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Fisher Sand & Gravel awarded $1.28B for border wall construction

4 years ago from UPI

A North Dakota construction company that drew scrutiny for a previous contract won a $1.28 billion border wall construction contract earlier in May.

Buccaneers QB Tom Brady holds informal throwing session with teammates

4 years ago from UPI

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady held a private throwing session with teammates Tuesday morning.

Watch 'Station Eleven' author Emily St. John Mandel at the L.A. Times Book Club

4 years ago from LA Times - Health

Emily St. John Mandel, author of the pandemic bestseller "Station Eleven," discusses her novels with the L.A. Times Book Club.

Tracking air quality in the Arctic atmosphere

4 years ago from C&EN

University of Michigan chemist Kerri Pratt and her team study climate-critical reactions with mass spectrometry

NASA's Curiosity rover finds clues to chilly ancient Mars buried in rocks

4 years ago from Science Daily

By studying the chemical elements on Mars today -- including carbon and oxygen -- scientists can work backwards to piece together the history of a planet that once had the...

NASA human spaceflight chief resigns ahead of launch

4 years ago from Reuters:Science

NASA's human spaceflight chief Doug Loverro resigned on Tuesday, according to an internal memo seen by agency employees, capping his brief role at the agency overseeing future astronaut launches and...

UAE to launch first Arab probe to Mars

4 years ago from Physorg

After sending its first astronaut to space last year, the United Arab Emirates is to launch a probe to Mars in July, state news agency WAM announced Tuesday.

Look: Alligator ejected from Louisiana family's patio

4 years ago from UPI

A Louisiana police officer was called to a home to eject an unwanted visitor -- an alligator lurking on the home's patio.

Watch: Idaho man sets new speed juggling record on balance board

4 years ago from UPI

An Idaho man broke a Guinness World Record for speed juggling when he managed 485 catches in one minute while standing on a balance board.

The food and water systems astronauts will need to travel to places like Mars

4 years ago from Science Blog

by Jonathan O’Callaghan If humans are to travel to distant destinations in space like the moon or Mars, they’ll need ways to live for long periods of time. And one of...

Galactic cosmic rays now available for study on Earth, thanks to NASA

4 years ago from Physorg

To better understand and mitigate the health risks faced by astronauts from exposure to space radiation, we ideally need to be able to test the effects of Galactic Cosmic Rays...

'Wasp Network,' starring Penelope Cruz, to premiere June 19 on Netflix

4 years ago from UPI

"Wasp Network," a film about the Cuban Five written and directed by Olivier Assayas, is coming to Netflix in June.

NASA simulates realistic galactic cosmic rays to study effects on astronaut health

4 years ago from UPI

Galactic cosmic rays are everywhere, but they're also elusive. They're hard to block and come in a variety of forms, making them quite difficult to study.

Nick Jonas, Laurence Fishburne to star in action film 'The Blacksmith'

4 years ago from UPI

Nick Jonas and Laurence Fishburne have signed on to star in an upcoming action thriller, titled "The Blacksmith."

Space exploration's next frontier: Remote-controlled robonauts

4 years ago from Physorg

As Japan's second female astronaut to fly up in the Space Shuttle Discovery, Naoko Yamazaki didn't expect to spend a quarter of her time dusting, feeding mice and doing other...

The food and water systems astronauts will need to travel to places like Mars

4 years ago from Physorg

If humans are to travel to distant destinations in space like the moon or Mars, they'll need ways to live for long periods of time. And one of the key...

COVID-19 is eroding scientific field work – and our knowledge of how the world is changing

4 years ago from Physorg

For the first time in 50 years, ornithologists at the Manomet nature observatory in Plymouth, Massachusetts are not opening their mist nets every weekday at dawn to catch, measure and...

US seeks to change the rules for mining the moon

4 years ago from Physorg

Private industries have helped drop the cost of launching rockets, satellites and other equipment into space to historic lows. That has boosted interest in developing space—both for mining raw materials...

Statistical analysis reveals odds of life evolving on alien worlds

4 years ago from UPI

Scientists have used a statistical method known as Bayesian inference to determine the odds of complex extraterrestrial life evolving on alien planets.

'Ozark' star Julia Garner on the scene she worried about while winning an Emmy

4 years ago from LA Times - Health

'Ozark' star and Emmy winner Julia Garner joins 'Can't Stop Watching' to chat about the Netflix series and how her character would face the coronavirus.

A vacuum ultraviolet photoionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer to analyze gas-phase radical reaction

4 years ago from Physorg

The research group led by Prof. Zhang Weijun at Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics under Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has made new progress on the vacuum ultraviolet...

Binary-driven hypernova model gains observational support

4 years ago from Physorg

The change of paradigm in gamma-ray burst (GRBs) physics and astrophysics introduced by the binary driven hypernova (BdHN) model, proposed and applied by the ICRA-ICRANet-INAF members in collaboration with the...

Why ESA and NASA's SOHO Spacecraft Spots So Many Comets

4 years ago from Science @ NASA

Portal origin URL: Why ESA and NASA's SOHO Spacecraft Spots So Many CometsPortal origin nid: 460887Published: Tuesday, May 19, 2020 - 10:00Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory,...

Help NASA Explore Mars from Home!

4 years ago from Science @ NASA

Help NASA explore Mars from home! By participating in the “AI4Mars” challenge you will teach future Mars rovers how to identify different terrain types, like sand, rock, and soil. You...

NASA's Perseverance rover goes through trials by fire, ice, light and sound

4 years ago from Physorg

,While auto manufacturers built over 92 million motor vehicles for this world in 2019, NASA built just one for Mars. The Perseverance Mars rover is one of a kind, and...

Watch: Taika Waititi, celebrity friends read 'James and the Giant Peach' for charity

4 years ago from UPI

Taika Waititi is leading a star-studded cast in reading author Roald Dahl's classic novel "James and the Giant Peach" for charity.

Ocean circulation may hold the key to finding life on exoplanets

4 years ago from Physorg

Researchers across the globe have long tackled the question: Is there life on other planets, and if so, how do we find it? Faced with thousands of planets to explore...

Do increased extraterrestrial ambitions threaten the future of space?

4 years ago from Physorg

As the number of nations and businesses across sectors look outward to space for new opportunities—and commercial space activities grow—the sustainability of space exploration is more important than ever.