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• From Mercury to Starliner: The Evolution of the Spacesuit

  

  From Mercury to Starliner: The Evolution of the Spacesuit You won't explode if you enter space without a suit, but we don't recommend it. 19 Photos

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• Atmospheric Rivers Can Cause Extreme And Most Dangerous Storms In California

  

  An “Atmospheric-river” is a thin region of moisture in the atmosphere that flow through storms. A recent research on atmospheric river reveals that it can cause most dangerous rainfall and extreme winds. An atmospheric river can hold 15 times more water than the amount of water flows through the Mississipi river at a time.Like Us on Facebook This winter, a percent of California that was soaked by the drought, ended up by The atmospheric river. A team of atmospheric scientists led by Dr.Duane ..

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• Space X Mars Robotic Mission 'Red Dragon' Deferred To 2020

  

  The proposed plan of SpaceX to send a robotic mission to Mars in 2018 has been changed to a new schedule. Now, the rover mission will be deferred for two years. Dubbed Red Dragon mission, the mission will take off in 2020 with due preparations, according to SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell. "We were focused on 2018, but we felt like we needed to put more resources and focus more heavily on our crew program and our Falcon Heavy program, so we're looking more in the 2020 time frame for that," Sho..

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• Tribes Bury 9000-Year-Old 'Kennewick Man' After 20 Years Of Scientific Research And Legal Issues

  

  The remains of a 9000-year-old "Kennewick Man", also known as the "Ancient One", was finally buried last weekend. Over 200 people from five Native American tribes gathered at an undisclosed site to bury the remains. According to Geek Wire, remains of the "Kennewick Man" were buried in accordance with century old funerary rituals at a place on the Columbia River Plateau. It was actually a re-burial, which put an end to a saga that started in 1996. The skeleton of the "Kennewick Man" was spotted ..

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• Poachers Have All But Emptied This 'Sanctuary' Of Forest Elephants

  

  Poachers in just a decade slaughtered roughly 25,000 forest elephants in Africa's Minkébé National Park ― as much as 81 percent of the population in what has been an important sanctuary for the species, according to a new study. The park's population ...

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