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Best Iso Experiences To Gift Mum On Mother's Day

There's only a few days left before Mother's Day and if you've forgotten to pop in online orders, it's probably a little too late now. Don't fret because the internet is a wonderful place and can serve up a number of experiences you can buy mum instantly without having to resort on physical deliveries. Here's the best experiences you can gift your mum this Mother's Day. More »
    




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Unemployment fears mount in UK holiday hotspots with mass job cuts predicted



BRITAIN'S summer holiday destinations will face some of the biggest economic hits of the coronavirus pandemic with fears of massive job losses in coastal communities, a study has claimed.




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Aramco IPO Enters Final Phase, Shares to Start Trading Wednesday—Energy Journal

Saudi Aramco’s IPO saga has turned into “A Tale of Two Princes.” As Saudi Arabia’s day-to-day ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has guided the IPO far from public view, his half-brother Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman stepped onto center stage in Vienna last week, presiding over a crucial gathering of OPEC and its oil-producing allies […]




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Premier League clubs scared 50 players could revolt and put stop to Project Restart plans



Premier League clubs are fearful that a significant number of first-team stars may refuse to return to action if the league's Project Restart plan gets the green light.




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Railway: 12वीं पास से लेकर डिग्री धारक जल्द करें आवेदन, आज है अंतिम मौका

Railway Recruitment 2020 – रेलवे युवाओं को नौकरी का मौका दे रहा है। इस बार पश्चिमी रेलवे में भर्तियों होने जा रही हैं।




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Mercury’s outer layers may have been stripped off by a young Venus

Mercury is mostly iron, which may be because a series of close encounters with a young Venus billions of years ago stripped away its rocky outer layers




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Mysteriously bright supernova may have smashed up a huge gas cloud

A strange supernova that’s 100 times brighter than it should be has long been a mystery, but it may be explained by the explosion slamming into a cloud of gas




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Figuring out what the Milky Way looks like is akin to a murder mystery

How can we get a picture of the whole Milky Way if we are inside it? Good sleuthing is needed to combine all the clues, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein




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Mars may have formed 15 million years later than we thought

Young Mars may have endured a series of huge collisions that smashed its mantle, throwing off our measurements of when it formed by up to 15 million years




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NASA missions may go to Venus or our solar system’s strangest moons

NASA has selected four potential future missions – to Jupiter’s fiery moon Io, Neptune’s icy moon Triton, and two that would explore the atmosphere and map the surface of Venus




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Journey to the Savage Planet review: It's wacky but not in a good way

There’s nothing like crash-landing on an alien planet. Journey to the Savage Planet doesn't always get it right, but it has echoes of classic Metroid Prime, says Jacob Aron




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A wobbling star may explain pattern of weird radio signals from space

We’ve spotted strange blasts of radio waves from space in a pattern that may be produced by a magnetised neutron star wobbling as it spins




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Our galaxy’s huge black hole may have created organic molecules

The enormous black hole at the centre of the Milky Way was active millions of years ago, and its intense X-rays may have formed some molecules necessary for life




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The atmosphere gets in the way of the universe’s most amazing objects

Earth’s atmosphere thankfully provides air for us to breathe, but when trying to study interesting objects in space it causes all sorts of problems, writes Chanda Prescod-Weinstein




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ESA and Russia delay troubled ExoMars mission launch until 2022

The ExoMars mission, a joint venture between the European and Russian space agencies, will be delayed for two years. It has already been plagued by issues and the coronavirus hasn't helped




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Solar flares and cosmic rays may make Proxima b warm enough for life

Proxima Centauri b, a planet orbiting our nearest stellar neighbour, is being blasted with cosmic rays and solar flares – which could make it warm enough to host life




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Mars may once have had right conditions for RNA to develop into life

When Mars was young, parts of the planet may have been able to sustain RNA, a molecule that probably played a key role in the beginnings of life on Earth




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Strange lines on Venus may be folded stacks of lava eroded by wind

Venus’s surface is covered in strange wiggling lines that may form when colossal stacks of lava are carved by gentle winds over hundreds of millions of years




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Interstellar comet Borisov may be breaking up as it exits solar system

The first-ever interstellar comet is showing signs of brightening, suggesting it may have been heated up as it passed near to the sun




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Venus may have an underground magma ocean spanning the whole planet

When Earth and Venus formed, they both had global magma oceans deep underground. Earth’s has turned solid by now, but Venus’s may still remain hidden




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Supermassive stars may have formed by repeatedly eating their siblings

Some black holes are way bigger than we can explain, and they may have come from supermassive stars that formed by devouring the other stars around them




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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: The unsung discoverer of star chemistry

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who discovered that hydrogen dominates our universe, finally gets the recognition she deserves in a rich biography, What Stars Are Made Of




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An asteroid strike may have popped the surface of Mars

An unusually round and symmetrical deposit on Mars may be the result of an impact that popped the surface of the planet, causing a volcanic eruption less than 200,000 years ago




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We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time

Strange particles observed by an experiment in Antarctica could be evidence of an alternative reality where everything is upside down




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Asteroid Arrokoth may have broken its neck in 6400 km per hour impact

Arrokoth, a strange two-lobed space rock, was hit by another rock at some point – the collision may have snapped Arrokoth’s narrow neck before it reformed again




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A giant raft of rock may once have floated across Mars’s ancient ocean

Mars could have had an ancient ocean in its northern hemisphere, and a large raft of volcanic rock may have floated across it to settle into mounds we can see today




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Mysterious ‘Planet Nine’ on the solar system’s edge may not be real

Strange orbits of distant space rocks have been used to infer that the solar system has an unseen ninth planet, but those orbits may be less strange than we thought, meaning there is no need for a new planet




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Our nearest star system may have a planet with a colossal set of rings

We know that there is at least one planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to our solar system, and now astronomers may have taken the first picture of a second world




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We may have found 19 more interstellar asteroids in our solar system

A bunch of asteroids near Jupiter and Neptune with orbits perpendicular to the plane of the solar system may have come here from a different star system




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The sun is too quiet, which may mean dangerous solar storms in future

Stars that are similar to the sun in every way we can measure are mostly more active than the sun, which hints that the sun’s activity may ramp up someday, risking solar eruptions




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An ancient river on Mars may have flowed for 100,000 years

We’ve found a 200-metre cliff in Mars's Hellas basin, the first evidence of a river that flowed on the planet for more than 100,000 years




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A large chunk of Mercury may have been blown away by the sun

Mercury is much denser than the other rocky planets in the solar system, and that may be because a collision vaporised its surface and the debris was blown away by the sun




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Stars in the Milky Way's centre often get dangerously close together

About 80 per cent of stars in the Milky Way’s central bulge have relatively close encounters with another star, which can fling off any planets orbiting them




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Flynn Walks: Trump's Betrayal of America Continues

Will Flynn be the right wing's Nelson Mandela? Of course that's insulting - but so is this entire presidency




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Video Friday: This Wearable Robotic Tail Will Improve Your Balance

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Robot Made of Clay Can Sculpt Its Own Body

This clay robot can squeeze and squish itself into different shapes




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Video Friday: Watch Robots Make a Crepe and Twist the Perfect Pretzel

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Video Friday: AlienGo Quadruped Robot Can Now Do Backflips

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3 Easy Ways to Evaluate AI Claims

Interrogate the data, consider possible incentives, and look for the dreaded “hype salad”



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Video Friday: This Robotic Thread Could One Day Travel Inside Your Brain

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Video Friday: Misty Robotics Begins Shipping Its Programmable Personal Robot

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Electronic License Plates for Drones May Come Soon

New drone standard for remote ID submitted for approval




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Video Friday: Watch This Robot Dog Explore an Underground Tunnel Autonomously

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Video Friday: Roller-Skating Quadruped Has Best of Both Worlds Mobility

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Video Friday: Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Shows Off New Gymnastics Skills

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AI Faces Speed Bumps and Potholes on Its Road From the Research Lab to Everyday Use

Rigid IT departments and job-hopping data scientists are just two of the challenges that make implementing machine learning harder than you might think



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Want a Really Hard Machine Learning Problem? Try Agriculture, Says John Deere Labs

John Deere, the nearly 200-year-old tractor manufacturer, now considers itself a software company



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Video Friday: Caltech's Drone With Legs Takes First Steps

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Video Friday: This Humanoid Robot Will Serve You Ice Cream

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Video Friday: Transferring Human Motion to a Mobile Robot Manipulator

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