Major League Baseball cardboard commissioner Rob Manfred has alienated his players, his union, and his lifelong fans, making it always unlikely that he would make peace with a virus. Manfred could be smart. He could work hard. You can surely speak intelligently on many baseball-related topics for hours. Well, many …
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) – With eight successful landings on Mars, NASA is upping the ante with its new scout vehicle. The Perseverance spacecraft, scheduled for launch this week, is NASA’s largest and smartest Martian rover to date. It has the latest landing technology, plus most cameras and microphones ever …
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The Perseverance rover explores Mars on behalf of this artist. NASA / JPL-Caltech This story is part of Welcome to mars, our series exploring the red planet. Launch day is just a few days away. NASA Perseverance Rover It’s all packed up and ready to head to Mars on Thursday, …
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Trees do not pay taxes. Some seem to avoid death too. Many of the world’s oldest organisms are trees, including a 3,600-year-old cypress in Chile and a sacred fig in Sri Lanka that was planted in the 3rd century BC. C. A bristle pine known as Methuselah has been alive …
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Lauran Neergaard and Michael Hill, medical writer for Ap Updated 9:25 am PDT, Monday July 27, 2020 Nurse Jen Molstead, left, gives volunteer Melissa Harting from Harpersville, New York, a nasal swab test as the world’s largest study of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health …
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