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Mars Perseverance Rover
NASA’s Perseverance rover will look for signs of past life in a region of Mars where the ancient environment is believed to have been favorable for microbial life.
Source: Mars Perseverance Rover
UC San Diego Library Launches New Art of Science Contest
The UC San Diego Library is hosting the inaugural Art of Science contest, which aims to celebrate the beauty that can emerge during scientific exploration and raise awareness of the Library’s data curation services.
Data curators at the UC San Diego Library have the privilege of working with researchers from a wide range of scientific disciplines as they prepare data for the Library’s Research Data Collections repository. The visually stunning nature of some of these research data sets has inspired the Library’s Research Data Curation Program (RDCP) to host its inaugural Art of Science contest, which aims to celebrate the beauty that can emerge during scientific exploration and raise awareness of the Library’s data curation services.
Source: UC San Diego Library Launches New Art of Science Contest
Mardi Gras is canceled, so residents are making their homes into floats: ‘New Orleans doesn’t know how to do anything halfway’
It started on Twitter: “Turn your house into a float and throw all the beads from your attic at your neighbors walking by. #mardigras2021.”
Housing Market Covid: What Will Happen to Home Prices After Pandemic? – Bloomberg
The booming housing market has been a bright spot for a U.S. economy shaken by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Source: Housing Market Covid: What Will Happen to Home Prices After Pandemic? – Bloomberg
Despite mounting job losses and bankruptcies in industries battered by social distancing, home sales have been on fire across the U.S., with Americans racing to gobble up larger properties in the suburbs, with room for remote school and home offices.
State of US Standard of Living, Income and Poverty | 2020 State of the Union Facts
How have income, poverty and wealth changed, and how have they been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic? Get nonpartisan data about the American standard of living, the middle class, and more with the State of the Union in Numbers.
Source: State of US Standard of Living, Income and Poverty | 2020 State of the Union Facts
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