Amazon launches partnership with rival SpaceX to send competing satellites into orbit

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SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket
SpaceX's Falcon 9 lifts off early on September 21, 2014, from launch complex 40 at Cape Canaveral.

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Scientists made tiny living 'robots' from human cells that may one day help treat diseases

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The microscopic "robots" were created from human lung cells.

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Orcas killed a great white shark for its liver in Australia, scientists confirmed, leaving the sharks one less place to hide

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A Great White Shark surfaces from the water near a person’s outstretched hand.
A Great White Shark surfaces from the water near a person’s outstretched hand.

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SpaceX rockets are burning bright red holes in Earth's atmosphere and they're becoming too common for astronomers' comfort

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A photo of the ionospheric hole left behind after a July SpaceX rocket launch.
These ionospheric holes are becoming more and more common.

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A powerful solar eruption headed for Earth could trigger a strong geomagnetic storm by Friday and stunning aurora across Canada

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Solar flare seen on sun taken by NOAA satellites.
A large solar flare erupted from the sun earlier this week generating a powerful explosion directed toward Earth.

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The hidden expense that's sucking $74 billion out of the economy

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Rising home and car insurance costs could cause many Americans' budgets to crack — and hamstring the driving force behind the US economy.

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Despite Biden climate change pledges and conservative complaints about a war on energy, the US is on pace for record oil and gas production in 2023

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President Joe Biden.

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Stunning video shows Antarctic killer whales appearing to use icebergs as scratching posts, possibly to exfoliate their skin

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Orcas in Antarctica, photographed in 1981.

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Some electric vehicles can charge while they drive thanks to special coils installed under a street in Detroit

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A blue electric van drives past a rectangular metal wireless charging coil exposed in the street
The wireless charging technology belongs to a company called Electreon.

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Fire damaged Nikola Tesla's last remaining laboratory that crowdfounders raised over $1 million to save

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A fire-damaged building, the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, with a brick and metal tower still standing
Fire damaged the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, a former laboratory of inventor Nikola Tesla.

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