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The Fight Against Colony Collapse Disorder Started 19 Years Ago Today

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Almost 20 years ago today, beekeepers in the United States (not to mention anyone in the country who liked to eat) were on the brink of a catastrophe. A mysterious illness struck honeybees in the winter of 2006-2007 claiming the lives of 30 to 90 percent of some hives. The humble honeybee, and imported species from Europe, have been employed as essential pollinators of more than 130 food crops—one third of the crops we eat—in the U.S. for generations.
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When Galaxies Clash

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By Bob Grant Verified
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We’re all hurtling through space right now. Despite sedentary appearances, all of us Earthlings along with our entire solar system are orbiting around the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way at about 514,000 miles per hour. And the galaxy itself (if you subtract that rotational speed of the sun around the center) is traveling at about 1.4 million mph outward, riding the still-breaking waves of the Big Bang.
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The Loving Embrace of the Milky Way

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Every once in a while, the deep, cold cosmos seems like a pretty inviting place. Last week, NASA researchers shared findings that made me feel like giving our amazing, spiral Milky Way a big, old galactic hug. Astronomers crunching data from the space agency’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency’s XMM- Newton, surmised that the outermost arms of the Milky Way are spread farther and wider than previous models of the galaxy had calculated.
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