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James Lovell of Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 and other astronauts commemorate the achievements of the Apollo program and the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters in Washington, DC, on July 20, 2009.
James Lovell of Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 and other astronauts commemorate the achievements of the Apollo program and the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters in Washington, DC, on July 20, 2009.
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US astronaut Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13, dead at 97

Lovell travelled to the Moon twice but never walked on the lunar surface, but he is considered one of the greats of the US space program after rescuing the Apollo 13 mission that teetered on the brink of disaster.

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NASA astronauts depart space station after five-month mission

US astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, the Crew-10 commander, boarded the gumdrop-shaped Dragon capsule on Friday afternoon along with Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov ahead of a 17.5-hour trek back to Earth to a splashdown site off the California coast.

7 hours ago
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NASA races to put nuclear reactors on Moon and Mars

A new NASA directive -- first reported by Politico and seen by AFP on Tuesday -- calls for the appointment of a nuclear power czar to select two commercial proposals within six months, framing the push as crucial to outpacing a joint Chinese-Russian effort.

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Fact Check: How to spot impostor Twitter accounts

The rollout of Twitter's subscription service has prompted a string of accounts impersonating public figures, sparking concerns about the potential for scams and disinformation.

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Elon Musk 'kills' new Twitter label, hours after launch

The social media platform unveiled its long-awaited Twitter Blue subscription service, which allows users to pay $7.99 per month for a coveted blue tick, as well as a separate gray "official" badge for some high-profile accounts.

2 years ago
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Science confirms: to light up the dance floor, turn up the bass

Researchers have taken a closer look at the relationship between bass frequencies and dancing, thanks to an experiment conducted during a real-life electronic music concert.

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Apple says iPhone production hit by China COVID-19 lockdown

Apple said COVID-19 restrictions have "temporarily impacted" production at the world's largest iPhone factory in central China, warning that customers will now face longer wait times ahead of the holiday season.

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Twitter impersonators will be suspended permanently, Musk says

In a separate tweet, Musk said Twitter previously issued a warning before suspension, but as Twitter is rolling out widespread verification, there will be no warning as well as "no exceptions."

2 years ago
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More advertising woes for Musk's Twitter as brands hit pause

Top global companies, including General Mills and Volkswagen, suspended their advertising on Twitter on Thursday as pressure builds on Elon Musk to turn his platform into a successful business.

2 years ago
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Chaos, confusion reign ahead of Twitter layoffs

Managers have been forbidden from calling team meetings or communicating directly with staff, one senior Twitter employee said, adding that they were being monitored.

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Controversial monkey study reignites animal testing debate

The paper, "Triggers for mother love" was authored by neuroscientist Margaret Livingstone and appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in September to little fanfare or media coverage.

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Google wants AI in one thousand languages

Google on Wednesday said it wanted to develop artificial intelligence using the world's one thousand most spoken languages.

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How dubious 'local news' sites are feeding US misinformation

When Elon Musk amplified a conspiracy theory about the hammer attack on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, he joined the growing ranks of Americans routinely sharing misinformation from dubious "local news" outlets.

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Elon Musk announces $8 monthly charge for verified Twitter accounts

The announcement comes only days after the world's wealthiest man took sole control of the social media giant in a contentious $44 billion deal.

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Final module docks at China's Tiangong space station

Tiangong is one of the crown jewels in Beijing's well-funded programme -- which has landed robotic rovers on Mars and the Moon, and made the country only the third to put humans in orbit -- as it looks to catch up with major spacefaring powers like the United States and Russia.

2 years ago
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Elon Musk, who runs four other companies, will now be Twitter CEO

Musk, who also runs rocket company SpaceX, brain-chip startup Neuralink and tunneling firm the Boring Company, fired Twitter's previous chief, Parag Agrawal, and other top company officials last week.

2 years ago
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New potentially hazardous asteroid discovered

The 1.5 kilometer- (0.9 mile-) wide asteroid, named 2022 AP7, was discovered in area notoriously difficult to spot objects due to the glare from the Sun.

2 years ago
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‘Earth is in our hands’: Astronaut Pesquet’s plea for the planet

From his unique viewpoint hundreds of kilometers above Earth, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet told AFP he felt helpless watching fires rage across the planet below, calling for more to be done to protect this fragile "island of life".

2 years ago
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Instagram experiences overnight outage, accounts suspended and locked

Millions of users found themselves unable to access the social media platform for hours.

2 years ago
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German eco activists glue themselves to dinosaur exhibit

Two environmental activists glued themselves to an exhibition of a dinosaur skeleton at Berlin's Natural History Museum on Sunday to protest the German government's climate policies.

2 years ago
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Meteorite that smashed into Mars shook planet, NASA says

On December 24, 2021, a meteorite hit Mars' surface, triggering magnitude 4 tremors, which were detected by NASA's InSight spacecraft  -- which landed on the planet four years ago -- some 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) away. 

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T-rex in Singapore as experts decry ‘harmful’ auctions

Dinosaur fans got a glimpse of a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton as it went on display in Singapore on Friday before an auction next month, as experts slammed the big-money bone trade as "harmful to science".

2 years ago
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NASA's InSight lander reveals details on outermost layer of Mars

Researchers found the stationary lander detected seismic waves along the planet’s surface, caused by two space rocks.

2 years ago
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'Overpaying' Musk on deadline to close Twitter deal

Elon Musk looks set to meet a Friday deadline to seal his on-again, off-again deal to buy Twitter, avoiding a trial over the $44 billion contract that he admits is overpriced.

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Humor greets WhatsApp outage in Indonesia

Some users were thankful for the outage, which gave them temporary relief from nonstop work notifications.

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Literature finds unlikely social media partner in TikTok

Best-selling German author Sarah Sprinz's series of young adult books has received a boost from an unlikely quarter: A community of literary enthusiasts on social media platform TikTok.

2 years ago
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Record measurement of universe suggests 'something is fishy'

The comprehensive new study published in The Astrophysical Journal further confirmed that there is a significant discrepancy between two different ways to estimate the speed at which the universe is expanding. 

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Robotic suit gives paralyzed children gift of walking

Wearing a robotic exoskeleton designed specially for children, an eight-year-old boy with cerebral palsy walked through a therapy room in Mexico City, smiling triumphantly at the once-unthinkable feat.

2 years ago
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First 'concrete picture' of Neanderthal family revealed by DNA

The new research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, used DNA sequencing to look at the social life of a Neanderthal community, finding that women were more likely to stray from the cave than men.

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Genetic findings from Siberian caves give glimpse into Neanderthal life

Researchers on Wednesday described genomic findings from the remains of 13 Neanderthals - 11 from Chagyrskaya cave and two from Okladnikov cave in the Altai Mountains of Russia - in one of the largest genetic studies of a Neanderthal population to date.

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Iconic 'Pillars of Creation' captured in new Webb image

The twinkling of thousands of stars illuminates the telescope's first shot of the gigantic gold, copper and brown columns standing in the midst of the cosmos.

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Climate change may boost Arctic 'virus spillover' risk

Viruses need hosts like humans, animals, plants or fungi to replicate and spread, and occasionally they can jump to a new one that lacks immunity, as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Astronomers are captivated by brightest flash ever seen

The burst of gamma-rays -- the most intense form of electromagnetic radiation -- was first detected by orbiting telescopes on October 9, and its afterglow is still being watched by scientists across the world.

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