Sky Shorts: ‘Dog Days’ of summer reflected in our skies
THE REPOSITORY Starting July 3 and ending Aug. 11, those of us in the northern hemisphere will experience a period of particularly hot and humid...
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Look Out! New Data Shows There Are 10 Times More Asteroids Than We Thought Say Scientists
FORBES There are ten times more asteroids than astronomers thought according to new data from a space telescope. The findings come from a huge data...
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Commentary: The great challenges of the Great Lakes
THE BLADE PETOSKEY, Mich. — The Great Lakes: great source of resources, great venue for hunting and harvest for indigenous people, great movements of population...
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Mysterious Star Survives a Thermonuclear Supernova Explosion
SCITECHDAILY.COM A Tenacious Star Validates a Revised Model of Supernovae. A supernova is the cataclysmic explosion of a star. Thermonuclear supernovae, in particular, signal the...
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Drought: The drying Colorado River needs your voice. Heres how to help
DAILYUTAHAN.COM The drought and diversion-challenged Colorado River serving 40 million people in the West and irritating 5.5 million acres of farmland will undergo an operational...
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Summer Means Suffering: How Workers Survive Intense Gulf Heat
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES Like millions of other migrant labourers in the Gulf, one of the world’s hottest and driest regions, construction worker B. Sajay does...
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4-Billion-Year-Old Crystals Offer Clues to When Plate Tectonics Began, Setting Stage for Life on Earth
SCITECHDAILY.COM Scientists have long known that plate tectonics, the movement of distinct, rigid plates that make up the Earth’s crust, formed continents and mountains and...
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New picture reveals the death of hypergiant stars
KNOWRIDGE SCIENCE REPORT Artist’s impression of the red hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris. Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble/R. Humphreys, University of Minnesota/J. Olmsted, STScI. The team traced the...
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Two disturbances are brewing in the Atlantic. Heres what we know about them
MIAMI HERALD An unusually early start of this year’s hurricane season continues as two disturbances are being watched by forecasters. The first is in the...
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Researchers discover genetic variants that increase Alzheimer’s risk
WBALTV.COM Researchers at Boston University on Thursday announced a breakthrough discovery about a gene associated with the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. This risk is tied...
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Signs in Martian Soil Point to Habitable Conditions For Life Over a Long Period
SCIENCEALERT Is there life on Mars? Has there ever been? It’s one of the biggest questions we have about our planetary neighbor; now, research points...
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Montana couple describes the unbelievable moment their home was swept into the Yellowstone River
EASTIDAHONEWS.COM (CNN) — Earlier this week, TJ and Victoria Britton watched their home in Gardiner, Montana — along with its 16 years of memories —...
