These grapes are called Witches Fingers and are from the Californian breeding program International Fruit Genetics. Although some believe this to be a result of GMO's, it’s NOT. They are made through the hybridisation process of taking pollen from one plant and brushing it onto another plant.
There are quite a number of these varieties now, in different colors as well. Whats really interesting is that IFG also have a few other unusual varieties such as ‘cotton candy’ which when ripe acquires the taste of cotton candy – it’s very unusual but also delicious.

These grapes are called Witches Fingers and are from the Californian breeding program International Fruit Genetics. Although some believe this to be a result of GMO's, it’s NOT. They are made through the hybridisation process of taking pollen from one plant and brushing it onto another plant.
There are quite a number of these varieties now, in different colors as well. Whats really interesting is that IFG also have a few other unusual varieties such as ‘cotton candy’ which when ripe acquires the taste of cotton candy – it’s very unusual but also delicious.
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A new launch time has been established after a delay. Watch it here:

When NASA is ready to send humans to Mars, it will do so using the Orion spacecraft, launched via a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. An unmanned test flight is scheduled for Thursday, December 4 at 7:05 am EST from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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The spacecraft that will someday take humans to Mars! Watch the launch live here.

When NASA is ready to send humans to Mars, it will do so using the Orion spacecraft, launched via a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket. An unmanned test flight is scheduled for Thursday, December 4 at 7:05 am EST from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been decimating everything in its path since an eruption almost half a year ago. Here is what it looks like.

The Kīlauea volcano is the most active of the five volcanos that make up the Hawaiian islands, and is arguably the most active volcano in the world.
sciencealert.com|By Bec Crew
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There is a truly unbelievable amount of clutter floating around Earth, highlighting just how treacherous we've made it up in orbit.

With space junk whizzing around like bullets above our heads, this video shows the danger that's faced on a daily basis by astronauts on board the ISS, and it gets worse with every launch we make.
theweathernetwork.com|By Pelmorex Inc.
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Scientists have unveiled designs for a spacecraft that could help deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.

The probe would land on Apophis, a 46 million tonne asteroid, and collect data to help develop a “solar sail” to prevent it from hitting our planet
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Spacecraft lands on a comet for the first time in history.

For the first time in the history of mankind, scientists are attempting to make physical contact with a comet. A 10-year project by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will culminate on ...
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Could death to deforestation be in our near future?
Rainforests used to cover 14 percent of the planet's surface, but over half has perished, leaving just 6 percent.

World Economic Forum – Future Global Agenda series Forests are essential. And not just for
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America’s biggest corporate monster: How vast coal is brazen enough to continue on.

Pumped up by GOP wins, Peabody Energy is teaming up with a PR firm to sell the world on "clean coal" for the poor
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Dangers to planet Earth from asteroids and comets.

Since it formed over 4.5 billion years ago, Earth has been hit many times by asteroids and comets whose orbits bring them into the inner solar system. These objects, collectively known as Near Earth Objects or NEOs, still pose a danger to Earth today. Depending on the size of the impacting object, s…
pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu|By Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii

Comet's sinister 'song' picked up by Rosetta spacecraft.

Scientists have picked up on the mysterious "song" of a comet speeding through deep space.
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Kilauea volcano lava burns down first Hawaiian home.

A stream of lava set a home on fire Monday in a rural Hawaii town that has been watching the slow-moving flow for months.
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Hundreds of quakes in the Nevada Great Basin region prompting warnings to prepare for a big one.

A swarm of more than 500 earthquakes that began July 12 in northwest Nevada near the California and Oregon borders has increased in intensity in the last few days, prompting a warning Thursday to “prepare for the potential for strong ground-shaking.”
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“Wild Men” may be lurking in North America’s remote woodlands.

"I thought it was a feral human," Mike Wooley recalls of the incident, arguably the strangest to occur during his time as an outdoorsmen. "I had heard about them, and done some reading about them." Recalling the events of that December day in 1981, Wooley soberly tells of something frightening that…
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The ability to nap for long times in burrows may have saved mammals.

Talk about a power nap! Research suggests extended hibernation might have saved certain creatures from extinction
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A slow-moving river of molten lava from an erupting volcano crept over residential and farm property on Hawaii's Big Island after incinerating an outbuilding as it threatened dozens of homes at the edge of a former plantation town.
chicagotribune.com|By Chicago Tribune

Kilauea lava could destroy Hawaiian homes any minute now.

The fiery red tide in Hawaii is moving as fast as 20 yards per hour, threatening a home 70 yards away.
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I don't know about the Dystopian movie, but the astrophysics simulations in this movie are supposed to be very good. I'm going to see this for the astrophysics visualizations.

Kip Thorne looks into the black hole he helped create and thinks, “Why, of course. That's what it would do.” This particular black hole is a simulation of unprecedented accuracy. It appears to spin at nearly the speed of light, dragging bits of the universe along with it. (That's gravity for you; re…
wired.com|By Adam Rogers