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This illustration shows a high-altitude balloon rising to the upper atmosphere. When fully inflated, these balloons are 400 feet (150 meters) wide, or approximately the size of a soccer stadium, and reach an altitude of 130,000 feet (24.6 miles or 40 kilometers). Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Concept Image …

On January 8 I asked The edgeThe scientific team must monitor the first reports of a new virus that had recently emerged in China. When I launched an article about that new virus The Washington Post On Slack, someone joked that 2020 got off to a good start, which clearly …

(Newser) – Those Vikings keep making history. Not only did they settle in North America and have warriors, but they apparently suffered from an early type of smallpox: the disease that killed hundreds of millions of people in the 20th century, the New York Times reports. The now extinct strain …

Junseok Chae, associate dean of research and professor of engineering, was reported missing on March 25 after he did not return home from work, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. The breakup in the case came after police in Shreveport, Louisiana, in response to a suspicious call from the …

TOPLINE After Sinclair Broadcasting on Saturday defended his decision to air a segment on the widely-criticized “Plandemic” viral conspiracy theory on his local television stations, which savagely claims that Dr. Anthony Fauci was responsible for the origin of the coronavirus outbreak. , the show’s host, Eric Bolling, announced that he …