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Tesla Model S

Tesla delivered record number of cars in its first quarter

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According to Tesla Motors, the car manufacturer delivered a record number of 10,030 cars in its first quarter, a 55% increase compared to last...
American Museum of Natural History

Extremophiles thrive in ultra harsh environments, exhibition at American Museum of Natural History

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Extremophiles are organisms that thrive in geochemically and physically extreme conditions including boiling liquid, super acid pools, extremely low temperatures, and even the vacuum and...
Office Lens

Microsoft launches mobile scanner app “Office Lens” for iOS and Android

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Microsoft launched its mobile document scanning app called Office Lens for iOS and Android smartphones. The app essentially turns a users phone into a pocket scanner...
Triassic marine life

Toxic and oxygen-starved oceans caused mass extinction 200 million years ago

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Two hundred million years ago, half of all plant, animal and marine life became extinct, and evidence shows that oxygen-depleted toxic oceans played a...
Blackpoll Warbler pic

Tiny songbird completes incredible 1500 mile fly-or-die migration every year

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A tiny songbird, the 0.42 oz (12 gram) Blackpoll Warbler flies from 1,410 to 1,720 miles (2270 to 2770 km) over the sea non-stop...
Welder at LHC

Large Hadron Collider set to restart after short circuit problem fixed

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The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hardon Collider (LHC), is set to restart this weekend after scientists fixed a short circuit...
Jonathan Franzen

Birds matter more than renewable energy schemes, says Jonathan Franzen

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American novelist and essayist Jonathan Franzen argues that birds matter more than renewable energy schemes aimed at combating climate change and ultimately protecting humans....
Precursors to cluster galaxies

Source of galaxy clusters discovered by cosmologists

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Cosmologists believe they have discovered the source of the vast cluster of galaxies we see today, after combining observational data of the distant Universe...
FRB telescope live

Intelligent aliens may be sending those fast radio bursts, scientists say

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Mysterious radio bursts from deep space are sent in such dispersion measures that they are unlikely to have come from something natural, scientists say,...
Camel skeleton pic

Complete camel skeleton from Ottoman Empire found in Austria

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Archaeologists were amazed to find a complete camel skeleton in Tulln, Lower Austria, dating back to the 17th century during the Second Ottoman War....