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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (yes, he again) revealed that he had missed this class in political school. “Martin County Superintendent Laurie Gaylord told me she reopened her schools as a mission similar to a Navy SEAL operation. Just as the SEALs overcame obstacles to bring Osama bin Laden to justice, …

Scientists in Thailand are digging caves to capture bats in an attempt to trace the origin of the coronavirus. The research team climbed a hill to set up nets at Sai Yok National Park in the western province of Kanchanaburiand to catch about 200 batons from three different caves, according …

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What would we look for in a distant exoplanet in search of Earth-like worlds, and perhaps life? A recent observation made by the Hubble Space Telescope found signatures of narratives of our home planet by looking at a trusted source under extraordinary circumstances: Earth’s Moon, during a total lunar eclipse. …

This week, a snap cable tore a 30-meter hole in Arecibo’s iconic 307-meter dish. Arecibo Observatory By Daniel Clery12 August 2020, 3:25 p.m. The iconic Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico was damaged on Tuesday morning, August 10, when a cut steel cable hit one of its antennas and shot …