‘It’s kind of surreal that it happened to us’: Rural West Texas woman witnesses NASA space junk as it lands in her neighbor’s yard
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‘It’s kind of surreal that it happened to us’: Rural West Texas woman witnesses NASA space junk as it lands in her neighbor’s yard

When Ann Walter looked outside her rural West Texas home, she didn’t know what to make of the bulky object slowly drifting across the sky.She was even more surprised to see what actually landed in her neighbor’s wheat field: a boxy piece of scientific equipment about the size of a sport-utility vehicle, attached to a massive parachute, adorned with NASA stickers. She called the local sheriff’s office and learned that NASA, indeed, was looking for a piece of equipment that had gone lost. “It’s crazy, because when you’re standing on the ground and see something in the air, you don’t realize how big it is,” she said. “It was probably a 30-foot parachute. It was huge.” Walter said she soon got a call from NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility, which launches large unmanned, high altitude research balloons more...
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What It’s Really Like To Live Inside Disney World: Woman Who Resides in the Theme Park Lifts the Lid on Her ‘Magical’ Lifestyle
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What It’s Really Like To Live Inside Disney World: Woman Who Resides in the Theme Park Lifts the Lid on Her ‘Magical’ Lifestyle

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‎Purity IT’s IPO on Nomu 597.40% covered
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‎Purity IT’s IPO on Nomu 597.40% covered

Technology tamfitronics Logo of Purity for Information Technology (Purity IT)Yaqeen Capital concluded the offering for Purity for Information Technology (Purity IT) on the Nomu-Parallel Market. The offering involved 3 million ordinary shares, representing 20% of the company’s total shares, priced at SAR 8 per share.During the subscription period from Oct. 16 to Oct. 22, 2024, the offering achieved coverage of 597.40%, according to a statement to Tadawul.For More IPOsYaqeen Capital will finalize the necessary procedures with the Saudi Exchange to set the listing date for Purity IT’s shares on the Nomu-Parallel Market, the statement added.
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‘It’s an arms race’: The new technology set to give drug-testers upper hand before Brisbane 2032
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‘It’s an arms race’: The new technology set to give drug-testers upper hand before Brisbane 2032

Technology tamfitronics ‘It’s an arms race’: The new technology set to give drug-testers upper hand before Brisbane 2032Tiny chips no bigger than the nail on your pinky may hold the key to cracking down on athletes taking synthetic Erythropoietin (EPO), a performance-enhancing drug, ahead of the Brisbane 2032 Olympics.Currently there are just eight experts worldwide who can determine whether someone has tested positive for synthetic EPOs – and none are based in Australia. The process of differentiating between synthetic and naturally occurring EPO is meticulous and challenging – the substances look incredibly similar under a microscope, making positive doping cases difficult to detect.Professor Warwick Bowen, Dr Igor Marinkovic, and Dr Pavlina Naydenova in the laboratory.Credit: Lars MadsenHowever, that may be about to change after researchers at the University of Queensland announced a partnership with Sport...
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