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Environment

Super' El Nino Looks Set To Ruin The Lives Of Many Of The World's Most Vulnerable People

With peak temperatures expected in January or February, Oxfam America has estimated that the "Super El Ni?o"" could cause at least 10 million of the world's poorest people ...

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Sustainable Development

Scientists Have Already Built a Prototype Greenhouse for Mars

Last month’s announcement that NASA had discovered very strong evidence of flowing water on Mars renewed excitement over the possibility of humans living on Mars, as ...

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Movies

True Review Movie – The Martian

Critics rating : 4 Stars

Cast :  Matt Damon, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jeff Daniels, Jessica Chastain

Direc...

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Gender

Sheryl Sandberg: When Women Get Stuck, Corporate America Gets Stuck

Using the talents of our full population is critical, writes Lean In founder Sheryl Sandberg At the current pace of progress, we are more than 100 years away from gender eq...

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Sustainable Development

The Amount Of Space Junk Around Earth Has Hit A ‘Critical Density’ — And It Could Jeopardize Our Space Missions

“We’re at what we call a ‘critical density’ — where there are enough large objects in space that they will collide with one another and create...

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Sustainable Development

Jeff Bezos Is Building A Rocket Factory At An Old NASA Launch Site

“We’re not just launching from here, we’re building here,” Bezos, who also owns Amazon and The Washington Post, said at a press conference. “W...

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Sustainable Development

The Saffire Experiment Will Study Real Fires in Microgravity

This combustible research project is slated for launch in 2016, and will be activated at a distance from the International Space Station to avoid, you know, setting our onl...

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Sustainable Development

American Astronauts Will Fly to Space in Boeing's 'Starliner'

Boeing, with its CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX, with its Dragon, are vying to become the first American companies to ever fly NASA astronauts into space. At this point it&rs...

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Environment

This Week in Storms: Typhoon Kila, Sudanese Dust, Hurricane Fred

Weather prediction involves a lot of probabilities (and no certainties) and informed guesses, but weather observation gets better every year. In part we can thank NASA's Te...

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Sustainable Development

SpaceX Is Planning At Least Four More Launches This Year

Earlier this week, Gwynne Shotwell, the company’s president, said she wasn’t sure when the company would return to flight after its failed International Space S...

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