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What Kind of Targets Are Ideal for Rifle Shooting?
No matter what kind of gun you own, chances are you’ll want to head to a range for target practice sooner or later. There are countless types of targets to help you hone your aim with on the market, and many targets are fit for rifle shooting as well as shotgun...
Dinosaurs – Keeping Them Alive Today
History is an important part of life. There is the history of the universe and the planet, the history of the human race, the history of all other living things, and each individuals history. Each of these is equally important and should be given proper respect. It is...
Anyone Can Easily Find Plastic “Islands” in the Ocean
We use plastic every day of our lives — from grocery bags to fast food soda cups, plastics are an integral part of just about every industry. While a versatile tool, they also take a long time to biodegrade, if they do at all, making them a problem for the planet....
How to Buy and Use Research Chemicals Safely
The last few years have been marked by a surge in the number of scientific experiments thus performed and there is a reason behind the same as well. Earlier it was “legally” necessary to use a lab in a university or a similar institution to conduct a scientific...
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Baikonur launch pad damaged after Russian Soyuz launch to International Space Station
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft with two Russian cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut on board successfully docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, Russian space agency Roscosmos said.But the agency later reported that the launch...
Genome study reveals milestone in history of cat domestication
By Will Dunham(Reuters) -Whether they are a Siamese, Persian, Maine Coon, or Domestic Shorthair, there are hundreds of millions of cats living with people around the world. But despite their popularity as pets, the history of cat domestication has remained difficult...
35 million tons of food go to waste yearly in the US. Experts share tips to help stop it
Millions of tons of food are wasted each year in the United States alone.About 35 million tons, to be specific, according to the latest ReFED report. Some 31% of food that is grown and produced goes unsold or uneaten in the US, estimates ReFED, a nonprofit...
Key Driver of Extreme Winds on Venus Identified
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Venus is known to have extreme weather on its surface. | Credit: NASAThis article was originally published at Eos. The publication contributed the article to...
Mystery foot suggests a second early human relative lived alongside Lucy
In the latest twist in human evolution, scientists have discovered that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belonged to a previously unknown ancient relative.Dated to around 3.4 million years ago, the species was likely similar to Lucy, an ancient human relative who...
All the delicious ways you can reduce food waste in the kitchen
Millions of tons of food are wasted each year in the United States alone.About 35 million tons, to be specific, according to the latest ReFED report. Some 31% of food that is grown and produced goes unsold or uneaten in the US, estimates ReFED, a nonprofit...
Scientists find evidence that an asteroid contains tryptophan
Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to exist on Bennu, a small asteroid that swings by our planet about every six years.The discovery stems from an unprecedented sample collected by...
Doctors looking into hormone therapy as a way to ward off dementia in women
For decades, doctors have been puzzled by why women develop Alzheimer’s disease at nearly twice the rate of men.There are an estimated 7 million people in the U.S. living with Alzheimer’s, with that number expected to reach nearly 13 million by 2050. A majority of...
Quiz: Which objects actually get recycled?
When you throw something in the recycling bin, where does it really end up?The average person in the United States generates almost 5 pounds of trash each day, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Even among the small portion of that waste that is...
Russia sends a NASA astronaut, 2 cosmonauts, up to the space station
American astronomer-turned-medical physicist and now NASA astronaut Chris Williams joined two Russian cosmonauts aboard a Soyuz ferry ship Thursday for a Thanksgiving Day flight to the International Space Station.With commander Sergey Kud-Sverchkov at the controls of...
How extreme weather is making plastic pollution more mobile, more persistent and more hazardous
The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent, and hazardous pollutants,” according to a new study, which calls...
Soyuz spacecraft blasts off for International Space Station with Russian and American crew
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday with two Russian cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut on board, a live stream of the launch showed.The Soyuz 2.1a rocket lifted off from the Baikonur...