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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo could launch into space 'within weeks'
Virgin Galactic is all set to launch its latest SpaceShipTwo, the VSS Unity.
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Viral outbreak’s confirmed cases soar as China confirms human transmission
Cases of novel coronavirus infection in China have tripled over the weekend, sparking global concerns about an outbreak.
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Russia discovers five new islands in the Arctic
The Russian navy has found five new islands in the remote Arctic.
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Sea turtles are attracted to the smell of ocean plastics
New evidence suggests that sea turtles are drawn to the smell of plastic debris found in the ocean, according to a report published in Current Biology.
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Voyager 2 detects high temperatures and gaps in the heliopause sphere: NASA
NASA’s Voyager 2 reached the edge of the solar system in early November.
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Greenland’s glacier loss is accelerating
A new study using satellite images finds that Greenland’s glacier melt is accelerating.
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Taipei to test self-driving buses
Taiwan’s capital city of Taipei will test driverless shuttles in the second quarter next year.
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Proposed Nanjing skyscraper would be world's tallest LEED-Gold certified building
U.S.-based architectural firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill has won a competition to design Nanjing’s newest skyscraper, the South HeXi Yuzui Financial District Tower.
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Researchers break down plastic using sunlight
Researchers at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University this week said they have found a way to use sunlight to turn consumer plastic into a valuable chemical that could generate clean power.
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Official app from the Chinese Communist Party spies on its users
A new report from German cyber security firm Cure53 in collaboration with the U.S.-based Open Technology Fund has found that Chinese app Study the Great Nation contains code that allows authorities to access users’ phone data.
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Russia’s floating nuclear power plant starts generating electricity
The floating nuclear power plant Akademik Lomonosov has been connected to an electricity grid and successfully produced power for the first time in the Russian town of Pevek.
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China’s novel coronavirus claims first victim in U.S.
A new virus from the Chinese city of Wuhan has made 440 people sick, at least nine of whom have died, as of Wednesday.
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Local fish species in U.K. waters predicted to decline by 2050
A new report has predicted that cold-water fish species in British waters may be replaced with warm-water species as sea temperatures continue to rise.
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NASA | Intro to LIDAR - 2D Version
Want to know the 3D shape of terrain on another planet? Want to study the height and density of Earth's forests? An amazing tool called LIDAR can help! Learn more in this video.
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Asteroid Bennu Sample Site: Nightingale
The main science goal of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is to briefly touch down on near-Earth asteroid Bennu and collect a sample of fine-grained material, but the asteroid’s unexpected roughness could pose a hazard to the spacecraft. After...
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Google’s super computer achieves ‘quantum supremacy’
New research by Google has shown that its Sycamore quantum processor was able to perform a target computation in 200 seconds.
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Four leaks found in Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Plant
Coolant has been found seeping through pipes located in the nuclear station’s underground wall of frozen soil.
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How sugar addiction impacts the brain
New research from the journal Scientific Reports has found that sugar has the ability to transform our brain chemistry.
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NASA’s Mars 2020 rover successfully completes its first test drive
As part of NASA’s preparation for next year’s Mars mission, the Mars 2020 rover took its first driving test at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California on December 17.
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NASA | See Goddard in 3D!
See NASA Goddard in 3D! This short promotional video highlights some of the best that the Goddard Space Flight Center has to offer - showcasing the science and technology born from the efforts of the dedicated Goddard family.
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Create a Customized 3D Blimp in Blender
This tutorial demonstrates how to create a realistic 3D blimp model using Blender. He covers topics such as deleting default objects, creating a UV sphere, adjusting the number of segments, scaling and shaping the model, adding textures...
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‘Impossibly big’ black hole not as big as previously calculated
Two new studies have called into question the size of the “impossibly big” black hole named LB-1.
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Microplastics causes immune cells to die at a faster rate
New research from the University Medical Center Utrecht has found that immune cells that target microplastics die three times faster than cells that aren’t exposed to microplastics.
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China dumped 27 percent more waste into the ocean in 2018
China discarded 200.7 million cubic meters of waste into its coastal waters in 2018.