Northrop Grumman’s latest space station delivery includes pizza for seven. The company’s Cygnus cargo ship rocketed away from Virginia’s eastern shore Tuesday. It should reach the International Space Station on Thursday.
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Chameleon-like camouflage made for soft robot
Researchers develop a robot that changes colour in response to its background.
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What is a ‘heat dome’? The weather pattern causing record temperatures this summer
‘Heat domes’ have been in the news this year as Greece has baked in temperatures up to 47C, and record temperatures swept America earlier this summer.
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'Code red for humanity' IPCC report says about state of the climate
Every region on Earth is feeling the effects of climate change, but scientists say that some hope remains.
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'Code red for humanity': UN report gives stark warning on climate change, says wild weather events will worsen
Hundreds of top scientists released a devastating report Monday on the danger that human-caused climate change poses to the world.
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Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'
Heating from humans has caused irreparable damage to the Earth that may get worse in coming decades.
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Climate change: UN to reveal landmark IPCC report findings
The report will be a “massive wake-up call” to governments to cut emissions, environmental experts say.
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The Pandemic Has Let Alaskan Whales Get Some Peace And Quiet
Reduced noise from cruise ships has made a big difference in the lives of humpback whales in Glacier Bay.
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Seaweed Farmers in Indonesia Struggle in Face of Climate Change
Seaweed has been this community’s main source of income for 15 years — now climate change is destroying that This video “Seaweed Farmers in Indonesia Struggle in Face of Climate Change”, first appeared on https://nowthisnews.com/.
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We Asked Jacques Cousteau's Grandson About SpongeBob, The Life Aquatic, and Pooping Underwater
You might think space is the final frontier, but there’s an entire alien world beneath the sea. Exploring the deepest abysses even looks a lot like exploring outer space. So, we set up some time with Fabien Cousteau, aquanaut, Jacques Cousteau’s grandson, and arguably the ocean’s biggest fan, to chat about what it’s…
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'An Embarrassment': Scientists React to the NYT's Climate Change Column
Bret Stephens unleashed a Category 6 hurricane on Twitter last week, when he penned a column for the New York Times espousing opinions on climate change that can best be described as… controversial. While acknowledging that human-caused global warming is a settled matter, Stephens argued that the risk climate…
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We Chatted With an Astronaut About Showering, Farting, and Boning in Space
As journalists, it’s our obligation—nay, our duty—to ask the hard questions. So when presented with the opportunity to ask a living former astronaut and American hero Mike Massimino about his two trips to the final frontier to fix the Hubble Space Telescope, without any real impetus or news peg, we knew what to do. We…
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Why Is This Wearable-Tech Company Helping College Teams Track How Often Athletes Sleep, Drink, And Have Sex?
Sometime between putting on his Halloween outfit—a cowboy ensemble, complete with the requisite hat, plaid shirt, cutoff jean shorts, and expensive leather boots borrowed from his Texan roommate—and this exact moment on the college-dorm dance floor, with the becostumed masses sweating to Fetty Wap, Ben Huffman…
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Physicists Are Finally Getting to the Bottom of Why Your Shoes Come Untied
Nothing seems to sum up the universe’s descent into disordered chaos quite like shoes getting untied. Try as your shoes might to keep themselves together (unless you’re rocking velcro straps), inevitably their strings will come unravelled, causing you to trip and fall in some embarrassingly public setting.
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Watch This Industrious Badger Bury an Entire Cow by Itself
Camera traps set up in Utah’s Great Basin Desert have captured unprecedented behavior showing a badger burying an entire cow by itself. Incredibly, the buried carcass was able to sustain the badger for months.
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How Craig Breslow Used Science To Engineer His Way Back To The Majors
Craig Breslow is a little surprised that the media has made such a big deal out of his offseason reinvention. After a decade of pitching effectively in the major leagues, 2016 saw him demoted to the minors in May and released by two different teams before the season’s end. The way he looked at it, if he didn’t want to…
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Why Are These Turkeys Doing This?
If you’re interested in attending a Thanksgiving seance, one Twitter user has filmed the creepiest bird video you’ll see today: a gang of turkeys circling clockwise around a seemingly dead cat.
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Scientists Have a Sneaky Way of Telling If You Peed in the Pool
Pools are giant toilets. Around one in five Americans admit to having peed in a swimming pools at least once. Every pool probably contains a shot glass full of urine per swimmer, according to a story by Chemical and Engineering News from last year.
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Stem Cell Treatments Could Be The Next Frontier In Fixing Broken Pitchers
In an interesting dispatch from spring training, Yahoo’s Jeff Passan reports on Los Angeles Angels pitcher Garrett Richards’s recovery from a May 2016 elbow injury that shut him down for the season.
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Science: CEOs Are Such Bullshit
“CEO” is a term for someone who is paid more money than you because they are able to project a large degree of confidence about their wrong ideas. Don’t take my word for it—it’s science!
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Man Creates 80-Foot-Long Whip Apparently Good Only For Hurting Himself
Via Reddit, here is a comically long bullwhip. But thanks to physics, the whipper necessarily becomes the whippee.
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Science! Shows That Roger Federer's Backhand In Fact Defeated Rafael Nadal
Yesterday we argued that Federer’s unusually strong backhand anchored his Australian Open win over Rafael Nadal, and today we found a startling statistical basis for that claim. It comes courtesy of the always helpful Jeff Sackmann at TennisAbstract. Relative to other sports, tennis remains fairly data-poor, but…
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The Secret History of the First Cat in Space
On October 18th, 1963, the Centre national d’études in France was set to send a small cat named Félix into space. After lagging behind its Soviet and American competitors, France was eager to stake its claim in the space race—with cats, for some reason. But on launch day, the mischievous little beast went missing—and…
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The Surprising Way Jet Lag Impacts Major League Baseball Games
For the hundreds of Major League Baseball players, jet lag is an inescapable part of the sport. New research shows how disruptions to an athlete’s sleep cycle impairs his performance on the field—and how teams who have to travel east can be at a distinct disadvantage.
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