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Owning an asteroid and mining it

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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Climate change worries Britons more now than 5 years ago

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Britons are more worried today about climate change, with thirty-eight percent of respondents in a survey saying that global warming concerns them more now...
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UK Science Budget to rise with inflation, scientists breathe sigh of relief

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The UK Science Budget of £4.7 billion will rise with inflation, Chancellor George Osborne announced in Parliament on 25th November. British scientists breathed a...
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Starlings drowning in groups of 10 or more, a troubling mystery

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Starlings across the UK are drowning in groups of ten or more, and scientists say they are still baffled by this troubling mystery after...
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Microsoft announces major update on smart headsets for the blind

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Microsoft provided an update on software to help the blind get around town independently. The collaboration between Microsoft and the charity Guide Dogs, called “Cities Unlocked”, aims to explore...
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Treacherous and deceitful humans spread rapidly across the world

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Humans have a treacherous and deceitful dark side, which partly explains why we spread so rapidly across the world, says an archaeologist at the...
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O2 looking into blocking ads on its mobile network

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The UK’s second largest carrier O2 revealed that it is in “advanced stages” of looking into blocking ads on its mobile network. O2 has...
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Global carbon dioxide emissions growth tails off, says European Commission

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Global carbon dioxide emissions growth has tailed off, after increasing rapidly for several years, says the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC). Global carbon...
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Google blames coding bug for Yelp’s and TripAdvisor’s drop in search results

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Google blamed a coding bug for Yelp's and TripAdvisor's drop in its search results. Executives from the two affected websites recently tweeted their frustration with...
Allosaurus failed to sell

Juvenile Allosaurus auction fails to get successful bidder

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The juvenile Allosaurus – ‘Little Al’ – which was expected to fetch up to £500,000 at auction, failed to sell on Friday during the...