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Bees

New data show the US honeybee population is still dying in record numbers

The numbers arent improving for bees in the US, and scientists still havent figured out what exactly is causing the problem. Over the last year, American beekeepers reported losing about 41% of their honey-bee colonies, a 3% increase in the loss recorded in …

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Trends and challenges in robot manipulation

Structured Abstract Abstract Dexterous manipulation is one of the primary goals in robotics. Robots with this capability could sort and package objects, chop vegetables, and fold clothes. As robots come to work side by side with humans, they must also becom…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

SpaceX

SpaceX Test-Fires Falcon Heavy Megarocket for Its 1st Night Launch

CAPE CANAVERAL SpaceX is gearing up for the next flight of the company's megarocket, the Falcon Heavy. Essentially three Falcon 9 boosters strapped together, the behemoth will lift off from the historic Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, on Monday (June…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope’s Possible Next Target? Blazars

A blazar is an active black hole hurling jets of material directly at Earth. (Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab) The Event Horizon Telescope made history on April 10 when it captured the first image of a supermassive black holes event horizon a…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Global Warming

Cold War Spy Satellites Reveal Substantial Himalayan Glacier Melt

During the height of the Cold War, U.S. spy satellites collected secret images as they circled the Earth. Today, those images are helping scientists track the effects of climate change. A new analysis of declassified spy imagery, published yesterday in Scien…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Korean War

Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping Stage a Pyongyang Love Fest

SEOULChinas President Xi Jinping got a 21-gun salute as he and his wife arrived Thursday in Pyongyang. North Koreas leader Kim Jong Un was on hand at Sunan airport with his wife and nearly 10,000 of his people waving flowers and chanting slogans. Another 200,…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Plastic Pollution Might Be Depriving Us of Oxygen

The plastic debris floating in the world’s oceans entangles wildlife, kills birds that swallow it mistaking it for food, and seeps into the food chain, showing up in fish that humans eat. A major threat to the ocean, this plastic pollution is estimated to cau…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Riots

P&G and CNN Will Present ‘Queer City’ to Tell the History of LGBTQ Workforce Rights

A lot of brands are telling the history of LGBTQ rights during Pride Month. However, a few of them want to walk people through it.To commemorate next weeks 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York Citys Greenwich Village, BMW and P&G are sponso…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Brexit

The Time Boris Johnson Thought Trump Was ‘Out of His Mind’

President Trump has long had warm words for Boris Johnson, who seemed destined to make it to the run-off in the race to become Britain’s next prime minister. But Johnson, who on Thursday officially became one of two candidates left in the race to succeed Ther…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Cold War

Spy Tech: Tiny Spy Plane becomes Cold War Prize

What looks like something famous, is much smaller, and is embroiled in a web of cold war cloak-and-dagger intrigue? It sounds like the answer could be Mini-Me from the Austin Powers movies, but we were actually thinking of the D-21 supersonic spy drone. Never…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

New data show the US honeybee population is still dying in record numbers

Trends and challenges in robot manipulation

SpaceX Test-Fires Falcon Heavy Megarocket for Its 1st Night Launch

The Event Horizon Telescope’s Possible Next Target? Blazars

Cold War Spy Satellites Reveal Substantial Himalayan Glacier Melt

Kim Jong Un and Xi Jinping Stage a Pyongyang Love Fest

Plastic Pollution Might Be Depriving Us of Oxygen

P&G and CNN Will Present ‘Queer City’ to Tell the History of LGBTQ Workforce Rights

The Time Boris Johnson Thought Trump Was ‘Out of His Mind’

Spy Tech: Tiny Spy Plane becomes Cold War Prize

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