Congress is Working Hard to Ground NASA's Mars Mission and other top stories.

• Congress is Working Hard to Ground NASA's Mars Mission

  

  Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in space exploration, in large part thanks to the idea of going to Mars. But a damning new report by Ars Technica reveals that legislators who don’t share that excitement have been working to defund NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, a program partly tasked with developing the technology needed to get to the Red Planet. Get Data Sheet, Fortune’s technology newsletter. Though skepticism of the trip to Mars is widespread among lawmakers, ..

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• Bleaching of corals in Lakshadweep a major concern

  

  Will the soaring temperatures this summer be catastrophic for the coral reefs of Lakshadweep islands? This has been a major concern for researchers, who have already raised an alarm about the widespread bleaching of corals seen here. In fact, studies ...

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• MMS Puts Magnetic Reconnection Under the Microscope

  

  A team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has made the first direct detection of the source of magnetic reconnection. Analyzing data from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, scientists have observed how this explosive physical process converts stored magnetic energy into kinetic energy and heat. "Just as in astronomy a new telescope like Hubble opens a new window on the universe, with MMS a new 'microscope' has opened a new window to clearly see reconnection," said Dr..

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• Hawaii Due For Devastating Tsunami Within 50 Years Amid Prediction Of Mega-Earthquake In Aleutians

  

  R. Butler (left) | Gerard Fryer (right) | Google Maps In the next half-century, there is a 9 percent chance that a magnitude 9 earthquake will strike the Aleutian Islands, which is sufficient enough to create a mega-tsunami that will especially threaten Hawaii. Using a novel computer model, researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa predicted such occurrence, which is earlier estimated to cause a damage of almost $ 40 billion and affect over 300,000 individuals. The Aleutian Islands s..

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