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The sunshine that warms Washington, D.C. is once again generating electricity for the White House. After an absence of nearly 30 years, the Obama administration has announced that a 6.3 kilowatt photovoltaic installation of the “typical size for an American house,” is back on the White House roof and generating power. -
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Spider-Man, Rhino and What It Takes to Power an Exoskeleton
"Get your mechanized mitts in the air!" — Spider-Man to Rhino in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014 Sony Pictures) Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko and appearing initially in a story by Lee with art by Jack Kirby in Amazing Fantasy #15 in August of 1962, Spider-Man has been a hugely popular and ever [...] -
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To Hades and Back: Snailfish Surprise in the Kermadec Trench
ABOARD THE R/V THOMAS G. THOMPSON—On the scale of the Pacific Ocean, the Kermadec Trench looks like a thin line snaking down from southwest to northeast just off the northeastern tip of New Zealand’s North Island. -
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The Strangest Objects Ever Shot into Space - The Countdown #47
Deli meat, sporting equipment and colonial artifacts are just some of the random objects astronauts have carried with them into orbit. In this episode of The Countdown we share five of the weirdest ones.
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First Major Genetic Study of Elusive South African Dolphin Reveals a Species in Peril
In 1828, in a short paper in the journal Spicilegia Zoologica, British zoologist John Edward Gray reported six “new and undescribed” marine animals, among them a small dolphin found off southern Africa’s Atlantic coast.
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