Music
March 19, 2021

Watch the Real von Trapp Family Sing ‘Edelweiss’ From ‘The Sound of Music’

The hills are alive again with a new generation of singing von Trapps. The original Austrian family of Georg and Maria von Trapp—whose story inspired the Broadway musical and later the film The Sound of Music—have passed down their musical talents to their great-grandchildren: Sofia, Melanie, Amanda, and August von Trapp. The four siblings were recorded singing “Edelweiss,” one of the famous songs from composers Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s 1959 musical.

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Science
March 18, 2021

NASA Is Naming New Landmarks Discovered by Mars Rover in the Navajo Language

Since its landing on the surface of Mars in mid-February, NASA’s Perseverance rover has been diligently documenting every detail and sending more than 7,000 images back to Earth. A common activity undertaken by surface missions is to assign nicknames to the various landmarks discovered by the rover; this provides the mission team with a common vocabulary with which to discuss their findings.

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Science
March 17, 2021

Amazing Fossil Find Shows a Non-Avian Dinosaur Sitting On Its Nest of Unhatched Eggs

Dinosaurs were devoted parents, or so suggests a new discovery made by an international team of paleontologists. Working in southern China's Ganzhou City, the crew discovered a nest of dinosaur eggs—some containing fossilized embryos—with a parent dinosaur sitting directly on top. The researchers released their monumental discovery in a recent paper in Science Bulletin.

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