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Science
The US military has been worrying about climate change since the dawn of the Cold War, for good reason.
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In 1957, Hollywood released the B-grade monster film, The Deadly Mantis, starring Mantis, a nightmare proportional prayer. Its premise: Melted Arctic ice releases a very hungry million-year-old megabug, and scientists and the US military must stop it. The rampaging insects threaten the front post bases of the US Arctic forces, part of a key line of…
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Space & Cosmos
Polaris Dawn will bring new fields of research and medicine
This week’s Polaris Dawn launch and civilian spacewalks offer new opportunities for space medical research, said Dr. Emmanuel Urquieta of the University of California, San Francisco. Photo by Polaris Program/John Krauss. The Polaris Dawn launch from Kennedy Space Center will include the first private commercial spacewalk and other firsts in space medical research, which is why Emmanuel Urquieta, an internationally…
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