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Armed groups linked to al-Qaeda began attacks in the mid-2000s, but several security measures have halted them., Guelb er-Richat, Adrar Region, Mauritania – From inside her thatch-roof tent, Fatima Cheikh Mohammad Bouya scans the vast, rocky landscape outside, hoping to catch sight of approaching guests, ideally travellers looking to stayContinue Reading

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Oh man. Same old clown show, awash with boondoggles, each more cringey than the last. As the mad man-child deconstructs DC and slaps his hideous face and name everywhere – historic buildings, fascist arches, garish statues, possibly imaginary gold phones – others have taken his lead with their own patrioticContinue Reading

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Often hailed as the most successful international environmental agreement of all time, the 1987 Montreal Protocol continues to successfully phase out the global production of chemicals that were creating a growing hole in the ozone layer, causing skin cancer and other adverse health effects. MIT-led studies have since shown theContinue Reading

Lunar Meteorite Preserves Evidence of Colossal Asteroid Strike

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Planetary scientists analyzing a lunar meteorite known as Northwest Africa (NWA) 12593 have uncovered evidence of an asteroid impact that occurred 3.5 billion years ago on the Moon, helping to reconstruct a period of intense bombardment that left lasting marks across the inner Solar System. The post Lunar Meteorite PreservesContinue Reading

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 214 — Moon Man

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Moon Man – With Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine – YouTube Watch On On Episode 214 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine about his past and the space agency’s future. There are NASA Administrators, and then there are NASA Administrators—all are very accomplished individualsContinue Reading

Closer every day: A spectacular 30-day collage of the Venus-Jupiter conjunction (photo)

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Astrophotographer Soumyadeep Mukherjee has shared a spectacular 30-day collage of the western night sky titled “Closer, Everyday”, which captures the subtle motion of Jupiter and Venus as they danced through the skies above Kolkata, India, ahead of a dramatic planetary conjunction. The photos used to create the collage were taken with a Nikon Z6II cameraContinue Reading