#Vigorous 2020 hurricane season breaks a record for storms

#Vigorous 2020 hurricane season breaks a record for storms

“#Vigorous 2020 hurricane season breaks a record for storms” Hurricane scientists expected a busy Atlantic storm season. They got one. The National Weather Service announced the formation of Subtropical Storm Theta on Monday night, the “record-breaking 29th named storm” of the Atlantic hurricane season (tropical storms, which are organized cyclones with wind speeds of at…

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#How an airborne NASA mission took flight, amid a pandemic

#How an airborne NASA mission took flight, amid a pandemic

“#How an airborne NASA mission took flight, amid a pandemic” NASA oceanographer Josh Willis getting tested for coronavirus in Greenland. Image: josh Willis Moving forward requires focus. Mashable’s Social Good Series is dedicated to exploring pathways to a greater good, spotlighting issues that are essential to making the world a better place. March 11, 2020,…

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#Trump administration rushed to claim Pfizer’s vaccine win. But that’s not exactly true.

#Trump administration rushed to claim Pfizer’s vaccine win. But that’s not exactly true.

“#Trump administration rushed to claim Pfizer’s vaccine win. But that’s not exactly true.” The world got a bit of fantastic news on Monday: Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine looks incredibly promising.  The massive pharmaceutical company and its partner, BioNTech, announced its vaccine was 90 percent effective at preventing COVID-19 cases, which far surpassed expectations of a perhaps…

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#Icy moon Europa may glow in the dark, experiments suggest

#Icy moon Europa may glow in the dark, experiments suggest

“#Icy moon Europa may glow in the dark, experiments suggest” Europa’s icy surface and possible ocean beneath it may emit a glow into space. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute By replicating conditions that may be present on the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter’s dozens of moons, scientists found that this icy orb might glow. Scientists at…

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#Scientists film elusive, fast creature in the deep sea

#Scientists film elusive, fast creature in the deep sea

“#Scientists film elusive, fast creature in the deep sea” The elusive “ram’s horn squid.” Image: screenshot: Schmidt Ocean Institute For likely the first time, biologists captured a wild, elusive ram’s horn squid, or Spirula spirula, live on video. The deep ocean — particularly the twilight zone, a dark realm extending some 660 to 3,300 feet below…

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#Watch a NASA spacecraft touch down on asteroid Bennu

#Watch a NASA spacecraft touch down on asteroid Bennu

“#Watch a NASA spacecraft touch down on asteroid Bennu” The rock-strewn asteroid Bennu. Image: nasa Touchdown. Earlier in October, NASA successfully collected rocky samples from asteroid Bennu, a relatively small, well-preserved space rock some 200 million miles from Earth. On Friday, NASA released footage of the spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, approaching and briefly touching down on the…

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