#Virgin Galactic marks second glide flight over New Mexico

“#Virgin Galactic marks second glide flight over New Mexico” This photo provided by Virgin Galactic shows SpaceShipTwo Unity being released from the carrier mothership, VMS Eve for second successful glide flight in New Mexico on Thursday, June 25, 2020. Virgin Galactic is celebrating the second successful glide flight of its spaceship over Spaceport America in…

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#Maryland offshore wind farm could become stop-over region for migrating striped bass and Atlantic sturgeon

“#Maryland offshore wind farm could become stop-over region for migrating striped bass and Atlantic sturgeon” Researcher Ellie Rothermel configures an acoustic receiver off coast of Ocean City, Maryland, to monitor to the movement of Atlantic sturgeon and striped bass off the Delmarva coastline. Credit: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science/Mike O’Brien For the endangered…

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#Chemicals released into the air could become less hazardous, thanks to a missing math formula for droplets

“#Chemicals released into the air could become less hazardous, thanks to a missing math formula for droplets” Purdue researchers have figured out a way to calculate surface viscosity just by looking at a stretched droplet as it starts to break. Credit: Purdue University images/Brayden Wagoner and Osman Basaran Drones and other aircraft effectively spray pesticides…

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#Unorthodox desalination method could transform global water management

“#Unorthodox desalination method could transform global water management” Illustration of the TSSE (temperature swing solvent extraction) process, a pioneering desalination approach for hypersaline brines that could transform global water management. Credit: Chanhee Boo/Columbia Engineering Water security is becoming an urgent global challenge. Hundreds of millions of people already live in water-scarce regions, and the UN…

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#What kind of bee is that bee? Exotic Bee ID website expanded

“#What kind of bee is that bee? Exotic Bee ID website expanded” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Exotic Bee ID, a website created through a collaborative effort between the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and Utah State University (USU) to help identify non-native bees in…

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#NRL telescope onboard SOHO discovers 4000th comet

“#NRL telescope onboard SOHO discovers 4000th comet” Courtesy Photo | The 4,000th comet discovered by ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s SOHO observatory is seen here in an image from the spacecraft alongside SOHO’s 3,999th comet discovery. The two comets are relatively close at approximately 1 million miles apart, suggesting that they could have been…

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