As the world's premier winter athletes were preparing to take to the slopes, rinks and tracks for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, Florida State University researchers were hard at work making a gold-medal discovery of their ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 20, 2018
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Robin Williams' suicide seared into the world's collective mindset more than anything else this year, based on what people were searching for on Google.
Internet
Dec 16, 2014
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Three astronauts returned to Earth on Monday after a 166-day mission, bringing the Olympic torch back from the International Space Station after a historic space walk.
Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2013
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An international trio of astronauts on Thursday took a Soyuz space capsule on a rare trip around the International Space Station in preparation for the arrival of a new crew next week.
Space Exploration
Nov 1, 2013
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Russian astronauts will take an unlit Olympic torch on a space walk ahead of the country's hosting of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the deputy head of the Russian space agency said on Sunday.
Space Exploration
Apr 28, 2013
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The first gold medal of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics went to Switzerland's Simon Ammann, who won the normal hill ski jumping competition on Feb. 13 with a top jump of 108 meters -- nearly the length of an entire football ...
Other
Feb 19, 2010
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Temperatures in Japan's northern city of Sapporo—famous for skiing—on Monday passed 25 degrees Celsius at the earliest point of any year on record, a weather agency official said.
Environment
Apr 15, 2024
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China's air pollution worsened in 2023, the first time it has done so in a decade, a study released on Friday said.
Environment
Dec 22, 2023
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Skiing was introduced into the Alps comparatively late in the 1880s, with the first ski-lift being developed in the Swiss resort of Davos in the winter of 1934. The industrial revolution was two centuries old by that point, ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 31, 2022
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What do making artificial snow and cutting down trees in a nature reserve have in common?
Environment
Feb 16, 2022
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