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NASA Study: Arctic Ice Melt Is Changing Ocean Currents
A major ocean current in the Arctic is faster and more turbulent as a result of rapid sea ice melt, a new study from NASA shows. The current is part of a delicate Arctic […]
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Record-Setting NASA Astronaut and Crewmates Return from Space Station
After setting a record for the longest single spaceflight in history by a woman, NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth Thursday, along with Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and […]
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US Coast Guard Responds to 6.5 Earthquake and Ongoing Seismic Activity in Puerto Rico
The US Coast Guard is responding to a 6.5 magnitude earthquake and seismic activity registered Tuesday, January 7, 2020, off the south and southwest coasts of Puerto Rico, which is a territory of the […]
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Greensboro, NC Honda Aircraft Company Begins Deliveries of HondaJet Elite to China
On December 10, 2019, Honda Aircraft Company announced that it has begun deliveries of the HondaJet Elite to China. The first HondaJet Elite was delivered by Honda Aircraft Company at its world headquarters in Greensboro, […]
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Greenland’s Rapid Melt Will Mean More Flooding
The Greenland Ice Sheet is rapidly melting, having lost 3.8 trillion tons of ice between 1992 and 2018, a new study from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) finds. The study combined 26 independent […]
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The Strange-ness: Earth “Song” Recorded during Solar Storm
Earth’s magnetic song recorded for the first time during a solar storm Data from the European Space Agency (ESA) Cluster mission has provided a recording of the eerie ‘song’ that Earth sings when it is […]
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Stormquakes: Strong Storms can Generate Earthquake-like Seismic Activity
Researchers have discovered a new geophysical phenomenon where a hurricane or other strong storm can produce vibrations in the nearby ocean floor as strong as a magnitude 3.5 earthquake. Said Wenyuan Fan, an assistant professor […]
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NASA Astronaut and Crewmates Return Safely from International Space Station
NASA astronaut Nick Hague returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday, alongside Soyuz commander Alexey Ovchinin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and visiting astronaut Hazzaa Ali Almansoori from the United Arab […]
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Ball Aerospace Delivers “Large Camera Lens Assembly” for Telescope
Ball Aerospace has shipped and delivered the large camera lens assembly to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, which will be incorporated into the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), a ground telescope that will sit […]
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US Coast Guard Responds to Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas
US Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crews, forward deployed to Andros Island, conduct medical evacuations in support of search and rescue and humanitarian aid in the Bahamas, September 2, 2019. As Hurricane […]
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Research Shows Bacteria Feeding on Arctic Algae Blooms Can Seed Clouds
New research finds Arctic Ocean currents and storms are moving bacteria from ocean algae blooms into the atmosphere where the particles help clouds form. These particles, which are biological in origin, can affect weather patterns […]
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UK: New Guinness World Record Set for Largest Gooseberry
Graeme Watson of the United Kingdom holds the newest Guinness World Records title for the heaviest gooseberry. A gooseberry grown by Graeme and submitted to the Egton Bridge Gooseberry Show on August 6, 2019 weighed […]
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New Line Cinema’s “IT Chapter Two” to be Released in Next-Generation Cinema Formats 4DX, 4DX Extreme, and ScreenX
CJ 4DPLEX, the world’s leading cinema technology company, together with Warner Bros. Pictures, announced in August 2019 the release of New Line Cinema’s IT Chapter Two in three leading next-generation cinema technologies: the multi-sensory 4DX format, […]
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US Coast Guard, Royal New Zealand Navy Conduct professional Exchanges Amid Operations in Oceania
The United States Coast Guard and Royal New Zealand Navy took time in early August 2019 to conduct professional exchanges while off Samoa and in American Samoa. Said Rear Adm. Lunday, commander, Coast Guard 14th […]
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NASA Gauges Plant Stress in Costa Rican Drought
NASA’s ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) has imaged the stress on Costa Rican vegetation caused by a massive regional drought that led the Central American nation’s government to declare a state […]
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Flowing Antarctic Ice Mapped 10x More Accurately
By Carol Rasmussen, NASA’s Earth Science News Team Far more accurate than any previous map, this new representation of glacier flows in Antarctica opens the door to an improved understanding of the vast continent and […]
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Rare 2,000-Year-Old Text of Early Buddhism Now Online
The US Library of Congress has restored and made available online the Gandhara Scroll, a manuscript dating back to around the first century B.C., that offers insight into early Buddhist history. The scroll is one […]
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Study Finds North Korean 2017 Nuclear Test Much Larger than Previous Tests
North Korea detonated a nuclear device in 2017 equivalent to about 250 kilotons of TNT, a new study estimates, creating an explosion 16 times the size of the bomb the United States detonated over Hiroshima, […]
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Climate Change Is Giving Old Trees A Growth Spurt
Larch trees in the permafrost forests of northeastern China — the northernmost tree species on Earth — are growing faster as a result of climate change, according to new research. A new study of growth rings […]
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NASA: Show Off Your Planet with an Earth Day Photo
NASA Invites You to #PictureEarth for Earth Day By Steve Cole (NASA HQ) and Esprit Smith (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Our magnificent planet is always ready for its close-up. On Earth Day, April 22, 2019, NASA wants […]
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Book Highlights Irish Contributions to The Wider World
What have the Irish ever done for us? As we celebrate Ireland and all things Irish this St. Patrick’s Day, there is no better time to also reflect on the Irish contribution to the wider […]
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Bigfoot Column: Indiana Bigfoot Sighting
By Dr. John Stamey Matt, currently age 43, had an amazing experience in Fall of 1996. At the time, he was 21 years old. His folks had almost ten acres of land in the middle […]
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Early Spring Rain Boosts Methane from Thawing Permafrost by 30 Percent
Arctic permafrost is thawing as the Earth warms due to climate change. In some cases scientists predict that this thawing soil will release increasing amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, that is known to […]
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Deadly Indonesian Quake Was a Rare “Superfast” Event
Last September’s major earthquake near Palu City on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi was a rare supershear event, a new study has found. Fewer than 15 of these superfast-moving, extra-powerful earthquakes have ever been identified. […]
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Student Coding Software Released in Ojibwe Language
Canadian students can now develop their computational thinking skills while reinforcing their knowledge of the Ojibwe language, an indigenous language spoken in Canada and the northern United States, thanks to a new Ojibwe language version of […]
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Study: Children with Autism Given Medical Cannabis to Treat Symptoms
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) see a “significant” improvement in symptoms and less reliance on other medications after treatment with Tikun Olam’s Avidekel™ medical cannabis, as confirmed by a new study, conducted in Israel, and […]
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Coast Guard Concludes Its Maritime Security Operations Following International Summit
US Coast Guard Provided Around-the-clock Security during the 2018 Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leader’s Week in Papua New Guinea US Coast Guard servicemembers recently completed loading six small boats and accompanying equipment onboard […]
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Changing Pitch in Whale Songs May Be Response to Population, Climate Changes
Blue whales around the world are singing a little flat, and scientists may now have more clues as to the reason why. A new study finds there’s a seasonal variation in the whales’ pitch correlated […]