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China has signed an agreement with the United Nations to open its future space station to spacecraft, science experiments and even astronauts from countries around the world.

The agreement was laid out by Ms Wu Ping, Deputy of China’s Manned Space Agency (CMSA), in a presentation at the UN’s Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) annual session in Vienna on Tuesday.

The move is aimed at boosting international cooperation in space and spreading the benefits of on-orbit research and opportunities provided by the Chinese Space Station, the core module of which will launch in 2018.

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This machine peels oranges is the most perfect way.

Scientists say that in a Swedish quarry, they’ve uncovered a meteorite unlike any other documented on the planet.

Its chemical makeup is unique among the 50,000 meteorites known on Earth, as Birger Schmitz of Sweden’s Lund University tells The Two-Way. “This does not resemble anything … even if we look at the big types that exist today and look at the broad ranges, this one falls completely outside of everything,” he says.

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Rolls-Royce Motor Cars introduces the car of the future. http://cnnmon.ie/1Q7VMn5

Quantic Dream, the studio behind Heavy Rain, has revealed its ambitious new project. Here’s the full trailer!

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A.I. Is Learning To Fake & Create Sounds Through Video Recognition.

This artificial intelligence can understand sound and reproduce it.

OFFICIAL CHEECH PAGE Actor, director, writer, musician, and Chicano art advocate/collector, Cheech Marin is best known as one half of the hilariously…

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Most of us don’t think we are living in a futuristic utopia. But if you look around at many of the exciting advancements in technology, you will see that life is starting to look more and more like science fiction every day.