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Adam Smith, Independent

The moment when the first human sets foot on Mars is becoming ever-closer. The 140 million mile distance between Earth and the Red Planet is set to be breached within the next two decades, Nasa predicts.

Greg Rosalsky, NPR

If you want your kid to be an elite athlete, make sure they have older brothers or sisters. That's one of the insights in a new book, The Best: How Elite Athletes Are Made, which digs into the social science of athletic greatness.

Koff & Williams, Stat

Unprecedented collaborative efforts in vaccine development have culminated in multiple vaccines being tested in advanced clinical trials all in less than one year since global leaders understood we were in the midst of a global pandemic. One is now being given to health care workers, and another will soon follow

Riley Black, Hakai Magazine

Ammonites are long gone. The last of their coil-shelled, many-tentacled kind disappeared 66 million years ago in one of the worst mass extinctions of all time. The nearly 10-kilometer-wide asteroid that struck the Earth and drew the curtain on the Cretaceous wiped them out, just as it did the flying pterosaurs and non-avian dinosaurs.

Prachi Patel, IEEE

For all the controversy they stir up on Earth, nuclear reactors can produce the energy and propulsion needed to rapidly take large spacecraft to Mars and, if desired, beyond. The idea of nuclear rocket engines dates back to the 1940s.

Associated Press

German doctors treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after he was poisoned with a nerve agent have detailed the case in an article for a major medical journal.

The Conversation

Within the next few decades, according to some experts, we may see the arrival of the next step in the development of artificial intelligence. So-called "artificial...

Dagomar Degroot, Aeon

In May 2020, as many of us stockpiled food and retreated indoors to escape the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the American astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley entered quarantine. In two weeks, they would lift off for the International Space Station, restoring the United States' capacity to send humans into space.

United Airlines became the latest carrier to announce a timeframe to fly the Boeing 737 MAX again, saying the jet would resume flights in February.

by Professor William Brumfield ()

This article is from a series by the invaluable William Brumfield, (Wikipedia), Professor of Slavic Studies at Tulane University, New Orleans, USA.

Among those pardoned were Charles Kushner, who pleaded guilty to charges including tax evasion and witness tampering in 2004, as well as former campaign manager Paul Manafort and longtime adviser Roger Stone.

These animals were camera trapped and sighted by forest patrolling staff during the ongoing snow leopard estimation process in the region.

The Cameroon and Zimbabwe internationals found the back of the net as Rudi Garcia's side ended 2020 with a win and clean sheet at home

One could look at exiting out of Mrs Bectors either today or over the next few trading sessions and then reassess once things have quieted down and prices are at more reasonable levels, says Dipan Mehta.

President Trump left the White House Wednesday afternoon to spend Christmas at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. The White House press office released the daily guidance and press schedule for Thursday that noted a call time for the out of town press pool of 7:30 a.m. That triggered New York Times White House reporter Maggie…

Aalto University

An international research team lead by Aalto University has found a new and simple route to break the reciprocity law in the electromagnetic world, by changing a material's property periodically in time. The breakthrough could help to create efficient nonreciprocal devices, such as compact isolators and circulators, that are needed for the next generation of microwave and optical communications systems.

EurekAlert!

Light travels at a speed of about 300,000,000 meters per second as light particles, photons, or equivalently as electromagnetic field waves. Experiments led by Hrvoje Petek, an R.K. Mellon professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy examined ideas surrounding the origins of light, taking snapshots of light, stopping light and using it to change properties of matter.

Florida Museum

The history of the Caribbean's original islanders comes into sharper focus in a new Nature study that combines decades of archaeological work with advancements in genetic technology.

Hong Kong

The perfect transmission of sound through a barrier is difficult to achieve, if not impossible based on our existing knowledge. This is also true with other energy forms such as light and heat.

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