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General Physics Dec 23, 2022

sPHENIX assembly update: Magnet mapped, detectors prepared

Physicists, engineers, and technicians at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are rounding out the year with key developments to a house-sized particle detector that will begin capturing collision ...

Astronomy Feb 12, 2021

TESS discovers new worlds in a river of young stars

Using observations from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a trio of hot worlds larger than Earth orbiting a much younger version of our Sun called TOI ...

Astronomy Jul 24, 2020

NASA mission will study the cosmos with a stratospheric balloon

Work has begun on an ambitious new mission that will carry a cutting-edge 8.4-foot (2.5-meter) telescope high into the stratosphere on a balloon. Tentatively planned to launch in December 2023 from Antarctica, ASTHROS (short ...

Ecology Aug 13, 2019

Climate change is turning Florida's sea turtles female. How long can these species survive?

Two dozen tiny leatherback turtles swam around in small tanks, attached by fishing lines to a system that kept them from hitting walls and hurting themselves. As an open-water species, leatherbacks don't recognize barriers, ...

Other Apr 15, 2018

Trove of author Ray Bradbury's papers set for preservation

Ray Bradbury won over generations of readers to science fiction with "Fahrenheit 451" and other works during a writing career that spanned much of the 20th Century and produced a mountain of manuscripts, correspondence and ...

Earth Sciences Mar 27, 2018

NASA finds Tropical Cyclone Iris sheared

Tropical Cyclone Iris is being battered by wind shear so strong that it doesn't even look like a circular storm.

Environment Jun 27, 2017

US mayors bypass Trump to back Paris climate goals

President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord has triggered a bipartisan push from US mayors to stick to the emissions cuts Washington had pledged to hit, the mayor of Atlanta said Tuesday.

Internet Jan 22, 2015

If Obama is talking about securing the net, it should be on everyone else's lips too

We have spent years promoting the need for change in our approach to internet infrastructure, forcing politicians to recognise it as a serious issue. So it's great to see Barack Obama tackling the issue in his State of the ...

Environment Jan 16, 2014

How heat can make your body melt from the inside out

Just as Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 identified a temperature at which paper self-combusts, the Australian Open has just shown the world that there is a temperature at which tennis players start to hallucinate about ...

Other Jun 6, 2012

Ray Bradbury, author of 'Fahrenheit 451,' dies (Update 3)

(AP) — Ray Bradbury imagined the future, and didn't always like what he saw.

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