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NASA's Mars rover sends back grinding, squealing sounds of driving

This photo provided by NASA shows tire tracks left by the Mars Perseverance rover. /AP NASA's newest Mars rover has sent back the first-ever sounds of driving on the red planet – a grinding, c

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Champions League: Real Madrid capitalize on Atalanta's mistakes

Players of Real Madrid celebrate after scoring a goal in the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 second-leg game against Atalanta at Estadio Alfredo Di Stefano in Madrid, Spain, March 16, 2021. /CF

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Porsche hopes eFuel will make its cars greener than electric vehicles

03:45 The announcement by Porsche that it is investing more than $28 million to develop synthetic fuels in a bid to make older car models as green as electric ones has been welcomed by

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InBalance Research forecasts demand for energy suppliers to ensure they optimize distribution

From distributed homes in Cambridge, Mass. and Cambridge, England, inBalance Research is joining Y Combinator as it looks to accelerate its business as the oracle for independent energy providers, uti

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WHO: Lack of raw materials holds up production of COVID-19 vaccines

Workers at a COVID-19 vaccine shipping facility in Shepherdsville, Kentucky, the U.S., March 1, 2021. /CFP The unprecedented demand for COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing worldwide has led to a sh

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Has the Western media's portrayal of unrest in Hong Kong changed?

Editor's note:Keith Lamb is a University of Oxford graduate with an MSc degree in Contemporary Chinese Studies. His primary research interests are China's international relations and "socialism wi

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Can you beat Google with Google’s brains?

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.Natasha and Danny and Alex and Grace were all here to chat through the

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China enhances financial support for wind and PV power industries

A wind farm in Fuzhou, east China's Jiangxi Province, September 19, 2019. /CFP China has offered to provide more financial support to wind and photovoltaic power industries to bolster renewab

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Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg want to be your weed dealer

Seth Rogen and four friends-turned-co-founders have been building a weed company for close to ten years, and its products are now available in the United States. The company’s house goods will b

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Ocean floor mapping robotics startup Bedrock announces an $8M raise

“It seems quite odd that no one has built the SpaceX equivalent for the ocean,” Anthony DiMare tells TechCrunch. “There’s no big, modern technology company that fits the space yet.”DiMare cofounded Be

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Could Chinese wind farms power France's green recovery from COVID-19?

03:46 French President Emmanuel Macron says that he wants to implement a green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.Macron has been trying to underline his green policies with just over

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UN World Wildlife Day 2021: Why do forests matter?

World Wildlife Day celebrations were held on Wednesday under the theme "Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet" to highlight the pivotal role of forests,

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Cornea eyes in on fighting wildfires using better data

It’s not yet fire season thankfully, which affords some breathing room for firefighters and emergency responders to begin planning out how to confront the increasingly complex and unwieldy task of pre

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Monarch butterfly population plunges by over a quarter

The number of monarch butterflies—known for their spectacular annual migration from the U.S and Canada to Mexico—has dropped by over a quarter at their hibernation sites, according to new studies.

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'Incredible' findings prove existence of space plasma hurricanes

Satellite readings reveal a space hurricane in Earth's upper atmosphere made of plasma and raining electrons instead of water.

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Satellite constellation operator Spire Global to go public via $1.6 billion SPAC

Monday brings with it not one, but two space SPACS – there’s Rocket Lab, and there’s Spire Global, a satellite operator that bills itself primarily as a SaaS company focused on delivering

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U.S., allies respond to Iranian 'provocations' with studied calm

In the week since Washington offered to talk with Tehran about reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, Iran has curbed U.N. monitoring, threatened to boost uranium enrichment a