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New Images Reveal That This Asteroid Is Actually Two Conjoined Space Rocks. They Form a Peanut-Shaped Object Called a ‘Contact Binary’

A flyby conducted by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 uncovered the asteroid's strange shape. Data gathered by the probe ...

New Browser Extension Helps You Dodge Amazon’s Sea of Knock-Off Products

While helpful, it does have the side effect of making Amazon’s sea of alphabet-soup brand names look even bleaker ...
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Tour de France stage five: Olav Kooij distances rivals with ease in first sprint finish of this year’s race

Olav Kooij celebrates winning stage five in Pau on Wednesday Anne-Christine Poujoulat / Getty Images Decathlon’s Olav Kooij sprinted to victory in stage five of the Tour de France in Pau on Wednesday, ...