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China readies Shenzhou mission ahead of schedule after spacecraft damage

The Shenzhou missions have run like clockwork since 2021 until ten days ago when Shenzhou-20 was damaged while docked at Tiangong, forcing its three-person crew to stay an extra nine days along with another trio of astronauts.

18 hours ago
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High school student Gracelyn Atmadja contributes to pioneering battery technology research

While most high school students explore science through classroom experiments, Gracelyn Atmadja took her passion a step further by contributing directly to a pioneering research project on sustainable battery technology at the University of Indonesia (UI). ...

3 days ago
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Humans can no longer tell AI music from the real thing: survey

The polling firm Ipsos asked 9,000 people to listen to two clips of AI-generated music and one of human-made music in a survey conducted for France-based streaming platform Deezer. ...

4 days ago

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Dogs came to North America with earliest humans: study

Humans are thought to have migrated to North America from Siberia over what is today the Bering Strait at the end of the last Ice Age -- between 30,000 and 11,000 years ago.

4 years ago
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NASA rover provides landing images on Mars, sound of Martian breeze

Along with 3 minutes of footage of what it calls "the world's most intimate view of a Mars landing," the U.S. space agency also released an audio recording of sounds from the red planet, including what it said was a wind gust on the surface of Mars.

4 years ago
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Facebook blocks medical data shared by apps

Data fed into a Facebook analytics tool by app makers included medical diagnoses and whether users were pregnant, according to a report shared by New York financial services department on Thursday.

4 years ago
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NASA's Perseverance rover beams back spectacular new images

The high-resolution still was extracted from a video taken by the descent stage of the spacecraft that had transported the rover from Earth.

4 years ago
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America has sent five rovers to Mars when will humans follow?

With its impeccable landing on Thursday, NASA's Perseverance became the fifth rover to reach Mars -- so when can we finally expect the long-held goal of a crewed expedition to materialize? 

4 years ago
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Touchdown: NASA's Perseverance rover ready to search for life on Mars

The autonomously guided procedure was in fact completed more than 11 minutes earlier, the length of time it took for radio signals to return to Earth.

4 years ago
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Chatty robot Franzi cheers up German patients

Cleaning robot Franzi makes sure floors are spotless at the Munich hospital where she works, and has taken on a new role during the pandemic: cheering up patients and staff.

4 years ago
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New look at first black hole detected shows it is bigger than expected

Researchers said on Thursday that new observations of the Cygnus X-1 black hole, orbiting in a stellar marriage with a large and luminous star, showed it is 21 times our sun's mass, about 50 percent more massive than previously believed.

4 years ago
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Egypt autopsy offers new clues 3,600 years after murder

Seqenenre Tao II, "the Brave", reigned over southern Egypt some 1,600 years before Christ.

4 years ago
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Why the world is watching Australia's tussle with Big Tech

Here is a look at what the proposed rules are, why companies such as Facebook object, and what it might mean for users:

4 years ago
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Was there ever life on Mars? NASA's Perseverance rover wants to find out

NASA's Perseverance rover prepares for touchdown on the Red Planet Thursday to search for telltale signs of microbes that might have existed there billions of years ago, when conditions were warmer and wetter than they are today.

4 years ago
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Facebook blocks news sharing in Australia over media law

Facebook blocked the sharing of news in Australia on Wednesday over government plans to make it pay media groups for content, but the move disrupted the pages of emergency services while triggering accusations of censorship  

4 years ago
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Italy fines Facebook 7 million euros over data protection

According to the authority, known as AGCM, the US social media giant fails to properly inform users about how it collects and uses their data for commercial purposes.

4 years ago
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Russian scientists probe prehistoric viruses dug from permafrost

The Siberia-based lab said in a statement that the aim of the project was to identify paleoviruses and conduct advanced research into virus evolution. 

4 years ago
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Comet from edge of solar system killed the dinosaurs: study

A pair of astronomers at Harvard say they have now resolved long standing mysteries surrounding the nature and origin of the "Chicxulub impactor", a huge celestial object that triggered a catastrophic "impact winter" that eventually wiped out three-quarters of life on Earth

4 years ago
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5G phones may interfere with aircraft: French regulator

The potential phenomenon is due to "signal interference from a close frequency source of a strength that is similar or even superior to that of  altimeters." 

4 years ago
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Perseverance rover lands on Mars this week

The Mars 2020 mission, which set off late from Florida in late July, includes the largest ever vehicle to be dispatched to the Red Planet.

4 years ago
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UAE's 'Hope' probe sends home first image of Mars

The picture "captured the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, emerging into the early morning sunlight," it said in a statement.

4 years ago
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Maryland becomes first US state to tax digital ad revenue

Legislators in the state senate mustered enough votes to override a veto by Republican Governor Larry Hogan, who had sought to derail the tax on revenue taken in from online ads shown in Maryland.

4 years ago
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China's Mars probe sends back video of Red Planet

In the video, published by state broadcaster CCTV, the surface of the planet is seen coming into view out of a pitch black sky against the outside of the Tianwen-1, which entered the orbit of the Red Planet on Wednesday.

4 years ago
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Twitter chief Dorsey teams with Jay-Z to back bitcoin

Dorsey, who is also founder and chief of financial services and mobile payments firm Square, said in a tweet that he and Jay-Z are giving 500 bitcoin to fund an independent endowment called "Btrust."

4 years ago
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Scientists detect water vapour emanating from Mars

The traces of ancient valleys and river channels suggest liquid water once flowed across the surface of Mars. Today, the water is mostly locked up in the planet's ice caps or buried underground. 

4 years ago
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Indonesian tech companies to go public?

Vaccine rollout plans and the prospect for economic recovery have boosted optimism in the Indonesian stock market once again after 2020 when the stock exchange recorded a five-times record low because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

4 years ago
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UAE on edge as 'Hope' probe poised to enter Mars orbit

If successful, the probe which is designed to reveal the secrets of Martian weather, will become the first of three spacecraft to arrive at the Red Planet this month.

4 years ago
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DoorDash buys startup behind salad-making robot

DoorDash said it would use Chowbotics to help merchants expand their menu offerings as they get into new markets "without investing in an entirely new store."

4 years ago
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World's tiniest reptile found in Madagascar

Tiny enough to perch comfortably on a fingertip, the ultra-compact chameleon -- dubbed Brookesia nana -- has the same proportions and world-weary expression as its larger cousins around the world.

4 years ago
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China's space probe sends back its first image of Mars

The spacecraft, launched in July around the same time as a rival US mission, is expected to enter Mars orbit around February 10.

4 years ago
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Activision earnings a winner as Call of Duty rockets

Video game franchise Call of Duty racked up a record year in 2020, with 128 million people playing the video game monthly in the fourth quarter.

4 years ago
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For billionaire Jared Isaacman, the space tourism era begins

Inspiration4 mission commander Jared Isaacman, founder and chief executive officer of Shift4 Payments all-civilian Inspiration4 mission will raise $200 million for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital through a donation based sweepstakes to select a member of the crew.

4 years ago
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SpaceX Mars rocket ends up in fiery crash, again

It was the second such accident after the last prototype of Starship met a similar fate in December.

4 years ago
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