Written by She beat a field of more than 22,000 candidates and has a PhD in astrophysics and a background as a Royal Navy reserve, but the newly qualified British astronaut Rosemary Coogan believes that in future space travel should not be restricted to elites. Coogan, 33, from Belfast, who is the European Space Agency’s (Esa) second […]
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Without question, inactivity is bad for us. Prolonged sitting is consistently linked to higher risks of cardiovascular disease and death. The obvious response to this frightful fate is to not sit—move. Even a few moments of exercise can have benefits, studies suggest. But in our modern times, sitting is hard to avoid, especially at the […]
The decline in global freshwater reported in the study began with a massive drought in northern and central Brazil, and was followed shortly by a series of major droughts in Australasia, South America, North America, Europe, and Africa. Warmer ocean temperatures in the tropical Pacific from late 2014 into 2016, culminating in one of the […]
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This feature by religion-beat veteran Emma Green is a must read. While activists on both sides might debate some details (gender dysphoria language, for example), the key is that the feature turns an accurate spotlight on strengths and fault lines in the Trump 2.0 coalition. A key player in the move toward a populist approach, […]
BEIJING, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) — The following is a summary of published science and technology news of China. LUNAR ROVER The prototype of a Chinese lunar rover designed for the country’s manned lunar missions is now in its initial development phase, according to a statement made by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) on […]
The Coma Cluster is a particularly rich cluster that contains over a thousand known galaxies. Amateur astronomers can easily spot several of these in a backyard telescope (See Caldwell 35). Most of them are elliptical galaxies, and that’s typical of a dense galaxy cluster like the Coma Cluster: many elliptical galaxies form through close encounters […]
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