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Daily Archives: February 22, 2018
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An Earth-observation satellite built for Spain and two experimental satellites for internet service were successfully launched into orbit from California at dawn Thursday, creating a brief light show as it arced over the Pacific Ocean west of Los Angeles. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, reusing a first stage that had […]
It’s happened only twice in 40 years, but a death row prisoner in Texas could be granted clemency on Thursday, with only hours to go before his execution. Thomas Whitaker, 38, was convicted of masterminding a 2003 plot to murder his wealthy parents and 19-year-old brother for inheritance money. His […]
Chemists have developed a new catalytic method for symmetry breaking. The method can help synthesize important building blocks for bioactive compounds such as anticancer drugs.
Hierapolis’s “Plutonium” More Two millennia ago, a small Greco-Roman temple in present-day Turkey awed and enthralled its residents. Just beyond its stone gate, in a grotto shrouded in a heavy mist, a strange force worked dark deeds: Bulls ushered inside would lie down and perish; the castrated priests in charge […]
Margaret Brennan has been named the moderator of the CBS Sunday politics show, “Face the Nation,” the network announced on Thursday. CBS had been considering several of its own women journalists for the position after the departure of John Dickerson, who moved to become the co-anchor of “CBS This Morning” […]
The chief eurocrat revealed his parents, who passed away last year, began to grow sceptical the policies of their son’s European Union project when they reached their seventies. The Commission President announced a swathe of federalist polices when he gave his State of the Union speech, in Strasbourg, last September. […]
Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and his husband, British Olympic diver Tom Daley, announced on Valentine’s Day that they’re expecting their first child. But while there are more options than ever for same-sex couples looking to expand their families, it’s not a simple — or affordable — endeavor for many. […]