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Astronomers discover closest potentially habitable planet: Wolf 1061c

  The closest potentially habitable planet ever found has been spotted by Australian scientists, and it's just 14 light-years away. That’s 126 trillion kilometres from Earth, which sounds impossibly far, but when you consider that our closest planetary neighbour, Mars, is 249 million km away, that handful of light-years doesn’t seem so bad in the scheme of things. Named Wolf 1061c, the newly discovered planet is located in the constellation Ophiucus, and its star is the 35th closest star from Earth - that we know about. The team behind the discovery says it's

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Rovelli – This 78-page book on physics is selling more copies than ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’

Apparently, Italians find physics more sexy than S&M – at least for reading material. Since it was published last September, Carlo Rovelli's book Seven Brief Lessons on Physics has sold more copies in Rovelli's native country, Italy, than E.L. James' smash hit Fifty Shades of Grey, The Spectator reported. And the translated English copy has quickly risen to become Penguin's fastest-selling science debut in the publishing company's history. So what's Rovelli's secret? After all, it's not like physics is a topic that people flock toward. In fact, physics has bee

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People in China are buying cans of fresh air from Canada

People in China are buying cans of fresh air from Canada What started out as a joke straight out of Spaceballs has suddenly taken off as a viable business - a Canadian start-up selling bottled air from the Rocky Mountains has seen a surge of sales from China, with its first shipment selling out in four days. The concept of Vitality Air was dreamt up back in 2013, when a couple of Canadians auctioned off a bag of air for less than 99 cents on eBay. Their second bag sold for US$160. "That’s when we realised there is a market for this," co-founder Moses Lam told The Tele

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Scientist develops Super Condoms that kill HIV virus and enhances pleasure

Scientist develops Super Condoms that kill HIV virus and enhances pleasure A new hydrogel-based condom that contains antioxidants has been invented by a team of Indian-American scientists at the Texas A&M University Health Science Center. Not only does it contain plant-based antioxidants, which kills the HIV-virus in case of condom breakage but it also uses antioxidants to enhance pleasure. Experts say it is the new big player to join the fight against AIDS... (more…)

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The world’s largest smartphone battery lasts up to 15 days on a single charge

There's lots of interesting research – involving things like mushrooms,aluminium, and hydrogen – looking to find the next generation of energy technology that will replace our current lithium-ion batteries, but what if you don't want to wait for the future to arrive? Well, how about we just insert a mega-big-ass battery into your next phone and see how that goes? That's the exact thinking behind the new K10000 smartphone from Chinese tech company Oukitel. This model crams in a gigantic 10,000 mAh (milliampere-hour) battery that's billed to last between 10 and 15 days

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