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(Bloomberg) -- Ursula von der Leyen of Germany made a final pitch to become European Commission president, telling the EU Parliament she would pursue bolder policies to protect the climate and improve social justice.The Christian Democratic nominee d...
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Fifty years ago on Tuesday, three American astronauts set off from Florida for the Moon on a mission that would change the way we see humanity's place in the universe. The crew's surviving members, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, are set to reunite...
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Malaysia will lodge a complaint with the World Trade Organization over the European Union's plan to phase out the use of palm oil in biofuels, a minister said Tuesday. The Southeast Asian country is the world's second biggest palm oil producer after...
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The Pacific's low-lying reef islands are likely to change shape in response to climate change, rather than simply sinking beneath rising seas and becoming uninhabitable as previously assumed, new research has found. Atoll nations such as Tuvalu, Tok...
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(Bloomberg) -- Amsterdam reckons it has more data centers than any other major city in the world, and that’s turned out to be too much of a good thing.The Dutch capital, which lured tech companies with attractive taxes and relatively cheap electricit...
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One day, the SpaceX Starship may take us back to the moon -- but first, it needs to get off of Earth.
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Sue Finley began work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the US prepared to launch its first satellite into orbit in 1958, racing to match the Soviet Union, which had accomplished the feat months earlier. Now 82, she is one of NASA's longest-servin...
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(Bloomberg) -- Meredith Whittaker, who helped lead employee protests at Google over the search giant’s military work, artificial intelligence and policies, is leaving the company.A Google spokeswoman confirmed Whittaker’s departure after another Goog...
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The agency said there was no threat of tsunami at this time. It also recorded aftershocks in several nearby provinces.
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On July 16 of 1969, the Apollo 11 mission launched to send the first man to the moon. 50 years later, the historic mission is being celebrated in a number of ways -- including a few high-tech recreations that make it possible to follow it in real-tim...
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A lead SpaceX engineer said an anomaly that destroyed its Crew Dragon capsule, which is designed to fly NASA astronauts, was caused by a small valve.
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A fuel leak in the rocket engine forced India to abort the launch of its landmark Moon mission less than one hour before liftoff, media reports said Tuesday. Having halted the countdown 56 minutes and 24 seconds before the scheduled launch of Chandr...
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These memes describe the mental health side effects of cancer.
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Too much fun in the sun? Learn the times you're most likely to get heatstroke and what to do about it.
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A leaky valve caused a SpaceX crew capsule to explode during a ground test back in April, destroying the spacecraft and dealing a blow to the company's effort to launch astronauts. SpaceX's crew Dragon capsule had just returned, minus astronauts, fr...