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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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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...
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...
THE BLADE PETOSKEY, Mich. — The Great Lakes: great source of resources, great venue for hunting and harvest for indigenous people, great movements of population...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
EASTIDAHONEWS.COM (CNN) — Earlier this week, TJ and Victoria Britton watched their home in Gardiner, Montana — along with its 16 years of memories —...