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Tom Cruise and director Doug Limon will not be on the commercial Crew Dragon AX-1 mission to ISS, Pilot: Michael Lopez-Alegria (US, former NASA...

Britain has an Indian history, explaining the popularity, like Gin and Tonic, I believe Chicken Tikka Masala out numbers fish and chips per day in...

Are these people actually looking for brown dwarfs or are we using their computer power and they are just donating computer power. It is not clear...

Boca Chica Testing Today: pressure testing tank SN-7.2 to failure (3mm steel, new alloy). Fill with liquid nitrogen, pressurize until it pops....

I have to differ. The acceptance rate (after whatever revision) for journal papers in astronomy is about 95%, so there isn't all that much chaff....

My wife and I have a primary doctor in the Houston Methodist system. Most of our specialists are in the same system. We received a notice that if...

Good to see it really looks like it is happening. For some of these things, they talk about what they plan to do, but it never happens, usually...

What Happens to the Space Force Now? https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/01/space-force-trump-biden/617812/

Axiom Space names first private crew to launch to space station. Axiom Space on Tuesday (Jan. 26) revealed its clients for its first privately-funded...

I hadn’t heard of it either. I am familiar with nann bread, though. I believe Indian food is a fair bit more popular in the UK. I never had any...

The hyphenless sea hawk is also one of the common names used for the western osprey, along with river hawk and fish hawk. I'd heard of that name but...

Yes. The Boon Companion and I once stayed in a hotel a few miles from a loch which annually hosts a nesting pair of osprey. We hiked across country...

Ospreys range widely across North America (LINK). In Ohio, as in Scotland, they are associated with freshwater, but I gather they will also hunt in...

The chapati has a leavened cousin, the naan, and a crispy cousin, the poppadom/papadum. In the UK, a curry night wouldn't be a curry night without a...

I had to look up "chapati"; and have bookmarked that page. I've also logged my slice of toast with vegemite as 1.5 choices. That used to be the...

In these parts, sea-hawk is a fine old word for either a sea eagle or one of the several different local species of skua. So it's one of those...

I called yesterday to schedule Irene's well-child visit. Her doctor's office has updated their precautions, no doubt because of the weather--when...

A fictional bird of prey. And not like the Kraken; from what I can work out, a seahawk exists only in the imagination of whoever named our team!

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Then it is likely to have all the same problems that MOND theories have. Dark matter provides an explanation for galaxy rotation curves. It also...

I can only refer you to the FDA statement on this topic:Basically, a serving is not a portion is not a carb choice. A portion is what people choose...

It’s quite difficult to re-run the experiment but it does seem that life needs some critical pinch points where it gets nearly exterminated but not...

I noted my experiences after that diagnosis two years ago. Initially by cutting out carbs and using fats, cream and cheese plus fish and olive oil, I...

Hoping Starliner doesn't crash into the ISS. It's not that I don't trust Boeing, but.... um...

The Surgeon's Cut on Netflix. It's a documentary series about specific surgeons; their lives and work, told mostly in their own words. So far I've...