Can China pick up US slack on climate change?

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Can China pick up US slack on climate change?

CNN
Hong Kong (CNN) US President Donald Trump’s move to rollback environmental protections leaves China poised to take the lead in the global fight against climate change.

Scientists Who Want To Study Climate Engineering Shun Trump

NPR
President Trump issued a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that will begin to undo a slew of government efforts to fight global warming.

Reusable rockets could disrupt the space industry, and not always in a good way

Quartz
Elon Musk’s SpaceX aims to launch its first flight-proven (read: gently used) orbital booster rocket this week from Cape Canaveral.

New York Architects Plan Enormous Skyscraper Hanging From An Asteroid In Space

Forbes
The quest to cram ever more human beings into ever-decreasing square footage of city real estate continues – with a skyscraper suspended from an asteroid.

China’s secret plan to crush SpaceX and the US space program

CNBC
China’s breakneck economic expansion may be flagging, but the country’s ambitions in space show no signs of slowing down. Alongside ongoing efforts to rival NASA by placing robotic landers, and eventually astronauts, on the moon and Mars, China’s …

Wherever humans go, mice go too — since forever

ZME Science
A new intriguing study found that even before the first humans settled to become agricultors, mice were already following human tribes.

Juno Spacecraft Skims Jupiter’s Cloud Tops in Its 5th Flyby

Space.com
NASA’s Juno spacecraft whizzed closely by Jupiter today (March 27) in its fifth flyby of the gas giant. Juno made its closest approach at 4:52 a.m.

Deep space gateway to open opportunities for distant destinations

Space Daily
NASA is leading the next steps into deep space near the moon, where astronauts will build and begin testing the systems needed for challenging missions to deep space destinations including Mars.

‘Best Man’ in Space! Astronaut Brings Friends’ Wedding Rings to Space Station

Space.com
Astronaut Thomas Pesquet brought these wedding rings along for his six-month stay at the International Space Station. Credit: Thomas Pesquet/ESA/NASA.

Without more sand, SoCal stands to lose big chunk of its beaches

Christian Science Monitor
The USGS forecasts a six-foot rise in sea level and says preserving California’s beaches will require more sand and a sustained, coordinated commitment to distributing it.

One of the most troubling ideas about climate change just found new evidence in its favor

Washington Post
Ever since 2012, scientists have been debating a complex and frankly explosive idea about how a warming planet will alter our weather – one that, if it’s correct, would have profound implications across the Northern Hemisphere and especially in its

Supermassive Black Holes Don’t Just Eat Stars – They Make New Ones Too

Forbes
Supermassive black holes don’t just destroy stars, new stars are born in the extreme environment around them too. A group of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope have discovered stars forming in masses of …

One specific food may have given us our big fancy human brains

Yahoo News
Science tells us that humans evolved from primate ancestors, and that despite the fact that apes still exist, we’re actually just a different branch on the same family tree.

Sands of Saturn’s moon Titan are electrically charged, explains study

Daily News & Analysis
To test particle flow under Titan-like conditions, the researchers built a small experiment in a modified pressure vessel in their Georgia Tech lab.

Rusty patched bumblebee becomes first endangered bee

The Independent Florida Alligator
Since the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service added the bee to the list on March 21, researchers and conservationists have been working to find a solution to the species’ rapid population decline.

We Might Finally Have a Good Way to Predict Dangerous Space Weather

Gizmodo
Space weather forecasting—predicting the kind of energetic particles the Sun will throw at us—is years behind weather forecsting here on Earth.

Forest Does Not Only Absorb CO2 But Affects Cooling Of Earth Too

Science Times
Researchers have found out that forest and trees do not only absorb the carbon dioxide emissions of the world but they cool the Earth in other ways too.

Let There Be Light: German Scientists Test ‘Artificial Sun’

Sci-Tech Today
Scientists in Germany flipped the switch Thursday on what’s being described as “the world’s largest artificial sun,” a device they hope will help shed light on new ways of making climate-friendly fuels.

Expect more deadly heat from climate change, study suggests

news9.com KWTV
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter. (HealthDay News) — Deaths related to extreme heat are expected to keep rising, even if most nations can contain global warming at agreed-upon levels, a new study reports.

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