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Confined quarters, rising tensions and no escape: the astronauts were trained for it. I had a desk, a drawer and a long-running feud over a window that pushed me to my limits Four people have joined the tiny percentage of humans who can say they have come back to Earth with a bump, literally. Welcome home, Artemis II crew: you have much to be proud of after following in the illustrious footsteps of Katy Perry and Jeff Bezos's missus. Most importantly, you survived. Not in space although obviously...
Weather forecasts for Los Angeles and Southern California predict rain this weekend, which could linger through Monday. There's also a 15% to 25% chance of thunderstorms.
BBC Science Editor Rebecca Morelle reflects on how it felt to watch history being made.
Study identified eight areas that can sustain a population and government has given 1m for recovery programme "The world is grown so bad that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch." So wrote Shakespeare in Richard III, in a line of social commentary that feels ever more relevant with age. A note of good news then, in a world of so much bad, that the eagles the Bard was probably referring to could finally be reintroduced to England after more than 150 years. Continue reading...
The four astronauts flew around the Moon in a nine-day voyage that took them further from Earth than any humans in history.
Should the apocalypse arrive, Wales as we know it may depend on these two conservationists.
The physicist, BBC presenter and author on snowflakes, art v science and the time Paul McCartney quizzed him about one of Saturn's moons What is the inspiration behind your latest live show, Emergence? It came from a book that I've loved for years: The Six-Cornered Snowflake by Johannes Kepler. Kepler is most famous for his laws of planetary motion in and around 1610, but he wrote this little book about New Year's Eve in 1609, when he was walking across the Charles Bridge in Prague in...
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Still marveling over their moon mission, the Artemis II astronauts received a thunderous welcome home Saturday from hundreds who took part in NASA's lunar comeback that set a record for deep space travel. The crew of four arrived at Ellington Field near NASA's Johnson Space Center and Mission Control in...
Don't go out wandering aimlessly looking for treasure. A little research can make your metal detecting hobby much more rewarding. The post How to start metal detecting appeared first on Popular Science .
After decades of construction, the world's first facility for permanently disposing spent nuclear fuel is set to begin operations in Finland, becoming a final resting place for tons of dangerous radioactive waste, reports the AP . Construction of Onkalo which means "cave" in Finnish began on the west coast in 2004....
Emergency managers, who responded to some of the worst tornadoes in the country last year, have a message for Americans...
Most trafficked cubs don't survive the journey these two made it out just in time. The post Two cheetah cubs narrowly escape the illegal pet trade appeared first on Popular Science .
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Do you know how much your TV knows about you? The post How to stop your smart TV from tracking you appeared first on Popular Science .
Mother Jones - 17 hours 42 min agoThis story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Extreme heat is already creating "nonsurvivable" conditions for humans in heatwaves that have killed thousands and likely many more, according to new research that warns people are more susceptible to rising temperatures than first thought. Scientists re-examined six extreme heatwaves between 2003 […]...
Retraction Watch - 19 hours 12 min agoIf your week flew by we know ours did catch up here with what you might have missed. The week at Retraction Watch featured: In case you missed the news, the Hijacked Journal Checker now has more than 400 entries. The Retraction Watch Database has over 64,000 retractions. Our list of COVID-19 retractions … Continue reading Weekend reads: LLMs are not the problem'; Cash for peer review doesn't work,' project finds; Many Flaws, Few Retractions' in vaping literature...
A recycler in Vernon melted down pallets of lead-acid car batteries for a century and there is still lead in people's yards after a decade of cleanup.
Scientists have quantified what draws mosquitoes to people which could help make better, life-saving bug traps.
Neptune leans at a curious 28-degree angle similar to Earth's, but long a mystery to scientists. Such tilts are typically the result of massive collisions eons ago, reports ZME Science . But new research into Neptune suggests the culprit may instead be its largest moon, Triton, a strange outsider that didn't...
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Wind turbines intended for the South Fork offshore wind farm at State Pier in New London, Conn., in 2023.
A naval ship and military aircraft were standing by to recover the crew after their record-breaking journey into deep space...
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