SpaceX suspects a 2-foot steel strut snapped inside its rocket and led to last month’s launch accident. The company’s founder and chief executive, Elon Musk , said Monday that hundreds of these struts had flown many times before without any problem. But two minutes into the June 28 launch, one…
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Co-creator David Harris Smith carries hitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot, during its’ introduced to an American audience at the Peabody Essex Museum Thursday, July 16, 2015, in Salem, Mass. HitchBOT is set to embark on its’ first cross-country hitchhiking trip of the U.S., after completing similar tips in Canada and Europe….
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Google’s stock roared out of a long slumber Friday to produce the biggest shareholder windfall in U.S. history as investors rewarded the Internet company for promising to curb its spending on risky projects. A 16 percent surge in Google’s publicly traded stock translated into an additional $ 65.1 billion in…
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Federally endangered dragonflies that have been raised in a laboratory over the past several years are being released at a forest preserve this week in Illinois, where scientists believe they’ll be a good match with the small population still there. The Hine’s emerald dragonflies, which for decades were believed to…
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A tsunami threat was canceled Saturday after a strong earthquake struck the Santa Cruz Islands in the South Pacific and no damage or casualties were reported. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the quake measured 6.9, down from a preliminary magnitude of 7.5. It hit at a depth of 33…
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<> <> This is an artist’s impression of Zhenyuanlong suni. <> Paleontologists have discovered a bird-like dinosaur in China that lived 125 million years ago and had a set of wings that surprisingly weren’t used for flight. The Zhenyuanlong suni was a cousin of the better known Velociraptor. The dinosaur’s…
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<> <> In the center left of Pluto’s vast heart-shaped feature – informally named “Tombaugh Regio” – lies a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes. <> New Horizons captured a stunning image that…
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In their annual, detailed physical of Earth’s climate, scientists say the world is in increasingly hot and rising water. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the American Meteorological Society’s annual state of the climate report delves into the details of already reported record-smashing warmth globally in 2014, giving special…
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Amazon has come a long way from selling books out of a Seattle garage. The company had an inauspicious start in July 1995 at the dawn of the Web as an online bookseller. It narrowly escaped the dot-com bust of 2000 to reinvent online retailing. And eventually, it morphed into…
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FILE – In this July 3, 2015, file photo, ground crew push the Solar Impulse 2, a solar powered airplane, towards the hangar after landingat the Kalaeloa Airport in Kapolei, Hawaii. The Solar Impulse team said in a news release early Wednesday, July 15, 2015, that they are suspending the…
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