NASA Is ‘Evaluating All Options’ to Get the Boeing Starliner Crew Home

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NASA Is 'Evaluating All Options' to Get the Boeing Starliner Crew Home

BY ERIC BERGER, ARS TECHNICA | 4-MINUTE READ

Eight weeks after the Starliner spacecraft launched, NASA is still looking for possible answers to its technical issues—including the possibility of SpaceX lending a hand.

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See the Perseids and Southern Delta Aquariids in a Stunning Double Meteor Shower

BY GRETCHEN RUNDORFF | 4-MINUTE READ

Across the Northern Hemisphere, August will see beautiful displays of meteors. Here's everything you need to know to enjoy them.

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The Shameful Controversy Over Olympic Boxer Imane Khelif

BY PAOLO ARMELLI | 2-MINUTE READ

Imane Khelif has always defined herself as a woman, and has every right to compete.

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'Gem' of a Proof Breaks 80-Year-Old Record, Offers New Insights Into Prime Numbers

BY JORDANA CEPELEWICZ | 6-MINUTE READ

The proof creates stricter limits on potential exceptions to the famous Riemann hypothesis.

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Public Health Experts Want Coca-Cola and the Olympics to Break Up

BY ISABEL FRASER | 4-MINUTE READ

Scientists, activists, and ordinary petitioners want the Olympics to break with Coca-Cola, comparing it to the tobacco companies that long sponsored the Games. They aren't holding their breath.

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The Fight to Save Florida's Oranges

BY AYURELLA HORN-MULLER | 6-MINUTE READ

Once the leading producer of the citrus fruit in the US, Florida is being ground down by hurricanes, diseases, and drought—but its orange growers aren't giving up yet.

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Mountain Bikers Are Rewilding Land by Paying the Government to Do It

BY TRISTAN KENNEDY | 7-MINUTE READ

A new nature-restoration project in Wales is being funded by an unusual source: thrill-seeking downhill lovers.

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Jane Goodall Thinks It's Not Too Late to Save the World

BY VLADAN SHIR AND MICHAL KUČERA | 5-MINUTE READ

The world, the famed primatologist says, isn't what it used to be—but there's still time to save it, if we treat crises like climate change, biodiversity loss, and poverty as one.

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How to Stop Wildfire Smoke Damaging Your Health

BY RACHEL CONNOLLY AND MICHAEL JERRETT | 3-MINUTE READ

Smoke from fires is linked to thousands of premature deaths every year, and is a growing health threat as widespread blazes become more common.

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Tuariki Delamere's Somersault Could Have Launched a New Era in the Olympic Long Jump

BY RHETT ALLAIN | 5-MINUTE READ

The New Zealander came up with a better way to jump, using a front flip in midair. But the sport's stodgy authorities shut him down before the 1975 Games.

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The Cure for Disposable Plastic Crap Is Here—and It's Loony

BY CLIVE THOMPSON | 19-MINUTE READ

Stretchy seaweed, reverse vending machines, QR-coded take-out boxes: They're how we can break society's absurd addiction to single-use plastics.

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US: Nintendo Switch is only 1.1 million units behind PlayStation 2 in lifetime sales

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US: Nintendo Switch is only 1.1 million units behind PlayStation 2 in lifetime sales

By Sickr on August 7, 2024

Data analyst Mat Piscatella from sales tracking group Circana in the United States has revealed that the Nintendo Switch family of systems are only 1.1 million sales units behind Sony's monumental PlayStation 2 console. Mat Piscatella post went on to say that all three current systems on the market are currently doing well and that […]

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