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Why The World’s Most Powerful Telescope Has Just Been Ruled Unlawful
Last week, Hawaii’s Supreme Court voided a construction permit for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), a $US1.4 billion observatory that would peer into distant corners of our universe and back in time, exploring new cosmic landscapes with a resolution twelve times sharper than that of Hubble.
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By 2080, Corn Won’t Be America’s Top Crop Anymore
America has a huge, sprawling, incredibly productive agricultural system, the slow-grown product of its history as a farming nation. But that system has already begun changing — and what Americans growing on those farms is going to change dramatically too.
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Solar Panel Is A Glittering Blue Mosaic Against The Blackness Of Space
Image Cache: The shiny blue mosaic of solar cells set against the clean bronzed lines of the solar panel support structure make this photograph of the solar array panels outside the Zarya Functional Cargo Block on the International Space Station into a true piece of art. The solar panel was photographed by a member of…
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Badass Historical Chemists: Alice Hamilton Versus Absolutely Everyone
Alice Hamilton was one of those people who used science to shape morality. Basic concepts like sanitation, worker safety, and proper chemical disposal exist because she proved there was no other choice. She was also one of the first to speak out about the growing threat of Nazi Germany.