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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

 
11 weird, groundbreaking, and cute animal stories...
Share Whether a large and fuzzy social media sensation or deep-sea slug slunking around the ocean’s Midnight Zone, there are still so many exciting animals on Earth just waiting for their close-up. In that spirit, here are the 11 of the most exciting animal stories that Popular Science covered this year.  First photo of a newborn great white shark  Wildlife filmmaker Carlos Gauna and University of California, Riverside biology doctoral student Phillip Sternes took footage of what could be...

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Your VPN is ripping you off while...
Share We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Your VPN sucks. Well, it may have got Friends back on your Netflix, but it’s charging you a fortune in fees for something this router can do without recurring payments. You’re throwing money down the drain! Don’t fall victim to subscription fees ever again in 2025; just hook your devices up to this VPN router like you would Wi-Fi and use its 150,000+...

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22 Popular Science stories you loved in...
Share Millions of you have turned to Popular Science each month in 2024 to see the latest scientific breakthroughs and technological debacles and everything in between. Using a secret formula of readership statistics, social activity, and curatorial instinct, we have collected 22 (why not!) stories spanning everything from DIY home tips to (so-called) gates of hell to (real) transparent mice. Peruse our most popular headlines of 2024 below and click through to read the stories. Why can’t we just...

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Senate NASA bill focuses on commercial space...
WASHINGTON — A NASA authorization bill introduced in the Senate in the final days of the current Congress would have directed NASA to accelerate work on commercial space stations and address cost overruns on science programs. The NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2024 was formally introduced in the Senate Dec. 18 by Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, along with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), ranking member of the committee. Other co-sponsors include Sens. Kyrsten Sinema...

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Bubonic plague discovered in ancient Egyptian mummy...
Share Although the bubonic plague is most often associated with its deadly impact on 14th century Europe, traces of Yersinia pestis have also been found in skeletons found in modern-day Russia dating as far back as 5,000 years ago. Thanks to recent analysis, however, researchers believe they have confirmed the first known plague case outside Eurasia: a 3,290-year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy. Y. pestis, also known as the Black Death, is one of history’s most notorious diseases. Usually transmitted by...

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EAST SPACE Company Develops and Brings to...
This is a customer submitted press release. Submit your press release. The EAST SPACE Company has developed and brought to market three new products in the field of telemetry, propulsion and power with the approach of reducing costs and increasing the quality of technical specifications. S & X Band Module Due to the small size of CubeSats, one of the main challenges is low consuming equipment, especially for radios communication links. EAST SPACE team introduces the S & X...

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Why do we still have to use...
Share The holiday season is here, and for many of us, this means flying across the country to see family or–if we’re lucky–across the world to escape the winter. In either case, boarding a plane in the US means being greeted with the familiar instruction to turn portable electronic devices onto airplane mode or turn them off entirely. The reason for this policy has long been that cell phones might interfere with aircraft systems. But the EU lifted its...

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This tiny smartphone proves size doesn’t matter
Share We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Techies everywhere are freaking out over the NanoPhone. Why? It’s an Android smartphone that’s smaller than a credit card. People are grabbing them for their micro appeal (they’re great for travel) or as a backup for their primary phone. We’re slashing the price of this mini smartphone to $89.97 during our end-of-year sale and making shipping free—a 50 percent...

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Did you know Windows 11 Pro is...
Share We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Remember when Windows 10 first came out? Those were the good old days. It seemed like they’d last forever. Well, they didn’t. In a few months, Microsoft will no longer support Windows 10. Windows 10 is dead. Long live Windows 11.  Windows 11 Pro is an advanced operating system edition designed for professional and business users. However, it can...

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