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RELATED STORIES With what turned out to be its last original episode of Season 17, CBS’ NCIS this week is taking a trip to Pearl Harbor that has been long in the planning. This Tuesday’s episode, titled “The Arizona,” finds Gibbs’ team trying to verify the identity of Joe Smith (guest star Christopher Lloyd), a […]
Audrey McAvoy/AP Ray Chavez, the oldest US military survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack that plunged the country into World War II, died at 106. Chavez, who had been battling pneumonia, died in his sleep in San Diego. In May, he traveled to Washington, D.C., where he was honored on Memorial Day by President Donald […]
AP/Susan Walsh President Donald Trump reportedly told Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe “I remember Pearl Harbor” during a meeting at the White House in June, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The reported comment is part of an increasingly complicated relationship between the two world leaders. Trump imposed steel and aluminum tariffs on Japan, and Abe […]
Enlarge / “Seth Darling, Jeff Elam, Ed Barry conduct research experiments with the Oleo Sponge in Santa Barbara, California.” (credit: Argonne National Laboratory) In March 2017, Ars wrote about a new material that could soak up oil like a sponge. The so-called Oleo Sponge could be wrung out, the oil could be collected, and the […]
Following the underwhelming indictment of ‘Russian trolls’ for alleged meddling in the 2016 US elections, some US pundits have doubled down, comparing their actions to the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Following the underwhelming indictment of ‘Russian trolls’ for alleged meddling in the 2016 US elections, some US pundits have doubled down, […]
Tony Woolliscroft/Getty In the following excerpt from “Finding My Virginity,” Richard Branson recounts his experience during one of Virgin Mobile’s publicity stunts. In 2000, he was tied to a helicopter by bungee cord and flew 100 feet below it across the Sydney Harbor. Mid-flight, he realized he was headed straight toward the side of the […]
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Published time: 29 May, 2017 23:09 A member of the US Navy’s elite skydiving team has died in front of thousands of spectators on Sunday after his parachute malfunctioned during an exhibition jump at Fleet Week festival in New York Harbor. Four SEALs from the US Navy Parachute Team, the Leap Frogs, dropped out of […]
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NASA/JPL-Caltech TRAPPIST-1, a red dwarf star 39-light-years away from us, has seven Earth-size planets orbiting it. It’s likely that all of these worlds are rocky and may possibly harbor liquid water. Red dwarf stars are the most abundant type of star in the Milky Way galaxy. In the future, telescopes might be able to detect […]
