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The second season of the podcast Poetry Unbound has started. NPR gets a look with podcast host Pádraig Ó Tuama.

California will be the first state to create its own line of generic drugs to cope with high drug prices. A new law lets the state outsource manufacturing but control pricing and distribution.

The NFL had a smooth start to its season with no coronavirus cases in the first three weeks. But the Tennessee Titans have halted that streak — three players and five team staff tested positive.

An Oregon school district hit by wildfires scrambles to create some normalcy and hold classes online. It's unclear how many families can participate since many of them have been displaced.

The New York Times reported that President Trump deducted more than $70,000 in expenses related to hairstyling while he was on The Apprentice. NPR discusses whether doing so is legal.

President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden are set for the first of three presidential debates. Tuesday's debate will be in Cleveland.

The Tampa Bay Lightning won the Stanley Cup on Monday. But pandemic safety precautions made for a surreal celebration.

NPR's Tonya Mosley talks with Steve Cortes, a senior adviser for the Trump 2020 campaign, about how the president will defend his record in Tuesday's debate.

Both the Cubs and the White Sox are in the playoffs for just the third time in history. But no Chicagoans will be cheering teams at the stadium, and few will be watching them at bars.

Republicans are recruiting tens of thousands of poll watchers, saying that Democrats are trying to "steal" the election. Democrats and civil rights groups worry it could lead to voter intimidation.

Welcome To The New World begins in 2016 when the Aldabaans arrive on election day — and wake up in Donald Trump's America. Author Jake Halpern began to document the newcomers in a comic strip.

It may well be the solution to exceed divestment targets and pump-prime the economy

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was buried Tuesday in a private ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery

Bergen, Norway (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 - Corvus Energy is pleased to announce that the company has been selected by Holland Ship Electric to supply lithium ion battery-based energy storage systems (ESS) for five new all-electric ferries being built by Holland Shipyard Group for Amsterdam's municipal public transport provider, GVB.

The ferries will operate on three of the North Sea Canal routes, replacing the current fleet built in the 1930s. The routes in the North Sea Canal are amongst the busiest routes... Читать дальше...

Munich, Germany (SPX) Sep 21, 2020 - For the fusion researchers at IPP, who want to develop a power plant based on the model of the sun, the turbulence formation in its fuel - a hydrogen plasma - is a central research topic. The small eddies carry particles and heat out of the hot plasma centre and thus reduce the thermal insulation of the magnetically confined plasma. Because the size and thus the price of electricity of a future fusion power plant depends on it, one of the most important goals is to understand... Читать дальше...

Yeongi-gun, South Korea (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 - Korean researchers have developed an energy harvester that can generate electric power from ambient vibrations with diverse frequencies through a novel automatic resonance tuning mechanism. It was recently announced by the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) that a research team led by Dr. Hyun-Cheol Song from the KIST Center for Electronic Materials developed an energy harvester that can perform automatic resonance tuning (ART) by adjusting... Читать дальше...

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Borat‘s coming! Sacha Baron Cohen‘s highly anticipated Borat 2 will be released on Amazon Studios on October 23, Deadline reported on Tuesday (September 29). PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Sacha Baron Cohen The film is the follow-up to the 2006 film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, [...]

A number of life-hunting probes are on their way to Mars.

Jordyn Woods sabotaged her friendship with Kylie Jenner in 2019 when she found herself in a compromising position with Khloe Kardashian’s boyfriend Tristan Thompson at a house party - but it seems Kylie is ready to forgive

As a result of the Azerbaijan Army"s artillery strikes, the positions of the 1st battalion of the 5th motorized rifle regiment stationed near the Hasangaya settlement of the Terter region and the 1st battalion of the 6th motorized rifle regiment of the Armenian armed forces stationed in the Talish direction were destroyed.The enemy, who has suffered heavy losses, is facing difficulties in finding equipment for organizing the evacuation of the dead and wounded. ...

Huntsville AL (NASA) Sep 23, 2020 - The center of our Milky Way galaxy is too distant for us to visit in person, but we can still explore it. Telescopes give us a chance to see what the Galactic Center looks like in different types of light.

By translating the inherently digital data (in the form of ones and zeroes) captured by telescopes in space into images, astronomers create visual representations that would otherwise be invisible to us.

Washington DC (NASA) Sep 21, 2020 - NASA is advancing a laser-based technology designed to help spacecraft land on a proverbial dime for missions to the Moon and Mars. The technology will undergo testing on upcoming suborbital rocket launches with Blue Origin on its New Shepard rocket and ride to the Moon on several commercial landers as part of the Artemis program. Simultaneously, companies are using the technology to help self-driving cars navigate rush hour traffic on this planet.

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Boston MA (SPX) Sep 18, 2020 - George Konidaris still remembers his disheartening introduction to robotics. "When you're a young student and you want to program a robot, the first thing that hits you is this immense disappointment at how much you can't do with that robot," he says.

Most new roboticists want to program their robots to solve interesting, complex tasks - but it turns out that just moving them through space without colliding with objects is more difficult than it sounds.