The Atlantic

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The stories of black women at NASA were once buried so deep that it felt like a revelation when they were brought to light.

The Atlantic

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In a new study, researchers uncovered female programmers who made important but unrecognized contributions to genetics.

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 384 pages | Paperback/ebook Author David Wellington Publisher Orbit The spirit of Jules Verne’s Voyages Extraordinaires lives on in The Last Astronaut. After a few chapters of set-up, it basically becomes a sci-fi travelogue – a jou

Money Magazine

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Space is the final frontier when it comes to exploration. The same also could be said of space investment, and Australian investors should buckle up for the ride. Two billionaires, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, recently launched themselves into sub

that's life

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A Kiwi family woke up to a cute visitor – a baby fur seal! Bronwyn Trafford, from Te Awanga, said the seal was waiting at the front door one morning in July.‘We checked our video surveillance and saw it making its way up to our driveway at 11.30pm be

Science Illustrated

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EVENTS Live science events are now ramping up once again, with news that Professor Brian Cox will be back on stage with a brand-new live show in 2022. A New Zealand and Australian tour begins in Auckland on 26 February and ends in Perth on the 26th M

AppleMagazine

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Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film “Hidden Figures,” about pioneering black female aerospace workers, has died. She was 1

TechLife News

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Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film “Hidden Figures,” about pioneering black female aerospace workers, has died. She was 1

The Christian Science Monitor

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And aboard the International Space Station, an artificial intelligence assistant from the European Space Agency exhibited a range of behaviors during testing.

The Christian Science Monitor

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Getting kids interested in science can be tricky, but these eight titles make learning about rockets, animals, and Charles Darwin fun for all ages.

You South Africa

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DR KATHY Sullivan, an American geologist and former astronaut, has become the first woman to dive down to the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth. This area of the Mariana Trench, a deep ravine in the ocean floor, is 10 914m deep –

Ask Science and Arts Magazine for Kids and Children

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Your skin won’t turn green if you eat a lot of broccoli. But a flamingo does get its color from what it eats. Flamingos slurp up algae, tiny shrimp, and other tidbits from water. Many of these foods contain carotenoids, a natural molecule that gives

Newsweek

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With divorce rates high across the U.S., Newsweek related, “Getting in and out of divorce is almost like getting in and out of taxis.” In the middle of the sexual revolution, “what underlies the failure of so many marriages is not a new form of frict

Chicago Tribune

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I thought about Akosua Haynes on Monday morning, when I read about the death of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson at age 101. Johnson was a human computer whose exacting calculations launched John Glenn into orbit and, equally important, brought h

Chicago Tribune

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I thought about Akosua Haynes on Monday morning, when I read about the death of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson at age 101. Johnson was a human computer whose exacting calculations launched John Glenn into orbit and, equally important, brought h

Country Life

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Our unwavering affection for a stiff gin and tonic resulted in a record 124 new distilleries popping up in Britain last year, an increase of 28% A 117-year-old French nun has become the oldest person in Europe to survive Covid-19. Sister Andre (Lucil

Viz Magazine

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Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Bill Gates aren’t the only business big-shots who are pissing their profits up the wall by blasting off into a really low bit of the infinite celestial cosmos. The lure of interplanetary adventure and the chance to floa

AppleMagazine

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“Hidden Figures,” the uplifting film about African-American mathematicians at NASA during the 1960s space race, led the North American box office for the second straight week, selling $27.5 million in tickets over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday w

The Oldie

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During the three-month breeding season starting in October, the greatest density of wildlife per square metre in the world occurs on the island of South Georgia. A survey of 1.8 million office projects and 28 million individual tasks found that the m

Empire Australasia

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IN EVERYTHING SHE DOES, JANELLE MONÁE IS BOLD JUST WATCH HER her show-stopping 2020 Oscars performance, which saw her rolling around in the aisles of the Dolby Theatre. There, she beguiled Tom Hanks with a rendition of Mister Rogers’ theme, Won’t Y

TechLife News

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“Hidden Figures,” the uplifting film about African-American mathematicians at NASA during the 1960s space race, led the North American box office for the second straight week, selling $27.5 million in tickets over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday w

Futurity

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Traveling to Mars will not be an easy or safe journey, says Grace Crain. “This is what we do as humans,” Crain says. “We are curious and we want to explore and understand other worlds, if it’s the moon, the bottom of the ocean, or Mars.” Crain, a res

History Revealed

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The Space Race was a Cold War battle of the US and Soviet Union’s technological, military, political and economic superiority – without the world-ending implications of nuclear weapons. The Soviets seized an early lead on 4 October 1957 with the firs

You South Africa

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500,000  Dozens of red roses were placed on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to pay tribute to the 500 000 people who have died of Covid-19 in the country. 20 The number of years since construction began on Dubai’s iconic Palm Jumeirah –

NPR

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The name pays tribute to the legacy of African American women who played a major role in the space race but were long overlooked by history.

Numismatic News

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On Sept. 23, 2020, the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee met to review and provide the secretary treasury with their recommendations for the obverse and reverse designs for the “Hidden Figures” Congressional gold medal. “Hidden Figures” are women f

Viz Magazine

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Panel beater Henry Crumpledick, 52, woke up last week to discover his sense of smell had gone, and fearing he may be infected with the popular virus, called the NHS helpline to book a test. “I dropped my morning fart on Saturday as I always do, but u

Total Girl

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1. Your fave thing about celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival would be: a) Gazing at the moon all night b) Catching up with friends and family c) Eating mooncakes! 2. You’re on a journey to the moon! The first thing you would pack is… a) Moon p

The Christian Science Monitor

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As US policymakers call for developing space-based military assets, some observers say the absence of updated agreements between spacefaring nations could lead to further militarization of the realm.

All About History

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During the 20th Century, the Soviet Union and the United States were embroiled in a heated competition for space supremacy - both countries wanted to be the first to launch an artificial satellite into Earth orbit. The Space Race began in the summer