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• SpaceX returns to flight, sending satellites into orbit

  14-01-2017 21:33
  
  (Reuters) - A SpaceX Falcon rocket blasted off from California on Saturday, returning the company to flight for the first time since a fiery launchpad explosion in September. The 230-foot (70-meter) rocket launched from VandenbergAir Force Base at 9:54 a.m. PST (1754 GMT) to deliver 10satellites into orbit for Iridium Communications Inc.
  
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• SpaceX launches first rocket since explosion in Florida

  14-01-2017 20:39
  
  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Saturday and placed a constellation of satellites in orbit, marking the company's first launch since a fireball engulfed a similar rocket on a Florida ...
  
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• Space Webcasts: SpaceX Launches Iridium Satellites, Aces Rocket Landing

  14-01-2017 20:18
  
  Update for 2:18 pm ET: SpaceX has successfully launched (and landed) a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 Iridium NEXT satellites for the communications satellite company Iridium. The launch at 12:54 pm ET (1754 GMT) lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base California and was SpaceX's first launch since a Sept. 1 rocket explosion. You can watch SpaceX's full webcast in the window below, courtesy of SpaceX. Watch Our Launch Video  | Watch the Falcon 9 Land at Sea  | S
  
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• 12 Years Later, Scientists Remember Epic Landing on Saturn Moon Titan

  14-01-2017 20:00
  
  As NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft begins its final eight months of operation, scientists are looking back at one of the mission's most dramatic moments: the landing of the piggyback Huygens probe on the huge moon Titan. Huygens touched down on Titan's frigid surface on Jan. 14, 2005, three weeks after separating from the Cassini mothership. "The Huygens descent and landing represented a major breakthrough in our exploration of Titan as well as the first soft landing on an outer-planet
  
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• SpaceX rocket successfully lifts off

  14-01-2017 19:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  SpaceX successfully launches a rocket, its first mission since an explosion in September.
  
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• 'Donkey Kong' Smashes Neuroscientists in Thought Experiment

  14-01-2017 19:36
  
  Never mind unraveling the mysteries of the human brain. A new study suggests that neuroscientists might not even have the analytical tools to understand the far simpler logic that drives the "brain" in "Donkey Kong."
  
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• The Science of Beauty: What's Really Driving the Fuller Lip Trend?

  14-01-2017 19:34
  
  A quick scroll through Instagram may leave you with the impression that full lips are in style at this very moment, but a new scientific analysis of fashion models says that the trend is surprisingly absent. One explanation for the results may be that the fashion industry is no longer driving beauty trends — instead, it’s possible that celebrities may be the new driving factor instead, according to the study. However, the fashion industry has often played a role in what women seek fr
  
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• How the Stress in Your Head Affects the Health of Your Heart

  14-01-2017 19:33
  
  The mind-body connection is more than just a catchphrase: A new study finds that increased levels of stress are indeed linked to greater risk of a heart attack or stroke. Researchers found that the people in the study who had more activity in an area of the brain that regulates the body's response to stress and fear, called the amygdala, were more likely to have a heart attack or stroke than those with less activity in the amygdala, according to the study. "This study identifies, for the first t
  
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• SpaceX returns to flight with Falcon 9 rocket launch

  14-01-2017 19:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US SpaceX rocket company resumes operations after a launch pad explosion in September.
  
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• SpaceX Returns to Flight with 10-Satellite Launch, Rocket Landing

  14-01-2017 19:05
  
  SpaceX launched 10 satellites to orbit today (Jan. 14) in a rousing return-to-flight mission that also included a rocket landing on a ship at sea. 9:54 a.m. local California time), carrying 10 communications satellites to low-Earth orbit for the Virginia-based company Iridium. Deployment of the satellites began 59 minutes after liftoff and took about 15 minutes, SpaceX representatives said.
  
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• Iraqi minister trying to improve relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia - report

  14-01-2017 16:58
  Iraq's foreign minister said he had carried messages between Iran and Saudi Arabia in a continuing attempt to curb a feud involving its two neighbours, Iran's state broadcaster IRIB reported on Saturday. Relations between the two regional rivals worsened after hundreds of people, many of them Iranians, died in a crush at the 2015 Muslim haj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. Iran blamed the disaster on organizers' incompetence, and boycotted last year's haj.
  
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• A live ruby sea dragon has been filmed in the wild for the first time and they're pretty magical creatures

  14-01-2017 13:49
  
  JK Rowling agrees – she’s tweeted saying she doesn’t know why she bothers “inventing Fantastic Beasts”.
  
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• Text messages from the dead

  14-01-2017 13:24 via cbc.ca
  
  Welcome to your social afterlife.
  
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• SpaceX Returns to Flight Today: Watch the Rocket Launch & Landing Try Live

  14-01-2017 13:00
  
  A SpaceX rocket will take to the skies today (Jan. 14) for the first time since a Sept. 1 launchpad explosion, and you can watch the highly anticipated liftoff live. You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX. You can also follow the launch directly via SpaceX at http://www.spacex.com/webcast or https://www.youtube.com/user/spacexchannel.
  
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• Scientists call for tri-national conservation effort to save monarch butterfly

  14-01-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Researchers from the University of Guelph in Ontario have helped pinpoint locations of monarch butterfly breeding grounds with the hope of a multi-national conservation effort.
  
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• China confirms one more human death from H7N9 bird flu

  14-01-2017 06:30
  A man in China's central Henan province has become the latest person reported to have died this winter from H7N9 bird flu, the state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday citing local health authorities. The 36-year-old roast duck salesman developed a fever and a cough around Dec. 25 in coastal Zhejiang province, near Shanghai, and returned to Henan in early January, Xinhua said. Bird flu is most likely to strike in winter and spring.
  
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• Seeing the quantum future... literally

  14-01-2017 06:00
  
  (University of Sydney) Sydney scientists have demonstrated the ability to 'see' the future of quantum systems and used that knowledge to preempt their demise, in a major achievement that could help bring the strange and powerful world of quantum technology closer to reality. Although applications of quantum-enabled technologies are compelling, quantum physicists had previously been stymied by the most significant obstacle to building reliable quantum technologies -- 'decoherence' or the randomiz
  
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• Diversification key to resilient fishing communities

  14-01-2017 06:00
  
  (University of Washington) Fishing communities can survive -- and even thrive -- as fish abundance and market prices shift if they can catch a variety of species and nimbly move from one fishery to the next, a new University of Washington study finds.
  
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• Space Visor VR Headset Offers Virtual Tour of Space Artifacts, Space Station

  14-01-2017 03:11
  
  Visitors to NASA's Kennedy Space Center can now take home the retired space shuttle Atlantis, the International Space Station and the entire solar system as a souvenir — all through a new virtual reality (VR) headset and app-driven experience. Space Visor, available from Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex gift shops and its online store, is designed to give its wearers the chance to continue their exploration of the complex and its space artifact exhibits after departing from the Florida
  
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• Soil fungi help tree seedlings survive, influence forest diversity

  14-01-2017 01:44
  The relationship between soil fungi and tree seedlings is more complicated than previously known, new research shows.
  
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