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Drones Could Be Used For Organ Transplant Deliveries
Drones Could Be Used For Organ Transplant Deliveries Over the last 5 years, drones have become a very popular toy. This is, in no small part, due to their ease of use and their highly-accessible price structure. With this in mind, the potential for using them as a delivery/postal service…
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NASA Release Insight Video Ahead Of Live Mars Landing
NASA Release Insight Video Ahead Of Live Mars Landing Last week you may recall that we reported how for the first time in 6 years, NASA was planning to broadcast, live, the landing of the InSight craft as it descends towards Mars. The probe, which launched roughly 6 months ago,…
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Man Claims Visit To The Year 3700 And The News Isn’t Good
Man Claims Visit To The Year 3700 And The News Isn’t Good You may, on occasion, have encountered someone who attempts to tell you, with great interest, their story about visiting the future, past or possibly being abducted by aliens. They might have a tin-foil hat on or, at the…
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Sir David Attenborough Teams Up with Netflix for ‘Our Planet’
Netflix Continues ‘Planet Earth’ Legacy There is perhaps no duo more iconic than beautiful scenes in nature narrated by Sir David Attenborough. Which is why Netflix‘ latest docu-series titled ‘Our Planet’, essentially a clone of BBC‘s Planet Earth, series is a welcome announcement. According to the 92-year old broadcaster and…
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Japanese Researchers Create Remote Control Device For A Dog
Japanese Researchers Create Remote Control Device For A Dog Take a look around your home. I daresay you have rather a lot of things that have remote controls. Your TV for one. What about something more technical like a wall socket or light? I daresay, however, that one thing you…
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Nuclear Fusion Reactor To Re-Create The Suns Power On Earth
Nuclear Reactor To Re-Create The Sun On Earth If one thing is certain for the continuation of human life on Earth, it’s that sooner or later we’re going to have to find better sources of electricity. The simple fact that is the more of us there are on this planet,…
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Scientists Build Ladder Climbing Snake Robot
Scientists Build Ladder Climbing Snake Robot Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen a number of new innovations in robotic designs. Only a few days ago we saw how the University of Berkeley had designed (well, technically upgraded) a robot of theirs that was capable of movement via hopping motions.…
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Japan Release Images From Asteroid Landers
Japan Release Images From Asteroid Landers After spending a couple days nervously tracking an asteroid, the Japanese Space Agency launched two rovers on Friday. The success of the landing was, however, very unclear. Put simply, they had to wait to see if any data starting coming back to earth. Well,…
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UK Designed Space Junk Collector Is Deployed!
UK Designed Space Junk Collector Is Deployed! As you can imagine, over the years we’ve sent rather a lot of things into an orbit of our little planet. So much so in fact that we currently have a bit of a rubbish issue up there and a call to your…
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Dyson Announces A New Robot Vacuum Cleaner
Dyson Announces A New Robot Vacuum Cleaner Robotic vacuum cleaners have become remarkably popular in recent years. The strange thing is that in terms of their actual concept, the idea is quite an old one now. The idea was first used by Electrolux back in 1996, but since then many…
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SETI Scientists Report 72 Mysterious Signals!
SETI Scientists Report 72 Mysterious Signals! SETI (The Search For Extra-Terrestrial Life) pretty much has one job. They point their satellite into different parts of space and see if they can hear anything. That is oversimplifying it somewhat, but their remit, in a nutshell, is to try and find life on other…
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Curiosity Rover Sends Picture From Mars
Curiosity Rover Sends Picture From Mars Back in November 2011, the Curiosity Rover was launched with a mission to get to Mars and explore the surface. Having successfully made the trip, it’s fairly safe to say that so far things have been going really well. Since arriving it has sent…
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Scientists Create Sapphire Clock Accurate To 40 Million Years
Scientists Create Sapphire Clock Accurate To 40 Million Years You may not be aware of this, but creating an accurate clock is exceptionally difficult. Since we were first able to measure time with a reasonable level of success, we have strived to find a way to ensure that it is…
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Japan Conduct First Test For Space Elevator Technology
Japan Conduct First Test For Space Elevator Technology For many years there have been discussions surrounding the potential for the development of ‘space elevator’ technology. This would essentially put an orbiting ‘station’ in the air and from it, a direct cable (or line) would go to the earth’s surface. If…
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Scientists Develop A Biodegradable Paper Battery
Scientists Develop A Biodegradable Paper Battery Batteries are becoming a major problem in the world of waste disposal. We use so many of them in our appliances and due to the acids they contain, it’s estimated that the UK alone sends around 20,000 tonnes of them to the tip each…
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