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Bacone  Warriors have Decent 1st day at Missouri Southern Open.

The 1st day of the Missouri Southern Open had some bright spots and some room for improvements. The highlight of the day came when Dymond White qualified for indoor nationals with a throw of 16.88 meters to place 3rd overall and get the automatic standard. Her sister Dominique White had a great day as she set a personal best by 4 feet with a throw of 15.33 meters to just miss qualifiying for nationals. The next person competing... Читать дальше...

Bacone  Warriors have Decent 1st day at Missouri Southern Open.

The 1st day of the Missouri Southern Open had some bright spots and some room for improvements. The highlight of the day came when Dymond White qualified for indoor nationals with a throw of 16.88 meters to place 3rd overall and get the automatic standard. Her sister Dominique White had a great day as she set a personal best by 4 feet with a throw of 15.33 meters to just miss qualifiying for nationals. The next person competing... Читать дальше...

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In this week's news, we bring on the buzz highlighting the best celebrations from the Happy Slam.

The UK needs to clean up its act. Microplastics are clogging up shorelines and blocking our rivers – and it's our fault. Emma Henderson talks to local people who are setting the bar high for recycling the hard stuff

China's President has addressed the World Economic Forum, the first Chinese head of state to do so. We assess his message to Donald Trump. Plus the author of the “Second Machine Age” Erik Brynjolfsson on why governments are failing to address the downsides of automation.

Sundar Pichai worked his way through the ranks to become Google's CEO, and now he's Alphabet's CEO, too.

Sundar Pichai worked his way through the ranks to become Google's CEO, and now he's Alphabet's CEO too.

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The following editorial appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Thursday, Jan. 19:

Music and video sales both witnessed double digit declines in the last quarter of 2016

Meet the lumpsucker, the tiny fish that sucks at swimming but is great at suctioning.

Fifty years ago this week, the Outer Space Treaty was formally opened for signature. Christopher Johnson discusses how the treaty took shape despite the US and USSR having sharply differing views on issues, like the role private actors should play in space.

Certain families of spacecraft in sun-synchronous orbit appear susceptible to in-orbit breakups. Charles D. Phillips examines the record of those groups of spacecraft and what could be causing those problems.

When NASA announced its selections of the next Discovery missions earlier this month, many were surprised that the agency chose two asteroid missions. Jeff Foust reports on the missions that were selected and what NASA is saying about why it chose those missions.

While companies like Blue Origin and SpaceX are making steps towards low-cost reusable launch vehicles, they fall short of what's been done in other modes of transportation, such as aviation. Mike Snead describes what space transportation attributes should be pursued in federal policy to make society truly spacefaring.

A controversial provision of the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act, passed in 2015, gives US companies rights to resources they extract from asteroids and other celestial bodies. Justin Rostoff argues that the law, as written, is in violation of international treaty.

Richard Garriott is known to the space community as the private citizen who flew to the ISS in 2008, but to computer gamers he is a legendary pioneer. Jeff Foust reviews his memoir that touches on both aspects of his life, including details of his long effort to get to space.

London - OPEC’s two biggest suppliers to the US shrugged

off a vow by President Donald Trump to end dependence on the group’s oil,

saying the world’s biggest economy would continue to need crude from abroad.

The US is “closely integrated in the global energy market,”

Saudi Arabia’s Energy and Industry Minister Khalid Al-Falih said, while his

Venezuelan counterpart Nelson Martinez said he expects his country’s crude

exports to the world’s top consumer to remain stable. Читать дальше...

For a special treat for you and your friends, join us in our private ringside box for a fabulous day out at Hickstead. With unparalleled views of the International Arena, you can relax in style and enjoy great food as all the action unfolds before you.  Saturday afternoon plays host to the British Speed Derby, where [...]

Life for venture capital companies may become a little easier due to a proposed small, but significant, change.

Natalie Buske Thomas is an artist and author, and composed this stunning video set to music by Kevin MacLeod. Art prints of her oil painting are available here.

Every year since 1990, the American Dialect Society holds "the Super Bowl of linguistics" — to crown the word that defined the year.