NASA is reportedly investigating what could be the first ever alleged crime in space. Astronaut Anne McClain has been accused of accessing her estranged spouse's bank account via the internet while on board the International ...
Space Exploration
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Polish astronomers have detected a new ultracompact X-ray binary as part of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE). The newly found binary, designated OGLE-UCXB-01, is an unusual periodic variable object with ...
When it comes to investing, conservatives may have a built-in advantage, according to a study by business scholars at Rice University, the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, the University of Texas at San ...
Economics & Business
Aug 28, 2019
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Newly analyzed figures from Oranga Tamariki show the number of babies being taken from their parents are overwhelmingly Māori, hail mostly from four distinct North Island regions, and are more frequently than ever removed ...
Social Sciences
Aug 28, 2019
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It is probable that primordial galaxies triggered the period in the history of the universe known as "cosmic reionization." The Geneva-based astronomer Anne Verhamme has succeeded in demonstrating this by studying green pea ...
Astronomy
Aug 28, 2019
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Answers to big questions increasingly require access to the realm of the very small.
General Physics
Aug 28, 2019
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Scientists at the University of Birmingham have created an antimicrobial coating for steel surfaces which has proven to rapidly kill bacteria that cause some of the most common hospital-acquired infections.
Materials Science
Aug 28, 2019
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There's a reason why Jupiter's stripes are only skin deep.
Space Exploration
Aug 28, 2019
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In an orange grove outside Exeter, California, workers climb aluminum ladders to pick fruit with expert speed. California produces 80 percent of the nation's fresh oranges, tangerines and lemons, most of it in small Central ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 28, 2019
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A new study on agricultural land use calls into question conclusions made by previous studies that recent land-use changes have caused the United States to take up more carbon than it emits.
Environment
Aug 28, 2019
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