The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is turning to university students to solve one of the lingering problems of space exploration: moon dust. NASA’s latest invitation to students is part of its plans to make human exploration of the moon sustainable. The problem is that the moon’s native dust particles …
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Major League Baseball is starting to look and sound like a video game. First, the league announced that they will use the crowd noise from Sony’s MLB video game, and now Fox will use cutting-edge virtual crowds in their broadcasts. Is that how it works: Fox Sports, in its twenty-fifth …
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Stocks fell on Thursday after jobless claims in the US unexpectedly rose for the first time since March and tech stocks fell. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 274 points, or 1.02%, to 26,731, the S&P 500 lost 1.03% and the Nasdaq fell 2.06%. Dow (Dow) – Get reportMicrosoft (MSFT) …
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In a former exoplanetary, astronomers have directly photographed two giant planets orbiting a star that is a virtual twin of the Sun, albeit much younger. The star is called TYC 8998-760-1 (after its identification number in Tycho’s catalog), and it’s about 310 light years away in the constellation Musca. It …
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AT&T has reached a milestone in its 5G network launch. As of this morning, the operator says that its network is officially available throughout the country; According to FCC guidelines, that means it’s available to more than 200 million people in the US Specifically, AT&T added 40 new markets today, …
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