In Nigeria, one community that has never had potable water finally gets it.
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20 Years After Landing: How NASA’s Twin Rovers Changed Mars Science
This month marks the 20th anniversary of Spirit and Opportunity’s landing on Mars, part of a mission whose legacy will extend far into the future.
In January 2004, twin NASA rovers named Spirit and Opportunity touched down on opposite sides of…
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Local Heroes – Environment | Weizmann Wonder Wander
As they have done over the past decade, Prof. Avraham Levy and Naomi Avivi-Ragolsky of the Weizmann Institute of Science planned to conduct a field experiment with wheat this year at the Gilat experimental station, the southern branch of the…
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Technique could efficiently solve partial differential equations for numerous applications | MIT News
In fields such as physics and engineering, partial differential equations (PDEs) are used to model complex physical processes to generate insight into how some of the most complicated physical and natural systems in the…
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Ancient primates’ unchipped teeth hint that they ate mostly fruit
Soft fruits may have been the main dish on some ancient primate menus.
An analysis of hundreds of fossilized primate teeth from the Fayum Depression, a desert basin in Egypt, shows just a handful were fractured, researchers report…
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures a Martian Day, From Dawn to Dusk
Videos from the rover show its shadow moving across the Martian surface during a 12-hour sequence while Curiosity remained parked.
When NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover isn’t on the move, it works pretty well as a sundial, as seen in two…
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Ancient celestial map found at Castelliere di Rupinpiccolo
Castelliere di Rupinpiccolo is an ancient hillfort, located in the Province of Trieste, Italy.
The hillfort housed a fortified settlement that emerged during the Middle Bronze Age, with archaeological evidence indicating that occupation continued…
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Incredible Footage of the Volcanic Eruption in Iceland
On December 18, a volcano emerged on the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland, just north of the town of Grindavik, near the world famous Blue Lagoon.
The volcanoes on the Reykjanes peninsula have awakened after eight hundred years. The tectonic…
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Breath Of Life: Bridging the Oxygen Gap in Kenya
Breath Of Life: Bridging the Oxygen Gap in Kenya
After COVID devastated Kenya, oxygen prices began to skyrocket, causing people to lose their life. Ruth Wambui, a nurse-entrepreneur, set out to bridge the oxygen gap in the country.
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