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Climate Change Is Bringing Dengue Fever to the High Himalayas As Nepal’s mountains warm, mosquitoes are spreading dengue, once strictly a lowland disease, to higher-elevation, densely-populated areas. Story by Avery Schuyler Nunn, photos by Yuri Segalerba The warming of Nepal’s mountains is dramatically transforming some of the grandest… Inside Climate News · Story by Avery Schuyler Nunn | What Science Readers Are Talking About |
Space › NASA's Twin Spacecraft Will Execute Powered Slingshot Maneuvers on Their Way to Mars NASA's ESCAPADE mission features a pair of identical spacecraft on their way to Mars. They launched outside of the normal launch window, so they'll perform powered slingshot maneuvers to boost their speed. Once there, they'll "fly" in formation and study how the solar wind… Universe Today · Evan Gough | 'Big Bang' Fix Puts Voyager Across the 'One Light-Day' Mark Flashback to 1977. Jimmy Carter was U.S. president, Star Wars was a box office hit, and the two Voyager spacecraft departed on an historic Grand Tour of the solar system. Now, teams at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are working to keep the missions active, as they push the… Universe Today · David Dickinson | Robot successfully builds space structure in first autonomous construction demo A robotic truss builder that was conceived, designed and built by Caltech researchers has successfully built a structure in space—without the help of astronauts—for the first time. The truss builder, part of DARPA's Novel Orbital and Moon Manufacturing, Materials, and… Phys.org |
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