By David W. Brown HAWTHORNE, Calif. — Clouds billowed from the Falcon 9 rocket, visible on the large screen looming above us. The vehicle was across the country at a NASA launch site in Florida, and engineers there were talking to…
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Notice that Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world, was going to erupt — as it did this past week for the first time in nearly four decades — came to people on the Big Island of Hawaii an hour before the lava began to flow
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Christopher Massimine is trying not to lie. He’s trying not to lie when his wife asks him whether he has sorted the recycling, or when his mother-in-law’s friend Mary Ann asks whether he liked the baked appetizers she brought over
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The first astronaut - or astronauts - with a physical disability could be announced as soon as Wednesday (23), according to the European Space Agency
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NASA’s majestic new rocket soared into space for the first time in the early hours of Wednesday (16), lighting up the night sky and accelerating on a journey that will take an astronaut-less capsule around the moon and back
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Every cat owner has a story to tell of being blanked by their cat: We call to our cat, it turns away, and some of us might be left wondering why we didn’t get a dog. But your cat may be listening after all. More than that, it cares more…
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Artificial intelligence is poised to reshape several fields, from email marketing to computer programming. Recipe writing is not a common area of study, but a handful of researchers, including a team at the Massachusetts Institute of…
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Under pressure and facing a wave of criticism, Elon Musk has increasingly turned to his favourite release valve: Twitter
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Almost but not quite in time for Halloween, astronomers announced Friday (4) that they had discovered the closest known black hole. It is a biggie, a shell of yawning emptiness 10 times as massive as the sun, orbiting as far from its own…
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Many Europeans carry genetic mutations that protected their ancestors from the bubonic plague, scientists reported Wednesday (19) in the journal Nature
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