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Thursday, May 25, 2017
Science
Presence of humans in America dates back 115,000 years earlier than thought
High-tech dating of mastodon remains found in southern California has shattered the timeline of human migration to America, pushing the presence of hominins back to 130,000... More
Tech
New 'flying car' maker plans deliveries this year
A Silicon Valley "flying car" startup, Kitty Hawk, reportedly backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, released a video Monday of its airborne prototype and announced plans for deliveries of a "personal flying machine" this year More
Science
Thousands take part in March for Science on Earth Day
Scientists, students and research advocates rallied from the Brandenburg Gate to the Washington Monument on Earth Day, conveying a global message of scientific freedom without... More
Science
Tesla founder aims to link human brains with computers in 4 years
Tesla Inc founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk said his latest company Neuralink Corp is working to link the human brain with a machine interface by creating micron-sized... More
Asia Pacific
China launches cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1
China has launched its first unmanned cargo spacecraft on a mission to dock with the country's space station.
The Tianzhou 1 blasted off at 7:41 p.m. (1141 GMT) Thursday... More
Science
Soyuz capsule carrying American, Russian duo blasts off for space station
Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA's Jack Fischer, a first-time astronaut, blasted off for the International Space Station on Thursday from a Russian-run launch... More
Science
The problem of passing down information to 10,000 years into future
The earliest human writing first emerged about 5,000 years ago. Although walls, columns and foundational structures that are as old as 15,000 years remain, we are unable to... More
Science
US lab reveals horrifying archive footage of atmospheric nuclear tests
A U.S. federal science facility has recovered thousands of pieces of footage depicting atmospheric nuclear tests conducted between 1945 until they were banned in 1963, highlighting the extent of the damage that would be caused by some of the most powerful weapons of mass destruction in the world. More
Science
Large asteroid similar to Rock of Gibraltar to hurtle past earth on Apr 19
An asteroid as big as the Rock of Gibraltar will streak past Earth on April 19 at a safe but uncomfortably close distance, according to astronomers.
"Although there is... More
Science
NASA: There may be alien life in our solar system
Two moons - one of Saturn, the other of Jupiter - show evidence of the ingredients needed to support life, NASA said on Thursday.
The findings on Saturn's moon Enceladus... More
Science
Researchers name loud, rosy-clawed shrimp after Pink Floyd
A newly discovered species of shrimp that uses a bright pink claw to create a sound loud enough to kill small fish has been named for Pink Floyd.
The shrimp found on Panama's... More
Science
Astronauts to venture outside ISS in emergency walk
Two astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station as early as Tuesday for an emergency space walk to replace a failed computer, one of two that control major...
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Turkey
2 billion-year-old fossil to be displayed in Çankırı
A rare two-billion-year-old cyanobacteria fossil discovered in Turkey's Çankırı province will soon be exhibited at the Fatih Sultan Mehmet Kids Academy, reports said Friday.
According...
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Science
Turkish inventor produces electricity with window shade
Ahmet Fuat Yalçın, a Ph.D. student who won an award for his postgraduate project, "Window Shade," has now applied to patent his electricity generating invention, developed...
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Science
Leak shortens 200th spacewalk at Int'l Space Station
NASA said on Friday it would revamp plans for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station after a cable that supplies power, oxygen, cooling water and communications...
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Science
Fossils suggest modern humans lived alongside hominids in southern Africa
The first modern humans to have existed in Africa lived alongside a hominin species that also appears to have buried its dead, behaviour it shared with Homo sapiens, South...
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Science
Hawking says humans have 100 years to find new planet
Around six months after giving a 1,000-year deadline for Earth's destruction, famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking now says humans need to abandon Earth and look for...
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Science
Unmanned US military space plane lands after 2 years of secret mission
The U.S. military's experimental X-37B space plane landed on Sunday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing a classified mission that lasted nearly two years,...
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Science
NASA to start building earthquake forecast facility in İzmir
NASA is reported to be starting the construction of the Earthquake Forecast Ground Station inside Dokuz Eylül University's campus in İzmir. Turkish-descended French Ronald...
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Science
Group of scientists to identify disabled victims killed by Nazis
A German network of leading science institutes will begin identifying thousands of brain specimens belonging to people killed by the Nazis because they suffered from a disability...
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Science
Space between Saturn and its rings free of dust, NASA says
The space between the planet Saturn and its rings seems to be "relatively dust-free," NASA said Monday.
The surprising finding comes from data collected by the Cassini...
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Science
Cassini survives epic dive through Saturn's rings
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has survived an unprecedented trip between Saturn and its rings, and has amazing pictures to show for it.
Flight controllers regained contact...
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New Zealand launches rocket into space for first time
New Zealand has become the 11th nation to host a rocket launch, after private company Rocket Lab's carbon fiber Electron rocket took flight Thursday.
The company tweeted... more
New 'flying car' maker plans deliveries this year
A Silicon Valley "flying car" startup, Kitty Hawk, reportedly backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, released a video Monday of its airborne prototype and announced plans for deliveries of a "personal flying machine" this year More
Tesla founder aims to link human brains with computers in 4 years
Tesla Inc founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk said his latest company Neuralink Corp is working to link the human brain with a machine interface by creating micron-sized... More
China launches cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-1
China has launched its first unmanned cargo spacecraft on a mission to dock with the country's space station.
The Tianzhou 1 blasted off at 7:41 p.m. (1141 GMT) Thursday... More
Soyuz capsule carrying American, Russian duo blasts off for space station
Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA's Jack Fischer, a first-time astronaut, blasted off for the International Space Station on Thursday from a Russian-run launch... More
The problem of passing down information to 10,000 years into future
The earliest human writing first emerged about 5,000 years ago. Although walls, columns and foundational structures that are as old as 15,000 years remain, we are unable to... More
Large asteroid similar to Rock of Gibraltar to hurtle past earth on Apr 19
An asteroid as big as the Rock of Gibraltar will streak past Earth on April 19 at a safe but uncomfortably close distance, according to astronomers.
"Although there is... More
Astronauts to venture outside ISS in emergency walk
Two astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station as early as Tuesday for an emergency space walk to replace a failed computer, one of two that control major...
More
Turkish inventor produces electricity with window shade
Ahmet Fuat Yalçın, a Ph.D. student who won an award for his postgraduate project, "Window Shade," has now applied to patent his electricity generating invention, developed...
More
Leak shortens 200th spacewalk at Int'l Space Station
NASA said on Friday it would revamp plans for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station after a cable that supplies power, oxygen, cooling water and communications...
More
Hawking says humans have 100 years to find new planet
Around six months after giving a 1,000-year deadline for Earth's destruction, famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking now says humans need to abandon Earth and look for...
More
Unmanned US military space plane lands after 2 years of secret mission
The U.S. military's experimental X-37B space plane landed on Sunday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, completing a classified mission that lasted nearly two years,...
More
NASA to start building earthquake forecast facility in İzmir
NASA is reported to be starting the construction of the Earthquake Forecast Ground Station inside Dokuz Eylül University's campus in İzmir. Turkish-descended French Ronald...
More
Group of scientists to identify disabled victims killed by Nazis
A German network of leading science institutes will begin identifying thousands of brain specimens belonging to people killed by the Nazis because they suffered from a disability...
More
Cassini survives epic dive through Saturn's rings
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has survived an unprecedented trip between Saturn and its rings, and has amazing pictures to show for it.
Flight controllers regained contact...
More
