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Katherine Johnson, NASA mathematician, dies at 101

NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson was an unsung hero of space exploration until long after her retirment

Earth Might Witness ‘Mini Ice Age’ For Next 30 Years, As The Sun About To Hit Its ‘Solar Minimum’

Students should stay in Wuhan as Pakistan cannot treat coronavirus: Envoy

Antarctica’s biggest glacier still losing ice, thinning in a new way

New mission will take 1st peek at Sun’s poles.

“We are going to be able to map what we ‘touch’ with the in situ instruments and what we ‘see’ with remote sensing,” said Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla, NASA deputy project scientist for the mission.

Crocodiles suffering for luxury leather bags in Vietnam

Crocodiles Die Horrifically In Vietnam For Louis Vuitton Leather Bags

PETA has exposed suffering on reptile farms in the U.S. and Africa, and now eyewitness footage reveals the horrifying reality for tens of thousands of crocodiles in Vietnam raised and violently killed to make “luxury” leather bags sold around the world. Two of the farms investigated supply crocodile skins to Louis Vuitton’s parent company, LVMH, and “some of the biggest brands,” according to a farm owner.

NASA Building Homes Made of Fungi for Moon, Mars

Instead of habitats made of metal and glass, NASA is exploring technologies that could grow structures out of fungi to become our future homes in the stars, and perhaps lead to more sustainable ways of living on Earth as well. Creating a livable home for future astronauts means doing more than growing a roof to go over their heads.

World’s First Living Machine: Frog cells and AI

World’s First ‘Living Machine’ Created Using Frog Cells and Artificial Intelligence

What happens when you take cells from frog embryos and grow them into new organisms that were “evolved” by algorithms? You get something that researchers are calling the world’s first “living machine.”

Scientists revealed latest topographical map of Antarctica from BedMachine project

Scientists Reveal That They’ve Finally Found the Deepest Point on Earth Under Antarctica

Scientists have revealed the latest topographical map of Antarctica, which has been developed by the BedMachine project, reported the Mashable. BedMachine is a new map of the Antarctic ice sheet believed to be of high precision.

Israeli scientists develop bacteria which “eat” only carbon dioxide.

Israeli researchers have developed bacteria fed only with carbon dioxide (CO2), the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) in central Israel reported Wednesday.