$15 billion in NIH funding frozen, then thawed Tuesday in ongoing power war
A representative for the Department of Health and Human Services verified the financing time out to reporters. United States Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee,…
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‘It was so unexpected’: 90 billion liters of meltwater punched its way through Greenland ice sheet in never-before-seen melting event
A satellite picture of the crater the flood burst from handled 28 April 2015. (Image credit: CPOM, Lancaster University © DigitalGlobe, Inc.(2015), supplied by European Space Imaging. ) Researchers have…
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Mars was Warm and Wet 3.7 Billion Years Ago, New Study Suggests
Planetary researchers have actually found more than 15,000 km of ancient riverbeds in Noachis Terra, an area in Mars’ southern highlands. This discovery recommends that Mars might when have actually…
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‘Eight billion bucks or bust’: From pirates to ‘stupid mistakes’ — the wild story of how James Webb Space Telescope almost failed to launch
The Ariane 5 rocket with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope onboard. ( Image credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA by means of Getty Images) In this excerpt from “Pillars of Creation: How the…
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