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Boeing to Invest in Human Spaceflight Pioneer Virgin Galactic
Boeing to Invest in Human Spaceflight Pioneer Virgin Galactic Click here for original story,…
Putin bestows award for courage on U.S. astronaut who survived rocket failure
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday bestowed a prestigious state award for courage on Nick Hague,…
Sweet corn growers, processors could dramatically increase yield, profit
In an industry struggling to maintain profitability, it’s curious that U.S. processing sweet corn – the…
Study of past California wildfire activity suggest climate change will worsen future fires
A new study finds that climate has been the dominant controller of wildfire activity in the…
Forward or backward? New pathways for protons in water or methanol
A collaborative ultrafast spectroscopy and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations study shows that proton vacancies in…
Rice irrigation worsened landslides in deadliest earthquake of 2018
Irrigation significantly exacerbated the earthquake-triggered landslides in Palu, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in 2018,…
New study challenges our understanding of premature aging
Disturbances in the function of mitochondrial DNA can accelerate the ageing process in ways that are…
2019 Nobel Prize in Physics: Evolution of the universe and discovery of exoplanet orbiting solar-type star
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is being awarded “for contributions to our understanding of the…
Science of far-away planets and infant universe wins Nobel prize
Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won the 2019 Nobel…