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Science
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Massive Milestone – Watch Elon Musk’s ‘Dragon’ Dock With The International Space Station [Videos]
04 Mar 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
In a giant leap for mankind (or at least space travel), SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule successfully docked to the International Space Station for the first time.
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Bill Gates Reckons These Tech Innovations Are Going To Change The World
01 Mar 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates weighed in on the tech and scientific advances he believes will impact the world in 2019 and beyond.
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Scientists Uncover Second-Ever Case Of ‘Semi-Identical’ Twins
28 Feb 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Scientists were able to identify the second-ever case of ‘semi-identical twins’, who are neither identical nor fraternal, but something in between.
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Massive ‘Dragon Aurora’ Over Iceland Leaves NASA Surprised
26 Feb 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
A massive dragon-shaped aurora has appeared in the sky over Iceland, and NASA is rather surprised at the timing of it all.
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Incredible Insight About Space And The Human Race From Jeff Bezos’ Private Talk At The Yale Club
25 Feb 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Jeff Bezos revealed the plans for his private aerospace company, Blue Origin, and other interesting insights in a private talk in New York.
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Scientists Think They’ve Finally Solved The Mystery Of Why Zebras Have Stripes
22 Feb 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
Ever wondered why zebras are striped? Scientists believe that they’ve finally figured it out, and I guess we can all relate.
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SA’s Own Rocket Launch Mission Ends With A Massive Bang [Video]
19 Feb 2019 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A team of students from the University of the KwaZulu Natal attempted their first “home-grown research rocket” launch yesterday. It didn’t go to plan.
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FACT: YouTube Is Contributing To More People Believing The Earth Is Flat [Videos]
18 Feb 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
A new study is blaming YouTube for the high number of people around the world who believe that the earth is flat.
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Paragraph Samples From The AI Fake Text Machine They Are Too Scared To Release
15 Feb 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
A new AI, dubbed GPT-2, is so good at responding to prompts that it’s been deemed too dangerous to release into the world.
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You Can Stay At This Space Hotel In Three Years Time [Video]
31 Jan 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
If you have a spare $9,5 million lying around in 2022, you could go on the ultimate holiday in the Aurora Station space hotel.
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These Scientists Reckon They’ll Cure Cancer By The End Of The Year
30 Jan 2019 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A small team of Israeli scientists reckon they’ll have ticked off a cure for cancer by the end of the year, calling it the first ever “complete cure”.
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Sleep Texting Is A Thing Now And It Can Get Awkward
23 Jan 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
There’s sleepwalking, and sleep talking, and now you can add the potentially awkward sleep texting into the equation.
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Here’s The Science Behind That Viral “Coughed Up Lung” Picture
11 Dec 2018 by Carrie / 1 Comment
In an incredibly rare case, during an extreme bout of coughing, a man spontaneously coughed up an intact cast of the inside of his lung.
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Gunshot Victim’s Face Transplant Is Unbelievable [Video]
30 Nov 2018 by Carrie / 1 Comment
Less than 11 months after 26-year-old Cameron Underwood underwent a face transplant, he’s revealing himself to the world.
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Flat Earthers Aren’t Buying This Whole NASA Mars Landing
30 Nov 2018 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As scientists around the world celebrate another fine achievement, Flat Earthers are once again up in arms about this massive hoax.
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Peak Nerd: Witness The Ridiculous NASA Handshake Following The Mars Landing [Videos]
27 Nov 2018 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
NASA’s InSight team were understandably stoked when their probe touched down successfully on Mars. Two of their crew stole the show.
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WATCH LIVE: NASA Brace Themselves For Mars Landing’s “Seven Minutes Of Terror” [Video]
26 Nov 2018 by Carrie / No Comments
NASA’s InSight lander is scheduled to land on Mars tonight, in the first mission to land on Mars since 2012, and NASA are ready for high drama.
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Apparently The Season You’re Born In Can Actually Affect Your Personality
20 Nov 2018 by Carrie / No Comments
While the merits of astrology and horoscopes are often derided, science is showing that the season of birth could actually affect your personality.
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Astronomers Reckon They’ve Found A “Frozen Super-Earth” [Images]
15 Nov 2018 by Carrie / No Comments
Astronomers have found a frozen exoplanet more than three times the mass of earth, orbiting a star six light-years away.
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Proof Of The Black Hole In The Centre Of Our Galaxy
06 Nov 2018 by Carrie / 3 Comments
Scientists have uncovered evidence of a black hole at the centre of our galaxy. They’ve also managed snap a pic of it using the Very Large Telescope.
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The ‘Parkour’ Robot From Boston Dynamics Is Just Too Much [Video]
15 Oct 2018 by Carrie / No Comments
Robotics firm Boston Dynamics has unveiled the latest version of its super advanced and extremely nimble Atlas robot. Be afraid.
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Solve One Of These Six Maths Problems And You Win $1 Million
04 Sep 2018 by Carrie / 1 Comment
Grigori Perelman famously solved the Poincare Conjecture in 2006. The remaining six problems so important that solving any one of them would make you rich.
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Space Station Using Duct Tape To Stop Losing Air In 18 Days
31 Aug 2018 by Carrie / No Comments
A search of the International Space Station on Thursday confirmed that there was a leak in the Russian section of the spacecraft, caused by space junk.
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Future Of SA’s ‘Dinosaur Fish’ Hangs In The Balance
21 Aug 2018 by Carrie / No Comments
The coelacanth has survived everything the last 420 million years have had to throw at it, but now its toughest challenge may just be beginning.
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Beautiful Teen Gets Face Transplant After Failed Suicide [Video]
20 Aug 2018 by Carrie / No Comments
When she was 18, Katie Stubblefield tried to take her own life. Now, four years later, she has been given a new lease on life via a face transplant.
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First Picture (Ever) Of A Planet Actually Being Born
03 Jul 2018 by Nereesha Patel / No Comments
For the first time ever, scientists spotted a newborn planet being formed in outer space, and managed to capture the action on camera.
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John Oliver Managed To Make Gene Editing Really, Really Interesting [Video]
02 Jul 2018 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
We’re only beginning to scratch the surface in terms of what gene editing can achieve, so maybe it’s worth finding out more via the bespectacled Brit.
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De Beers Gets Into Lab-Made Diamonds
31 May 2018 by Nereesha Patel / No Comments
The diamond giant is planning to expand its business into diamonds of the man-made variety, which is quite a change of tune.
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This Woman Studies How The Universe Will End [Video]
31 May 2018 by Nereesha Patel / No Comments
An astrophysics professor has made it her mission to figure out the universe will meet its demise, and she’s having a great time doing it.
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Even Google Translate Is Taking The Piss Out Of Flat-Earthers
29 May 2018 by Nereesha Patel / 1 Comment
A secret Easter egg has been uncovered on Google Translate that’s leaving us in stitches, and flat-earthers right around the world shook.
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