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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Wallops Flight Facility (United States) (AFP) - An unmanned Cygnus cargo ship blasted off Saturday toward the International Space Station, marking the second supply mission in 24 hours destined to carry food and supplies to the astronauts living in s...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
The number of people listed as missing in a northern California wildfire jumped past 1,000 as searchers found the remains of eight more victims on the eve of President Donald Trump's trip to witness the devastation. Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea t...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
As of today (Nov. 16), the kilogram is dead. The International Prototype “king” Kilogram, held in sanctitude in Paris, has been stripped of its title; a new system for deciding the weight of a kilogram, based on electric current, now take...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
"It's literally throwing away hundreds of millions of dollars," Al Tadros, vice president of space infrastructure and civil Space at a company called SSL, said this month at a meeting in the US capital of key players in the emerging field of on-orbit...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
A Sumatran elephant has been found dead with its tusks removed in an apparent poaching case targeting the critically endangered animal, an Indonesian conservation official said Friday. The 10-year-old male's rotting corpse was found in Blang Awe vil...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
French drivers seething over high fuel prices have vowed to snarl traffic across the country Saturday in a widely supported protest that could prove the trickiest so far for President Emmanuel Macron. Anger over fuel costs, blamed on taxes imposed b...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
An unmanned rocket carrying cargo blasted off into space on Friday in the first launch of a Russian-made Soyuz-FG rocket from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome since a dramatic aborted launch in October. The rocket took off with a Progress MS-10 spac...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
When he was 24, Cameron Underwood says he was looking for a way out when he decided to try to take his own life.
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Brasília (AFP) - A Brazil appeals court on Friday ordered mining giant Vale to pay two indigenous tribes $26.8 million over river contamination that harmed public health, the prosecutors' office said Friday. The Onca Puma nickel mine in Brazil's nor...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Widows, the crime heist adapted by Gillian Flynn and starring Viola Davis, ends with a shocking twist. Here's what it all means.
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Stacey Abrams Ends Challenge Against Republican Brian Kemp for Georgia Governor
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
The Arecibo Observatory today kicked off a student-focused competition to design a new message to beam to extraterrestrials, 44 years to the day since the first deliberate message was sent out from Arecibo’s 1,000-foot-wide radio telescope.. “Our soc...
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
Two professors argue for the importance of neurological research in design
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Heidi Harley
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5 years ago
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below.
Climate change mitigation
Zero CO2 emissions for an ultra-large city by 2050: case study for Beijing
Climate change communication
Developing a model of climate change behavior among...