Science, Medicine, & Education

Cuomo, Sanders Announce Free College Tuition For Some New Yorkers

When Bernie Sanders announced he would no longer pursue the Democratic nomination in the 2016 presidential election, it seemed there would no longer be much hope for making college tuition free. However, Sanders recently joined New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to put together a plan that would grant qualified New York students cost-free university schooling.

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SpaceX says failure of helium storage tank caused September rocket explosion

Four months after a Falcon 9 rocket exploded on a Florida launch pad, SpaceX said Monday that the cause was a failed composite overwrapped pressure vessel used to store liquid helium. In the final update to its investigation, the space company said one of three such tanks in the rocket’s larger, second-stage liquid oxygen tank

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Nancy Pelosi: GOP’s rush to repeal Obamacare is ‘act of cowardice’

House Democrats lobbed a preemptive salvo Monday against Republicans itching to kick-start their Obamacare repeal effort once the new Congress gavels in, calling the effort an “act of cowardice” and reckless “assault” on health care for millions and conservative orthodoxy alike, since repeal is projected to raise the deficit. They also said Republicans would pay

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Leap second 2016: Why this New Year’s Eve will have an extra second

The year 2017 isn’t coming as soon as you think. In fact, it will be exactly one second late. On Dec. 31, 2016, the international time keeping community will tack an additional second, known as a leap second, on to the last minute of the year. As midnight approaches, the official atomic clocks that keep

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Remembering the Russian woman who traveled to war zones to save children’s lives

You may not have heard of Elizaveta Glinka, the Russian woman who died in a plane crash on her way to deliver badly needed humanitarian aid to Syria. Glinka, widely known to Russians as Dr. Liza, was a 54-year-old physician, charity worker and human rights activist. The much-loved humanitarian was among the 92 victims killed

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Pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin dies at 88; she helped find evidence of dark matter

As a woman, astrophysicist Vera Rubin had to fight just to get access to a telescope. What she saw when she did further rattled conventions: galaxies that were rotating more quickly than predicted by the laws of physics. This movement, she concluded, could be explained if the universe was filled with a type of mass

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What we can learn from bat calls

TEL AVIV, Israel (Press Release) — Bats, like humans, are extremely social mammals. They enjoy an average lifespan of 20-30 years, settle in large colonies, and rely heavily on social interactions for their survival, using vocalizations — or calls — for communication. There is very little known about the purpose and content of these noises.

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George Ciccariello-Maher, Drexel professor, calls for ‘white genocide’ on Christmas

Drexel University officials were forced to respond to a controversy on Christmas after one of their professors called for “white genocide” on Twitter. George Ciccariello-Maher, associate professor of political science, tweeted on Sunday, “All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide.” Backlash at the comment, which he framed as a joke, soon prompted Drexel officials

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‘British universities becoming no-go zones for Jewish students’

Anti-semitism has become so prevalent on British campuses that several universities have become ‘no-go zones’ for Jewish students, according to a prominent British parliamentarian. Baroness Ruth Deech, a cross-bench peer who previously held the highest office dealing with student complaints and who currently serves as the first-ever higher education adjudicator, told the Telegraph that some

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Some insights into Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei

Story by Donald H. Harrison; Photo by Shor M. Masori SAN DIEGO – There are four factoids about Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that discreet Iranians never talk about, certainly not in public, according to Oded Brosh, a former analyst in Israel’s prime minister’s office who now is serving as a visiting professor at San Diego

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I have never gone to school, says Pakistan’s President Mamnoon Hussain

President Mamnoon Hussain on Wednesday said he has never attended school and has missed out on the joys of school. The president was speaking at a parents’ day function at the Cadet College Hassanabdal where he urged students to follow in the footsteps of the Quaid-e-Azam in order to better meet the challenges that the

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High school students challenged by the Technion to build Rube Goldberg machine

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release)– Calling all high school students! The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology challenges the most innovative and inspired students to build their own Earth Day-themed Rube Goldberg Machines. The Challenge is a great opportunity for High School students interested in STEM to tap into their creative side and have some fun. Also, the

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