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Bill McKinney Systems Administrator IV, Contractor, Science Directorate, NASA Langley Research Center I am responsible for computer support for the Science Directorate. Contact Bill McKinney + Return to the NASA Langley Science Directorate People Page The post Bill McKinney appeared first on NASA Science., Read MoreContinue Reading

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Monk parakeets ease into new friendships, slowly approaching strangers to avoid aggressive encounters. Researchers watched how birds shared space, groomed each other, and escalated to deeper social bonds over time. The results show a clear pattern of cautious exploration echoing similar studies in other animals. Even for birds, making aContinue Reading

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Despite its blazing temperatures, Texas has no labor protections for heat. That leaves workers, especially immigrants, vulnerable on the job. By Martha Pskowski, Keerti Gopal Eighteen-year-old Danny Nolasco spent the day of July 15, 2024, mixing and hauling buckets of cement at a construction site in stifling heat. Continue Reading

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Syngenta and other pesticide companies used the COP30 climate conference in Brazil to promote programmes to recover damaged pastureland that campaigners fear will drive increased use of toxic chemicals. Trade groups hosted multiple events to promote a technique known as ‘degraded pasture recovery’, in which land that has been damaged by overgrazing or other forms of poor management is convertedContinue Reading

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Go behind the scenes with executive editor Vernon Loeb and climate science reporter Bob Berwyn as they break down the key outcomes of COP30. By Bob Berwyn COP30 has wound down in Belém, Brazil—the U.N. climate change conference marked this year by Indigenous rights demonstrations, an actual fire, and notContinue Reading

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A Swedish plano-convex ingot once thought to be from the Bronze Age was revealed through chemical and isotopic testing to belong to the Iron Age. Its composition closely matches Iron Age finds from Poland, leading researchers to uncover new evidence of long-distance connections across the Baltic. The study highlights howContinue Reading

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Journalists who report on the harms caused by China’s overseas infrastructure buildout in Africa face intimidation, surveillance and police pressure. By Katie Surma Planet China: Tenth in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world.Continue Reading

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Ideas about Vikings and Norse mythology come mostly from much later medieval sources, leaving plenty of room for reinterpretation. Over centuries, writers, politicians, and artists reshaped these stories to reflect their own worldviews, from romantic heroism to dangerous nationalist myths. Pop culture and neo-paganism continue to amplify selective versions ofContinue Reading

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Offering no new plans to cut fossil fuels, the UN’s climate conference failed to produce a roadmap to stop global warming. By Bob Berwyn BELÉM, Brazil—After negotiators at COP30 retreated from meaningful climate action by failing to specifically mention the need to stop using fossil fuels in the final conferenceContinue Reading