sciencealert.com — China's Academy of Space Technology is working on an orbital power plant that would capture solar energy in space and beam it back to Earth.
The plant would be able to harness solar power even when it's cloudy back on Earth, since its photovoltaic array would be floating high above any terrestrial…
cnbc.com — Let's be honest, lazy people get a bad rap, especially when some of the world's most successful billionaires are perceived as the exact opposite.
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, for instance gets up at 5 a.m. every day. He answers emails, eats breakfast with his family, reads the news, takes …
planetary.org — After months of unrelated political turmoil, multiple stop-gap spending bills, and an unprecedented government shutdown that shuttered the U.S. space program for 35 days, legislation providing NASA's 2019 budget was finally signed into law today. Remarkably, NASA did very well in the end.
Congress …
cnn.com — More bad news for diet soda lovers: Drinking two or more of any kind of artificially sweetened drinks a day is linked to an increased risk of clot-based strokes, heart attacks and early death in women over 50, according to a new study by the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association…
cnbc.com — The golf cart-size Opportunity outlived its twin, the Spirit rover, by several years. The two slow-moving vehicles landed on opposite sides of the planet in 2004 for a mission that was meant to last 90 days.
Its greatest achievement was discovering, along with Spirit , evidence that ancient Mars ha…
foxnews.com — Google is making a huge push into Middle America with a $13 billion investment in data centers and offices across 14 different states.
The company's CEO, Sundar Pichai, on Wednesday announced a major expansion of its footprint across the country in the form of data centers and offices in Nebraska, …
cnn.com — The elusive African black leopard is alive and well and living in Kenya -- and there are new pictures to prove it.
A team of biologists shot rare footage of the sleek big cat after spending months watching and waiting, said Nick Pilfold, a global conservation scientist at the San Diego Zoo.
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foxnews.com — The wreck of the World War II aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) has been discovered off the Solomon Islands by a research organization set up by the late billionaire Paul Allen.
The carrier was located in late January by the crew of the Research Vessel Petrel resting on the floor of the South Paci…
delish.com — Jose Cuervo is apparently here to make all our dreams come true. The beloved tequila brand now has an all-you-can-drink train experience, so you can sip (or throw back shots, no judgement) to your heart's content on a luxurious express ride from Guadalajara to Tequila, Mexico. So, yep. Must be heave…
ladbible.com — If you won the lottery, the first thing people would most likely want to know is what you'd spend your winnings on (jetpack, corgi and a butler, in case you're interested).
But the second thing people tend to ask when discussing hypothetical lottery wins is whether you would remain anonymous or go …