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Three Chinese astronauts docked with the country’s still-under-construction space station on Thursday, beginning what their government expects will be a decade or more of continuous presence by Chinese astronauts in Earth’s orbit.Six hours…

Eine Hitzekuppel brennt in Arizona und Nevada, wo die Temperaturen diese Woche auf über 115 Grad gestiegen sind und Ärzte warnen, dass Menschen durch den knisternden Asphalt Verbrennungen dritten Grades bekommen können.Am Lake Mead, der 25…

Hunting scenes, geometric patterns, hand stencils and other works of prehistoric art can exist on the walls of well-protected caves for tens of thousands of years - but only if there are no bats in the galleries.These flying mammals are…

Betelgeuse, to put it more politely, belched.In the fall of 2019, the star, a red supergiant on the shoulder of the Orion the Hunters constellation, began to darken dramatically to less than half its usual brightness, and some astronomers…

Another Chinese robotic mission landed on the moon in December, collecting lunar rocks from the surface and bringing them back to Earth weeks later. This made China only the third nation after the USA and the Soviet Union to complete such…

Personal humiliation inspired Lee Ross’s greatest insight.In 1969, when he defended his graduate dissertation at Columbia University, a committee of faculty members let loose a downpour of esoteric questions. Mr. Ross had done a study of…

When did the coronavirus arrive in the US?The first infection was confirmed on January 21, 2020 in a Washington state resident who had recently returned from Wuhan, China. Shortly afterwards, experts concluded that the virus had been in…

WASHINGTON - A federal judge in Louisiana has blocked the Biden government's suspension of new state and waterfront oil and gas leases as the first major legal hurdle to President Biden's quest to reduce fossil fuel pollution and preserve…

AUSTIN, Texas - On Monday, as rising temperatures drove Texas power demand to a June record, state regulators urged citizens to use less power or face a repeat of February's fatal outages, which saw 69 percent of Texans were without…

Luna 27 and Chang'e-6, for example, are said to drill into the surface and bring samples back to Earth - an accomplishment that China did three times a year with Chang'e-5 last December and the Soviet Union with Luna landers three times a…