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The reasoning for hurricane names and their history

With the approach of the June 1-Nov. 30 hurricane season, don't waste time emailing the National Hurricane Center pleading for your favorite person's name to be added to this year's list of storm names. The system of officially naming Atlantic Basin storms began in 1950...

source: The Washington Post
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With the approach of the June 1-Nov. 30 hurricane season, don't waste time emailing the National Hurricane Center pleading for your favorite person's name to be added to this year's list of storm names. The system of officially naming Atlantic Basin storms began in 1950...

source: The Washington Post

This is the incredible moment a fierce lightning bolt crashed against the Grand Canyon. Shrouded in darkness, the breathtaking landscape was shocked into life as Mother Nature fired the bolt illuminating the canyon walls. As it cracked...

source: The Daily Mail

MIT engineers have transformed bacterial cells into living calculators that can compute logarithms, divide, and take square roots, using three or fewer genetic parts. Inspired by how analog electronic circuits function, the researchers created synthetic computation circuits...

source: MIT News Office

This beautiful flower hasn't grown in a field or a greenhouse, but has instead grown out of a solution of barium chloride and sodium metasilicate. Joanna Aizenberg's lab at Harvard University in the U.S. has been working to create microstructured and nanostructured surfaces...

source: Chemistry World

OSIRIS-REx, the $1 billion asteroid sample return mission led by the University of Arizona, reached a major milestone on May 16: The project passed the agency-level confirmation review called Key Decision Point-C, or KDP-C. KDP-C authorized continuation of the project...

source: The University of Arizona

People often take fortune cookie messages to heart. They crack open the yellow crescent moon cookies that conclude their Chinese restaurant meal, and eagerly hunt for predictions, revelations, and deeper meaning. Many save their favorites, carrying them around in a wallet.

source: Mental Floss

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