Since the 1960s, NASA and other space agencies have been sending more and more stuff into orbit. Between the spent stages of rockets, spent boosters, and satellites that have since become inactive, there's been no shortage ...
Space Exploration
Dec 7, 2017
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A brand-new theory of the opening moments during the Chernobyl disaster, the most severe nuclear accident in history, based on additional analysis is presented for the first time in the journal Nuclear Technology, an official ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 17, 2017
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Scientists have long known that marine animals mistakenly eat plastic debris because the tiny bits of floating plastic might look like prey.
Environment
Oct 24, 2017
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Uncontrollable flying objects in orbit are a massive risk for modern space travel, and, due to our dependence on satellites today, it is also a risk to global economy. A research team at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied ...
Space Exploration
Sep 1, 2017
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As you bite into a delicious piece of fish, you probably don't think about what the fish itself ate – but perhaps you should. Over 50 species of fish have been found to consume plastic trash at sea. This is bad news, not ...
Environment
Aug 16, 2017
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James Cook University researchers in Queensland say if graziers leave trees in place on their land all types of reptiles will benefit.
Ecology
Aug 10, 2017
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A European Space Agency director urged nations Tuesday to unlock concealed data on the whereabouts of hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk, or "ticking time bombs" threatening spacecraft in Earth orbit.
Space Exploration
Jun 20, 2017
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The levels of microplastic particles accumulating in the Antarctic are much worse than expected, a team of experts has warned.
Environment
Jun 19, 2017
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A University of Oklahoma research team with the Advanced Radar Research Center has developed the first numerical polarimetric radar simulator to study and characterize scattering mechanisms of debris particles in tornadoes. ...
Earth Sciences
May 1, 2017
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It is now more than three years since Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared, and there is growing evidence that the search authorities have been looking for the aircraft in the wrong place.
Other
Apr 28, 2017
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