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• Harvard Scientist Proposing Mysterious Power Source Fueling Alien Spacecraft
  A Harvard scientist is speculating mysterious fast radio bursts, which generate as much energy as 500 million suns, could be powering alien probes in distant galaxies, Science Alert is reporting.
• Russian Scientist, Son Building Pleistocene Park For Ice Age Animals
  A Russian scientist and his son are trying to recreate a long-lost ecosystem in the Siberian Arctic that'll be a refuge for species that survived the last Ice Age – and will allow bringing others back from extinction, The Atlantic reports.
• Flying Car Could Hit the Skies in Near Future
  A unique flying car could become reality in as little as five years.
• Scientists Grow Potatoes in Mars-Like Conditions
  Scientists in Peru successfully grew potatoes in soil and atmospheric conditions that mirrored those on Mars.
• Poll: Majority of Americans Say Feds Would Keep Aliens a Secret
  Most Americans think the government would try to keep it secret if there was any contact with an alien species, a new poll shows.
• Scientists Experiment Storing Data With 'DNA Fountain'
  Humanity has a data storage problem – and DNA might be the solution, according to new research reported Thursday in the journal Science.
• Twitter Adds More Safety Tools, Will Curb Abusive Accounts
  Twitter is adding more tools to curb abuse on its service as part of its ongoing effort to protect users from hate and harassment.
• Life on Pluto? Scientists Say Maybe
  The planet Pluto might have alien life based on a new scientific analysis.The New Horizons spacecraft collected data during a flyby of the faraway planet and concluded it is possible there could be some type of organic material on it.
• Scottish Scientists Create Virus-Resistant Pigs
  The animal sciences institute responsible for cloning Dolly the sheep in 1996 has now created genetically engineered pigs that are resistant to a deadly viral infection.
• SpaceX to Send 2 Space Tourists Around Moon in 2018
  SpaceX, the private space transport service founded by Elon Musk, plans to fly two private citizens around the moon late next year, the company announced Monday.
• Several Earth-Like Planets Discovered Orbiting Nearby Star
  When astronomers eyeball little stars twinkling through their telescopes, they now know for certain that circling around some of them are worlds not unlike our own.
• NASA Aims to Measure Vital Snow Data From Satellites
  Instrument-laden aircraft are surveying the Colorado high country this month as scientists search for better ways to measure how much water is locked up in the world's mountain snows - water that sustains a substantial share of the global population.
• NASA to Announce Discovery of New Planets
  NASA said Monday it will announce the discovery of new planets this week.
• Jose Canseco Warns of Robot Takeover: 'Wake the F*** Up'
  Come with Jose Canseco if you want to live. The retired Major League Baseball slugger is not kidding around, warning in a tweetstorm Monday people are taking the coming robot takeover too lightly.
• AT&T Testing 'Flying COW' Drones to Enhance Cell Coverage
  A cell phone carrier fixing its dead zones? When cows fly, perhaps. Well, flying COWs just might be how AT T enhances coverage in notorious troublesome areas of reception, BGR reported, as reprinted by the New York Post.COW stands for cell on wings, which is the name...
• Study: Banned Chemical Pollutants Found in Deep Sea
  Scientists have discovered chemical pollutants nearly 33,000 feet below the ocean's surface in the Mariana Trench, the BBC reports.
• Elon Musk: Merge Humans with Machines to Create Cyborgs
  Mankind must find a way to create cyborgs with biological and digital intelligence to avoid becoming irrelevant, billionaire car company and space-travel startup CEO Elon Musk says.
• NASA Scientists Baffled By Color Lights Shooting Into Space
  A mysterious weather phenomenon called blue jets and red sprites has baffled scientists for years, and NASA still has no explanation for what appear to be lighting bolts that shoot up toward space rather than down to the ground.
• Pollution-Fighting Vertical Forests Coming to China
  China is said to be building a Vertical forest, a pair of pollution-fighting residential towers stylized with over 3,000 plants and designed by Italian architect Stefano Boeri, CNET reports.
• Water on Mars Mystery Continues, Carbon Dioxide Too Low, Scientists Say
  The early atmosphere on Mars did not have enough carbon dioxide to support liquid water, new research shows – deepening the mystery on how the Red Planet could have been once filled with lakes and oceans.
• Uber Hires NASA Engineer to Head Development of Flying Car
  A 30-year engineering veteran of NASA has joined Uber as the ride sharing company seeks to develop flying cars.
• Trump and Congress Vow to Return US to Space Dominance
  President Donald Trump promised in his inaugural address to unlock the mysteries of space and Congress may be ready to help with funding for a rocket capable of sending astronauts to the moon or even Mars, the Daily Caller reported.According to the Daily Caller, Congress...
• NASA, German Scientists Launching Space Farm Satellite
  NASA and German scientists are joining forces to launch the first experimental space farming satellite into orbit, with the goal of one day providing space crews with reliable sources of fresh food.
• UFO Sighting Reported in Austin
  People in Austin are saying they spotted UFO's in the sky last Monday and they have video to prove it, Fox 7 reports.
• NASA Opens Exhibit on 50th Anniversary of Apollo 1 Fire
  NASA opened an exhibit Friday honoring the astronauts in the Apollo 1 fire - 50 years to the day they died.The hatch from the burned spacecraft is the main draw.

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