Humanity has been shooting things into space for a few decades now, and we’ve gotten pretty good at it. What we haven’t gotten so good at is bringing things back down. Scientists have been sounding the alarm about the buildup of space junk for years, a point that was reinforced …
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We didn’t get pasted by that asteroid that sailed through Wednesday, which is arguably a good thing. Discovered in 2014, it was due to pass by Earth at a close but safe distance, which it won’t do again for another 500 years. Scientists all over the world took the opportunity …
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Photo: theglossynest on Instagram With images of fluffy white bunnies and precious yellow chicks everywhere to be seen, Easter is clearly in the air. Even if you’re avoiding all the chocolate goodies which are commonly associated with the season, you can always bring the springtime occasion into your humble home. Whether …
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Google has dominated consumer search for nearly 20 years. While this dominance continues today, there is one area of search where it is losing share rapidly: retail product search. Historically, it’s been one of Google’s biggest moneymakers, with retail search accounting for at least 25 percent of total search revenues. A …
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The Boeing Company this week unveiled concepts for the Deep Space Gateway and Transport systems that could help achieve NASA’s goal of having robust human space exploration from the Moon to Mars. Both of Boeing’s concepts leverage proven solar electric propulsion technology and hardware design from the 702 satellite family. …
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Space might be the final frontier, but the second to final frontier is my nearly endless list of books to read. Whether you’re interested in astronomy, cosmology, spacetime, or space travel, these books are waiting to blow your mind. Non-fiction Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in …
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According to an analysis of new data from NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft, solar wind and radiation are responsible for stripping the atmosphere of Mars. By measuring light and heavy isotopes of argon in the planet’s atmosphere, the authors have determined that the majority of the planet’s …
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One of the least-popular aspects of Microsoft’s Windows 10 rollout has been the sheer size of many of the updates. Last November, Microsoft announced that future betas and feature releases of Windows 10 would move to a differential download model, in which only files that had changed will actually be …
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The first gravitational wave ever sensed by mankind has a Twitter account, and you people voted to name it Wavey McWaveface. Clearly the internet has become self-aware, and is poking fun at itself. What should I change my twitter name to? — Wavy McWaveface (@iamgw150914) February 4, 2017 Jupiter is …
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India just set a world record by sending 104 satellites into space in a single launch. One hundred and three of them were nanosats, but they were crated beside Cartosat-2D: a three-quarter-ton beast the Indian government is going to use for cartography, imaging and maybe weather mapping. Ninety-six of the 103 were …
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