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New evidence shows that droughts were a significant factor in the fall of the Mayan civilization. Paleoclimatologist Douglas Kennett of Pennsylvania State University led an international team of…
Living “green” has become a popular trend in the last twenty years, and reducing oil consumption remains an important goal for the sustainably-minded today. One of the top…
On January 28th, the Iranian space program announced that it had successfully launched a monkey 120 kilometers into space. The creature, which was secured in a contraption that…
The European Union announced on Monday that it will put two billion euros towards two ambitious science projects: graphene research and the Human Brain Project. The two were…
The crash of the space shuttle Challenger in January 1986 shocked the nation after the previous successes of NASA’s space shuttle program. Mechanical failures and imperfect management revealed…