Science & Health: Space, Medicine, Climate Change And Humans
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The Best Spaceflight Images of 2022
From long-awaited rocket launches to an unprecedented asteroid encounter, the past 12 months in spaceflight have been a doozy. The events of 2022 will be shaping space exploration and commercialization for years to come.
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The Coolest Archaeological Discoveries of 2022
Compiling a list of the top archaeological finds in a given year is always a weird exercise in time dilation. I’m tasked with revisiting past lives through the art, shipwrecks, and bones left behind. Some items on this list were lost for merely a century; others for millennia. No matter how old they are, though,…
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Severe Strep A May Be Rising in U.S. After 24 Child Deaths in UK
Severe cases of strep A may be climbing in parts of the world outside of the UK, where the surge was first reported. Several children’s hospitals in the U.S. have documented an increase, while doctors in Montreal, Canada recently reported a possible rise in the area as well, along with two child deaths. These surges…
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Rest in Peace, InSight: Scientists Pay Tribute to the Mars Lander
NASA said today that the InSight lander mission has run out of power and is over, four years and a month after the probe landed on Mars.