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Nasa picks SpaceX to supply planned lunar space station

At current NASA plans to launch the multi-cargo provide missions to the Gateway which is within the plan of building, with the spacecraft created to go to the s...

EPA dials back environmental enforcement during pandemic

The regulatory environmental laws in place are no longer being enforced. The EPA said the policy "addresses different categories of noncompliance differentl...

NASA's 'Hidden Figure' Dies at 101

The release of " Hidden Figures " made Johnson one of the most celebrated black women in space science and a hero for those calling for action against sexis...

International Ozone Pact Pauses Changes In Southern Hemisphere Winds

A year ago the Antarctic ozone hole hit its smallest annual peak on the document - because it was found in 1982 - nevertheless, it's a temporary fix. For exam...

Critically ill coronavirus patients can now be treated with survivors' blood

The procedure for isolating plasma is a long-established technology that can be performed using equipment normally found in blood-banking facilities, and receiv...

Watch ULA’s first dedicated rocket launch for the U.S

The US military's newest branch has launched its first satellite, despite a technical glitch that forced a delay. A UAL webcast from the Cape Canaveral Air Fo...

Ontario confirms 100 new coronavirus cases, as numbers near 700

Travel was implicated in some of the cases, but the source of the COVID-19 infection was still under investigation for most of the new cases. However, it is i...

Great Barrier Reef suffers mass coral bleaching event

Scientists say they have detected widespread bleaching, including extensive patches of severe damage. The authority said heat accumulation, particularly in ...

Ontario records 7th death, one-day jump of 85 COVID-19 cases

Dr. Williams was asked about reports of some long-term care homes not enforcing social distancing between long-term care residents. The facilities were already ...

Help relieve pressure on waste collection services

Residents of Queen's Walk in Stamford, Lincolnshire stuck notes to their bins thanking refuse workers. That gradually faded away. People are advised to recycl...

Coronavirus dominates Biden-Sanders Democratic debate

Biden made that assertion during Sunday night's debate with Vermont Sen. Sanders panned President Donald Trump's uneven handling of the crisis, urging the p...

NASA Remembers Apollo Astronaut Al Worden

Worden, who began his career as a U.S. Air Force test pilot working for famed aviator Chuck Yeager , was best known for circling the moon alone between July 30...

Voyager 2 enters the interstellar space after 42 years

Each paper details the findings from one of Voyager 2's five operating science instruments: a magnetic field sensor, two instruments to detect energetic p...

NASA stops work on Moon rocket after employee tests positive for coronavirus

When the world stops: The spread of the Coronavirus in the United States led tonight (Thursday to Friday) to close two NASA facilities - and the USA plan t...

'Wonderchicken' fossil sheds light on dawn of modern birds

It was found in a limestone quarry located in the proximity of the Belgian-Dutch border, and it has an age of 66.7 million years, according to initial tests. ...

FDA approves COVID-19 test kits from China and South Korea

However, authorities are moving quickly to close that gap and ramp up testing capacity. Hahn said the FDA has engaged with more than 100 test developers since...

Clarksville area facing a chance of strong thunderstorms overnight

Highs today will vary depending on where you are, the 40s and 50s towards the north and areas near I-80 and south will be in the low to mid-60s. The area in...

Lockheed Martin lands $4.6B NASA deal for new space fleet

The space agency plans to order an additional three ships in fiscal year 2022 for an additional $1.9 billion. The Orion capsule must be able to bring as...

FDA to allow states to authorize coronavirus tests

We laboratory directors were on the spot to develop tests, and most were unprepared to say the least. "The FDA is actively reviewing and discussing the applicat...

Massive New Genome Study Unlocks The Mysterious Secrets of How Cancers Form

But the Pan-Cancer Study sequenced entire genomes , uncovering new cancer-causing driver mutations in the other 98 percent, known as non-coding genes. "The i...

Ravens' trade for Calais Campbell looks like an absolute steal

Baltimore lacked pass-rushing oomp last season, and Campbell has shown an ability to deliver it: He's posted at least five sacks in 11 straight seasons. Minneso...

Snow moon rises over Edmonton

The scientific term of supermoon is " perigee syzygy". In Pakistan , Snow Super moon will appear tonight at 8 pm. And for keen stargazers, there is ...

2020's first "supermoon" visible over Krakow

February's supermoon previous year over London. The second full moon of winter, also known as the Snow Moon, has been appearing starting on Friday evening a...

Greenland, Antarctica ice loss accelerating

Polar ice caps like Greenland and Antarctica are releasing six times more ice than throughout the 1990s, contributing to a higher sea level that could produ...

Last remaining female white giraffe killed by poachers, along with her calf

The last remaining white giraffe is a lone male, born to the same slaughtered female, the conservancy added. White or otherwise, all reticulated giraffes ( Gi...

Joint Russian-European Mars mission postponed over coronavirus

The mission would need to be postponed because of "circumstances related to exacerbation of the epidemiological situation in Europe, which left our experts ...

NASA picks first two Science Instruments for Gateway

When NASA announced in 2019 the Artemis program to put USA astronauts on the Moon's surface in late 2024, the plan was to use the Space Launch System (SLS), a...

'London patient' cured of HIV reveals identity for the first time

The previous and first-ever patient cured of HIV , Timothy Brown, who is known as 'Berlin patient , ' also received a similar bone marrow transplant in 2007 a...

As new virus spreads, Israel issues travel warning for Wuhan, China

Tens of millions of Chinese who traveled for the holiday were due to return home this week in the world's largest movement of humanity, raising the risk the vir...

Scientists find extreme exoplanet raining with iron

There, drastically cooler temperatures let the iron condense into drops and fall as a odd rain. According to the University of Geneva professor David Ehren...

Complete Skull of the Smallest Known Dinosaur Found Preserved in Amber

Oculudentavis also featured an exceptionally large eye socket, one comparable to lizards. In most birds, the individual bones, called scleral ossicles, are sim...

Second HIV Patient Reportedly 'Cured'

They performed a bone marrow transplant to beat the cancer, but it failed to cure the patient from HIV infection. Later that year, he was diagnosed with a...

The International Space Station has 2 seats left for this trip

Friday night, in super windy conditions at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX launched the 20th and final delivery using its Dragon capsule under that original contract. ...

Vancouverites share snaps of last night's supermoon

This is because the Moon's orbit is not a ideal circle and is actually slightly oval. THAT FULL MOON in the sky Monday night was March's Full Worm Moon - ...

Plastic smells like food to sea turtles, scientists say

In lab tests, scientists enticed young loggerhead sea turtles with the smell of biofouled plastic both with and without different meal offerings, including fis...