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Astronaut John Glenn laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery — VIDEO

The flag-draped casket of John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, was covered in plastic to protect it from a steady rain as it was carried on a horse-drawn caisson to his final resting place at Arlington National Cemetery. Later, his widow, Annie, gave a kiss on the cheek to the Marine who presented her with the folded-up flag.

Prehistoric cannibalism wasn’t worth the trouble, study says

You know those snacks that are OK if they’re handy, but not worth the bother if you have to go track them down? Our Stone Age forerunners may have felt the same way about eating each other.

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20 years ago, Las Vegas photographer caught Hale-Bopp comet

Shot of Comet Hale-Bopp hurtling through the evening sky over Red Rock Canyon at 43,000 mph ran in the Las Vegas Review-Journal and later was sold as a poster at the park’s visitor center.

Inside Faraday Future offices, a startup comes to life

Faraday Future spokesmen say the company is working as fast as they can in Gardena, California, to bring the first autonomous electric vehicle to production in North Las Vegas, where it’s a starkly different scene of mostly stagnant dirt.

Piece of shielding floats away from ISS

Spacewalking astronauts lost an important piece of cloth shielding needed for the International Space Station on Thursday when it floated away.

What the Windows 10 update has to offer

A major update to Microsoft’s Windows 10 system will start reaching consumers and businesses on April 11, offering 3-D drawing tools, game-broadcasting capabilities and better ways to manage your web browsing.

 
Spiders could eat every human in 1 year and still be hungry

The world’s spiders consume somewhere between 400 million and 800 million tons of prey a year. That means that spiders eat at least as much meat as all 7 billion humans on the planet.

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