[ad_1] In just a few years, astronomers may have a new object to follow in the night sky, provided they observe Chengdu, a city in southwestern China. According to new information published …
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[ad_1] A sockeye fights its way up Hansen Creek in shallow water. Credit: Dennis Wise / University of Washington Hansen Creek, a small stream in southwest Alaska, is hard to pick out …
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[ad_1] Le sol de la Terre est un riche mélange de minéraux, de matières organiques provenant de plantes et d’animaux décomposés et d’un réseau florissant de bactéries et d’autres organismes. Tous ces …
Read More »NASA chief says agency plans to launch crew on Soyuz in December
[ad_1] Enlarge / The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft is seen in this false-color infrared image as it launched with Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Nick Hague of NASA and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin of …
Read More »Red tide tests begin in Volusia County
[ad_1] COUNTY OF VOLUSIA, FLA. – Red tide trials in Volusia County will begin Tuesday as toxic algal blooms continue to spread along the Florida coast. County officials said that water samples …
Read More »Tossing salmon for science – High Country News
[ad_1] A long time experiment demonstrates the iconic fish help trees grow. Andrea Odell, an undergraduate student in the UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, tosses dead sockeye salmon on the …
Read More »NASA's first image on Mars from a CubeSat
[ad_1] One of NASA's MarCO twin gears took this image of Mars on October 2 – the first time that a CubeSat, a kind of inexpensive spacecraft and the size of a …
Read More »Molecular Mysteries of Silk Solved Spider's – "Five Times as Strong as Steel"
[ad_1] Posted on Oct 23, 2018 Scientists at Arizona State University are celebrating their recent success on the path to understanding what makes the fiber that spiders spin – weight for weight …
Read More »Marietta students beat the national average of ACT and sit just below Ga.
[ad_1] The school system announced that more Marietta students had taken ACT last year and that they had done better than the national average for the first time in three years. The …
Read More »A Q&A with Author Roger D. Launius
[ad_1] Space exploration is constantly fueled by mankind’s desire to reach further and learn more about the cosmos. A new book, “The Smithsonian History of Space Exploration: From the Ancient World to …
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