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With an impending election and polls looking bad, Donald Trump needed a quick political boost. Taking advantage of television footage of a refugee procession outside Honduras, the president announced an imminent “invasion” of the United States by a “migrant caravan” and said he would deploy 15,000 military personnel to stop …

New research by online metals retailer metals4U has revealed the UK’s most lucrative areas for metal detection. Metal detectors have discovered more than 44,000 archaeological items in the past 12 months, meaning 120 treasures are unearthed every day. Norfolk is in first place, with more than 6,500 items discovered since …

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 …

NASA is being read to launch a balloon at high altitude into the upper atmosphere. POT NASA plans to send an 8.4-foot-tall telescope to the stratosphere aboard a balloon the size of a soccer stadium, the space agency said Thursday. The astro (short for Stratospheric Astrophysical Telescope for high spectral …

COVID-19 blocks resulted in an overall reduction in seismic noise. Science mag For the most up-to-date news and information on the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. The blockages imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic have resulted in a reduction of seismic noise of up to 50 percent worldwide. Human …