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Owning materials from an asteroid now legal in United States

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Owning materials from an asteroid is now legal in the Unites States, after President Barack Obama signed the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act...
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Liquid metal brings shape-shifting to electronics industry

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Do you remember the liquid metal, shape-shifting android assassin in the Terminator 2 movie of the 1990s? That science-fiction notion could one day become...

Dell shares increase by 5.5 percent following buyout offer

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Dell shares have increased by 5.5 percent to $13.68 per share, following a buyout offer from founder of company, Michael Dell.  Mr Dell is attempting...
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Anthropocene started at the first nuclear test on July 16, 1945

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Anthropocene started when the first nuclear test took place, on July 16th, 1945, a research team suggests. Anthropocene refers to the current geological age,...
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Encana sells Western Canadian Montney assets to KKR and Veresen for $412m

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Encana Corporation says it is selling its natural gas pipeline and processing assets in northeast British Columbia to a new 50/50 limited partnership of New York’s...
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Missing link in evolution of complex life found

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A missing link in the evolution of complex life has been found, helping us understand how animals (including humans), plants and fungi evolved from...
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New tool Sunlight expands tracking of personal data on the Web

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Scientists at Columbia University’s Data Science Institute are to present ‘Sunlight’, a second-generation tool that they say brings transparency to the Web. They will...
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General Electric announces 12,000 job cuts to save $1 billion next year

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General Electric (GE) announced that it is cutting 12,000 jobs at its global power business to help save $1 billion next year. The decision to...

Eurozone GDP flatlines in Q2

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While Eurozone GDP flatlines in the second quarter, the economies of the other European Union (EU) nations surge ahead. Put simply, the EU is...
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Musk plans on making Internet available in space

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Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, is set on making Internet available in Space. Musk made an announcement on Friday that he wants...