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Stephen Hawking's ashes buried in Westminster Abbey

The world's most recognisable scientist died in March aged 76 after a lifetime spent probing the origins of the universe, the mysteries of black holes and t...

Was Albert Einstein A Racist? His Travel Diaries Suggest So

And so, Rosenkranz writes, "Einstein's diary entries on the biological origin of the alleged intellectual inferiority of the Japanese, Chinese, and Indians are ...

Sen. Inhofe criticizes Scott Pruitt, wants face-to-face meeting with embattled EPA chief

Pruitt came under fire earlier on Wednesday after a report by the Washington Post alleged that the EPA administrator tasked one of his aides and sought help f...

Antarctica lost an unprecedented amount of ice in the last five years

The results were published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. "What we have seen as the climate has warmed is that more warm water is reaching the Antarct...

Albert Einstein's Travel Diaries Reveal He Was Racist

Elsewhere, Einstein denounces the " abundance of offspring " and the " fecundity " of the Chinese. Published by Princeton University Press, The Travel Diarie...

A woman from Tennessee is suing NASA for lunar dust

She claims that when she was ten, her mother handed her a glass vial with a rubber stopper containing light grey dust along with one of her father's business ca...

Antarctica's ice sheet is melting 3 times faster than before

The study shows that from 1992 through 2011, the continent lost ice at a rate of almost 84 billion tons of ice a year - accounting for a 0.2 mm per year contrib...

Woman Preemptively Sues NASA to Keep Her Treasure

If the initial findings are replicated, the vial would be extremely valuable but legally hazardous to sell. "I didn't want that to happen to Laura". She is se...

World Cup Coming To North America, But Chicago Won’t Host Games

To do so would have invited ridicule when it needed to build or renovate the 14 stadiums it wants to use - a task FIFA's technical report said "cannot be overst...

Antarctic ice melting faster

A group of 80 Antarctic experts said that in the two decades prior to 2012, the continent lost about 76 billion tons of ice annually, which caused about 0.2 mil...

NASA Rover Falls Silent Amid Giant Mars Dust Storm

Opportunity is a plucky little robot that was only created to survive for 90 days on the surface of Mars but has kept on trundling for 15 years. The final fram...

SpaceX planning major expansion at Kennedy Space Center

As per reports by Florida Today , a draft has been published by NASA to facilitate this expansion of operations. The new SpaceX Operations Area would b...

Democratic lawmakers seek criminal corruption probe of EPA’s Pruitt

With regard to the Democratic letter , an EPA spokesperson referred requests for comment to Pruitt's outside counsel. The Daily Beast reported on Thursday ...

No impact from farmers' blockade on refinery operations - Total

French farmers have blocked access to oil depots and refineries with tonnes of onions, wood and rubble, as part of a three-day protest over plans to allow T...

Huge Dust Storm on Mars Sidelines NASA's Opportunity Rover

NASA has been forced to temporarily pause operations of its Opportunity rover as it continues to be rocked by an intense dust storm on Mars. A massive dust st...

Fossil reveals early tetrapods lived within the Antarctic Circle

Although Waterloo Farm wasn't frozen back in the ancient Devonian period-which stretched from 420 to 360 million years ago-it still faced nights that lasted for...

Hurricane Bud: Path, models, latest forecast of Category 3 hurricane today

However, there might be some development when the system moves into the southwestern Gulf of Mexico by the end of the week. Hurricane Bud , the second offici...

Indian Scientists Discover New Planet 600 Light Years Away

With this discovery, India is now among the league of countries that have discovered planets around stars. EPIC 211945201b (or K2-236b) is the name given to t...

According to NASA, There Are Chances Life May Have Existed on Mars

While the rover hasn't exactly found solid evidence of life-like activity on Mars , it did make quite a major discovery a year after landing. Although the ...

Quebec City protesters promise 'day of disruption' as G7 talks begin

The White House also announced he would cut short his time at the two-day summit and leave on Saturday morning . The president said the ideal situation would...

Earliest animal footprints found in China

Soft tissues aren't prone to fossilisation, since they degrade quickly after death, so scientists have only a shady conception of what some of our planet's earl...

Researchers have solved the mystery of lightning on Jupiter

If it had achieved its intended 14-day orbit, Juno would have had time to carry out all of its primary science experiments, but the 53-day orbit at a distance...

Mercedes postpones Canada engine upgrade

Mercedes one minute 11.459 seconds. It is good news for Ferrari , whose championship contender Sebastian Vettel will use a new engine in power-hungry Cana...

Aletta rapidly strengthens into a Category 4 hurricane

Aletta, which became a hurricane on Thursday afternoon, rapidly intensified in less than 24 hours. Zoomed out view of Hurricane Aletta, June 8. It predicts th...

Russian Federation launches Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft with int'l crew to ISS

A majority of Americans say NASA should remain a global leader in space exploration, but a recent Pew Research study looking at the public's perception of...

Tropical Cyclones Are Moving Slower, And That's Not Good News

Is Hurricane Harvey a preview? According to Kossin's study, combining the additional water vapor available in the atmosphere from 1 degree Celsius of warmin...

World's oldest footprints found in China

This places them perhaps even 10 million years before the "Cambrian Explosion " (roughly 541 million years ago), the moment in time which sparked the incredibl...

NASA Wants Companies To Take Over the International Space Station

The trio will be received by Expedition 56 commander Drew Feustel and flight engineers Ricky Arnold of NASA and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos. ISS residents' m...

Much Ado About Martian Organics

The Curiosity rover has lasted three times as long as it was meant to and is still going, which helped with the study of seasonal methane cycles. Combined, ...

Plastic bans can work, but need planning and enforcement

This World Environment Day UN Environment is asking you, companies and civil society groups, to take a concrete action to Beat Plastic Pollution . Accordin...