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Sony's new $500 PlayStation 5 will launch November 12

PS5 will come in two different models, a standard version with an Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive for $500, and a digital-oriented version with no disk drive for $400.
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How Lasers Could Turn Metal Surfaces Like Door Knobs Into Bacteria Killers

Copper has long been used as an antimicrobial material. Now, Purdue University researchers enhanced the metal's bacteria-killing properties using a laser-texturing technique.
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The Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua' May Be a Shard From a Destroyed Planet

'Oumuamua is said to be 'nothing like anything else in the solar system,' but researchers have used computer simulations to find the cigar-shaped object may have formed via tidal forces similar to those felt by Earth's oceans.
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See How Honey's Behavior Changes in Zero Gravity

Science has never looked so oddly yummy. Watch Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques demonstrate how strange honey is in space.
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Upcoming WeChat 'ban' won't target its users, US government says

Trump issued orders targeting WeChat and TikTok as national-security threats and imposed a Sept. 20 deadline for new measures from the Commerce Department.
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President Trump not ready to OK TikTok deal, admits US won't get cut

The president previously said that he would ban TikTok if it wasn't sold to an American company.
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Science Reveals the World's Worst Smells

Sure... sewage, skunks and dumpsters are pretty bad, but things can get much, much worse according to a study in the Journal of Neuroscience.
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The Science Behind 'Cute Aggression'

Ever see a puppy or baby that's so cute, you just wanted to squeeze it?! Here's why.
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Amazing Animation Shows How Slow Light Speed Actually Travels

'Light speed is fast, but space is vast' says Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency planetary scientist James O'Donoghue, who created the animation showing light speed to scale in time and space.
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Neutrinos Could be Key in Understanding Where These Mysterious Radio Signals in Space are Coming From

It's what some astrophysicists say could be the 'Rosetta Stone,' in understanding one of astronomy's greatest mysteries.
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This is the 'Whale Super Highway' Where Thousands of Humpbacks Travel Every Year

This time of year whale watchers can see thousands of whales making their way back to Antarctica.

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People rescued from sinking boats during Hurricane Sally

Riding out a hurricane inside an RV

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Politicians, celebrities react to Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death

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VERIFY: Are you talking to a bot or a real person? Here's some tips on how to easily tell the difference

Sony's new $500 PlayStation 5 will launch November 12

How Lasers Could Turn Metal Surfaces Like Door Knobs Into Bacteria Killers

The Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua' May Be a Shard From a Destroyed Planet

See How Honey's Behavior Changes in Zero Gravity

Upcoming WeChat 'ban' won't target its users, US government says

President Trump not ready to OK TikTok deal, admits US won't get cut

Science Reveals the World's Worst Smells

The Science Behind 'Cute Aggression'

Amazing Animation Shows How Slow Light Speed Actually Travels

Neutrinos Could be Key in Understanding Where These Mysterious Radio Signals in Space are Coming From

This is the 'Whale Super Highway' Where Thousands of Humpbacks Travel Every Year

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