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CLAIM: Photos of the Statue of Liberty from 1898 and 2017 show that sea levels have not risen significantly. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Sea level rise in the New York City area as well as globally has been documented by scientific bodies.

Flock of robots to explore subsurface environments on other worlds.

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Exploring asteroids using an asteroid-orbiting NASA spacecraft will be the topic of a March 20 community lecture in Oak Ridge.

On this episode we look at open educational resources. It's one way to curtail the steep costs college students face in buying text books. steep prices for books. These are materials in the public domain or are under a license that allows them to be freely used, changed, or shared with others. We’ll hear from instructors at the University of New Mexico who are using and creating these materials and why they love them.

Cornell astronomers detailed a newly-discovered galaxy with many unique traits, which make it a subject of further exploration, in a Feb. 17 paper. Published in The Astrophysics Journal Letters, the study found that the newly-uncovered galaxy likely has an efficient star formation rate, meaning that more stars are born per year relative to other galaxies. 

Naomi Oreskes traces the decadeslong campaign to get Americans to put their faith in free market as a force for positive change over government.

Scientists and governments have worried about the space junk surrounding Earth for decades. But humanitys ambitions are farther reaching than the space around Earth.

New images from NASAs James Webb Space Telescope revealed that a galaxy from the early universe has a previously overshadowed companion rich in star formation.