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Supplementary Readings Contents Supplementary Readings 1 1. American Space Agency Launches Black Hole Hunter 2 2. Huawei and ZTE Deny Claims That They Present a Security Threat to the United States 6 3. Experts Work to Develop Better Tools to Predict Severe Weather 7 4. Apollos Final Missions: The Last Footsteps on the Moon 8 5. Project Mercury: The American Space Program Begins 11 6. A Vacuum Cleaner for Destroying Space Junk 15 7. On the Shoulders of Giants: Isaac Newton and Modern Science 18 8. Turning Industrial Waste-Heat Into Electricity 22 9. Can Social Media Improve Voter Turnout? 23 10. Some Websites Judge You by the Kind of Computer You Use 24 11. Ruling on GPS Tracking by Police Leaves a Big Question 25 12. The Laser: Futuristic Science Found at Your Local Store 27 1. American Space Agency Launches Black Hole Hunter Today we tell about American efforts to seek out and study black holes. We also tell about final preparations for setting down a science laboratory on Mars. And we hear from both supporters and opponents of plans to send a human crew to the red planet. America’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched a telescope into space last month. The telescope is designed to identify and study black holes. NASA officials are calling it, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array or NuSTAR. Scientists believe black holes lie at the center of every huge galaxy, including our own Milky Way galaxy. The gravitational power of black holes is so strong that not even light can escape from them. As gas, dust and stars are pulled into a black hole, the material moves faster and heats up. This action creates very powerful X-ray light emissions. Scientists plan to use NuSTAR to search for these emissions. Stars, nebulae and black holes emit X-rays of the type that we use in medical X-rays, and these cannot be detected from the surface of the Earth. But the NuSTAR telescope will focus these X-rays onto its digital camera and send the pictures back to E