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mike@bgr.comApple revealed a smaller form factor of its HomePod speaker during the company’s new product event today. The speaker is like a pint-sized version of the larger HomePod. Today at Apple’s iPhone 12 …
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NASA’s latest TESS image will make you feel so, so small
NASA’s TESS satellite has completed its survey of the northern sky, and the images it snapped are truly incredible. TESS is an exoplanet hunter, designed to detect planets orbiting distant stars. The spacecraft …
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It’s now the ‘slaughter phase’ for invasive ‘murder hornets’
Invasive giant hornets from Asia are about to start slaughtering native bees across the United States. The invasion of the so-called “murder hornets” was observed earlier this year, but the insects are about …
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Astronomers just spotted a planet floating freely in space without a star
Scientists have used gravitational lensing to detect a so-called ‘rogue planet’ that doesn’t orbit a star and floats freely in space. The planet is relatively small, but researchers can’t tell for certain how …
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This ancient skull was operated on, but not by a skilled surgeon
An ancient skull found in a cave in Spain reveals evidence of ancient surgery attempts. The skull has a large dent that is partially healed, indicating an attempt at brain surgery that was …
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Life on Venus? Jupiter may have made Venus inhabitable
New research suggests that Venus was once potentially habitable, but that likely changed when Jupiter swooped in and messed things up. Venus once had a much more elliptical orbit, allowing its surface to …
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Time travel isn’t as dangerous as we think, study says
Researchers say that if you’re worried about paradoxes in time travel, you shouldn’t be. Based on a lot of complex math, the team says they’ve determined that paradoxes related to time travel would …
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NASA wants your help to work in the dark
NASA is awarding up to $5 million in prizes for technology that will provide power storage and management on the Moon. Moon settlements and long-term missions will require stable sources of power, and …
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NASA’s 2024 Moon mission is in serious jeopardy
NASA’s plans to return humans to the Moon by 2024 will depend largely on whether it can secure funding from Congress. Right now, the space agency needs several billion more dollars to make …
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Will Perseverance find ancient ‘fossils’ on Mars?
The Perseverance rover is currently on route to Mars, and once it gets there it will have the ability to hunt for signs of life like no other rover before it. The rover …
