science / science - 5 years ago
Boats loaded with wood arrive almost constantly at the ghats of Varanasi for around 200 cremations per day on the banks of India's holy Ganges river. To reduce the volume used, as well as air and water pollution, authorities have tried to push the use of alternative burning materials such as cow-du...
science / science - 5 years ago
There's a ton of science-focused ephemera out there, but here are some great gifting ideas for every type of nerd out there.
science / science - 5 years ago
Some astronauts are taking the day off to celebrate Thanksgiving while they orbit Earth on the International Space Station. The three members of Expedition 57 from Russia, Germany and the U.S. will celebrate all together after food prepared specially for the occasion was sent to them last weekend,...
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NEW DELHI (AP) — For thousands of years, the people of North Sentinel Island have been isolated from the rest of the world.
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NASA is counting down to a nail-biting touchdown Monday of the $993 million Mars InSight, the first spacecraft to listen for quakes and study the inner workings of another rocky planet. No one is on board the spacecraft, which launched nearly seven months ago and has traveled some 300 million miles...
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NASA’s first asteroid sampling mission is closing in on its target. With just 11 days left until the big rendezvous, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is inching its way toward asteroid Bennu and has just 20 million miles to go before reaching the space rock. Launched on September 8, 2016, the OSIRIS-REx...
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Mexico, Nov. 23 (Notimex) .- The MMinistry of the Environment (Sedema, for its acronym in Spanish) of Mexico City opened two temporary exhibitions at the Natural History Museum: "A lo Marciano, un vistazo al planeta rojo", inspired by the Mars series, by National Geographic, and "Trac...
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Some researchers say the geo-engineering technique known as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) could limit rising temperatures that are causing climate change. Total costs to launch a hypothetical SAI effort 15 years from now would be $3.5 billion, scientists at Harvard University said in a repo...
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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Jose Bautista has a new namesake buzzing around.
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The Government's strategy to eradicate TB in cattle is a contentious topic. The disease is extremely complicated and lots of people have different ideas on how to manage it. Professor of Zoonotic and Emerging Disease at the University of Nottingham, Malcolm Bennett, helps Adam Rutherford understand...
science / science - 5 years ago
Artificial intelligence has come a long way in the past decade or so, but one of the scariest portrayals of how AI could ultimate doom us was created way back in the late 1960s. HAL-9000, the nefarious AI from 2001: A Space Odyssey, saw human life as expendable in the shadow of its mission objective...
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While everyone is gathered around the table for a traditional — and terrestrial — Thanksgiving dinner, three people in particular are celebrating “turkey day” in space. This year, a German, a Russian, and an American are spending Thanksgiving some 260 miles above our planet, aboard the Internationa...
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The lumbering beast is the biggest of its kind found.
science / science - 5 years ago
It's hardly the first time tensions have boiled over
science / science - 5 years ago
Air travel is the safest, speediest way to get from one place to another, but you know what would make it even better? If planes didn't have to worry about pesky engines and messy fuel. I mean, if a plane could just go we'd all be better off, right? Well leave it to MIT to come up with a sol...