Science and reality
In a recent Star Wars VII trailer, BB-8 gets tossed around in the Falcon. Here is an analysis of the droid's motion.
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The drugmaker used only animal studies to prove that vaccine works.
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Although we might get a better idea of how the Earth works, Watson isn't likely to start predicting eruptions and earthquakes.
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The New Shepard spacecraft plans to launch people into space. However, going into space is different than getting into orbit.
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How gene drives force a gene to spread through a population.
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Mexico's Colima and Indonesia's Rinjani continue to erupt, Kanlaon in the Philippine awoke and Hakone in Japan and Shishaldin in Alaska calm down.
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Three years after its discovery, physicists are still fascinated by the Higgs boson’s secrets.
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The Texas of Canada has one Helsinki of a plan to cut fossil fuels.
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NASA's photo archive is a click away and even the Curiosity Rover is on Instagram, but how are these stunning photos of space actually made?
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Nola's death is a real-time window on extinction.
The post Nola the White Northern Rhino’s Death Leaves Just Three on Earth appeared first on WIRED.