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4 days ago | 
mining.com | Richard Valdmanis |ROSALBA O’BRIEN
The US Interior Department said on Monday it will fast-track environmental permitting for Anfield Energy’s proposed Velvet-Wood uranium mine project in Utah to boost President Donald Trump’s efforts to ramp up domestic energy production. As a result, the project’s environmental review will be completed in just 14 days, the department said in a statement. Such studies typically take years because of the potential environmental effects of uranium mining.
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1 month ago | 
arizonadigitalfreepress.com | Will Dunham |ROSALBA O’BRIEN
An image shows the hand claws of Cretaceous dinosaur Duonychus tsogtbaatari, whose fossils were unearthed in Mongolia, in this image obtained by Reuters on March 25, 2025. Kobayashi et al/iScience/Handout via REUTERSA life reconstruction of the Cretaceous dinosaur Duonychus tsogtbaatari, whose fossils were unearthed in Mongolia, is seen in this illustration obtained by Reuters on March 25, 2025.
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2 months ago | 
arizonadigitalfreepress.com | Will Dunham |ROSALBA O’BRIEN
An artist’s impression of a hypervelocity star ejected from the Large Magellanic Cloud, in this handout image released on March 6, 2025. CfA/Melissa Weiss/Handout via (REUTERS/THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY NO RESALES.
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2 months ago | 
arizonadigitalfreepress.com | Will Dunham |ROSALBA O’BRIEN
An artist’s concept shows the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*, surrounded by a swirling accretion disk of hot gas, in this undated illustration obtained by Reuters on February 18, 2025. The black hole’s strong gravity bends light from the far side of the disk, making it appear to wrap above and below the black hole. Several flaring hot spots that resemble solar flares are seen in the disk.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
arizonadigitalfreepress.com | Will Dunham |ROSALBA O’BRIEN
A Cretaceous Period bird called Vegavis iaai pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with nautilus-like ammonites and marine reptiles called plesiosaurs nearby, about 69 million years ago, is seen in this illustration image released on February 5, 2025.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
arizonadigitalfreepress.com | Dawn Chmielewski |Rollo Ross |ROSALBA O’BRIEN
Alex Choi, who loves documenting situations for social media and says millions of people have viewed his video of the Palisades Fire on Snap Chat and Instagram, looks at his phone on an empty beach near the Palisades Fire, in Los Angeles California, U.S. January 19, 2025.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
arizonadigitalfreepress.com | Will Dunham |ROSALBA O’BRIEN
A scientist holds a calico crayfish (Orconectes immunis) in Rheinstetten, Germany, August 9, 2018. (REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski/File Photo)African tiger fish (Hydrocynus vittatus) swim in the Okavango river, Botswana in this undated handout picture. Michel Roggo/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo A damselfly rests on a branch in Una river near Kostajnica, some 100 km (62 miles) southeast of Croatia’s capital Zagreb, August 20, 2009.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
arizonadigitalfreepress.com | Aleksandra Michalska |ROSALBA O’BRIEN |Will Dunham
A Stegosaurus fossil nicknamed Apex is unveiled to the media at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City, U.S., December 5, 2024. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonA Stegosaurus fossil nicknamed Apex is unveiled to the media at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City, U.S., December 5, 2024. REUTERS/Shannon StapletonA Stegosaurus fossil nicknamed Apex is unveiled to the media at the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City, U.S., December 5, 2024.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
arizonadigitalfreepress.com | Will Dunham |ROSALBA O’BRIEN
An artist’s depiction of a planet and its host star with a misaligned disk of material, and a binary companion in the background, is shown in this undated handout image. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt, K. Miller (Caltech/IPAC)/Handout via REUTERS)By Will Dunham | REUTERSAstronomers have spotted orbiting around a young star a newborn planet that took only 3 million years to form – quite swift in cosmic terms – in a discovery that challenges the current understanding of the speed of planetary formation.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
arizonadigitalfreepress.com | Will Dunham |ROSALBA O’BRIEN
People walk across a street in Tokyo July 12, 2009. (REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo)By Will Dunham | REUTERSScientists unveiled on Wednesday the first blueprint of human skeletal development as they make progress toward the goal of completing a biological atlas of every cell type in the body to better understand human health and diagnose and treat disease. The work is part of the ongoing Human Cell Atlas project that was begun in 2016 and involves researchers around the world.
