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Reclamation allocates $3.9 million for research projects to support water management
(Bureau of Reclamation) The Bureau of Reclamation is providing $3.9 million through its Science and Technology Program to address research needs associated with managing and generating power in all western states.
Pale Red Dot: NASA’s MarCO probe snaps first picture of Mars taken by a CubeSat
Mars shows up as a pale red dot on a picture taken by one of NASA’s twin MarCO spacecraft on Oct. 2. Click on the image for a larger version. (NASA / JPL-Caltech Photo)
Mars looks like nothing more than a reddish speck in a picture captured by one of...
Dangerous Hurricane Willa probed By NASA and Japan's GPM satellite
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Hurricane Willa is a major hurricane threatening western Mexico. Forecasters were able to see the rate of rainfall occurring within the powerful storm when the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM's...
Patients with HPV-positive oropharynx cancer should receive chemoradiation
(European Society for Medical Oncology) Patients with human papilloma virus (HPV)-positive throat cancer should receive chemoradiotherapy rather than cetuximab with radiotherapy, according to late-breaking research reported at the ESMO 2018 Congress...
UTSA creates web-based open source dashboard of North Pole
(University of Texas at San Antonio) It's called ArcCI (or Arctic CyberInfrastructure) and promises to combine the thousands of images that have been taken along the years of the Arctic Ocean into one global database that will help scientists an...
Antiwar Movement Spreads among Tech Workers
Engineering students join Google and Microsoft workers in protesting the tech-industry's enabling of U.S. militarism-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Genetic study improves lifespan predictions and scientific understanding of aging
(American Society of Human Genetics) By studying the effect of genetic variations on lifespan across the human genome, researchers have devised a way to estimate whether an individual can expect to live longer or shorter than average, and have advanc...
The moon and meteors light up the night
An Orionid meteor flashes in a 2015 image captured by Marshall Space Flight Center’s all-sky camera in Alabama. (NASA / MSFC Photo)
Saturday night’s all right … for skywatching: Tonight’s mostly clear skies over Western Washington should provide a go...
A new way to measure nearly nothing
(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) NIST scientists have designed a vacuum gauge, based on ultracold trapped atoms, is small enough to deploy in commonly used vacuum chambers.
UTA researchers find genomic evidence of rapid adaptation of invasive Burmese pythons in Florida
(University of Texas at Arlington) UTA researchers set out to determine whether pythons could have adapted to an extreme Florida freeze event in 2010. They generated data for dozens of samples before and after the freeze event. By scanning regions of...