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Space Exploration Nov 11, 2021

SpaceX crew launch marks 600 space travelers in 60 years

A SpaceX rocket carried four astronauts into orbit Wednesday night, including the 600th person to reach space in 60 years.

Ecology Oct 12, 2021

Elk roaming Colorado with tire around neck for 2 years freed

Wildlife officials in Colorado say an elusive elk that has been wandering the hills with a car tire around its neck for at least two years has finally been freed of the obstruction.

Social Sciences Oct 7, 2021

Hybrid working is fueling demand for more tech and bigger homes, and both are bad news for the planet

Just 5% of employed people in the UK worked from home in 2019. The onset of the pandemic and the overnight shuttering of offices during the first lockdown meant 47% of employees were doing the same in April 2020.

Economics & Business Sep 16, 2021

Higher rates of food poverty during COVID are likely to remain, new research shows

New data from the University of Hertfordshire shows the extent to which food poverty increased during the pandemic, with the impact expected to last well beyond the removal of COVID-19 restrictions.

Earth Sciences Sep 9, 2021

Earthquake expert who advised the Haiti government in 2010: 'Why were clear early warning signs missed?'

It was about 8:30 a.m., local time, on August 14, 2021, when I felt the room starting to shake. I was lying in my bed on the top (21st) floor of a hotel in the Dominican Republic, to the eastern side of Haiti. The picture ...

Archaeology Aug 30, 2021

Scholars determine Tsar Boris Godunov's exact date of birth

HSE University researchers Feodor Uspenskij and Anna Litvina studied the notes of Georg Tectander, a diplomat of the Holy Roman Empire, as collected in the book The Travel to Persia through Muscovy: 1602–1603, and discovered ...

Environment Aug 30, 2021

Wildfire evacuees flood Lake Tahoe roads in rush to flee

A popular vacation haven normally filled with tens of thousands of summer tourists was clogged with fleeing vehicles Monday after the entire resort city of South Lake Tahoe was ordered to leave as a ferocious wildfire raced ...

Archaeology Aug 21, 2021

Diving among ancient ruins where Romans used to party

Fish dart across mosaic floors and into the ruined villas, where holidaying Romans once drank, plotted and flirted in the party town of Baiae, now an underwater archaeological park near Naples.

Education Aug 12, 2021

Home schooling is hundreds of years old – here's what its history teaches us about learning through play

The UK government's COVID recovery plans for schools have been criticized for prioritizing learning over wellbeing. Education specialists routinely extol the benefits sports, creative activities and the performing arts can ...

Environment Jul 23, 2021

New technology propels efforts to fight Western wildfires

As drought- and wind-driven wildfires have become more dangerous across the American West in recent years, firefighters have tried to become smarter in how they prepare.

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