Article Published by: espn.com A group including actor and former WWE star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has agreed to purchase the XFL for approximately $15 million, according to a news release issued Monday morning. The XFL declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy April 13 and has been seeking a...
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Article Published by: dominicantoday.com The Dominican Foundation for Marine Studies, Fundemar, have registered an increase in the frequency of the presence of West Indian manatees on the coasts of La Romana, a critically endangered species in the Dominican Republic, with evidence of the appearance in the...
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Article Published by: theguardian.com The world’s largest all-electric aircraft is about to take to the skies for the first time. The Cessna Caravan, retrofitted with an electric engine, is expected to fly for 20-30 minutes over Washington state in the US on Thursday. The plane can carry nine...
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Article Published by: forbes.com Recently the World Meteorological Organization Committee on Weather and Climate Extremes, certified two new world records for lightning. Aptly called megaflashes, the strikes more than double the previous records. The longest reported distance for a single lightning flash covered a horizontal distance of...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov Mars is an obvious source of inspiration for science fiction stories. It is familiar and well-studied, yet different and far enough away to compel otherworldly adventures. NASA has its sights on the Red Planet for many of the same reasons. Robots, including the...
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Article Published by: espn.com How excited am I for the recently booked Israel Adesanya vs. Paulo Costa UFC middleweight title fight on Sept. 19? Let me count the ways. For starters, when it happens, it will mark just the second time in UFC history that two undefeated men...
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Article Published by: forbes.com There are more than 8,200 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the Dominican Republic, a nation with a population of about the size of New York City. Of that number, there have been over 345 deaths. At least five of those have been people...
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Article Published by: huffpost.com When you return to the office, you should commute alone, undergo a daily temperature screening and communicate to your colleagues and visitors through a transparent shield when it’s not possible to stay six feet apart, according to new recommendations released this week...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first African American female engineer at NASA. Jackson started her NASA career in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the agency’s...
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Article Published by: bbc.com Scientists at the University of Liverpool have unveiled a robotic colleague that has been working non-stop in their lab throughout lockdown. The £100,000 programmable researcher learns from its results to refine its experiments. "It can work autonomously, so I can run experiments from home,"...
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