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When Learning Is Really Remote: Students Climb Trees and Travel Miles for a Cell Signal

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Schools are closed in Indonesia because of the pandemic, but for the rural poor who lack internet access and smartphones, online education is particularly difficult.

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Nobel in Medicine: Sensing heat, cold, and touch

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Enlarge / The protein that allows us to sense touch is big and complicated. (credit: PDB) Today’s Nobel Prize is in Physiology or Medicine, which often means biology these days. And 2021 is not an exception, as two researchers have won for their discoveries regarding how humans detect their immediate environment through the sense of […]
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A look back at (very bad) predictions of global cooling

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Enlarge (credit: NASA/STEREO) Modern climate science is old enough for many of its early predictions to be checked against evidence—the overall global warming trend; specific patterns like nighttime warming exceeding daytime warming; or the cooling of the stratosphere. Even with all that new evidence, the estimated amount of warming you get for a given amount […]
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NASA has begun a study of the SLS rocket’s affordability

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Enlarge / Artist concept of the Space Launch System. (credit: NASA/MSFC) NASA is conducting an internal review of the Space Launch System rocket’s affordability, two sources have told Ars Technica. Concerned by the program’s outsized costs, the NASA transition team appointed by President Joe Biden initiated the study. The analysis is being led by Paul McConnaughey, […]