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NASA Abandons Hope for Mars Rover Opportunity
NASA Abandons Hope for Opportunity Rover Last year a pretty significant storm hit Mars and one of the casualties with the Opportunity Rover. While Curiousity managed to escape unscathed, contact was lost with Opportunity. The exact cause was unclear, it was, however, speculated that the storm may have caused the solar…
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New Research Finds No Link Between Gaming And Teen Anger
Research Finds No Gaming/Teen Aggression Link I have often been very critical of the media for too often using video games as a convenient excuse for ‘what’s wrong with kids today’. In fact, if you want to go into more detail, I wrote rather lengthily about it which you can check…
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UK-Build ‘Prime’ Rocket Design Revealed
Prime Rocket While the UK might have had a hand in the rocket industry over the years, as a country it has largely not been involved in what you might call the manufacturing and ‘blast-off’ phase. It seems, however, that this might be about to change and in the not…
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NASA Model Suggests That The Moon Was Once Part Of Earth
NASA Research Suggests The Moon Came From Earth One of the biggest points of speculation surrounding the Moon is exactly how it came to be there. Moons are, of course, not uncommon and we’re certainly more than a little familiar with the one orbiting our planet. In a report via…
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Robot Dog Can Get Knocked Down But He’ll Get Up Again
Robot Dog Survives A Kick One of the biggest design challenges in robots is specifically their balance and articulation. As was demonstrated in the original Robocop film, when ED209 fell over, he was rendered useless. The team at Robotics Systems Labs, however, are trying to make the recovery process a lot…
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Former Royal Marine Takes On Assault Course In Jet Suit
Jet Suit Shown Tackling Assault Course It has probably been the dream of many to own some kind of rocket jetpack. Well, if not then science fiction makers clearly seem to think so as it’s a subject they’ve regularly visited for over 70 years now. A now retired Royal Marine…
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Viral Reddit Post Suggests Flat Earth Edge Hunting Reality Show
Flat Earth Reality Show Now, as I’m sure you are aware, there are a number of people out there who seem entirely convinced that planet Earth is not round. Well, more accurately, not a 3-dimensional spheroid. I am, of course, talking about people who believe in the ‘Flat Earth‘ theory. For…
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CERN Unveils Plans for the 100-km Future Circular Collider
Dwarfs LHC in Comparison CERN has been planning their next generation collider for years. Now they have finally unveiled the plans for the Future Circular Collider (FCC). A massive 100-km (62-miles) long construction which dwarfs the massive Large Hadron Collider in comparison.If the LHC is capable of 14 TeV and…
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Cancer Breathalyser Detection Device Being Trialled In UK
Cancer Breathalyser When it comes to cancer, early detection is a major factor in the success of subsequent treatment. As such, it’s always interesting to hear when new devices come onto the market which may help to assist this. One such device, however, is certainly a little different to what…
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NASA Releases Clearer, More Detailed Photo of Ultima Thule
New Higher-Resolution Photo from NASA Several hours after releasing the initial photo of the Ultima Thule, NASA has released another, much more clearer photo of the distant object. The snowman-like object is the furthest ever explored by a spacecraft and until yesterday, all photos available of the object were quite…
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NASA New Horizons Vessel Contacts Earth
NASA New Horizons It has been almost 13 years since NASA launched their New Horizons craft. Its mission was rather simple. Go out there and see what you can find! More specifically, the intention is that it may hopefully shed some light as to the origin of our solar system.…
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NASA InSight Probe Sends A Selfie Back To Earth
NASA InSight Probe You may recall how a little over 2 weeks ago, the NASA InSight probe prepared to make it’s (pretty dangerous) landing on the surface of Mars. We say pretty dangerous as to date crafts attempting to make a landing have only seen around a 50%-60% success rate.…
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NASA – US Moon Trip ‘Sooner Than You Might Think’
NASA -US Moon Trip ‘Sooner Than You Might Think’ It’s amazing to think that it has been over 45 years now since we last walked on the moon. Yes, despite visiting it very short successive trips, we have yet to return. The conspiracy theorists would, of course, argue that we…
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Furhat – A Robot Designed To Listen To Your Problems
Furhat – A Robot Designed To Listen To Your Problems We all have our problems and sometimes it’s nice to have a little bit of a ‘vent’. It can, however, sometimes be more than a little difficult to do it. Firstly, it’s human nature that it can be difficult to…
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NASA InSight Successfully Lands On Mars!
NASA InSight Successfully Lands On Mars! Yesterday, at almost exactly 8 pm (GMT) the NASA InSight prove began its descent towards Mars. Having travelled for around 6 months to reach its destination, it was this final approach that was the most critical. Would it successfully get through the atmosphere and,…
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