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A team of researchers claims that enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) could enable up to five terawatts of power generation in the U.S. alone. This is huge because, currently, the total amount of electricity produced annually in the country. https://t.co/u6DeHaE2DF https://t.co/MTQR2ITpXW

Cancers in adults under 50 have 'dramatically increased' since 1990. https://t.co/ZBGG12VGur

Apple could become the first commercially available smartphone with a satellite in the U.S. https://t.co/GjFDccotii

China becomes third to make such a claim, after US and Russia. https://t.co/wmaXmaicOs

Dubai could be home to a Moon-themed luxury resort built at an estimated cost of US$ 5 billion before the end of this decade. The concept for the resort comes from the Canadian architectural company Moon World Resorts Inc (MWR). https://t.co/FQGqJgUWSt https://t.co/RLz36xc4wt

Space transportation can reduce transit times to a few hours. https://t.co/c8lGlZ1KKv

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The infamous Boston Police strike began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1919 causing an uproar around the nation and confirming the growing influence of unions on American life. 🎥 Massachusetts National Guardsman directs traffic during 1919 Boston police strike

That’s too much pressure.

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Happy #FossilFriday! A close evolutionary cousin of the famous horned dinosaur Triceratops, Styracosaurus had a husky body, with stout legs supporting a barrel-chested torso. It also had huge spikes sticking out from its frill, the bony collar that projects rearward from the skull. See Styracosaurus up close in the Museum’s Hall of Ornithischian Dinosaurs! Photo: E. Louis/ © AMNH #fossils #paleontology #dinosaurs #amnh #nyc

The morning of Friday, March 3, 1876, dawned sunny and cloudless over Olympian Springs in northeastern Kentucky. A light breeze tickled the fields of the Crouch family farm as Mrs. Crouch made soap in the yard. Then, shortly before noon, something unexpected started tumbling from the skies.⁠ ⁠ “Why, grandma, it’s snowing!” said Mrs. Crouch’s preteen grandson, Allen. But what pummeled the property for the next few minutes wasn’t snowflakes. They were gristly, oozing chunks of flesh—some as long as Mrs. Crouch’s hand.⁠ ⁠ For one horrible moment, as she later told a reporter, Mrs. Crouch considered the possibility that her “husband and son, who were away, had been torn to pieces and their remains were being brought home … by the wind.”⁠ ⁠ Thankfully, that hadn’t happened. So what had? Story at the link in our bio.

There will be no ice in the Arctic Ocean by the 2030s unless we freeze it ourselves. 🧊 https://t.co/3vh5hEY2wQ

The DART spacecraft is days away from slamming into an asteroid to perform the very first planetary defense test in space. https://t.co/0QWCuJMPPC

"Rolls-Royce has determined that the commercial aviation supersonic market is not currently a priority." https://t.co/P0KFnL1O8C