Wholesale Strike in Hollywood; A Spacecraft to Bring the Clue of the 4.5 Billion Years Ago.


Writers Guild of America (WGA) has reached a tentative agreement with the major film and television companies. This paved the way to end this marathon stoppage, which lasted 145 days. Some talk shows like Drew Barrymore, Colbert, Kimmel, and Fallen will back up in early October. Some have announced they would resume their shows without writers. But, as for actors, 160,000 actors are still on strike. It seems to take weeks to get them back to work, and the return will be carried out in stages.

*Vocabularies; guild, tentative, marathon, stoppage, as for, in stages, wholesale

A Spacecraft to Bring the Clue of the 4.5 Billion Years Ago.
7 years ago NASA launched a spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, which stands for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer. It set out on a journey to an asteroid Bennu, to collect its material. It’s quite a mission because scientists believe carbon-rich asteroids, such as Bennu, may hold the key to understanding the origin of the Earth and solar system. NASA also found embedded water in that asteroid in 2018. If OSIRIS-REx is carrying the leftover material of the dawn of the solar system, we could embark on chasing down the seeds of life and the biosphere.

*Vocabularies; quite a sth/quite some sth, astrophysics, regolith, set out, rich, embed, the dawn of sth, biosphere, embark, embark on sth, chase down

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