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Florence death toll rises to 32 as floodwaters linger in North Carolina

Wilmington is still mostly marooned, surrounded by floodwaters which could rise again, and people there are waiting for hours for necessities like food . The N...

Greek town covered in spider webs

According to arachnologist Maria Chatzaki, they're always from the same type of spider: the Tetragnatha genus, a tiny critter no longer than 2 centimeters, or...

Tropical Storm Kirk forms off African coast

Saturday, the center of Tropical Storm Kirk was located near latitude 8.6 North, longitude 24.8 West. Kirk is moving toward the west-northwest near 15 miles p...

Ecstasy Makes Octopuses More Social And Touchy

Those studies showed the octopuses actually do have more interest in each other, and particularly in other females, than had often been thought. Neuroscientist ...

Everyday Objects Become Robots with Sensor-embedded Technology

The neat thing about OmniSkins is its extreme versatility-it's a general-purpose system with no specific task in mind. Don't worry, this is not your worst night...

Special Weather Statement issued as strong winds expected

For Saturday, expect mixed skies clearing near noon, northwesterly winds at 20 km/h becoming light, a high of 15 C and low of 6 C. Lightning kills and injures C...

Tornado touches down in Ottawa and Gatineau, Que

The twister tore through Ottawa, Dunrobin, Ont., and Gatineau, Que., in the late afternoon, levelling homes and flipping cars on the highway. The hospital says ...

Japan spacecraft sends rovers to asteroid

The Hayabusa2 probe jettisoned the round, cookie tin-shaped robots toward the Ryugu astroid, according to the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Since...

Full coverage: Tropical Storm Florence

More than 320,000 power outages were reported across North Carolina and almost 4,400 in SC. "There is still time to leave", North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper...

Star Trek Vulcan Planet Found by Researchers

SALT LAKE CITY― Scientists at the University of Florida and Tennessee State University have discovered what just might be a dream come true for many " Star Trek...

Giant spider web stretches 1,000 feet across lagoon: They’re having ‘a party’

Giannis Giannakopoulos posted this video of the spider web to YouTube. According to Science Alert , the spiders are likely from the Tetragnatha genus - com...

Possible Tornado Spotted in Richmond, Virginia

One death was the result of the Chesterfield County tornado , plus large-scale damage in parts of the area. Drone footage of a building collapse after an appa...

1,000 feet of spiderwebs blanket large part of Greek town

A spider web spanning almost 1,000ft has appeared in Greece, where locals say unusually high mosquito activity took place before the web appeared. A 300m-lo...

Trump Visits Hurricane-Damaged North Carolina

Matt Wellington, antibiotics program director of U.S. PIRG, a federation of public interest groups, said the release of waste from lagoons could spread antibiot...

Dam breach at Duke plant in Wilmington; coal ash could spill — APNewsBreak

A landfill that was under construction at the site ruptured over the weekend, spilling enough material to fill 180 dump trucks. "While the state is now in emerg...

Spider Webs Cover Entire Greek Lagoon

A soft, white blanket of webbing formed near a lagoon in western Greece, reportedly allowing a massive mating "party" to ensue between spiders in the town of Ai...

SpaceX to reveal mystery moon passenger Monday

SpaceX is a key commercial partner to NASA, and is working on a crew ship that will make its first flight to the orbiting International Space Station next year,...

Nissan Turned Navara Pickup Into Mobile Observatory

It's essentially a tough, no-nonsense observatory on wheels. The one-off Nissan, developed in the United Kingdom in collaboration with the European Space Ag...

Nuclear Pasta may be the Strongest Material in the Entire Universe

NASA scientists say that a piece of neutron star the size of a cube of sugar would weigh as mount Everest. The simulations showed that the enormous densities an...

Spock’s planet ‘Vulcan’ found years after Star Trek prediction

The new find is also the first so-called super-Earth discovered by the Dharma Planet Survey, which is created to hunt down relatively small planets around relat...

Florence portends more massive hurricanes in age of global warming

He asked if everyone was OK, then said it was "going to be OK". "I even got to shake his hand and introduce him to some of our awesome staff at the shelter". He...

1,000 feet of spider webs blanket large part of Greek town

Chatzaki also pointed out that the increased number of spiders in the area should be seen as a positive since it is the only effective way nature has to combat ...

Trump gets firsthand look at Hurricane Florence distress

The Tobacco Growers Association of North Carolina estimated up to 57 million kilograms of tobacco leaf could be damaged by flooding, winds and power outages, ...

The closest to the Earth exoplanet may be habitable

Unfortunately, multiple studies proved disheartening, often indicating that the orb's sun experiences too much flare activity to sustain an atmosphere or liquid...

SpaceX reveals first private moon flight passenger

He paid an unspecified amount of money for the privilege. NASA plans to launch astronauts on a trip into an orbit beyond the moon during the second flight o...

Rivers keep rising in Carolinas as Trump tours Florence 'nightmare' aftermath

It was the same message at Trump's first stop in North Carolina , where Gov. Roy Cooper and federal and state officials briefed the president at a Marine Corps...

Trump pledges strong federal support for hurricane-stricken Carolinas

A Philippine police officer says residents of a mining camp in a mountain village refused to leave ahead of the powerful typhoon, believing their chapel and nea...

NASA’s TESS Shares First Science Image in Hunt to Find New Worlds

TESS is equipped with four cameras that allow it to cover 85% of the sky . This new image, however, uses all four of the satellites wide-field cameras and it c...

Trump handing out warm meals to Florence victims

More than 15,000 people remain in shelters and more than 200,000 customers are without power across North Carolina because of Florence, which came ashore as a ...

US President Donald Trump To Visit North Carolina As Waterways Rise

In addition, about 30 Sanderson farms that together house more than 6 million chickens around hard-hit Lumberton, North Carolina, remain isolated by floodwater ...