Rabu, 25 Maret 2020

Google Alert - Science

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Science
Daily update ⋅ March 26, 2020
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Space.com
SpaceX just experienced a hiccup in the lead-up to its first crewed flight. The California-based company hauled a test article of its Crew Dragon capsule skyward with a helicopter on Tuesday (March 24), to help prove out the vehicle's parachute system ahead ...
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Space.com
It's possible that Mercury once held the ingredients for life. In 1974, NASA's Mariner 10 probe flew by Mercury and observed a cracked, cratered landscape. Now, according to one new theory, Mercury's fractured "chaotic terrain" could've been formed by ...
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Space.com
SpaceX's next launch has been postponed by international travel restrictions imposed because of the growing coronavirus pandemic. This news comes as two workers at the company's headquarters tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the ...
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Space.com
The coronavirus pandemic has forced Rocket Lab to postpone its next mission. That flight, which the California-based company has nicknamed "Don't Stop Me Now," was scheduled to lift off next Monday (March 30) from Rocket Lab's New Zealand launch site ...
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Scientific American
Scientists have identified another Antarctic glacier that could be more vulnerable to climate change than previously suspected. Denman Glacier in East Antarctica has largely flown under the radar until now. Much of the focus at the South Pole has centered on ...
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Universe Today
Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) floats in the skies above the Canary Islands, Spain, on February 16. Between January 27 and February 16, the comet brightened from magnitude 11.5 to 10 and its coma grew from 2 to 2.5 arcminutes in size. Martin Vd Dussen, José ...
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Livescience.com
Humans, it's been said, are like donuts. They have an opening at each end, and a single continuous hole running through their middle. (Note: This theory has yet to appear in a peer-reviewed journal.) It's a crude simplification of our species, sure, but look far ...
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Science News
Staying home isn't the only way to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers have added their home computers to a vast network that forms a virtual supercomputer called Folding@home. The Folding@home project, which ...
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Florida Today
The upcoming launch of a military communications satellite from Cape Canaveral is still on as Space Force teams contend with challenges presented by the coronavirus. "We've prepared to continue mission-essential operations up at the Cape for launch ...
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IEEE Spectrum
China aims to become only the second country to land and operate a spacecraft on the surface of Mars (NASA was first with a pair of Viking landers in 1976 if you don't count the former Soviet Union's 1971 Mars 3 mission). With just a few months before ...
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Google Alert - World

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World
Daily update ⋅ March 26, 2020
NEWS
The New York Times
NEW DELHI — India's economy was sputtering even before its leader announced the world's largest coronavirus lockdown. Now the state-ordered paralysis of virtually all commerce in the country has put millions of people out of work and left many families ...
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The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The British government must withhold key evidence from the United States for the trial of two Islamic State detainees because the Trump administration has not provided assurances that the men will not be executed, the British Supreme ...
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The New York Times
WASHINGTON — Restaurants and retailers will get a tweak to federal tax law they have been seeking for more than a year that could save them $15 billion. Community banks are being granted their long-held wish of being freed to reduce the amount of ...
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Washington Post
The Latest on the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 466,000 people and killed over 21,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. The COVID-19 illness causes mild or moderate symptoms in most people, but severe symptoms are more ...
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The New York Times
RIO DE JANEIRO — Most leaders in Latin America reacted to the arrival of the coronavirus in the region with speed and severity: Borders were shut. Flights were halted. Soldiers roamed deserted streets enforcing quarantines, and medical professionals ...
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CNN
Washington (CNN) The family of Robert Levinson, a former FBI agent who disappeared in Iran more than a decade ago, announced Wednesday that they believe he is dead, just months after a family spokesperson told CNN they had been feeling hopeful.
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The New York Times
LONDON — Two days after Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed a lockdown on Britain to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the government has recruited an army of more than 400,000 volunteers to help elderly people quarantined in their homes, as well ...
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The New York Times
WASHINGTON — The $2 trillion stimulus package barreling toward passage by the Senate on Wednesday will send about $14 billion to colleges and universities that are hemorrhaging money as they close their campuses and try to stay afloat with distance ...
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The New York Times
MOSCOW — Calling for "discipline and responsibility" in the face of the coronavirus, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Wednesday announced the postponement of a referendum next month on whether he can govern until 2036. In a televised address ...
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CNN
Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump and his administration have been criticized over the rate of coronavirus testing in the US, but on Wednesday, he claimed the US had done more testing than any other nation. At a press briefing a day earlier, Dr.
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