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• Russia Launches Robotic Supply Ship to International Space Station

  16-07-2016 23:59
  
  An unmanned Russian cargo ship launched to the International Space Station on Saturday (July 16) on a mission to deliver three tons of food, supplies and fuel to the orbiting laboratory. Progress 64 will journey for two days in space before arriving at the space station on Monday night (July 18). You can watch Progress 64 arrive at the space station here, courtesy of a NASA webcast.
  
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• SpaceX launching space station docking port for NASA

  16-07-2016 21:31
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX aims to launch another load of space station supplies for NASA, including a critical docking port needed by new U.S. crew capsules set to debut next year.
  
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• Two for One! Space Station Gets Rocket-Launch Double Shot This Weekend

  16-07-2016 14:02
  
  It's a doubleheader of cosmic proportions: This weekend, not one but two rockets are launching cargo missions to the International Space Station (ISS), and you can watch the action live online, thanks to NASA. First, here's what's flying and when: On Saturday, July 16, an uncrewed Russian Progress 64 cargo ship will launch at 5:41 p.m. EDT (2341 GMT) from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome to deliver 3 tons (2.7 metric tons) of supplies to the space station. Two days later (on Monday, July 19), th
  
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• Weird Science on SpaceX Dragon Is Tiny, Melty, Beating and Radioactive

  16-07-2016 13:58
  
  SpaceX's ninth commercial cargo mission, launching early Monday (July 18), is lugging a selection of strange science to the International Space Station — living, beating heart cells, microbes from a nuclear disaster, a tiny DNA sequencer and more. The six crewmembers on the station have been preparing for the supply ship's arrival early on Wednesday, July 20, when NASA astronaut (and current space station commander) Jeff Williams will grapple the craft with the space station's 57.7-foot (1
  
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• Laying Bare the Bones of Ancient Maya Society

  16-07-2016 13:00 via rss.sciam.com
  
  Bones from the animals people ate—or didn’t—offer a glimpse into the daily lives of ordinary Maya outside the ruling class
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• Nintendo taps into gaming nostalgia with NES Classic Edition, Pokemon Go

  16-07-2016 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Thanks to the power of nostalgia, the announcement of the NES Classic Edition has achieved a level of buzz similar to when the console first hit store shelves in 1985 and first made Nintendo a household name.
  
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• Federal appeals court rejects Navy sonar-use rules

  16-07-2016 04:58
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the U.S. Navy was wrongly allowed to use sonar in the nation's oceans that could harm whales and other marine life.
  
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• Stroke largely preventable, global study shows

  16-07-2016 03:29
  Ten risk factors that can be modified are responsible for nine of 10 strokes worldwide, but the ranking of those factors vary regionally, according to a study of 26,000 people worldwide. This should influence the development of strategies for stroke reduction, the researchers say.
  
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• Victoria Beckham Smooches Daughter: Did She Cross a Line?

  16-07-2016 01:04
  A photo of Victoria Beckham kissing her 5-year-old daughter, Harper, on the lips has sparked a wave of outrage online. Some commenters called the photo "disgusting" and "wrong," but others defended Beckham's show of affection. Although some people may find the gesture odd, a mother kissing her daughter is not inappropriate, said Dr. Alan Manevitz, a clinical psychiatrist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
  
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• Time on His Side? Jagger a Dad Again at Age 72

  16-07-2016 01:03
  Mick Jagger, the septuagenarian lead singer of the Rolling Stones, is expecting his eighth child — his first with 29-year-old partner, Melanie Hamrick. Epidemiologists have noted that there is an increased risk of certain conditions, particularly schizophrenia and autism, in children who have older fathers, according to Brian Lee, an associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics with the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University in Pennsylvania. "Both older mothers and
  
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• Fear the turtle: Terrapins disrupt planes at New York's JFK

  16-07-2016 00:29
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Of all the factors that could delay flights at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, this one is probably the slowest: turtles.
  
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• GM mosquitoes succeed at reducing dengue, company says

  16-07-2016 00:07
  
  GM mosquito releases in Brazil have helped cut dengue cases 91 percent in a year.
  
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