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Winter storm bringing rain and snow to California

Storms have returned to the Sierra Nevada, and are forecast to continue impacting the Truckee-Tahoe area through next week. It might be May but there is a wi...

Scientists Create Living Organisms With Human-Made DNA

It also has two stop codons , and not three, as usual ( stop codons are another three codons which tell DNA were to stop the production of amino a...

Modern humans diverged from Neanderthals much sooner than believed

The proposed new timeline is around 300,000 years earlier than current estimates, and would in turn mean that Homo heidelbergensis, another extinct human specie...

Mariana Trench: Record-breaking journey to the bottom of the ocean

A diver made the deepest submarine dive by any human in history while exploring the deepest known point in the Earth's hydrosphere, Challenger Deep in the Mari...

'Big Bang Theory' exits TV airwaves with emotional episode

The series began about geeky physicist roommates portrayed by Parsons and Galecki and expanded to include their friends , girlfriends and then wives. The cast ...

Blue Moon This Weekend

What is a blue moon? However, there is another type of Blue Moon, called a Calendrical Blue Moon, which occurs when there are two full moons in one month. Fo...

Bedbugs roamed the Earth with dinosaurs 100 million years ago

By constructing the parasite's evolutionary tree, researchers found that they have been causing night-time itching since before the asteroid that caused a mass ...

'Game of Thrones' Ratings Reach New Highs with The Bells

Actor Conleth Hill , who played Lord Varys in the HBO show, also had mixed feeling about the last few seasons of the series and his character arc. It was...

SpaceX postpones Falcon 9 launch to 'triple-check everything'

That's not unusual for a SpaceX rocket, though until now nearly all launches have been on behalf of other commercial partners. SpaceX has obtained approval ...

The "Full Flower Moon" rises this Friday

Many people are familiar with the term "blue moon" and know it as the second full moon in one calendar month. The last one happened on May 21, 2016 and the next...

EPA Watchdog to Scott Pruitt: You Owe Us $124,000

The inspector general's findings showcase the fiscal impact of the former EPA chief's penchant for high-end travel during the course of his yearlong stint. To...

Chinese mission uncovers secrets on moon's far side

Yutu 2, the Chinese rover that landed on the far side of the Moon earlier this year, just examined the first-ever samples of the Moon's mantle. The rover's ...

Climate change protesters abseil down Sydney Harbour Bridge

They began the protest around 6am - and said they would not come down until the government declared a climate change emergency. The federal Labor senator Kris...

Clear weather for Wednesday night launch, viewing of Falcon 9 Heavy

PT and will close at 9 p.m. PT on May 15. A Falcon 9 rocket is set to blast off Wednesday carrying technology created to increase broadband internet access ar...

Alarming! Carbon dioxide level in atmosphere hits record high

A study published in Nature well forecasted that if humans continued burning fossil fuels , then by the year 2250 we would be witnessing Carbon dioxide level...

Woman on moon will inspire young girls - Nasa chief

Many in the space industry are concerned that the proposal may face opposition because of the Office of Management and Budget sought to offset the increased spe...

American Diver Smashes Record For Deepest Ocean Sub Dive

Victor Vescovo, a retired naval officer and investor, said he conducted an expedition inside his submersible that went 35,853 feet or 10,928 meters into the tre...

Extinct bird resurrected as evolution starts over again

This rare event is a process of evolution from the same ancestor but repeated in another point in history. This implies one animal groups from Madagascar offe...

Martian full moon pictures captured for first time, resembling sweets

A view of the full moon could help scientists understand what materials make up the Phobos, the larger of Mars' two moons, while half-moon views provide infor...

Bill Nye: It's Time to Realize 'the Planet Is on F*cking Fire!'

During the segment, Oliver blasted conservative politicians for blocking the Green New Deal , saying its real goal was to start more conversations around clim...

Bill Nye Has A ‘F**king’ Message For Y’all! WATCH!

Nye torched the globe, then pointed to the sand, blanket, and fire extinguisher on the table with the globe, saying, "There are a lot of things we could do to p...

Earth’s moon is shrinking and quaking, study says

A 2010 analysis of imagery from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) found that the moon shriveled like a raisin as its interior cooled, leaving behi...

Trash found littering ocean floor in deepest-ever sub dive

Making multiple trips almost 11 kilometers, or seven miles, to the ocean floor - one of them four hours in duration - Vescovo set a record for the deepest solo ...

Moon Is 'Shrinking Like a Grape' and Releasing Moonquakes, Study Finds

The moon is slowly shrinking over time, which is causing wrinkles in its crust and moonquakes, according to photos captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance ...

Mariana Trench: Deepest-ever sub dive finds plastic bag

Thus far, in addition to the Mariana Trench feat, Vescovo has become the first human to dive the deepest points in the Puerto Rico Trench of the Atlantic Ocean ...

Jeff Bezos unveils giant lunar lander, will go to the moon

In the presentation given by him on Thursday, he talked about his ambitious goals and said that he does not want people to settle on different planets but want ...

More flooding could be ahead along Ottawa River

Laurentian Valley had declared a state of emergency at the end of April, but continues to install sandbags to weather the incoming water damage. Water levels ...

Landmark UN plastic waste pact gets approved, but not by US

After China banned imports of plastic waste in 2018, developing countries (particularly those in Southeast Asia) recieved a huge influx of waste from other coun...

Stephen Hawking dies at the age 76

Stephen William Hawking was born in Oxford, England on January 8, 1942, 300 years to the day after the death of astronomer Galileo. He was also the director ...

Parachute Test Latest Snag In SpaceX's Commercial Crew Capsule

According to a report, NASA is keeping tabs on Elon Musk's SpaceX Crew Dragon mission, which recently experienced a setback when the capsule exploded during a...