Challenger, Columbia wreckage on public display for 1st time
NASA is offering up wreckage from the Challenger and Columbia for public view after hiding it from the world for decades.
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Half of Columbia River sockeye salmon dying due to hot water
More than a quarter million sockeye salmon returning from the ocean to spawn are either dead or dying in the Columbia River and its tributaries due to warming water temperatures.
Ecology
Jul 27, 2015
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Image: July 23, 1999, Chandra X-ray Observatory awaits deployment
This 70mm frame shows the 50,162-pound Chandra X-ray Observatory before it was tilted upward for its release from the Space Shuttle Columbia's payload bay on July 23, 1999, just a few hours following the shuttle's arrival ...
Astronomy
Jul 24, 2015
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Stress from heat, drought on fish spurs push to reduce kills
Drought and record hot weather are producing lethal conditions for salmon and trout in rivers across the West.
Ecology
Jul 9, 2015
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An algorithm to investigate unwelcome plankton
Computer scientists at Columbia University will work with oceanographers to understand what has caused an unusual plankton-like species to rapidly invade the Arabian Sea food chain, threatening fisheries that sustain more ...
Environment
Jul 8, 2015
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What animals have been to space?
When we think of spaceflight, we think astronauts. You're a human, you perceive the Universe with your human-centric attitudes. You… specist.
Space Exploration
May 5, 2015
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Inside a high-stakes experiment in protein crystallization
On April 18, 2014, former astronaut and UAB Professor Lawrence DeLucas, O.D., Ph.D., stood at Cape Canaveral and watched several hundred crystallization experiments blast into orbit aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Then ...
Space Exploration
Apr 14, 2015
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Anthropologist offers possible explanation for collapse of ancient city of Teotihuacan
(Phys.org) —Linda Manzanilla, an anthropologist with Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México has published a paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, offering a possible explanation for the collapse of ...
Study outlines impact of tsunami on the Columbia River
Engineers at Oregon State University have completed one of the most precise evaluations yet done about the impact of a major tsunami event on the Columbia River, what forces are most important in controlling water flow and ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 19, 2015
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NASA astronaut memorial stirs memories for shuttle veteran (Update)
Each year around this time, NASA honors fallen astronauts, including the 17 men and women killed in three separate wintertime accidents in the sky and on the earth.
Space Exploration
Jan 29, 2015
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