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Mars 2020 rover to carry oxygen making device

The suite of  tools loaded on NASA´s next robotic vehicle, bound for the Red Planet in 2020, will include a…

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Why the moon is lemon-shaped?

Scientists have worked out the reasons for the distorted shape of our Moon. A US team calculated the effect on…

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Russia seeks Apple, SAP cooperation against foreign spying

Russia has proposed that Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and SAP (SAPG.DE) hand the government access to their source code to make…

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Sleep sensor breaks through $1m on crowdfunding platform

A 22-year-old British entrepreneur's new sleep-tracking kit named 'sense' has cracked $1.2m (£708,000) in its first week on Kickstarter's crowdfunding…

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‘Cheshire Cat’ becomes reality in Physics Quantum

Scientists have separated a particle from one of its physical properties for the first time - creating a "quantum Cheshire…

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Eggshells act like ‘sunblocks’, study suggests

The eggshells of wild birds may act like "sunblock", scientists have said. A range of UK birds' eggs showed adaptations…

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Nasa seeks help with Earth-Mars data links

Nasa is asking for help to get data back from its science missions orbiting Mars or roaming its surface. The…

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Wikipedia blocks ‘disruptive’ page edits from US Congress

Wikipedia administrators recently implemented a 10-day ban on page edits originating from computers within the US House of Representatives due…

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Google, Bing and Yahoo in trouble over ‘Right to be forgotten law’

European regulators have not yet decided whether to try to force search engines such as Google and Microsoft’s Bing to…

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