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Apr 16, 2020

Spy-themed London bar The Bletchley

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You have to break a code to get a cocktail at this spy-themed bar.

Apr 16, 2020

We Can Now Harvest Electricity From Plants

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(Plant-e)

Apr 16, 2020

Space and Missile Systems Center awards $35 million Space Test Program

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The U.S. Space Force’s Rocket Systems Launch Program (RSLP) Office at Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico, part of the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Launch Enterprise, today awarded a $35 million task order to VOX Space, LLC of El Segundo, California, for the Space Test Program-S28 (STP-S28) launch service. This is the first task order under the Orbital Services Program-4 (OSP-4) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract.

STP-S28 is a complex mission that will deliver a number of technology demonstrations to orbit, such as Space Domain Awareness and communications advancement, and inform future space system development.

VOX Space, a U.S.-incorporated, wholly-owned subsidiary of Virgin Orbit, LLC, will utilize three launches of the LauncherOne rocket to deliver 44 small satellites to low earth orbit. The first launch is tentatively planned for October 2021.

Apr 16, 2020

Xi fears Japan-led manufacturing exodus from China

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The year of the metal rat returns every 60 years — and brings calamity with it.

KATSUJI NAKAZAWA, Nikkei senior staff writer April 16, 2020 04:20 JST.

Apr 15, 2020

‘Mind-control’ cat parasite has now reached Hawaii

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The parasite Toxoplasma gondii has been found near Oahu, Hawaii public lands for the first time.

Apr 15, 2020

An MIT Lab Is Building Devices to Hack Your Dreams

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For the third of our lives that we spend in slumber, our minds take up residence in the unknown regions of the subconscious. We dream, though we don’t fully know why. And while these…

Apr 15, 2020

New Way to Kill Viruses: Shake Them to Death

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Certain sound frequencies may shatter viruses.

Apr 15, 2020

How Big Is a Proton?

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Scientists thought they knew the approximate size of a proton — until a 2010 experiment came back with a very different number 😮.

Apr 15, 2020

Spectacular ice eggs have washed onto a beach in Finland

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A combination of cold weather and just the right amount of wave motion has caused strange frozen spheres to cover a Finnish beach.

Apr 15, 2020

Responsive Furniture

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This transforms from a stool into a chair when you sit down. No buttons, no levers, no batteries. Just bum power.