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Engadget - Christine Fisher
Loon provided internet service 48 hours after the 8.0 magnitude earthquake. When a magnitude 8.0 earthquake hit Peru Sunday, the Alphabet spinoff Loon was quick to respond. Within 48 hours, Loon delivered
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University researchers have created a powerful new molecule for the extraction of salt from liquid. The work has the …
National Geographic - Elaina Zachos
Harmful chemicals from sunscreen can damage coral. Here’s how to protect both your skin and the reefs. The world’s coral reefs are suffering, and chemicals commonly found in sunscreen contribute to the
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The Guardian - Heather Stewart Political editor
Theresa May has bowed to intense pressure from her own party and named 7 June as the day she will step aside as Conservative leader, drawing her turbulent three-year premiership to a close. Speaking in
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Scrubbed in and gowned, Esen Akpek perches on a stool over a surgical table, her blue-gloved hands miming the procedure she’s about to perform. In …
CNN - By Sugam Pokharel, Euan McKirdy and Tara John, CNN
(CNN) — The calm of Easter Sunday was shattered by gruesome bombings that killed at least 250 people in Sri Lankan churches and hotels. Though it's not clear who's behind the eight explosions that forced
CRISPR
NPR - Rob Stein
The powerful gene-editing technique called CRISPR has been in the news a lot. And not all the news has been good: A Chinese scientist stunned the world last year when he announced he had used CRISPR to
dailymail.co.uk - Sam Blanchard Health Reporter
Scientists claim to have made the first ever 3D-printed heart with human tissue and blood vessels. Although the organ is only the size of a cherry and …
Stratolaunch
The Verge - Sean O'Kane, Chris Welch
The world’s largest airplane took flight for the first time ever on Saturday morning. Built by rocket launch company Stratolaunch, the 500,000-pound plane with a 385-foot wingspan lifted off shortly after
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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s nearly seven year stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London has finally come to a disastrous end. After Wikileaks …
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Freshman lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made history by becoming the first member of Congress to take questions from the electorate while assembling IKEA furniture live on Instagram. CNN's Jeanne
medium.com - Alexandra Sifferlin
Scientist David Sinclair believes too many of us end up in old age as “the living dead.” He’s searching for drugs that can turn back the clock on …
The Telegraph - By Sarah Knapton
The memory of older people has been returned to the state of someone in their 20s for the first time by applying electrical stimulation to the brain to reconnect faulty circuits. Scientists at Boston in
greencarreports.com - Eric C. Evarts
It isn’t just batteries that are making big strides in electric cars. Several companies are also striving to make electric motors more efficient and …
The New York Times - By ILIANA MAGRA
More than 48 pounds of plastic, including disposable dishes, a corrugated tube, shopping bags and a detergent package with its bar code still visible, were found inside a dead sperm whale in Italy, the
Travel + Leisure - Cailey Rizzo
Indonesia’s famous Komodo island (home of the Komodo Dragon) will likely close to tourists after cops busted a ring of lizard smugglers last month. According to Indonesia’s Tempo newspaper, the government
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NBC News - Dareh Gregorian
The transmission of the document ends a lengthy probe into the president and Russian interference in the campaign. Special counsel Robert Mueller on Friday wrapped up his nearly two-year investigation
Electrek - Phil Dzikiy
Norway’s appetite for electric cars is booming, and its capital of Oslo will be the first to install wireless charging infrastructure for the city’s electric taxis. Finnish energy company Fortum announced
futurism.com - Dan Robitzski
Autopilot The U.S. Air Force recently announced a new artificial intelligence program that it’s calling “Skyborg,” which military leaders hope will be …
It took a mere five minutes on Tuesday morning for Border Patrol agents in Texas to apprehend more than 400 illegal immigrants. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), agents near the wall
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Popular Mechanics - By Sam Blum
AeroEnvironment's newest UAV is rumored to look at lot like the Helios Prototype, which crashed in 2003. A race is on to build a fleet of solar-powered drones that beam internet down to the Earth beneath
Fox News - Christopher Carbone
The historic flooding that inundated parts of the central U.S. this month was so devastating that the damage could be seen from space. Stunning images released by NASA show the extent of the flooding several
