Andrea Cook was watching an intense aurora from her home in Clark, Wyoming, when she stepped inside to check a notification on an aurora-tracking app she downloaded onto her phone.
When she stepped back outside at 12:14 a.m. Tuesday, she saw a…
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Mystery of 12,000-year-old animal carvings found in uninhabitable desert
Remarkable life-size rock carvings, depicting camels, gazelles, and other animals, have been…
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Thousands of NASA employees to bid farewell to the NASA they knew
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Climate change puts pressure on reindeer populations, both wild & domestic herds
- In Finland’s Arctic, unpredictable weather events pose a threat to reindeer herding, a traditional livelihood for the Indigenous Sámi people.
- Due to climate impacts, the global reindeer population could decline…
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Regional One Health Taps HDR and Turner JV for $1B Memphis Medical Center
Regional One Health has selected its design and construction partners for a $1-billion-plus academic medical center in downtown Memphis, Tenn., advancing what officials describe as a historic public health investment for Shelby County.
The Sept….
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Scientists use light to clean wastewater with ceramic foam formula
Even in developed countries, clean water is under threat from pollutants that traditional treatment plants struggle to remove. Pesticides, pharmaceutical residues, industrial chemicals, microplastics, dyes, and PFAS continue to enter the water…
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Our neighbors keep stealing our packages. They’re strangely targeting a specific item.
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Dear Prudence,
We’re caught in a weird neighbor/package theft situation.
My husband and I disagree on whether to somehow confront them (my approach) or go…
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An asteroid may be heading for the moon. Should we nuke it first?
If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion?
Those are the questions explored in a recent paper from more than…
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Scientists Discover Cancer’s “Power-Up” – and a New Way To Switch It Off
Cancer cells unleash a rapid burst of energy when physically squeezed, triggering mitochondria to rush around the nucleus and deliver extra ATP. This newfound mechanism, observed in both lab experiments and patient biopsies, helps… Continue Reading
