Crew of Polaris Dawn mission recalls the 'sensory overload' of all-civilian spacewalk
In an exclusive interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, which will air on NBC Nightly News on Tuesday, the crew — billionaire ...
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Britain’s nuclear-test veterans want compensation
British atomic veterans have been seeking redress since at least the 1980s. Their campaign is gaining momentum. Andy Burnham, ...
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Future of Olympics in doubt as climate change drives up temperatures
The soaring impact of climate change could turn the Olympics into a test of endurance not just for athletes but for ...
Can we engineer our way out of the climate crisis? U. of C. hopes to find out.
As society struggles to kick it’s addiction to fossil fuels, scientists are exploring geoengineering strategies like deflecting the sun’s rays.
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Warhammer 40K: Creation of a Space Marine
Come fellow Apothacaries and learn how the Imperium shapes the clay of humanity into the Angels of Death - the Adeptus ...
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Behold: the first recorded image of a tardigrade
The first recorded image of a tardigrade comes from a 1773 study by German pastor Johann August Ephraim Goeze. In December ...
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The material contained in this workshop may not be the most current. How We Lose Heat to the Environment Radiation - loss of heat to the environment due to the temperature gradient (this occurs only ...
Scientists Have Found Evidence Of Past Extreme Solar Storms. Their Return Could Be Disastrous For Our Technology-Based Societies
In September 1859 , the same year that Darwin published On the Origin of Species, telegraph systems across Europe and North ...
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Supercooling of Earth's inner core may finally reveal how old it is
Deep beneath our feet, at a staggering depth of over 5,100km, lies Earth's inner core — a solid ball of iron and nickel that ...
What the jet stream and climate change had to do with the hottest summer on record − remember all those heat domes?
As a record-hot summer comes to a close, an atmospheric scientist explains how global warming drove long periods of extreme ...
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Understanding the intense X-ray radiation that surrounds black holes
This radiation, a long-standing enigma in black hole studies ... much like the way solar flares heat the sun’s outer ...
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These houses survived one of the country's worst wildfires. Here’s how
The wildfire in Lahaina, Maui spread through extreme winds and intense heat. Still, a handful of houses were untouched thanks ...