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Minnesota sues Exxon, Koch and API over climate change

Minnesota is the first Midwestern state to get in on the climate liability fight and the first plaintiff in the recent wave of climate cases to take aim at Koch...

Roscosmos Will Send Two Space Tourists For First Civilian Spacewalk In 2023

The candidate will, of course, be required to complete specialized training and simulations in preparation for the excursion, now scheduled for 2023. But this w...

Researchers extract DNA of 9,500-year-old sled dog with surprising results

The team at the UoC's Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences , in collaboration with researchers from Greenland and Barcelona, analyzed the genomes of anci...

Astronomers find mystery astronomical object in 'mass gap'

Given the fact that this occurred so far from Earth, the event occurred 780 million years ago, but the gravitational waves are just now reaching us. The myste...

Quake measuring 7.7 hits southern Mexico, people run into streets in capital

It hit at 11:29 a.m. ET at a depth of 16 miles and the epicenter was about 7 miles south-southwest of Santa Maria Zapotitlan, USGS says. The natural disaster se...

Nasa launch competition to design a toilet for use on the Moon

NASA on Thursday introduced a crowdsourcing marketing campaign giving $20,000 to the particular person who will come up with the greatest structure for space bo...

MN sues oil companies, institute over climate change

In the news conference, Ellison brought speakers to the podium who explained how climate change has disproportionately affected farmers, Black and Indigenous po...

Space agencies unveil site showing lockdown changes to Earth

Utilizing information from 17 satellites, 3 area companies have developed a web site that serves as a worldwide dashboard for short-term adjustments observed fr...

CSL Behring To Acquire UniQure's Late-Stage Hemophilia B Gene Therapy

CSL will have the exclusive global rights to commercialise the program. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they mo...

Scientists discover extinct wombat-like species that lived 25 million years ago

Discovered wombats are only known from the teeth and a few skull fragments, "Brewer said". Researchers named the animal " Mukupirna ", meaning "massive bones"...

Quebec records 17 more COVID-19 deaths, announces end to daily updates

The number of deaths in the Eastern Townships remains stagnant at 26. Despite a downward trend in the number of daily cases and hospitalizations, public healt...

United Kingdom told to put green issues at heart of post-pandemic recovery

The Green Party is thrilled to see changes to the Resource Management Act (RMA) that mean consents for large projects can be declined if they will have signific...

Interior Dept. weakens protections for endangered animals

Administration officials hailed the reforms as balancing conservation with economic interests. "The act's effectiveness rests on clear, consistent and efficient...

Death toll from Mexican quake rises to 10

Among the fatalities were two women and five men. A 7.7 magnitude quake, damaged 55 cultural heritage sites in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, the country's Secr...

Astronomers Discover Two Super-Earths Orbiting a Star 11 Light-Years Away

There is also a potential third planet orbiting a bit further away from the star, according to the researchers. USQ astrophysicist and study co-author Profess...

Ocean in Jupiter's moon Europa could hold life, scientists claim

The ocean on Europa, which is one of the largest moons in our solar system, may have formed after water-bearing minerals broke down. For their study, the scie...

Dust from Sahara Desert about to blanket parts of US

According to the site, the presence of the massive plumes of dust in the sky will have a significant effect on sunsets. The nearly unprecedentedly extreme bro...

Incredible 10-Year Time Lapse of Sun From NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory

NASA has planned for another decade of observations of the Sun but for that, the SDO will be replaced by the latest Solar Orbiter, a joint NASA-European Space ...

NASA discovers 'unique laboratory' exoplanet able to reveal Earth's evolution

Dubbed as AU Mic b, the exoplanet was found after decades of search, around the red dwarf star, AU Microscopii that is roughly 32 light-years away. "By co...

Saharan dust plume arrives in Atlantic and Caribbean Wednesday

We started seeing the dust Wednesday and it will become more evident as skies clear of the clouds and the plume thickens this weekend. This year due to excessiv...

NASA, Virgin Galactic Ink Agreement for Private Trips

The agency is shaping an arrangement to fly space travelers, agents and other staff on board suborbital rocket. "Whether it's suborbital, orbital or deep space,...

New Seattle NHL Team to Play at Climate Pledge Arena

Amazon has purchased the naming rights to what was formerly known as KeyArena, according to CEO Jeff Bezos , but the arena won't become Amazon Arena. Climate P...

Facebook seeks to offer more 'context' on coronavirus posts

Instead, it only tells you the date and time a user shared the article on the social network-even if the news story itself was written months or years ago. It s...

Satellite Reveals Massive Saharan Dust Cloud Over the Atlantic Ocean

The plume causing the worst dust storm in decades in some Caribbean countries is making its way toward the US, but isn't expected to head as far north as Cana...

Quebec reports zero new COVID-19 deaths for the first since March

Santé Quebec says Quebec's coronavirus death toll has remained at 5,417, the same number reported on Sunday morning. Only six of today's deaths are new, with ...

Mars, NASA tests the mini helicopter for the upcoming launch

Since the red planet's atmosphere doesn't have much air for Ingenuity to push against to generate lift, flying on Mars is not a trivial endeavor. A recent ann...

Pluto’s Liquid Ocean Underneath the Surface Could Host Life

This heat might have been enough to melt the ice and form a subsurface ocean. When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew alongside Pluto and its moons in 20...

Space-time ripples flip our understanding of black holes & neutron stars upside down

Astronomers have spotted a mystery object that they say could be a black hole or a neutron star. Weighing in at 2.6 times the mass of the Sun , the object fal...

'Mystery object' spotted by astronomers changes talk of black holes, neutron stars

The journey to figure out what they are and how they work is going to keep us busy for quite some time, but more and better data from LIGO and Virgo are jus...

NWS: Dust from Sahara Desert may impact our air quality, sunsets

This air layer is common from late spring through early fall and frequently makes the 5,000 mile journey across the Atlantic Ocean. Dust from the Sahara Deser...