When you help build a satellite the size of a shoebox, you learn pretty much everything about it, says Emil Atz, a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at Boston University. You learn how to write a proposal to fund ...
Space Exploration
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Women's ability to make decisions about their own health increased in most sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries in the early years of the 21st century, but the picture varied greatly across the region, according to new research ...
Social Sciences
Sep 13, 2021
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Climate change-related disasters are worsening the vulnerabilities of women and girls as essential health services including family planning get overlooked during such times, a report says.
Social Sciences
Sep 6, 2021
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NASA's Scientific Balloon Program's 2021 fall campaign is now underway in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, launching the first three of eight missions in August.
Space Exploration
Sep 6, 2021
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A new study from the University of Surrey has revealed that biotechnology could be the missing ingredient in helping cocoa farmers get a better deal for their beans.
Ecology
Sep 1, 2021
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With untreated sewage in the water and rubbish piled on the sand, pollution on Tripoli's Mediterranean coast is denying residents of the war-torn Libyan capital a much-needed escape.
Environment
Aug 25, 2021
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Physicists are like bees—they can cross-pollinate, taking ideas from one area and using them to develop breakthroughs in other areas. Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory ...
Plasma Physics
Aug 20, 2021
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Ignition is a key process that amplifies the energy output from nuclear fusion and could provide clean energy and answer some huge physics questions.
Plasma Physics
Aug 17, 2021
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Northrop Grumman's latest space station delivery includes pizza for seven.
Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2021
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Scientists from Cambridge University and NTU Singapore have found that slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates drag more carbon into Earth's interior than previously thought.
Earth Sciences
Jul 26, 2021
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