Science
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- Category : Analysis
A huge asteroid almost 100 metres wide is hurtling towards Earth.
NASA said the asteroid, scientifically called 2013 WV44, will fly past at around 2pm on Wednesday (NZ time) at a speed of 11.81 kilometres per second.
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Read more: Huge 91m-wide asteroid to fly close to Earth
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/06/huge-91m-wide-asteroid-to-fly-close-to-earth.html
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- Category : News
In early 2006, Peter Beck took a “rocket pilgrimage” to the U.S.
The native New Zealander always dreamed of sending a rocket into space. He even skipped college because of it, taking an apprenticeship at a tools manufacturer so he could learn to work with his hands, tinkering with model rockets and propellants in his free time.
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- Article: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/11/how-rocket-lab-ceo-peter-beck-built-multibillion-dollar-company.html
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- Category : Short article
When US woman Jennifer DeStefano picked up a call from an unknown number she never thought it would be her worst nightmare – one of her children getting kidnapped.
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Read more: AI generated US scam call imitated daughter's voice
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/us-canada/300852182/ai-generated-us-scam-call-imitated-daughters-voice
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AI is becoming so good now that it is getting harder and harder to tell the difference... so just be carefull and stay on your toes..
- Category : Analysis
Activity in the sun is ramping up, causing a powerful but not unusual "solar flare", which is expected to bring more stunning auroras.
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- Category : News
An asteroid about the size of a delivery truck will pass Earth in what's estimated to be one of the closest encounters ever recorded.
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Read more: Asteroid to make one of the closest approaches to Earth ever
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/01/asteroid-to-make-one-of-the-closest-approaches-to-earth-ever.html
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- Category : News
Thousands of kilometres beneath our feet, the Earth's inner core may have recently stopped spinning and could even be rotating in the opposite direction.
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Read more: Earth's inner core may have stopped rotating and is reversing direction, study finds
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/01/earth-s-inner-core-may-have-stopped-rotating-and-is-reversing-direction-study-finds.html
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- Category : News
A US startup has launched weather balloons containing sulphur dioxide particles into the stratosphere in a bid to "prevent catastrophic global warming" - but scientists aren't happy.
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- Category : News
A first-of-its-kind panel organized by NASA opened a study on Monday of what the government calls "unidentified aerial phenomena," commonly termed UFOs, bringing together experts from scientific fields ranging from physics to astrobiology.
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Read more: Major UFO inquiry underway - NASA
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2022/10/major-ufo-inquiry-underway-nasa.html
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