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‘Terminator Tape’ did its job in space-junk test — and it will be back Space Debris

‘Terminator Tape’ did its job in space-junk test — and it will be back

Home News Tech Artist's illustration of Tethers Unlimited's "Terminator Tape" de-orbit module, which interacts with the space environment to rapidly drag a satellite out of orbit. (Image: © Tethers Unlimited) One technique that could help alleviate the space-junk scourge just passed a key off-Earth test.In June 2019, SpaceX's huge Falcon…
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January 23, 2020
Greenwald lawyers ask Brazil to drop ‘scandalous’ criminal charges Brasilia

Greenwald lawyers ask Brazil to drop ‘scandalous’ criminal charges

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Lawyers for U.S. journalist Glenn Greenwald urged a Brazilian court on Thursday to dismiss criminal charges against him for allegedly aiding hackers who accessed the private phone messages of Sergio Moro, Brazil’s current justice minister. FILE PHOTO: Author and journalist Glenn Greenwald speaks to the audience at…
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January 23, 2020
Welp, Scientists Found 28 New Virus Groups in a Melting Glacier Seed Vault

Welp, Scientists Found 28 New Virus Groups in a Melting Glacier

Photo credit: SEBASTIAN KAULITZKI - Getty ImagesFrom Popular MechanicsScientists have unearthed 28 previously undiscovered viruses, which were trapped in Arctic ice from 15,000 years ago.The team collected the samples from the Guliya ice cap in Tibet, and published their work to the pre-print website, BioRxiv.As Arctic ice and permafrost continues…
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January 23, 2020
Maybe These Davos Guys Have Some Good Ideas About Climate Change (They Do Not) Greta Thunberg

Maybe These Davos Guys Have Some Good Ideas About Climate Change (They Do Not)

Photo: GettyDavos season is a beautiful time of year when rich, powerful people gather in a Swiss mountain town to talk about Big Ideas. Ensconced in this familiar backslapping environment, they also occasionally tell us how they really feel about some of the most pressing issues facing humanity like rising…
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January 23, 2020