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Solar Orbiter blasts off to capture first look at sun’s poles

A new European-built spacecraft called Solar Orbiter just launched from Cape Canaveral , on an unprecedented mission to the Sun . This joint European S...

Astronaut's record space travel Christina Koch will inspire you

Koch arrived at the space station on March 14, 2019, and was the first of her fellow astronauts to go through the hatch. During his time on the ISS , he ...

The bitter end: Last wooly mammoths plagued by genetic defects

The problems may have stemmed from rapid population decline, which can lead to interbreeding among distant relatives and low genetic diversity - trends that may...

'Reaper of Death, Thanatos': Scientists Discover T-Rex's Deadly Older Cousin

The most obvious were prominent vertical ridges along the upper jaw line. "The last tyrannosaur described from Canada was Daspletosaurus in 1970". She says ...

Supermoon set to light up Qatar sky today

In Qatar, the moon will today rise at 5.36pm and set at 6.18am tomorrow, the statement informs. "The full moon is a wonderful viewing target as it is the ni...

Scientists succeeded in genetically editing immune systems of cancer patients

Carl June professor of Immunotherapy said that their data from the initial three patients registered in this clinical trial indicate two vital things that to t...

Russian Satellites Are Following American Satellite: Space Force

But Kosmos 2542 made its way to the American spy satellite US 245, which launched in 2013 and is operated by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), a spy a...

Want to Improve Your Career Prospects in IT? Use Practice Tests to Ace the Microsoft 70-461 Exam

This reputable organization offers credentials for all tastes. Note, that in 2019 it has issued new role-based certifications that verify your skills in the cho...

Snow Moon to illuminate night sky this weekend

You guessed it - snow. The long nights during the shortest month of the year often bring cold and snowy weather to many areas across the Northern Hemisphere, ...

SMMT Speaks Out Against UK Banning All Combustion Engine Vehicles By 2035

Meanwhile, SMMT chief executive Mike Hawes called on the government to demonstrate how it would fulfil its ambitions sustainably and in a way that didn't underm...

PM launches UN Climate Summit in the UK

The ban, which Government advisers the Committee on Climate Change have called for by as early as 2030, will also include hybrid vehicles for the first time...

NASA bids farewell to iconic Spitzer Space Telescope

Having outlived its minimal mission lifetime of two-and-a-half years, Spitzer can be put in hibernation Thursday after the telescope returns its last science kn...

Scientists snap first-ever images of "notorious" Antarctic glacier

This device gauges the turbulence of the water as well as other properties such as temperature. The result of turbulence is the mixing of fresh meltwater from t...

France ponders repatriating citizens from Wuhan amid virus

Separately, the province of Henan reported one death from coronavirus infection. A second person in Los Angeles County, who also had traveled to Wuhan , ha...

MP pleased nuclear waste facility rejected in vote

Kuntz said DGRs around the world have generally taken about 25 to 30 years from inception to implementation. Lester Anoquot is chief of the Saugeen First Nati...

Release contaminated Fukushima water into sea: Japan panel

The proposal in coming weeks will be submitted to the government for further discussion to decide when and how the water should be released. 'Compared to evap...

United Kingdom government replaces O'Neill as president of U.N. climate summit

Mrs O'Neill, a former energy minister who served under David Cameron and Theresa May when she was known as Claire Perry, had been due to play a key role presi...

Who Is Patrick Mahomes' Girlfriend? Meet Brittany Matthews, His High School Sweetheart!

So what does the superstar quarterback plan to do the night before Super Bowl LIV? Mahomes completed 65.9 percent of this throws for 4,031 yards, 26 scores ...

Scientists report trove of shark fossils in Mammoth Cave

Hodnett eventually visited the park to examine the fossils, and while he did not uncover a full skeleton, he found parts of a head that belonged to a prehistori...

SpaceX Starlink Constellation Grows to 240 Satellites

Original story: A week after carrying out a crucial test flight for NASA, SpaceX is poised to introduce yet another Falcon 9 rocket from Florida. Prior to...

The Pacific Ocean Is So Acidic That Crab Shells Are Dissolving

Lower pH levels in the ocean waters are causing parts of the Dungeness crab shells to dissolve. The shells of the crabs also help them regulate their buoy...

A spinning binary radio pulsar proves Einstein's theory

This imply, multiple times each moment, a "lighthouse beam" of radio waves transmitted by this pulsar clears past our vantage point here on Earth. This pulsa...

Robot hand can 'sweat' to cool itself down

That's due to the fact that versatile, artificial products hold warm from the inner engines that run the robot- unlike steels, which dissipate warm promptly. '1...

WHO declaration on new coronavirus changes little for Canada: health minister

He said the only planes that already landed were from US and Japan. However Nadine Girault, Quebec's minister for global relations, was more nuanced in her co...

NASA Bids Farewell to Spitzer Telescope After 16 Years of Service

Launched in 2003, the telescope was planned only for five years, but it lasted almost sixteen and a half years. The James Webb orbiting telescope will also ...

State of emergency declared for Canberra region

A small aircraft dumps fire retardant behind houses at the foot of Mount Tennant as the fire front of the Orroral Valley fire creeps through the Namadgi Nationa...

Axiom Space Awarded Right to Build Commercial Space Station Module

But at an eye-watering $35,000 at the very minimum, a trip to the famous space station won't come cheap. Earlier this week, Axiom Space was selected by NA...

Dark Pee-wee Herman Movie May Happen with Uncut Gems Directors

THR reports that the script would follow Pee-wee Herman after he gets out of prison and becomes a famous Hollywood star, before falling into "severe" addiction...

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft recovering from glitch

Voyager 2 experienced a technical problem over the weekend and NASA is working to re-route the spacecraft. The two Voyager probes, launched in 1977, 16 days b...

Highest resolution video of the sun ever taken is lovely and hypnotic

On Wednesday, astronomers released what they said were the most detailed images ever taken of the surface of our sun. "Since NSF began work on this ground-b...