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Jun
10

Scientists and Indigenous leaders team up to conserve seals and an ancestral way of life at Yakutat, Alaska

The onward push of “progress” rarely has been kind to indigenous people and traditional ways of life. That is changing in Alaska. Continue reading Scientists and Indigenous leaders team up to conserve seals and an ancestral way of life at Yakutat, Alaska

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Jun
03

The Conversation: The rush to return humans to the Moon and build lunar bases could threaten opportunities for astronomy

The real War of the Worlds may take place on the moon, in an epic battle between Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, and mammon, the Earth’s most worshipped god. Continue reading The Conversation: The rush to return humans to the Moon and build lunar bases could threaten opportunities for astronomy

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May
30

The Conversation: I’m an astrophysicist mapping the universe with data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory

When a star is born or dies, it emits X-rays, the same X-rays a doctor uses to see inside the human body. But astrophysicists aren’t trying to set a broken bone, they’re trying to see the beginning of the universe. Continue reading The Conversation: I’m an astrophysicist mapping the universe with data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory

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