Month: February 2022

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In the 1800s, William Parsons built a telescope larger than any in the world: The Leviathan of Parsonstown. This landmark in science history helped solve the mystery of just what a nebula could be. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It’s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ———- Support SciShow
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Meeting new people is exciting, but also kind of overwhelming and you might have found yourself wondering if they really liked you. But turns out, they do really like you most of the time, and you might be just too hard on yourself. Hosted by: Brit Garner ———- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on
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NATURE PODCAST 28 February 2022 Audio long-read: The race to save the Internet from quantum hackers Researchers are scrambling to develop encryption systems that could defeat future quantum computers. Davide Castelvecchi & Benjamin Thompson Davide Castelvecchi View author publications You can also search for this author in PubMed  Google Scholar Benjamin Thompson View author publications
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WASHINGTON — SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said Saturday that he’s sending Starlink terminals to Ukraine to help keep the embattled country connected to the outside world as Russia steps up its invasion. Details of SpaceX’s Starlink assistance remain under wraps. And while it’s not clear how quickly the promised Starlink broadband terminals will be up
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The central processing plant for oil and gas in Salym, Russia, Feb. 4, 2014. Salym Petroleum Development is a venture between Shell and Gazprom Neft. Andrey Rudakov | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shell said Monday it is ending an “equity partnership” with Gazprom, a Russian state-owned energy company, as the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues. Shell said
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On Thursday, Russian forces launched missile attacks and shelling against Ukraine, igniting a significant escalation of the violence in the region. Experts believe that while a nuclear war seems unlikely, Russian President Vladimir Putin has made direct nuclear threats. “No matter who tries to stand in our way or… create threats for our country and
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Download PDF If you’ve written a scientific manuscript, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with the app-switching two-step that happens when you copy your data from one program and paste them into another. That time-tested workflow does the job, but it isn’t always the most efficient process. Perhaps you receive new samples and need to
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Steve Howard is not superstitious, at least about a particular number. “Thirteen is my favorite number,” said Howard, the administrator of Camden County, Georgia, in early January. Just a few weeks earlier, the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) awarded a launch site operator’s license, more commonly called a spaceport license, to Camden County,
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This year’s GreenBiz, was a real statement on the quality of that particular event and on the surging importance of all things ESG to both public and private companies. While other events are canceling or pushing to later in the year due to COVID-related corporate travel restrictions, GreenBiz saw its largest attendance. That’s really, really good
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Scott Herman, CEO of Cognitive Space: ‘You don’t get a better opportunity than this to show how remote sensing can support media storytelling’ WASHINGTON – Images collected by commercial satellites have chronicled the buildup of Russian forces on Ukraine’s borders and the ongoing invasion, providing intelligence that previously was only available from government sources. The
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