by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
The U.S. Department of Energy on Wednesday said it will provide $625 million over the next five years for five newly formed quantum information research hubs as it tries to keep ahead of competing nations like China on the emerging technology. Resea...
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
An excavation in the western Japanese city of Osaka has unearthed more than 1,500 human bones at what is thought to be a burial site dating back some 160 years, city officials have said. Researchers discovered 350 small graves at the site as well as...
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
Painting one blade of a wind turbine black could cut wind farms' fatal bird strikes by up to 70%.
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
Some marginal friendships will by lost, says psychologist, while other deeper ones may need work.
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
A California wildfire has destroyed a sanctuary for the endangered California condor and the fates of several condors, including a chick, remain unknown. A blaze began last Wednesday in Los Padres National Forest northwest of Los Angeles. The nonpr...
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
Keeping a firm six-foot distance from others to stay coronavirus-free is a very 1940s-type of thing to do.
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
Marijuana could be legal in up to 40 states this year. Activist organizations oppose many at-work tests especially in non-safety-sensitive industries.
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
Boeing Co said on Tuesday it aims to redo its unmanned Starliner crew capsule flight test to the International Space Station (ISS) in December or January, depending on when it completes software and test hardware production development. If the test...
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
Researchers found the Somali sengi in the neighboring Republic of Dijbouti — where the mouse-size creature has been quietly thriving.
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
A psychotherapist explains why 'cognitive distortions' can hold you back, and how to replace them with empowering thoughts.
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
The WHO said young adults may be passing the coronavirus to the elderly: "People in their 20s, 30s, and 40s are increasingly driving the spread."
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
Henry N. Williams' favorite movie-action sequence unfolds on a strip of glass just a few millimeters across.It's a cinematic showdown between two bacterial cells: Vibrio coralliilyticus, a large, rod-shaped marine microbe, and a petite pursua...
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
A parachutist completed the world's first jump from a solar-powered aircraft on Tuesday after the plane soared to a height of 1,520 metres (nearly 5,000 ft) over western Switzerland, Swiss organisers said. The two-seater prototype plane made the tes...
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is back in school after a gap year in which she emerged as the voice of young people trying to save the planet from global warming and a thorn in the side of politicians she sees as dragging their heels over change. T...
by Heidi Harley - 3 years ago
After a year off school to campaign on pressing for tougher action on curbing climate change, Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg says she's returning to class. In Sweden, high school-level classes are returning to classes this week. It w...