Good Luck Repairing the Badly Damaged Oroville Dam
New images show what’s left of the 3,000-foot long concrete spillway — and the tremendous challenge that now confronts repair crews.
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New images show what’s left of the 3,000-foot long concrete spillway — and the tremendous challenge that now confronts repair crews.
Technology doesn’t always make our lives better.
"The more we find out about these planet systems the more it seems the Solar System is unexceptional."
"People are more likely to imagine a person named Bob to have a rounder face than a person named Tim"
We're asking the big questions.
Little wheat berry, this new study has convinced us the real problem is that you were born in the first place.
It’s the specific reasons that folks grow extremely tall which could play a role in their early death.
It should hit store shelves sometime later this year, or in early 2018 at the latest.
The findings are offering new insights into the origin of birds and the development of flight.
Genetic modification seems to be protecting new pigs from Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome, a horrific condition that causes death of livestock and costs the pork industry billions every year.
The company will fly two private citizens around the Moon in its Dragon 2 spacecraft, carried by its extremely powerful Falcon Heavy rocket.
New Zealand’s Kaikoura Canyon is now an undersea wasteland following a series of earthquake-induced mudslides.
Isn’t space pleasant?
“It is unlikely that de-extinction could be justified on grounds of biodiversity conservation.”
It looks like a flying saucer with tentacles.
