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Among the many spacecraft and satellites ascending to space on Monday’s Falcon Heavy launch, the Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 may be the most interesting. If all goes well, a week from launch it will be moving through space — slowly, but surely — on nothing more than the force exerted on it by sunlight. LightSail…

via Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 prepares to go sailing on sunlight — TechCrunch

Unbelievably, tomorrow will mark four years since we lost composer James Horner in a plane crash. I established the Remembering James Horner Blogathon to celebrate his beautiful film scores and in my own small way keep his memory alive. For this year’s blogathon, I decided to look at one of Horner’s final works, his score […]

via Remembering James Horner: The Magnificent Seven (2016) — Film Music Central

Nearly 300 dead bottlenose dolphins — three times as many as normal — have washed up along the beaches of the Gulf Coast this year. While scientists can’t explain the sudden surge, some at least have theories. Since February, 282 bottlenose dolphins have been found across four states in varying degrees of death and decay,…

via Dolphins Are Washing Up Dead at a Disturbing Rate This Year — And Scientists Aren’t Sure Why — TIME

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(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) — It’s not America’s Top 40, but it’s a cutting edge song. Federal marine biologists for the first time have recorded singing by one of the rarest whales on the planet, the North Pacific right whale. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers used moored acoustic recorders to capture repeated patterns of calls made…

via Scientists Have Recorded A Rare Right Whale Singing For the First Time. It Does Have the Range — TIME