The giant orbiting telescope turns 25 this year, and it remains a powerful scientific tool. But its future is uncertain; it hasn’t been serviced since the last shuttle mission in 2009. Get all the details on one of NASA’s great success stories from The Washington Post.
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The State of Minnesota is subsidizing ‘healthy’ by providing grants for things like walking trails and farmers markets. Is it working? Are Minnesotans getting healthier? There’s no way to establish a link between government actions and outcomes, but data suggests Minnesotans are losing weight.
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In a couple years, Norway will begin phasing out a technology that many of us take for granted — F.M. radio. Radio stations won’t go away, but they will transition to Digital Audio Broadcasting as a national standard.
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Improvements in the underlying technology and manufacturing efficiencies are driving the price of solar energy down towards the competitive realms.
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The coal-fueled power plant outside of Estevan is on the cutting edge of carbon capture research and a recent decision by the U.S. Dept. of Energy to discontinue research on a similar plant in Illinois won’t dissuade SaskPower from continuing research aimed at delivering cleaner energy.
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The technology is coming out of Denmark and it’s said to have an 80% accuracy rate, better than the 75% accuracy rate of mammograms. And the best part, the test has proven to be reliable indicator up to 5 years prior to cancer developing.
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The spring snow goose season opened in mid-February and honestly leading up to it the open winter and unseasonably warm weather had hunters and biologist alike thinking, “..this just might be the year birds are here before March…” As luck and meteorologists would have it a more typical weather cycle settled in and colder temperatures
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How do each of us become a better person? Here are the thoughts of one man who has taken on the task himself and begun to plot a path.
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Race for Water is a non-profit organization that has set out to map the ocean’s ‘trash vortexes’ — large swirling ocean currents filled with slowly degrading plastic. Get the story on their boat, and the problem they’re trying to solve from the Verge.
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In 2014, Winnipeg residents diverted record amounts of recyclable material away from their permanent landfill. The revised recycling program that implemented separate bins for trash and recyclables is now two years old and the investment is paying off.
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For those who have dogs, evidence of high-intelligence is pretty easy to come by, but anecdotal proof isn’t good enough for science. Now it seems the data-backed evidence is starting is starting to arrive — dogs are pretty smart and very intuitive.
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When it comes to honey bees colony collapse disorder, there’s a lot more of what we don’t know than what we do, but the mystery is becoming clearer. This article from Quartz highlights some new information that’s coming to light.
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And if we could have got one more word into the title, it would have been fat. Bad fat puns aside, the science here is pretty interesting. It seems within our bodies we’ve got a few cells that are programmed to fight obesity.
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A San Francisco company that has come up with a less expensive technology to convert natural gas to gasoline, diesel and other liquids. It is exciting technology, but it has yet to be deployed on a commercial scale.
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The more you know about media and marketing, the scarier the world becomes. It’s because marketing has become as much science as art, and our behaviors as a species are both predictable and exploitable. Get up to speed on how you’re being manipulated here.
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A recipe for a thousand-year-old eye salve is proving more effective at killing MSRA than modern antibiotics.
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