Category: News
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Olympic Refuge Foundation and IOC Refugee Olympic Team honoured with 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports
In recognition of the opportunity that they provide to the most vulnerable people around the world to access sport and thrive in all aspects of their lives, the Princess of Asturias Foundation announced that it has awarded its 2022 Award for Sports to the Olympic Refuge Foundation and the IOC Refugee Olympic Team. The award ceremony will take place on…
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WATCH LIVE: TRANSPORTER-5 MISSION
SpaceX is targeting today, Wednesday, May 25 for a Falcon 9 launch of Transporter-5 to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The 57-minute launch window opens at 2:27 p.m. ET, or 18:27 UTC. A backup opportunity is available on Thursday, May 26, with the same launch window.…
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Unlike in Hollywood Blockbusters, the TOPGUN Pilots in ‘No Fallen Heroes’ are Real… and their Enemy is Veteran Suicide
No Fallen Heroes’ is in production. Its spin-off TV series ‘No Fallen Heroes: Extraction’ is in pre-production. BOCA RATON, Fla. /PRNewswire/ — Executive Producer Matthew ‘Whiz’ Buckley and Producer/Director Leigh Simons just dropped a double-barreled announcement regarding their feature-length documentary ‘No Fallen Heroes.’ First, there will be a VIP by-invitation-only first-look screening of portions of the film on May 28 in Boca Raton, FL. Second, the…
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NASA Invites Media to Discuss Space Station Science, Climate Research
NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Tuesday, June 2, to discuss the hardware, technology demonstrations, and science experiments, including a new climate research investigation, headed to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s 25th commercial resupply mission for NASA. Audio of the teleconference will be streamed live on the agency’s website. SpaceX is…
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Gene-edited tomatoes could be a new source of vitamin D
Newswise — Tomatoes gene-edited to produce vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, could be a simple and sustainable innovation to address a global health problem. Researchers used gene editing to turn off a specific molecule in the plant’s genome which increased provitamin D3 in both the fruit and leaves of tomato plants. It was then converted…
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Battle of the Paddles! A Pickleball Paddle Evolution
Sleeves shares his Pickleball Paddle journey! #seniorpickleball
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NASA Awards Contract to National Academy of Science
NASA has awarded a sole-source contract to the National Academy of Science of Washington to conduct studies on questions of national importance within the domain of NASA science and technology programs relating to space science, Earth science, and biological and physical science in space. The Strategic Advice Supporting NASA Science and Technology Programs in Space…
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How a cognitive bias is blocking the rise of electric cars
A UNIGE team shows that underestimating battery autonomy is a major psychological barrier to buying an electric car. Newswise — What are the barriers to the adoption of electric cars? Although the main financial and technological obstacles have been removed, their market share still needs to increase. In a recent study, a team from the…
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SENIOR PICKLEBALL REPORT SHIRTS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AT THE STM STORE!
Now available to order are two new styles of the official SPR shirts. The two shirt styles include, the Sleeve’s Senior Pickleball Report workout shirt and the SPR workout T-shirt. These shirts are specifically designed, the sweatshirts having the SPR crossword logo on the back and SPR pickleball logo above a QR code on the front.The…
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Infectious Disease Doctor Answers Questions About the Monkeypox Virus
The growing concern of recent outbreaks of the rare monkeypox virus reported in the U.S. and abroad have health authorities monitoring transmission rates and keeping a close eye on the emerging issue. Charles Schleupner, a professor of internal medicine who specializes in infectious disease at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, says he does…