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House and Senate proposals for NASA’s fiscal year 2022 science budget mostly track the administration’s request, providing particularly significant funding increases for the Planetary Science and Earth Science Divisions. Appropriators have sent mixed signals about the fate of the airborne SOFIA telescope, which NASA has proposed to terminate.
A few million years ago, this giant saber-toothed cat hunted rhinos in North America Not your average cat. A A Some 5-9 million years ago, a bad boy called Machairodus lahayishupup roamed the open spaces in North America (pronounced Mah-CHI-rho-duss Lah-HIGH-ees-hoop-oop). It was the largest cat of its time (that we know of, at least), weighing up to 900 pounds (410 kg) and hunting pretty much everything that moved, including prey ten times larger than itself. Image credits: Ian Abbott Animals in the Machairodus genus are thought to be largely similar to today’s lions or...
How to Nudge Climate Deniers Into Doing the Right Thing by Allison Day |April 7, 2021 Farm land in California, where aquifers are being drained as climate change alters precipitation patterns. Photo: Ian Abbott Who could forget back in 2015 when Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma brought a snowball to the Senate floor as apparent proof that climate change could not be happening simply because there was snow on the ground in Washington, D.C.? The media had a field day poking fun at him and his “reasoning,” with some speculating as to whether he truly did not understand how clima...
SPRING breakers heading to Florida have sparked fears of yet another Covid surge. College students were spotted in crowds on the sandy beaches, as nearly 2,000 Americans yesterday died from Covid-19. 17 17 Some have not let the Covid crisis stand in the way of having funCredit: PA:Press Association 17 Pictures show people packed together in the sun, maskless and partying. Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber told WSVN he thinks "we're expecting a larger than typical spring break." Experts have warned against people traveling to Florida or other places as states work desperately to roll out vaccines a...