Article Published by: nasa.gov Astronomers have found the best evidence for the perpetrator of a cosmic homicide: a black hole of an elusive class known as "intermediate-mass," which betrayed its existence by tearing apart a wayward star that passed too close. Weighing in at about 50,000 times...
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Article Published by: huffpost.com The remote conferencing service, which has lots of new users while people isolate during the coronavirus pandemic, has an "attendee attention tracking" feature. Employees, students and other Zoom users should be aware of a watchful feature on the remote conferencing service: It tells...
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Article Published by: dominicantoday.com The director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, said that due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic the world economy has entered a recession and warned that the wave of layoffs and bankruptcies that it will cause will affect...
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Article Published by: forbes.com With the current coronavirus pandemic, this might not be the happiest time on the planet. But that’s no reason to forget what makes us happy—especially on March 20, which is the United Nations’ annual International Day of Happiness. This day has been...
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Article Published by: fieldandstream.com As the Covid-19 pandemic worsens, it’s more important than ever for hunters and anglers to seek some solitude. For years I’ve been trying to figure out what I’m an expert at, or even could be an expert at, and now suddenly, due to...
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Article Published by: dominicantoday.com Several entities managed to enhance the conservation of coral reefs in the Dominican Republic by using cutting-edge technology to develop maps that allow visualization of coastal marine habitats. These are The Nature Conservancy (TNC) environmental conservation organization and the Global Airborne Observatory (GAO),...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov Born: Aug. 26, 1918 Died: Feb. 24, 2020 Hometown: White Sulphur Springs, WV Education: B.S., Mathematics and French, West Virginia State College, 1937 Hired by NACA: June 1953 Retired from NASA: 1986 Actress Playing Role in Hidden Figures: Taraji P. Henson Biography by Margot Lee Shetterly Being handpicked to be...
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Article Published by: cnn.com Stars that have companions aren't always friendly to them, as evidenced by a stellar confrontation witnessed by astronomers. They studied the binary star system, HD101584, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array of telescopes in Chile to find out what happened. They discovered that the...
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Article Published by: forbes.com African startups raised a record $1.34 billion in venture capital in 2019, up from just under $200 million in 2015, according to WeeTracker, a media firm focused on the African entrepreneurship space. That’s about a 46.3% increase on a compound annual growth...
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Article Published by: nasa.gov The latest Star Wars movie is now playing at an International Space Station (relatively) near you, just weeks after a pair of the film’s actors traveled to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston to train like real-life astronauts preparing for missions to...
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