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World’s first artificial shooting star display to be launched by Japanese space start up | World News
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A Tokyo-based space company, ALE, has announced it will create the world’s first artificial meteor shower in 2025 – producing man-made shooting stars that could be seen from the UK. Named project Sky Canvas, the celestial light show will involve launching satellites up into space and deploying “space fireworks”. The objective is entertainment on an…
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World’s first 3D-printed rocket makes launch debut – but fails to reach orbit | Science & Tech News
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The world’s first 3D-printed rocket made its launch debut on Wednesday night – but failed just three minutes into the flight. Made almost entirely of 3D-printed parts, the Terran 1 booster by California-based aerospace startup Relativity Space lifted off at 11.25pm local time from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. There was nothing aboard the…
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VR headsets and simulated sandbags – the armed forces using virtual worlds to rehearse wars | Science & Tech News
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I’m watching as war breaks out in the Lake District. Tensions have been escalating for months between blue forces from the south and red forces in the north over disputed territory around Kendall. Now a helicopter has been shot down and both sides are attacking. It’s an exercise, of course. Not on a military training…
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Elon Musk overtaken as world’s richest person by LVMH chairman Bernard Arnault | Science & Tech News
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Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is no longer the richest person in the world after being usurped by LVMH chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault. According to Forbes’ real-time billionaires list, the 51-year-old’s net worth decreased by $4.5bn (-2.9%) in comparison to Arnault, who oversees some 70 fashion and cosmetic brands, whose rose by $849m…
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TikTok: Would the US really ban one of the world’s most popular apps? | Science & Tech News
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Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much these days, but have joined forces to unveil bipartisan legislation that would ban TikTok across the US. Representatives on both sides of the political divide in the House of Representatives and Senate have spoken out against what they perceive as a threat to national security. Those concerns were…
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‘Game-changing’ discovery of world’s oldest DNA could hold key to combating climate change | Science & Tech News
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The discovery of the world’s oldest DNA, dating back two million years, could reveal how to counteract global warming, scientists have said. Opening what has been hailed as a “game-changing” new chapter in the history of evolution, microscopic fragments were found buried deep in sediment that had built up over 20,000 years in northern Greenland.…
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Royal Navy helps dig out world’s most remote post office in Antarctic after 4m deluge of snow | World News
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Royal Navy sailors came to the aid of four women who have taken up jobs at an isolated Antarctic scientific base – after heavy snowfall buried some of the buildings. Clare Ballantyne, Mairi Hilton, Natalie Corbett and Lucy Bruzzone beat a record number of applicants to become the team responsible for managing historic site Port…
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Inside the world’s first nuclear waste tomb in Finland | Science & Tech News
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The world’s first geological tomb for nuclear waste is rapidly taking shape more than 400 metres below the forests of Finland. Batches of lethally radioactive uranium will start arriving within two years for burial in the warren of tunnels carved into the bedrock. Other countries, including the UK, are considering plans to build their own…