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The MS offshore ferry Norröna, quoted in Nature’s Communications On paper, measure upper ocean currents with an ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) installed in your helmet while you make a weekly round trip between Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Iceland. Credit: Erik Christensen – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45707529 …

A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying NASA nuclear energy. Perseverance Mars rover it roared to life and took off from Cape Canaveral early Thursday morning, the first step in a decade-long program to look for signs of past microbial life and collect samples of rock and soil for …

While questioning Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook about whether their companies were too powerful and involved in monopolistic practices, members of the Judiciary Chamber subcommittee used various internal documents, including some of the CEOs themselves, to highlight the cases in which companies suffocated, or even threatened, …

And it was put to the CEOs of Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Facebook (full board) and Google (GOOGL) by Rep. Greg Steube, more than four hours after Wednesday’s five-and-a-half-hour congressional antitrust hearing. The responses were somewhat varied. “I don’t know of specific cases where the government has robbed us,” said …

The last thing Mayra Ramírez remembers from the emergency room at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago is to call her family to tell her that she had Covid, was about to receive a ventilator, and needed her mother to make medical decisions for her. Ms. Ramírez, 28, did not wake …