year, Corrina Xiao of Allianz Global Investors Taiwan said in an interview. Tensions between President Donald Trump and his Chinese counte...
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LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the stabbing of three people in Manchester (all times local):
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NASA rang in the New Year on Tuesday with a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored by humankind -- a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule -- in the hopes of learning more about how planets took sha...
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The nuclear-powered space probe has traveled 4 billion miles (6.4 billion km) to come within 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of Ultima Thule, an apparently peanut-shaped, 20-mile-long (32-km-long) space rock in the uncharted heart of the Kuiper Belt. Enginee...