Everyone who knows the first thing about constellations can find Orion’s belt. For the vast majority of the Northern Hemisphere, those three unmissable stars in a slightly curved row can be seen on almost any night. This month, an excellent opportunity will present itself to view the Orion Nebula, when on…
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Larry and Kelly Peterson first met when they were just 10 years at a Spina Bifida camp where they discovered they were born on the same day. After dating in high school, they lost contact for 10 years, but they reconnected on social media and fell (back) in love. This year…
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How do you know if you have financially ‘made it’ in life? Well, almost one-third of Americans (31%) believe they have, according to a new poll. The survey of 2,000 employed Americans split evenly by generation revealed that more millennials than any other (34%) believe they’ve already made it. But many…
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The ‘World’s Most Intrepid Twins’ announced they’ve broken a world record, by flying a tandem electric para-motor 8,000ft over the French Alps. Ross and Hugo Turner, known as the Turner Twins, took the custom-made aircraft 2,438 meters high, floating over the mountains. The British siblings have submitted the information on an…
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A New Zealand-based eco-startup has cracked the code for replacing single-use plastic—targeting garden nurseries with their breakthrough bioplastic that breaks down naturally in soil. After five years of development and testing, Compostify is aiming to replace the 350 million waste-producing plastic pots produced annually across the country. “Our mission is to…
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Footprints dating back 1.5 million years made by two different species of human ancestors have been found at the same spot—a fossil first—and the individuals likely passed within an hour from each other. More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what…
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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has recently passed through a channel in which pure sulfur rocks litter the ground, and scientists aren’t sure why. In July, GNN reported how the rover had found a strange white stone, broke it open, and found sulfur crystals, shocking the rover’s science team back at NASA’s…
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