Global Citizen surpassed its fundraising goals at its annual music festival in New York’s Central Park.
The 1925 Scopes monkey trial famously put the spotlight on evolution and appeared to mark a defeat for biblical fundamentalism.
Researchers, doctors, their patients and supporters are venturing out of labs, hospitals and offices across the country to stand up to what they call an attack on life-saving science by the Trump administration.
Jung Kook of BTS will join the Global Citizen Festival lineup, making one of his first live solo appearances at the Sept. 23 benefit concert in New York’s Central Park.
As President Joe Biden wraps up his first year in the White House, he has held fewer news conferences than any of his five immediate predecessors at the same point in their presidencies, and has taken part in fewer media interviews than any of his recent predecessors.
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[MORE: NASA is about to land the first tiny helicopter on Mars]With so much money flowing into the new Perseverance rover you can’t help but wonder, could the mission fail? The rover’s landing has been dubbed “seven minutes of terror.”“Entry, Descent landing is the most critical and most dangerous part of the mission success is never assured. And that’s especially true when we’re trying to land the biggest heaviest and most complicated rover we’ve ever built,” Mars 2020 entry, descent and landing lead Allen Chen said. During the descent, NASA teams will be in the dark, hence the scariest seven minutes of the mission. “We certainly don’t want to land on that,” Erisa Stilley, Perseverance entry, descent and landing engineer said when referring to the cliff.
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Its Bill Nye meets Worldstar, the Hip Hop Science Instagram bio reads. And Hip Hop MD does that, in his videos Okereke uses popular language while he explains complicated science. Dales low profile whip turns into a high-profile aircraft, Hip Hop MD quipped speaking over the video of a sports car as it lifts off the race track. In another video, Hip Hop MD used the lyrics to The Box by Roddy Ricch to talk about the poisonous box fish. Recently the Hip Hop MD joined a collective of black scientists known as Black AF In STEM.
