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50 Years Ago, A Groundbreaking Sci-Fi Franchise Got a Spinoff You've Probably Never Seen

As the Planet of the Apes movies were met with shrinking box office returns, the sci-fi franchise turned to TV. But a Planet of the Apes TV series was fated to be forgotten.

Inverse

Afternoon Update: civil service apologises for robodebt; Musk calls Australian government ‘fascists’; and an Earth-shaking discovery

The Australian Public Service commissioner labelled the unlawful scheme ‘a failure of government’

The Guardian - AU

Northern Lights illuminate skies over UK as far south as East Sussex

The aurora borealis was pictured as far south as the Sussex coast on Thursday night - and could be visible again on Friday

Evening Standard

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A billionaire and an engineer have completed the first private spacewalk. But this isn’t just a vanity project

Two astronauts have carried out the first-ever commercial spacewalk, using new less-bulky spacesuits designed by SpaceX.

The Conversation

This mini-golf game is one of the most creative games I've ever played

Walkabout Minigolf is the best mini-golf game ever made, and the game's latest course debut, Mars Gardens, proves just how creative mini-golf can be in VR.

Android Central

How Venom 3's big villain Knull could open the door for Eddie Brock to appear in Avengers: Secret Wars

The comic history of Knull has comic connections to Secret Wars that could be a gamechanger for Venom: The Last Dance

Total Film

Friday essay: Giant shark megalodon was the most powerful superpredator ever. Why did it go extinct?

Imagine the seas off Peru, 6 million years ago. A group of long-nosed dolphins swam through the warm seawater, breaking the surface with occasional enthusiastic leaps into the stark sunshine, then diving crisply back into the clear water to join their compadres.

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Who is Jared Isaacman, the first billionaire spacewalker?

The 41-year-old entrepreneur is also an experienced pilot.

Fortune

The skyscraper-sized tsunami that vibrated through the entire planet and no one saw

Earthquake scientists detected an unusual signal on monitoring stations used to detect seismic activity during September 2023. We saw it on sensors everywhere, from the Arctic to Antarctica.

The Conversation

Entire Earth vibrated for nine days after climate-triggered mega-tsunami

Landslide in Greenland caused unprecedented seismic event that shows impact of global heating, say scientists

The Guardian - UK

Landslide triggered by climate change ’caused Earth to vibrate for nine days’

Researchers suggest that the landslide was a result of a glacier at the foot of a mountain in Greenland thinning.

The Independent UK

'Mega' El Niño may have fueled Earth's biggest mass extinction

Volcanoes spewing carbon dioxide 250 million years ago heated the climate so much that extreme El Niño events became the norm, pushing most life on Earth past its limits.

LiveScience

The UK and Ireland’s climate was tropical 26 million years ago – here’s why that matters now

Millions of years ago, the climate was much warmer and wetter climate than today. But exactly how much warmer and wetter?

The Conversation

1st tardigrade fossils ever discovered hint at how they survived Earth's biggest mass extinction

Detailed 3D images of the first tardigrade fossils ever discovered help scientists predict when tardigrades evolved their near-indestructibility — a trait that might have helped them survive multiple mass extinctions.

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Polaris Dawn: World's 1st commercial spacewalk was history's 20th stand-up EVA

Two private astronauts conducting the first commercial spacewalk did not so much float out of their spacecraft as they did "stand up."

Space

Tiny NASA satellite detects its 1st massive gamma ray burst

A NASA satellite designed to search for the universe's most powerful and violent explosions has successfully scouted its first burst, space agency officials announced earlier this week.

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Geoscientists Uncover Hidden Continent Zealandia After 375 Years Of Mystery

Discover the hidden continent Zealandia, submerged for centuries, revealing Earth's geological history and the mysteries beneath its surface.

Space

SpaceX Polaris Dawn astronauts perform historic 1st private spacewalk in orbit (video)

Two Polaris Dawn astronauts completed the world's first all-private spacewalk in their new SpaceX extravehicular activity suits, on Day 3 of the groundbreaking mission.

The Conversation

Exceptional new fish fossil sparks rethink of how Earth’s geology drives evolution

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two metres in length. For a long time, scientists believed they were extinct.

LiveScience

'Potentially hazardous' asteroid the size of a skyscraper to skim past Earth on Tuesday

The gigantic asteroid 2024 ON, about the size of a skyscraper, will fly close to Earth next Tuesday, missing our planet by 2.6 times the distance between Earth and the moon.

Space

SpaceX launches 5 giant BlueBird smartphone satellites for AST SpaceMobile, lands rocket (video)

AST SpaceMobile's first five giant commercial direct-to-cell satellites, huge spacecraft called BlueBirds, lifted off this morning (Sept. 12) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

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Person Asks Online: “What Is The Most Beautiful Place You Have Ever Visited?”, Gets 33 Answers

People online are sharing the most stunning places they've visited and here are 33 of them. The post Person Asks Online: “What Is The Most Beautiful Place You Have Ever Visited?”, Gets 33 Answers first appeared on Bored Panda.

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