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Eastern Canada battles flooding after days of rain

Quebec's premier is telling residents in waterlogged areas of the province that they face a few more "difficult" days ahead and to "have courage" until the floo...

Antidote found for venomous box jellyfish

Cyclodextrins acts like a "cholesterol sponge", according to Neely and if it is applied within 15 minutes of a box jellyfish sting, then it blocks the venom a...

Expect a major asteroid strike in your lifetime — NASA head

The 2019 International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Planetary Defense Conference in College Park, Maryland, is bringing together an global panel of experts t...

The Giant Impact Hypothesis - Was The Moon Formed From The Earth’s Magma

Yet the opposite is true; we know from analyzing rocks brought back from Apollo missions that the moon consists mainly of material from Earth . The researchers...

Astronomers capture black hole 'dragging spacetime'

The worldwide team of astronomers, which included Dr Alex Tetarenko working at the East Asian Observatory in Hilo, published their findings today in the journal...

Alberta proclaims law that could cut energy flows to British Columbia

McMillan said. "People in the Vancouver region are rightfully ticked off". "We had a diplomatic and courteous conversation last night sprinkled with some hu...

STUNNING InSight photos capture sunrise and sunset on Mars — NASA Mars pictures

What's cool about the photos is that the sun only appears roughly two-thirds the size that it does when spotted from Earth, because Mars is much further from th...

Space rock hit Moon at 61,000 km an hour in January

Total lunar eclipses occur when the moon moves completely into the shadow of the Earth, and then, the moon has a slightly red hue, said a Royal Astronomical St...

NASA will conduct exercises to combat asteroid threat

The conference will examine all facets of planetary defense, including detecting, tracking and characterizing near-Earth objects, exploring ways to deflect pote...

Space Station Power Shortage Delays SpaceX Supply Run

Launch now has been delayed to Friday at 3:11 a.m. EDT, setting the stage for the Dragon's capture and berthing early Sunday. SpaceX was due to launch the C...

Blue Origin Launches Test Flight of Its New Shepard Rocket

After propelling the capsule spaceward, the New Shepard booster will separate from the capsule and begin its journey back to Earth, flying itself to its landi...

160,000 year-old remains of human relative found in Tibet

Tiny, fragmented remains of Denisovans had only ever been found in Denisova Cave , which sits at an altitude of 700 metres. Denisovans were discovered in 2...

Faulty aluminum led to $700 million satellite failure, reveals NASA

Two 92-foot Taurus rockets and the climate monitoring satellites they were carrying failed in their missions in 2009 and 2011 due to falsified data about their ...

Scottish Government Commits To Net-Zero By 2045

Under the UK's current legally-binding target, emissions must be cut by 80% by 2050. "Having received independent, expert advice that even higher targets are ...

SpaceX confirms crew capsule destroyed in ground testing

In a statement that aired on NASA TV, Hans Koenigsmann said the investigation so far indicates that the failure occurred during activation of the SuperDraco p...

Giant 'God of Chaos' Asteroid Will Fly Past Earth in 2029

Scientists have named it Apophis, after the Greek name for an Egyptian serpent god which aims to devour the sun. Although scientists have spotted small asteroid...

Breather for Davenport? Heavy rain not expected

Erickson reports the flooding in downtown Davenport spread around 15 square blocks. Scattered showers are in the forecast for Wednesday, but National Weathe...

Jason Kenney officially sworn in as Alberta’s 18th premier

In the opinion piece addressed to British Columbians in the Vancouver Sun on Tuesday night, Kenney said Bill 12 was proclaimed into law during the government's...

Chandrayaan-2 to be launched in July

Chandrayaan-2, has three modules namely Orbiter, Lander (Vikram) and Rover (Pragyan). Earlier, Chandrayaan 2 was to be launched between March 25 and April e...

BC taking Alberta to court over turn-off-the-taps law

In a statement of claim filed in Calgary, B.C. says the law, proclaimed Tuesday by Alberta premier Jason Kenney , is unconstitutional. The legislation, also ...

NASA Says Aluminum Fraud Caused $700 Million Satellite Failures

Fortunately, nobody was hurt during two failed NASA missions directly linked to the faulty materials. Sapa, which has since changed its name to Hydro Extrus...

NASA to simulate a massive doomsday asteroid scenario

NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine has warned the globe that it needs to prepare for the prospect of a potentially deadly asteroid colliding with Earth - sayin...

Wonky black hole seen firing off plasma "bullets"

Associate Professor Miller-Jones said the change in the movement of the jets was because of the accretion disk - the rotating disk of matter around a black ho...

Fracking chief undermined by 'absurd' restrictions on drilling

Shale gas could be a game changer for the United Kingdom, whose offshore gas production is falling short of demand growth, but there is little chance attitudes ...

Protesters glue themselves to the London Stock Exchange

According to Reuters news reports , the environmental activists have caused major mass disruption in the recent weeks in London , blocking Waterloo Bridge , ...

NASA's InSight Lander Detects First Likely 'Marsquake'

InSight, which launched last May, first deployed its ultra-sensitive seismometer back in December. InSight's instrument has several ingenious insulating barrier...

SpaceX, NASA tight-lipped on cause of crew capsule incident

It has provided the details of the SpaceX Static Fire Test, along with the anomaly that was a outcome of the final test, to NASA partners. The spacecraft is...

Oxford professor believes alien-human hybrid species will save Earth

In his latest book, written in Korean, cited by the Daily Mail, Young-hae Chi claims that aliens have been abducting humans to "interbreed" with them, creating ...

Japan creates first crater on asteroid

Hayabusa-2 had fired a projectile at the Ryugu asteroid approximately 340 million kilometers from Earth as part of the probe's task to investigate and observe t...

Global Stem Cell Media Market - Industry Outlook and Forecast 2019

At the very time, it has tried the increasing pace until the years by giving key aims and the driving parts behind such views. It is also key to understand the ...