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Earth Conservancy, Industrial Archives & Library Announce Landmark Agreement To Preserve, Provide Access To Key Piece Of America’s Anthracite Coal History - Glen Alden Coal's Records

PA Environment Daily

However, as the Conservancy began to contemplate and plan for the ultimate conclusion of its work, it began to search for another suitable organization that could be the final custodian of the records. Visit the Earth Conservancy and the Industrial Archives & Library website for more information.

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History Co-ops Dive Deep into Academy Archives

Academy of Natural Sciences

Over the spring and summer Drexel University Teaching Professor of History Lloyd Ackert, PhD , mentored a diverse group of co-op students in research projects centered on three Drexel archives and special collections. Exploring the archives of the Academy of Natural Sciences , Legacy Center and the Schramm Inc.

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Connecting Collections to Field Notes

Academy of Natural Sciences

Academy Archives Coll. Academy Archives Coll. Academy Archives Coll. Henry Viereck as a young man, Academy Archives Coll. Academy Archives Coll. He was born in 1881, the same year President James Abram Garfield was assassinated. Rehn’s parents named their newborn son after the president. early 1900s.

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Life beyond the Nobel: how Luis Alvarez deduced the disappearance of the dinosaurs

Physics World

Throughout his long and varied career, Alvarez was also involved in sending particle detectors into the sky in high-altitude balloons and searching for hidden chambers inside ancient Egyptian pyramids. But it wasn’t just dinosaurs and asteroids that Alvarez got excited about. Luis Alvarez won the Nobel prize in 1968.

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Are antimatter stars firing bullets of antihelium at Earth?

Physics World

Fourteen possible antimatter stars (“antistars”) have been flagged up by astronomers searching for the origin of puzzling amounts of antihelium nuclei detected coming from deep space by the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer ( AMS-02 ) on the International Space Station.

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Invading black hole or neutron star caused star to explode, say astronomers

Physics World

Now, Dong’s team says that it has discovered evidence for such an event in a search of archive data from the Very Large Array Sky Survey (VSS), covering the period between September 2017 and February 2018. Anomalous sources. The team looked for anomalous but luminous radio sources.

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Through the Sands of Time: Giant Clams as Paleoclimate Timekeepers

Academy of Natural Sciences

derasa ) shell from a 1955 Palau expedition courtesy of the ANS Malacology archives collection Marine organisms with shells made of calcium carbonate, like giant clams and corals, encounter formidable obstacles in the face of increasing acidity in the ocean. Ultimately, in the search for solutions we must work with nature, not against it.