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China tests space weapon that grabs enemy satellites

According to an October 2, 2013 story in the Washington Free Beacon, the Chinese have successfully tested an anti satellite weapon that is capable of capturing a satellite with a remote manipulator arm, similar to those used on the International...
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Ten terawatt desktop laser developed in Poland

Dr. Yuriy Stepanenko and physicists from the Laser Centre of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Physics of the Warsaw University announced the development of the first successful desktop sized laser...
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Giant ancient wombat unearthed in Australia (Video)

Erich Fitzgerald, Senior Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Museum Victoria, announced the discovery of the most complete fossilized remains of a Diprotodontid marsupial ever found near Sorrento in the Mornington Peninsula National Park of Australia in the Oct. 2...
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Army advances helicopter replacement

The U.S. Army announced Oct. 2 that it has asked four aviation firms to design "transformational vertical-lift" aircraft that could someday help replace many existing military helicopters..Under "technology investment agreements" that the Army...
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Safe alternatives to DEET developed (Video)

Anandasankar Ray, an associate professor of entomology at the University of California at Riverside, and colleagues reported the discovery of the DEET (N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide) receptors in insects and the testing of three FDA approved safe alternatives to...
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Antares rocket completes first space station mission

The new Antares rocket has completed its first mission to the International Space Station.Launched on Sept. 18 from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, the Orbital Sciences-made vehicle delivered its new Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the...
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