Since NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft intentionally slammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on Sept. 26—altering its orbit by 33 minutes—the investigation team has been digging into the implications ...
Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2022
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Scientists have discovered more than 5,000 exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. As technologies for studying these worlds continue to advance, researchers may someday be able to search for signs of life on exoplanets ...
Space Exploration
Dec 21, 2022
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Emerging contaminants (ECs) including pharmaceuticals (PhCs), endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), benzotriazoles (BTRs), benzothiazoles (BTHs) and perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), pose a potential ecological threat when ...
Environment
Dec 15, 2022
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Devastating megafires are becoming more common, in part, because the planet is warming. But a new study led by SMU suggests bringing "good fire" back to the U.S. and other wildfire fire-prone areas, as Native Americans once ...
Environment
Dec 7, 2022
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In a major field campaign in 2020, Dr. Raphaela Vogel who is now at Universität Hamburg's Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) and an international team from the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2022
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While most of the world has been fixated on the upsets, political drama and on-field heroics at the 2022 FIFA World Cup tournament in Qatar, it's also been the perfect time for players to impress scouts from major clubs with ...
Economics & Business
Nov 29, 2022
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The international collaboration developing the Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) has marked a significant testing milestone by successfully taking spectra of targeted stars.
Astronomy
Nov 11, 2022
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The improvement of human settlements is an important goal of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development, which has also attracted wide attention from the Chinese government and scholars. However, previous studies on ...
Social Sciences
Nov 9, 2022
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The process of unearthing a dinosaur skeleton from the ground, bit by bit, is complicated yet incredibly rewarding. The ups and downs of the excavation process is something Annie McIntosh and Mark Powers know all about—the ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Nov 7, 2022
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The decision to play the 2020–21 college basketball season was a jump ball for NCAA officials, who agonizingly debated what to do.
Social Sciences
Nov 4, 2022
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