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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
This is just what happened in 2014 when the Hubble Space Telescope was surveying the area, hoping to find a new target for the New Horizons mission after ground-based telescopes had failed to find anything there. Back then, NASA's mission to Pluto w...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Each year, Japanese whalers haul hundreds of harpooned whales aboard their giant 8,145-ton vessel, the Nisshin Maru. And for decades, they've killed most of these whales in the open Antarctic seas, under the guise of performing scientific "...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
A disruptive wind event will unfold in Southern California early this week, with Pasadena’s Tournament of Roses at risk for blustery weather.
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
It's been a devastating year of natural disasters, from record-breaking
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
In the 1970s, Los Alamos National Laboratory explored a science-fiction approach to tunneling: using nuclear power to literally melt holes through rock and turn the melted rock into tunnel lining.
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Paris (AFP) - From soul diva Aretha Franklin to astrophysicist Stephen Hawking and former UN chief Kofi Annan, here are some of the notable figures who passed away in 2018:
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
A volcano on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali erupted Sunday, belching ash high into the air and over nearby villages as officials warned tourists to keep clear of the area. Mount Agung has been erupting periodically since it rumbled back to li...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
The Dec. 23 tsunami killed around 430 people along the coastlines of the Sunda Strait, capping a year of earthquakes and tsunamis in the vast archipelago, which straddles the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire. "Indonesia has demonstrated to th...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
In his year-end letter, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says his to-do list for 2019 includes persuading U.S. leaders to regain America’s leading role in nuclear energy research and embrace advanced nuclear technologies such as the concept being adva...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
A Chinese space probe is moving into position to land on the dark side of the moon for the first time, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday, a mission seen as an important step as the country looks to push forward its space program. Th...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Colorful wild macaws flying through Caracas skies are a bright sight to behold. With every sunrise and sunset they start their zigzagging flight between palm trees and residential towers. If the scene sounds like a dream for nature lovers, behind t...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Moscow's metro system is famed for its Stalin-era stations with glittering chandeliers and mosaics, but architects are taking a radical new approach as the network undergoes a massive expansion. While the original stations were conceived as "palaces...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Nancy Grace Roman, a former NASA executive who is often described as the “mother” of the Hubble Space Telescope, has died at 93.
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
“This person may have been exposed to the virus but is not ill and is not contagious,” Dr. Cieslak said. “Should any symptoms develop, the Nebraska Medicine/UNMC team is among the most qualified in the world to deal with them.”
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
An uptick in attacks by Islamists and the resulting upheaval in the region comes in the run up to an election in which President Muhammadu Buhari will seek a second term. A faction of Boko Haram, Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA), which split from...