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Blue Origin eyes 2nd New Glenn launch with Mars-bound NASA satellites

Blue Origin’s heavy lift New Glenn became the first commercial rocket to make it to orbit on its first try back in January. Jeff Bezos’ company is looking to repeat the feat while also nailing a return landing of its booster, something that didn’t come to fruition the first go-around.
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University of Minnesota researchers launch smoke-sensing drones that one day could fight wildfires

Plumes of smoke drifted up from a fire steadily taking over a 30-acre prairie at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, north of the Twin Cities. Amid the haze, five black drones zipped around. More than 150 feet below the flying robots, research student Nikil Krishnakumar raised the controller in the air. “It’s all autonomous now,” he said. “I’m not doing anything.” The aerial robotic team’s ...
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Two more Florida corals are ‘functionally extinct’ after 2023 heatwave

MIAMI — The marine heatwave that gripped Florida in 2023 was hotter than anything Florida has seen in 150 years, and claimed at least two victims — species of corals now marked "functionally extinct" from Florida’s reefs. That finding comes from a newly published scientific paper that reads more like an obituary for two of the most visible and important coral species on Florida’s reefs: ...
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Remember the moon rover? Here’s a look at a possible Artemis version

ORLANDO, Fla. — It’s been more than 18 months since NASA narrowed to three the field of competitors vying to build the nation’s next moon rover. Ahead of an expected mid-November decision, the teams have completed a series of tests to prove to NASA they have the right stuff for the Artemis missions. But each company is also intent on showing off the goods, a task that put one prototype rover ...
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‘Dr. Jane, do you really have hope for the future?’ Looking back at the legacy, impact and message Goodall shared with the world

In 1957, a 23-year-old Jane Goodall saved up enough money out of secretarial school and traveled from England to a friend’s farm in Kenya. While there, she met paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey, who offered her a job at a nearby natural history museum. It did not take long for Leakey to realize that Goodall’s passion for animals, her elevated patience, high energy and bravery would make her a great fit for studying wild chimpanzees.
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