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But first, scientists need to see if it's ready.
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The USPS's New Mail Truck Is Expected to Be Delivering Mail by 2023
The Postal Service just decided it's time to get weird.
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After losing launch competition, Blue Origin delays New Glenn rocket’s first flight until late 2022
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture says it’s targeting the fourth quarter of 2022 for the first flight of its orbital-class New Glenn rocket — which marks a major schedule shift. The company had previously planned to conduct its first New Glenn launch from Florida by the end of this year, although it was becoming increasingly clear that timeline wouldn’t hold. In a blog posting, Blue Origin said its team “has been in contact with all of our customers to ensure this baseline meets their launch needs.” Blue Origin noted that the updated timeline follows the U.S. Space… Read More
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Human genome sequencing rises to the next level of diversity and accuracy
Twenty years after the first human genome sequence was published, an international research team has kicked the sequencing game to the next level with a set of 64 reference genomes that reflect much higher resolution and more genetic diversity. Since the Human Genome Project completed the first draft of its reference genome, decoding the human genetic code has been transformed from a multibillion-dollar endeavor into a relatively inexpensive commercial service. However, commercial whole-genome sequencing, or WGS, often misses out on crucial variations that can make all the difference when it comes to an individual’s health. “As a metric, 75% of… Read More
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NASA backs concepts for deep-drilling Mars rover and interstellar-object probe
The latest crop of NASA-backed concepts for far-out space exploration includes “borebots” that could drill as far as a mile beneath the Martian surface in search of liquid water, and a nuclear-powered spacecraft that could intercept interstellar objects as they zip through our solar system. Researchers in Washington state are behind both of those ideas. The borebots and the interstellar-object checker are among 16 proposals winning Phase I funding from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, or NIAC. For more than two decades, NIAC (which started out as the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts) has backed early-stage projects that could… Read More
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Scientists Just Figured Out How to Turn Your Body Into a Battery
Imagine charging your Apple Watch with ... yourself.
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Paleontologists use fossilized teeth to flesh out ancient tale of earliest primates
The shapes of fossilized teeth from 65.9 million-year-old, squirrel-like creatures suggest that the branch of the tree of life that gave rise to us humans and other primates flowered while dinosaurs still walked the earth. That’s the claim coming from a team of 10 researchers across the U.S., including biologists at Seattle’s Burke Museum and the University of Washington. In a study published by Royal Society Open Science, the team lays out evidence that an ancient group of primates known as plesiadapiforms must have emerged before the mass-extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs. (Technically, modern-day birds are considered the… Read More
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Surreal Destinations You Wouldn’t Think Are in America
Pictures just won’t do these places justice.From Popular Mechanics
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Stoke Space raises $9.1 million to create a new breed of reusable upper-stage rockets
Stoke Space Technologies, the Renton, Wash.-based company founded by veterans of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture, has attracted $9.1 million in seed investments for extending rocket reusability to new frontiers. The first goal will be to develop a new kind of reusable upper stage, Stoke co-founder and CEO Andy Lapsa said. “That’s the last domino to fall in the industry before reusability is commonplace,” Lapsa told GeekWire. “Even right now, I think space launch is in a production-limited paradigm.” Rocket reusability is the watchword, to be sure — not only at Blue Origin, where Lapsa was an award-winning rocket… Read More
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The Ultimate Hunting Gear Guide
Expert-tested essentials for hunting deer, elk, ducks, birds, and beyondFrom Popular Mechanics
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Six Great Smart Notebooks to Increase Your Productivity
Prefer pen and paper to a smartphone or tablet? These smart notebooks will let you take notes the old-fashioned way and easily digitize them.From Popular Mechanics
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10 Low-Calorie Beers That Are High In Deliciousness
Six-packs. For your six-pack. From Popular Mechanics
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Mystery 41kg Russian metal object found on beach in Bahamas ‘could be from spacecraft’
Space experts believe object could have come from satellite or spacecraft
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Anger as Florida lawmaker Greg Steube says transgender people ‘offend’ God
GOP’s Greg Steube attacked for comments by Democrats during Equality Act debate
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Who’s John Boehner’: Ted Cruz reacts to former Speaker telling him to ‘f*** himself’
Texas senator shamed for Cancun trip delivered a high-energy CPAC speech studded with Star Wars references
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Donald Trump Jr says dropping Springsteen’s DWI charge example of ‘liberal privilege’
The Boss’s blood alcohol level was one quarter of limit for driving
- The State
16-year-old drowns rescuing little brother after they fall through ice, OH officials say
A department of natural resources officer also died after suffering a “medical emergency” at the scene, officials say.
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Fury as New York town hosts ‘barbaric’ squirrel hunt
Event condemned as ‘barbaric, cruel, senseless and environmentally terrorising money grab’
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Trumps accused of treating White House staff like ‘concierge’
Employees also claim that Barack Obama and his family craved privacy while in executive mansion