By third grade (circa the early 1980s), I was regularly sleeping over at friends’ houses. Birthday slumber parties were common, as well as random Friday nights watching VHS tapes in dark dens until our eyes burned. At one friend’s house, we choreographed Wham! songs, and at another, I absorbed MTV like a sponge because we...
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A local’s guide to Cape Town, from new hotel openings to edgy art galleries
Published April 19, 2023 14 min read This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). There are a few things you immediately notice when arriving in Cape Town. The first is Table Mountain — an omnipresent, flat-topped massif rearing up above the Atlantic seaboard, wrapping itself around the city, presiding over everything with reassuring...
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On this 420, learn more about weed with these carefully cultivated science stories
Today is a very special holiday where a skunky smell permeates the air. If you’re celebrating 4/20, Popular Science has the perfect lineup of dope science stories to make you everyone’s favorite bud. Don’t puff puff pass on this one! Essential cannabis accessories First things first, everyone needs some cannabis supplies before lighting up. But...
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Pentagon has ‘no credible evidence’ of aliens or UFOs that defy physics
Home News Science & Astronomy A still from footage shot by a United States MQ-9 reaper drone showing what appears to be an unidentified spherical object soaring through the air. (Image credit: U.S. Dept. of Defense) The director of the Pentagon’s new UFO office shot down hopes that the current buzz over unidentified anomalous phenomena...
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Shuttle simulators and astronaut artifacts featured in new Lone Star ‘Space Gallery’
Home News Spaceflight Lone Star Flight Museum president and CEO Doug Owens (right) and Allison McIntyre, chief of the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, pose for a photo at the opening of the museum’s new Space Gallery on April, 13, 2023. (Image credit: Lone Star Flight Museum) A museum dedicated to...
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These two companies are designing a next-generation moon rover for NASA’s Artemis missions
If you buy through links on BGR, we may receive an affiliate commission. Learn more. Lunar Outpost, the company helping Nokia put 4G internet on the Moon, is teaming up with Lockheed Martin to help design a next-generation Moon rover planned for use in the Artemis missions. On top of its plans with Nokia, Lunar...
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Mind-Controlled Robots: New Graphene Sensors Are Turning Science Fiction Into Reality
Mind-Controlled Robots: New Graphene Sensors Are Turning Science Fiction Into Reality
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Facebook owner Meta sees latest layoffs begin
Facebook owner Meta has started notifying staff who are losing jobs in the wave of 10,000 job cuts the social media company announced last month.
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US imposes $300m penalty over hard disk drive exports to Huawei
US authorities have imposed a $300m (£241m) penalty on tech firm Seagate for allegedly violating export controls of hard disk drives to China's Huawei.
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Out-of-control defunct NASA satellite will smash into Earth today
An artist’s illustration of NASA’s RHESSI satellite facing the sun. (Image credit: NASA) A defunct, 660-pound (300 kilograms) NASA satellite is set to tumble uncontrollably back to Earth after spending two decades studying the sun from our orbit. NASA’s Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) satellite will hurtle through the Earth’s atmosphere at...