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The real Smokey Bear narrowly avoided death in the pine-filled Capitan Mountains of New Mexico, nearly 70 years ago. Just west of the town of Roswell, firefighters found the bear cub clutching to the upper reaches of a tree, with singed paws and legs. The stranded black bear would almost certainly...
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The last time we saw Tony Stark, he was adrift in space in the Avengers: Endgame trailer, and it didn't look like survival was likely. Luckily, the folks at NASA heard about Iron Man's plight and had some advice to offer for the rest of the Avengers who were still alive on Earth. Hey @Ma...
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KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — A diplomatic standoff over a single word could set the stage for a bigger showdown during the second half of this year's U.N. climate summit.
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Honda, Caltech and NASA scientists discovered a way to make it work at room temperature, which could eventually yield more energy dense and environmentally safe batteries for EVs and other devices. To get around that, the Honda/NASA/Caltech team created a liquid electrolyte called BTFE that allows...
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It wasn’t so much that Kai-Fu Lee had trouble balancing work and life. It’s that work was his life. As an Apple employee in the early 1990s, he almost walked out of the delivery room when the impending birth of his first child threatened to disrupt a presentation he was scheduled to give. As preside...
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Mexico, Dec. 8 (Notimex).- The ambassador of Ecuador in Mexico, Leonardo Arizaga Schmegel, gave the scientist of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN, for its acronym in Spanish), German Chamorro Cevallos the "Vicente Rocafuerte Prize", for his contributions in the study of algae (cyano...
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KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — Thousands of people from around the world marched Saturday through the southern Polish city that's hosting this year's U.N. climate talks, demanding that their governments take tougher action to curb global warming.
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InSight, or NASA's Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport lander, provided the first "sounds" of Martian winds to human ears on Friday. The spacecraft's sensors captured a "haunting low rumble caused by vibrations from the wind," a NASA spokesperson wrote in a...
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It's hard out there for a smart cat in a dumb world. The National Park Service confirmed on Dec. 7 that a mountain lion, widely known for his ability to safely navigate the treacherous freeways of Southern California, was found dead following the Woolsey Fire. The "Culvert Cat," as h...
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Eight years ago, SpaceX showed NASA it could keep the International Space Station in beans and biscuits. Eight years later, it has its sights set firmly on Mars.
science / science - 6 years ago
A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sunday, Dec 2 through Saturday, Dec. 8 Editor's Pick Can 2018’s extreme weather persuade skeptics that the climate is changing?& & A firefighter is silhouetted by a burning home...
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Some of his supporters on Twitter are calling Flynn a "hero" who should be cleared
science / science - 6 years ago
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX delivery full of Christmas goodies arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, following a slight delay caused by a communication drop-out.
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A transcript of the lawyer and activist's Amal Clooney's speech at the United Nations' Correspondents Association on Dec. 5