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NASA's ECOSTRESS detects Amazon fires from space
NASA’s Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) captured imagery of fires in the…
Paying people to vote could backfire
Last week, voter enrollment for the 2019 local government elections closed in New Zealand and concerns…
Study finds private school vouchers boost the English scores of poor children in Delhi
A decade-long study co-conducted by University of Arkansas professor Patrick Wolf shows that students in India…
Extreme mangrove corals found on the Great Barrier Reef
The first documented discovery of “extreme corals” in mangrove lagoons around Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is…
CERN simulating Jupiter
This test facility at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, was used to simulate the…
Amazon fires: Brazil bans land clearance blazes for 60 days
The 60-day ban comes as a leading environmentalist warns “the worst of the fire is yet…
Arctic team maps five islands found by Russian student
Marina Migunova spotted the islands in photos showing a shrinking Arctic glacier. Click here…
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ESA is training astronauts to become explorers. They will explore the lunar surface, collect samples, perform…
Puzzling signals seen by LIGO may be gravitational wave split in two
LIGO has seen two gravitational waves in the same day in a similar place. This puzzling…