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Scientists found an ancient 2,624 years old tree in North Carolina
The scientific research was done when Researchers took tiny core samples that won't risk the life of the trees, knew that numerous specimens were over 1,000 yea...
Landmark UN plastic waste pact gets approved but not by US
According to the pact, contaminated plastic wastes will require prior consent from receiving countries before they are traded, with the exceptions of mixes of P...
Barges and oil tanker collide in Houston Ship Channel
The barges were loaded with the gasoline blending component Reformate, which is leaking into the water after the incident Friday near Bayport, Texas, officials ...
Spitzer Space Telescope Finds Some of Universe’s Very First Galaxies
In the far reaches of the early Universe, it spied odd galaxies that are far more luminous than expected. This event is known as the Epoch of Reionization. Inse...
Climate breakdown will deluge coastal communities
Emma Howard Boyd said that the United Kingdom "cannot win a war against water" by building higher land defences and that at least £1bn a year needed to be allo...
Paper wasps capable of behavior that resembles logical reasoning
In the last couple of decades, we've instead come to see that isn't true. Instances of TI have mostly been seen among vertebrates , such as birds, fish, and ...
NASA spacecraft to hit an asteroid in 2022
Even asteroids falling into the ocean could drive tsunamis or earthquakes - and even create undersea craters. Scientists and engineers are aware of the theory...
Dark clouds on horizon for flood-weary Midwest
The river has already crested at numerous hardest-hit towns, but the wet forecast is a concern. Flood gates have closed as the Mississippi River continues to ...
Jeff Bezos says Blue Origin will land humans on moon by 2024
Interested in Amazon? Add Amazon as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Amazon news, video, and analysis from ABC News. One key piece of infrastructu...
Bezos company aims to take people to moon by 2024 — Blue Origin
Blue Origin is due to lay out plans for missions to the moon and a lunar lander at an event in Washington DC on Thursday night. "It's time to go back to the m...
Scotland's bottle deposit return scheme to be set at 20p
Roseanna Cunningham, the Scottish environment secretary, has refused to exempt small shops from the new scheme, leading to immediate protests from retailers, ...
Scientists Say They Have Cooked Up An Endlessly Recyclable Plastic
Brett Helms , the staff scientist at the Berkeley Lab who led the research, told ABC News that the new discovery "could significantly reduce the leakage of ...
Small T. rex Relative Found in New Mexico: Suskityrannus hazelae | Paleontology
He said: "Essentially, we didn't know we had a cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex for many years". All tyrannosaurids are tyrannosauroids, but not all tyrannosauroid...
Hubble Space Telescope spots spiral galaxy
It is associated with the Centaurus cluster, one of the most massive assemblages of galaxies in the nearby universe. The Hubble Legacy Field image was made po...
Mars’ giant dust storms could be behind the planet’s water loss
NASA's InSight lander has picked up a gentle rumble at Mars, believed to be the first marsquake ever detected. Atop the deck are InSight's science instruments, ...
NASA Administrator Statement on Israeli Moon Mission
SpaceIL's lunar lander, named Beresheet , is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket today (Feb. At ...
U.N. Report Finds 1 Million Species At Risk of Extinction
Compiled by 145 expert authors from 50 countries, the study is a cornerstone of an emerging body of research that suggests the world may need to embrace a new ...
NY asteroid: NASA simulation
So, the simulation team launched spacecrafts to deflect it. In the scenario, an asteroid that originally had a 1 in 10 chance of hitting Earth becomes a threa...
Spectacular scenes as Rocket Lab launches satellites from Hawke's Bay complex
After liftoff, the Electron's second stage separated from the first-stage booster, and then released its "kick stage" to deploy the satellites in orbit. This U....
Efficient housing to be key in United Kingdom net zero emissions goal
The panel says the government should reduce the demand for energy overall, increase the electrification of the British economy, develop hydrogen fuel technology...
SpaceX Launches Cargo Mission To ISS
The materials will support dozens of science and research investigations during ISS Expeditions 59 and 60, including NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3 that w...
Meteor shower to peak Saturday as Earth collides with Halley's Comet debris
The annual Eta Aquarids will peak on Sunday morning (May 5), but if the weather's poor, you'll still see a few Saturday and Monday. The Eta Aquarids are one o...
Saskatchewan carbon-tax ruling a victory for the planet, environment minister say
Moe, who has said a carbon tax hurts his province economically, told reporters there are "good grounds for an appeal." Trudeau, citing worldwide commitments ...
Gravitational waves possibly from two colliding neutron stars detected
They may also be able to detect signals from spinning neutron stars or other exotic sources. The fact that so many detections are now being made in such a sho...
UK Becomes First Parliament To Declare Climate Emergency
President] Donald Trump that he can not ignore worldwide agreements and action on the climate crisis", Corbyn said. A majority of those surveyed said that the...
Students strike for change
Environmental activist David Suzuki participated in the student-led protest. The book will feature eleven of her speeches delivered at various global climat...
After protests, Britain's parliament declares climate change 'emergency'
The climate-change protesters have in the past 11 days brought the iconic areas of central London to a standstill, during which the activists described the demo...
Space rock hit Moon during January’s total eclipse
Although the moon has an atmosphere, technically called an exosphere, it's so thin that gas molecules rarely collide with each other - and meteoroids pass throu...
Human influence on global droughts goes back 100 years — NASA study
The researchers looked not simply at precipitation, but rather soil moisture, a more subtle measure that balances precipitation against evaporation, and is the ...
Hubble creates stunning mosaic containing roughly 265,000 galaxies
This Hubble Space Telescope image represents a portion of the Hubble Legacy Field , one of the widest views of the universe ever made. U.S. space agency N...