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[ad_1] SEATTLE – Efforts were made on Thursday to find a young orca sick in a population of critically endangered killer whales in the Pacific Northwest. The bad news means that scientists …

[ad_1] Posted Sep 14, 2018 China's space reach has spread to the Americas with a $ 450 million satellite and space mission control station built by the Chinese military in the Patagonian …

[ad_1] Posted Sep 14, 2018 During the last distant encounter of NASA's Cassini mission with Titan, the giant moon of Saturn, the spacecraft captured this view of the northern polar landscape of …

[ad_1] Researchers Dr. Alberto Peruzzo (left), Mr. Jean-Luc Tambasco and Dr. Robert Chapman. Credit: RMIT / CQC2T. Scientists have developed a topological photonic chip to process quantum information, promising a more robust …

[ad_1] Posted Sep 14, 2018 "That's the next big thing," says Sally Dawson, a theorist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY, and organizer of an event last week at the Fermilab …

[ad_1] The MISR instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite carries nine cameras that observe the Earth from different angles. It takes about seven minutes for all cameras to observe the same location. This …

[ad_1] A Beluga family adopted a narwhal lost in the St. Lawrence River in Canada. Images of drones captured by the Marine Mammal Education and Research Group (GREMM) showed that an Arctic …

[ad_1] The new ICESat-2, to be launched Saturday, can measure changes in the ice of the planet less than the width of a pencil. PictureNASA's ICESat-2 satellite, once launched, will monitor the …

[ad_1] The Japanese transfer vehicle H-II-7 (HTV-7), as seen on September 14, 2018, during preparations for its launch. Credit: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries / Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency …

[ad_1] The Richard B. Dunn solar telescope, the centerpiece of the solar sunspot observatory in New Mexico, has been closed since September 6 and no one has said why. Efrain Padro / …