Category: Science
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Telemundo’s “Todos Unidos” And Company-Wide Relief Efforts Raise Over $12.9 Million For Mexico, Puerto Rico, Texas And Florida Natural Disasters
MIAMI, Sept. 29, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Telemundo announced it has raised more than $12.9 million for the Red Cross relief efforts for the victims of the recent natural disasters in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Texas, Florida and the Caribbean islands. Under the banner of “Todos Unidos” (All Together,) the Telemundo Networks, together with the Telemundo and NBC owned stations,…
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THE EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE
How fast is the universe expanding? A new ScienceCast video from NASA explains more about Hubble’s Constant, which is the name given by astronomers to the rate of the expansion of the universe.
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Honeywell Donates $400,000 Of Personal Protective Equipment To Aid In Mexico’s Earthquake Rescue And Relief Efforts
Donation of nearly 50,000 pieces of protective gear is supporting Mexico Secretaria de la Defensa Nacional (SEDENA)
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California Dairy Community Sends 70,000 Pounds of Food Aid to Areas Affected by Harvey and Irma
TRACY, Calif., Sept. 21, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — While one truck arrived at the Treasure Coast Food Bank in Fort Pierce, Florida, the second of two food relief trucks departed from Irwindale, California Tuesday headed for Houston, completing a commitment from the California dairy community to support families in need who were affected by recent hurricanes…
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Verizon customers with family and friends in Mexico can connect for free following powerful earthquake
NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ —Â Following Tuesday’s devastating earthquake in Mexico, Verizon is supporting customers with loved ones potentially impacted by this terrible tragedy by offering free wireless and wireline calling from the U.S. to Mexico to help connect them with family and friends. “For the second time in just two weeks, residents of…
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Six-Legged Robot Launches Its Own Kickstarter Campaign
For the first time, a Kickstarter project has launched its own campaign. On September 12 the Vorpal Combat Hexapod—an open source, 3D printed, wireless walking robot—used one of its six robotic legs to press the “LAUNCH” button on the popular crowdfunding website, triggering its own campaign to go live to Kickstarter’s millions of backers.
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Irma’s Effect on the Caribbean
The following is from a report from the NASA Earth Observatory. Hurricane Irma churned across the Atlantic Ocean in September 2017, battering several Caribbean islands before moving on to the Florida Keys and the U.S. mainland. As the clouds cleared over places like the Virgin Islands, the destruction became obvious even from space. These natural-color…
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Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle
Boeing Watch the video to learn more about the Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV).
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Openings in Antarctic Sea Ice
According to a new analysis of climate models by an international team of researchers, heat escaping from the ocean through polynyas or openings in sea ice – influences sea and atmospheric temperatures and wind patterns around the globe – even rainfall around the tropics. Check out this Article from Earksy.org: http://earthsky.org/earth/openings-in-antarctic-sea-ice-influence-global-climate?mc_cid=21722f1550&mc_eid=36fb49e54a
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HOTTER JULY
July 2017 was statistically tied with July 2016 as the warmest July in the 137 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). Last month was about 0.83 degrees Celsius warmer than the mean July temperature of the 1951-1980…