in his first Since day one in office, President Trump has signed a series of executive orders that will put the United States on a radically different environmental path than the Biden administration. The executive orders and memos take the first steps toward fulfilling many of the promises Trump made during the campaign: withdrawing the […]
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like a series Although massive fires continue to rage through the Los Angeles area, blanketing neighborhoods in smoke and forcing thousands of people to evacuate their homes, air quality remains unhealthy in many parts of the county. Wildfire smoke is a mixture of water vapor, gases and microscopic particles known as particulate matter. The smallest
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Although SpaceX founder Elon Musk is known for his outspokenness and controversial comments on his social media site X, he has been relatively restrained when it comes to American space policy in recent years. For example, he has rarely criticized NASA or its overall goal of returning humans to the Moon through the Artemis program.
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Although details continue to change, the transition team reviewing NASA and its activities has begun drafting possible executive orders for changes to space policy under the Trump Administration. Sources familiar with the five-person team, who have spent the past six weeks evaluating the space agency and its exploration plans, were careful to note that such
NASA has returned to postponed the return to Earth of Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, the astronauts stranded on the International Space Station after Boeing’s Starliner capsule failed in the middle of this year. The spacecraft crew arrived at the ISS in June. The goal was to test the Starliner’s comprehensive capabilities, including launch, docking
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A new maya The city, lost for centuries in the dense jungle of southern Mexico, has been discovered from a doctoral student’s computer hundreds of kilometers away. This is the story of how he did it. The settlement, called Valeriana after a nearby freshwater lagoon, has all the hallmarks of a classic Mayan political capital:
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According to a new study, the universe will die before a monkey can perform the complete works of Shakespeare. He infinite monkey theorem is a long-repeated thought experiment that suggests that a monkey at a keyboard will eventually type all of the Bard’s output, from The Taming of the Shrew to Sonnet 154. But a
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Late in your In the team’s game against the Green Bay Packers on September 15, Indianapolis Colts tight end Kylen Granson caught a short pass down the middle of the field, charged forward and lowered his body to prepare for contact. The side of his helmet hit linebacker Quay Walker’s mask, and the back of
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David Stuckenberg, co-founder and COO of Genesis Systems, explains that WaterCube uses proprietary liquid and solid sorbents (materials that absorb water) that essentially “form a handshake with water in the air.” The machine then heats these materials to extract the water. Atmospheric water generators typically require a substantial amount of energy to operate, but Stuckenberg
American space officials don’t like to talk about the dangers of astronauts flying on the aging International Space Station, whose elements are now more than a quarter of a century old. However, a new report confirms that NASA officials responsible for operating the space station are seriously concerned about a small Russian part of the
