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“the first such sighting recorded in about a century.”
“The clip shows the moment of ignition of one of the spacecraft's six Raptor 3 engines, which burns for approximately 15 seconds.”
“deck contains the equivalent of 140 recycled plastic bottles per square metre”
“5 million metric tons!—washed up on many beaches on Mexico’s Caribbean coast”
“This year’s El Niño is shaping up to be the strongest on record”
“Initially, Astromech is focused on understanding longevity, using its model to map 46 genes associated with longer lifespans, cancer resistance and cell maintenance.”
“95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) at 100% humidity”
“Since the 1970s, however, groups like the Bronx River Alliance and Bronz Zoo have been working to restore the river to its previous state.”
“That burn lasted approximately 60 seconds, as seen in video posted by the company the next day.”
“Some projections show that the river’s flow could shrink as much as 30 percent by 2050 thanks to climate change”
“A heat dome hit the western U.S. on July 12, 2026”
“Tesla CEO Elon Musk first unveiled Solar Roof in 2016.”
“In an Aug. 20 X post, Musk said SpaceX aims to support 30 Starship launches per day, or more.”
“In 2023, heat was described as the main cause or a major underlying cause of death on 2,325 U.S. death certificates, an increase from 1,069 in 1999”
“Tesla shareholders voted to approve the company’s roughly $2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity.”
“Musk said on a recent earnings call that he expects the rocket to launch 'at least one flight a day, possibly more.'”
“represented a 63% rise in heat-related deaths”
“He said issues like roof protuberances and problems with some roofs’ underlying structures could cause installation costs to be up to three times higher than Tesla’s initial estimates.”
“SpaceX has returned three of its Super Heavy boosters to Starbase for successful catches using chopstick-like arms on the rocket's 'Mechazilla' launch tower, and it has managed to refly two of those.”
“0.7% more instances of suicides in the U.S. per 1.8 F (1 degree C) increase in monthly average temperature”
“Tesla agreed to a $6 million settlement in 2023.”
“Flight 14 will be Starship's third launch of 2026, and the third to feature the upgraded 'Version 3' (V3) of the vehicle, which SpaceX introduced in May.”
“between 9,000 and 40,000 additional suicides in the U.S. and Mexico by 2050”
“Tesla aimed to manufacture and install around 1,000 roofs by 2020.”
“SpaceX is also modifying a Starship V3 to dock with NASA's Orion spacecraft as a part of the Artemis III mission to Earth orbit next year.”
“loss of 3 good nights of sleep per month per 100 people for every degree-Celsius increase in nighttime temperature”
“The firm estimated that Tesla had installed only around 3,000 Solar Roof systems nationwide since the product’s 2016 launch.”
“NASA contracted SpaceX as one of two commercial moon lander providers for the Artemis program.”
“170% increase in pediatric emergency department visits for heat‑releated illness between 2012 and 2023”
“In 2022, Tesla averaged just 21 installations per week.”
“The agency plans to land astronauts on the surface of the moon aboard a Starship lunar landing vehicle on the Artemis IV mission in late 2028.”
“the reddish light JWST detected was emitted about 660 million years after the Big Bang”
“The series premieres on November 3.”
“Ship 41 will instead likely attempt a soft ocean splashdown at the end of its flight, and its Super Heavy counterpart, Booster 21, is expected to do the same.”
“it is roughly 100 billion times brighter than a typical star”
“is slated to return in January 2027.”
“SpaceX launched yet another Starlink mission today (Aug. 21), sending 29 more of the broadband satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast.”
“the black hole lurking within MoM-BH*-1 weighs up to 100,000 solar masses”
“The series premieres on October 20.”
“The spacecraft flew aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 11:14 a.m. EDT (1514 GMT).”
“There have been nearly 1,000 studies published on the topic since they were first spotted in 2023.”
“Fool Night premieres on November 26.”
“That was a day later than planned; SpaceX scrubbed a liftoff attempt on Thursday (Aug. 20) for reasons that were not immediately clear.”
“Lego One Piece premieres on September 29.”
“The Falcon 9's first stage came back to Earth as planned today, landing about 8.5 minutes after launch in the Atlantic Ocean atop the SpaceX droneship 'A Shortfall of Gravitas'.”
“Sakamoto Days season two premieres in January 2027.”
“It was the 30th liftoff and touchdown for this particular booster, which is designated B1078.”
“The One Piece sets sail in February 2027.”
“It will deploy the new batch into low Earth orbit 61.5 minutes after liftoff, if all goes to plan.”
“The series is seven episodes, each with a runtime of roughly 42 minutes,”
“There are already quite a few operational Starlink spacecraft up there —nearly 11,000, in fact, according to astronomer and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell.”
“the show is adapting the first 50 chapters of the series’ East Blue Saga “up to the point where Luffy and the crew meet Sanji.””
“Today's launch was the 98th Falcon 9 flight of the year already.”
“the ongoing manga’s 1,000+ chapters.”
“Seventy-five of them have been dedicated Starlink missions.”
“A recent YouGov UK poll clocked it as having the second-worst user satisfaction scores of any major AI platform at 24.6% positive. It managed to beat only Siri’s 23.7% positive rating, even though Siri isn’t even a general-purpose AI.”
“SpaceX also has three other liftoffs under its belt in 2026 — one launch of its Falcon Heavy rocket and two test flights of its Starship megarocket, which is still in development.”
“Other reports have indicated Grok is shedding users, failing to generate revenue or penetrate enterprise markets, and has convinced only a miniscule number of users it’s worth paying for (0.174% in Q2 2026, according to Recon Analytics).”
“dark matter remains so elusive because, despite outweighing the everyday matter that composes stars, planets, moons and our bodies by a ratio of five to one”
“zoologist Wladimir Tschernezky first published his analysis of a mysterious footprint in the journal Nature in 1960.”
“These exclusions were saying the strength of dark matter had to be 10^8 times weaker than it actually can be”
“In the intervening 76 years since Tschernezky’s paper, anthropologists, paleontologists, and experts in primate anatomy and genetics have since learned a lot more about Gigantopithecus and related prehistoric primates, like Paranthropus an…”
“The treatment for the last 15 years is a linear treatment”
“until a variety of ancient primate fossils beginning with Homo habilis in 1964 were formally folded into the group.”
“The team's research was published on August 13 in the journal Physical Review Letters”
“until around 2023, when their 2.6-million-year-old fossils started popping up alongside ancient tools at dig sites in Kenya and Ethiopia.”
“celebrated the 25th anniversary of the raunchy, summer camp cult classic 'Wet Hot American Summer.'”
“to resolve over 150 years of species categorization that has not exactly modernized alongside all the scientific methods used to study these living and once living things.”
“In 1979, Skylab did fall back to Earth, and a couple of pieces actually survived the trip.”
“Researchers working with the Smithsonian pored over 10,061 artifacts and other elements to determine whether tiny ‘Homo floresiensis’ used fire or hunted big game.”
“roughly 26 tons of material fell to Earth, some of it surviving the trip and landing in Western Australia.”
“An international team in South Africa has pinned the earliest known use of fire by Homo erectus back to between 1.07 and 1.79 million years ago.”
“Mars Express launched in 2003”
“Brown has put three unique television ads on the air and spent millions doing it, to the tune of more than 6,000 points on television.”
“Schiaparelli measures more than 285 miles (460 km) across”
“only 27% of Americans support the construction of AI data centers in their communities.”
“Schiaparelli Crater is located in a heavily cratered region of Mars' Southern Highlands, where a wetter and warmer climate supported water flows that shaped the planet's geography 3.7 billion years ago”
“about $200 million on the midterms”
“The High Resolution Stereo Camera observes five simultaneous viewing angles over a four-color spectrum”
“$517 million on midterms”
“ESA's real-life Schiaparelli Mars lander crashed on Mars' surface in 2016”
“$140 million”
“$40 million”
“just 33%”
“$20 million”
“$1 million checks”
“leading his Republican opponent by 10 points”
“Forbes reported earlier this month that more than 3,200 Zeekr vehicles have been shipped to the U.S. since 2024.”
“Electrek also reported last week that more than 600 finished Ojai robotaxis were staged outside Waymo’s Arizona facility and appeared ready for deployment.”
“Waymo spokesperson told TechCrunch that the company currently has about 300 Ojai robotaxis in its commercial fleet.”
“Chinese-made EVs currently face a 100% tariff, on top of other import duties.”
“Jaguar discontinued the I-Pace in 2024.”
“first prize is $50,000.”
“There are three in-person qualifying tournaments, which will be held in Orlando on October 3, Chicago on October 10, and Los Angeles on October 17.”
“The age verification screen wants to know into which of the following categories you fall: “4–11”, “12–15”, “16–25”, and “26+.””
“It unlocks when you have accumulated 200 golden wotsits.”
“you need 80 golden trophies”
“The game defaults to 2 vs 2 mode”
“the card in question is called “Discard All” and it was added with UNO Attack”
“that’s right, baby, Gizmodo will be entering!”
