METABLOKS / SPACE

NASA Space Station

Time Perception Studies, Free-Flying Robotics on Station Schedule

The Expedition 58 crew is helping scientists today understand how astronauts perceive time and orient themselves when living in space. The orbital residents are also working on CubeSat and free-flying robotics hardware aboard the International Space Station. Astronauts Anne McClain and David Saint-Jacques ...

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NASA Space Station

Time Perception Studies, Free-Flying Robotics on Station Schedule

Science Daily Astronomy

Weak spots for Mission to Mars revealed

Researchers are developing a predictive model to help NASA anticipate conflicts and communication breakdowns among crew members and head off problems that could make or break the Mission to Mars.

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Science Daily Astronomy

Weak spots for Mission to Mars revealed

Science Daily Astronomy

Tidal tails: The beginning of the end of an open star cluster

In the course of their life, open star clusters continuously lose stars to their surroundings. The resulting swath of tidal tails provides a glimpse into the evolution and dissolution of a star cluster. Thus far only tidal tails of massive globular clusters and dwarf galaxies have been discovered in ...

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Science Daily Astronomy

Tidal tails: The beginning of the end of an open star cluster

Science Daily Astronomy

A nearby river of stars

Astronomers have found a river of stars, a stellar stream in astronomical parlance, covering most of the southern sky. The stream is relatively nearby and contains at least 4000 stars that have been moving together in space since they formed, about 1 billion years ago.

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Science Daily Astronomy

A nearby river of stars

Yahoo Space

Polish PM nixes trip to Israel after Netanyahu Holocaust 'comment': govt

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has cancelled a visit to Israel for a high-level summit, a government spokesperson told AFP on Sunday, after uproar in Poland over reported comments by Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu about the Poles and the Holocaust. Netanyahu -- who was initially quoted ...

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Polish PM nixes trip to Israel after Netanyahu Holocaust 'comment': govt

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Police: Gunman in shooting rampage had 6 prior arrests in Aurora, Illinois, including domestic battery charges

Five male workers of Henry Pratt Co. were found dead and the gunman was killed in a shootout with police after a search of the sprawling warehouse.

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Police: Gunman in shooting rampage had 6 prior arrests in Aurora, Illinois, including domestic battery charges

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Watch Mike Pence gasp when no one claps at his terrible applause line

Vice President Mike Pence isn't a complicated man. He likes Chili's, using his personal AOL account for official government business, and gay conversion therapy. And so, when he addressed attendees at the Middle East conference in Poland on Feb. 14, it's clear he believed that same down-home ...

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Watch Mike Pence gasp when no one claps at his terrible applause line

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Gone in a New York minute: How the Amazon deal fell apart

NEW YORK (AP) – In early November, word began to leak that Amazon was serious about choosing New York to build a giant new campus. The city was eager to lure the company and its thousands of high-paying tech jobs, offering billions in tax incentives and lighting the Empire State Building in Amazon orange.

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Gone in a New York minute: How the Amazon deal fell apart

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Here's What's Open and Closed on President's Day 2019

Find out if banks, schools and the post office are open on President's day

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Here's What's Open and Closed on President's Day 2019

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IS 'caliphate' on brink of defeat in Syria as Trump urges Europe to do more

Jiya Furat said the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had cornered the remaining militants in a neighborhood of Baghouz village near the Iraqi border, under fire from all sides. "In the coming few days, in a very short time, we will spread the good tidings to the world of the military end of Daesh," he ...

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IS 'caliphate' on brink of defeat in Syria as Trump urges Europe to do more