Space Shuttle Columbia launched for the last time 20 years ago in mission that ended in tragedy
It was a cool Thursday morning in Cape Canaveral as the nation's first space shuttle was about to make its last ever trip into space.
It was a cool Thursday morning in Cape Canaveral as the nation's first space shuttle was about to make its last ever trip into space.
Space Exploration
Jan 17, 2023
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Amid dramatic ocean swells and drenching atmospheric rivers, a new report lays bare a hidden aspect of sea level rise that has been exacerbating flooding in the Bay Area.
Earth Sciences
Jan 17, 2023
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Separation leads to a significant but temporary increase in gender inequalities in parent-child time, according to new research from sociologists in Trinity College Dublin and UNED Madrid, Spain.
Social Sciences
Jan 17, 2023
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New findings from the University of Houston may reverse some of the prevailing wisdom about the scourge of screen time and digital devices in the hands of young children. The research is the first to focus on a child under ...
Education
Jan 17, 2023
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New research shows how humans are a substantial source of mortality for wolves that live predominantly in national parks—and more importantly, that human-caused mortality triggers instability in wolf packs in national parks.
Plants & Animals
Jan 17, 2023
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The share of e-commerce retail sales in the United States has grown steadily over the last decade. This trend has been driven by retailers with traditional brick-and-mortar stores adopting online channels to connect to customers. ...
Economics & Business
Jan 17, 2023
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Sometimes there is a confluence of events in municipal politics that takes a serious problem, a collection of outsized personalities and potty humour and sloshes them around to create headline gold. Such was the Big Flush, ...
Social Sciences
Jan 17, 2023
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Curtin University research into how echidnas might respond to a warming climate has found clever techniques used by the animal to cope with heat, including blowing bubbles to wet its nose tip, with the moisture then evaporating ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 17, 2023
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Spring is the sweet spot for breeding songbirds in California's Central Valley—not too hot, not too wet. But climate change models indicate the region will experience more rainfall during the breeding season, and days of ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 17, 2023
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Political parties formed in Europe by existing parliamentarians are significantly more likely to die, new research shows.
Social Sciences
Jan 17, 2023
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