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Uncertainty after fire in luxury hotel Dubai
fri 01 jan 2016, 07:27 Uncertainty after fire in luxury hotel Dubai DUBAI – The surroundings of the hotel in the centre of Dubai, where Thursday night a violent fire raged, is Friday still closed. According to a reporter from al-Jazeera no one had expected that there is such a large fire in the Address…
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Someday Scientists Could Reprogram Carpenter Ants To Do Our Bidding
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have found a way to modify the behavior of carpenter ants using epigenetics—the science of how a gene gets turned into a physical body part or a character trait. They reported their findings last week in the journal Science. Are you ready to be a Beastmaster? Camponotus floridanus —…
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Get It On in Our New Year’s Eve Distributed Party
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One Rocket, Slightly Used but Ready to Fly Again!
Wait a minute…. Did Elon Musk just hint SpaceX will fly its victorious Falcon 9 rocket a second time?! We knew reusability was the long-term plan, but if they pull it off on the first attempt it’ll bump their celebrations up to a whole new level. We were all impressed when SpaceX literally landed spot-on…
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Welcome to the Modern-Day Space Race
Between competing government space agencies, commercial enterprises, humans, and robots, we have one very odd space race going on. Here’s the highs and lows of exploration for 2015! Even Akatsuki’s first-light instrument tests are producing new data on Venus. Image credit: JAXA Epic Win for Japan: Recovering a Wayward Venus Orbiter The Japanese Space Agency…
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Here Are Our Favorite Gizmodo Stories From 2015
Drones and Apple Watches. Lost planets and lurking chaos. The truth about dogs and cats. Star Wars—lots of Star Wars. Behold, our favorite stories from the past 364 days. We asked all the Gizmodo contributors to send along their favorite story from 2015. (If they were too humble to comply, we picked our favorites.) These…
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Video: so great is a Mercedes G63 AMG 6×6
Video: so great is a Mercedes G63 AMG 6×6 Posted on 26-03-2014 at 19:05 by robbie – 26 Comments” So a Lamborghini is slightly lower than the average car, but the contrast with the massive Mercedes G63 AMG 6×6 is very large. What this spot is all the more remarkable is the fact that this…
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Autoblog wish you a happy new year!
Autoblog wish you a happy new year! Posted on 01-01-2016 at 0:01 by MauritsH – 45 Comments” We have also had. 2015 is already behind us, and what was the a autojaar. We have everything all tidy for you in a row, so that we go no further uitkauwen. It is interesting to look ahead…
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Japanese Physicists Win Naming Rights for Element 113
Japanese particle physicists just received a welcome New Year’s gift: they won the right to name the superheavy element they spent a dozen years trying to create in an accelerator laboratory. Added bonus: it’s the first a team of Asian physicists has had the honor of naming a new element. They beat out a rival…
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Aww Yeah, the James Webb Space Telescope Has Half Its Mirrors!
What better way to spend the holidays than watching NASA technicians scurry around assembling mirror segments on the James Webb Space Telescope? With the 9th of 18 segments installed last week, we’re that much closer to hunting for signs of life on alien worlds and making our universe a little less lonely. A third of…