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May 2 (UPI) -- SpaceX successfully launched the Maxar 1 mission carrying two next-gen WorldView Legion satellites Thursday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. April 29 (UPI) -- Dozens ... Read More

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Globally, lightning is responsible for over 4,000 fatalities and billions of dollars in damage every year; Switzerland itself weathers up to 150,000 strikes annually. Understanding exactly how ... Read More

Lightning Varieties

"Triggering lightning at will, at a predetermined place and time, is the old Promethean dream which seems more related to legend than to science," lightning expert Pierre Hubert has written. Read More

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A version of this article appears in the December 10, 1927 issue of Science News. Love our Health & Medicine stories? Our coverage would not be possible without the generous support of subscribers ... Read More

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The government and Google are making their closing arguments in a high-stakes antitrust trial to a federal judge in Washington who must now decide whether the tech giant’s search engine ... Read More

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May 3, 2024 • Wildlife ecologists have seen white-tailed deer expanding their range in North America over many decades. And since the early-2000s these deer have moved north into the boreal ... Read More

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Cognitive Decline May Be Detected Using Network Analysis, According to Concordia Researchers Apr. 9, 2024 — Researchers use network analysis to study whether it can reveal the subtle changes ... Read More

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Plant life first emerged on land about 550 million years ago, and an international research team co-led by University of Nebraska–Lincoln computational biologist Yanbin Yin has cracked the ... Read More

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The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China staged a sit-in protest outside his lab after authorities locked him out of the facility The Latest Indonesia’s Mount ... Read More

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Submillimeter wavelength radio observations of the Southern Ring Nebula have identified that it's actually a double ring, shaped by the interactions of three stars. Mars has had frequent planet ... Read More

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Feb. 1, 2023 — People who share a political ideology have more similar 'neural fingerprints' of political words and process new information in similar ways, ... U.S. Political Partisanship ... Read More