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NASA confirms mystery object that crashed through roof of Florida home came from space station
NASA says it determined that an object that crashed through the roof of a Florida home last month was a chunk of space junk from equipment discarded at the International Space Station. The debris struck a home in Naples on March 8. NASA…
NASA is seeking a faster, cheaper way to bring Mars samples to Earth
NASA is seeking a faster, cheaper way to bring rock samples from Mars to Earth. In the meantime, the space agency says the effort is on hold. Reviews put the total cost of the project at $11 billion, with an arrival date of 2040. NASA…
Scientists say coral reefs around the world are experiencing mass bleaching in warming oceans
Reef scientists say coral reefs around the world are experiencing global bleaching for the fourth time due to prolonged warming of the oceans. Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the International Coral…
Apple App Store – Top Apps
Top Free iPhone Apps (US):
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2. Threads, an Instagram app, Instagram, Inc.
3. Call of Duty: Warzone Mobile, Activision Publishing, Inc.
4. Google, Google
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NASA probes whether object that crashed into Florida home came from space station
NASA says it’s investigating whether an object that crashed into the roof of a home in southwest Florida last month came from the international space station. Workers for the space agency picked up the object from the homeowner in Naples,…
Awe and dread: How religions have responded to total solar eclipses over the centuries
Throughout history, solar eclipses have had profound impact on adherents of various religions around the world. They were viewed as messages from God or spiritual forces, inducing emotions ranging from dread to wonder. Ahead of the total…
NASA wants to come up with a new clock for the moon, where seconds tick away faster
NASA wants to come up with an out-of-this-world way to keep track of time, putting the moon on its own souped-up clock. It’s not quite a time zone like those on Earth, but an entire frame of time reference for the moon. Because there’s less…
Poet-critic Hanif Abdurraqib among 8 winners of $175,000 Windham-Campbell Prizes.
Poet-critic Hanif Abdurraqib, fiction writers Deirdre Madden and Kathryn Scanlan and playwright Christopher Chen are among this year’s recipients of Windham-Campbell Prizes, for which winners each receive $175,000 cash awards. The prizes…
Historic covered bridges are under threat by truck drivers relying on GPS meant for cars
One of Vermont’s historic covered bridges is under threat from modern technology. Box truck drivers relying on GPS designed for cars continually crash through Lyndon’s 140-year-old Miller’s Run bridge. That's despite signs, including a…
Apple App Store – Top Apps
Top Free iPhone Apps (US):
1. Threads, an Instagram app, Instagram, Inc.
2. SHEIN - Shopping Online, ROADGET BUSINESS PTE. LTD.
3. Temu: Shop Like a Billionaire, Temu
4. Google, Google LLC
5. ShortTV - Watch Dramas & Shows, SHORTTV…
The spring equinox is here. What does that mean?
Spring gets its official start Tuesday in the Northern Hemisphere. This year's vernal equinox arrives on Tuesday. But what does that mean? The Earth's axis is tilted at an angle as it travels around the sun. On the equinox, the Earth's…
