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Astronomers Trace the Source of Cosmic Neutrinos For the First Time

The only visible equipment is the IceCube Lab, also called the ICL, which hosts the computers that collect data from the sensors buried in the ice. The perc...

Rare solar Eclipse can be seen tonight

On July 31, Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, will be 57.6 million kilometres from Earth, the closest it has been since 2003 when it came within 55.7 millio...

First Israeli spacecraft to land on moon next year

However, the probe will land on the Moon in February 2019. "We're trying to replicate the Apollo effect in the US", Kahn said, referring to the US programme...

Andrea Horwath: Doug Ford Repealing Sex-Ed Curriculum To Please Social Conservatives

Megan Houston, a mother of three - aged two, four and 21 - said it will affect how she talks to her younger children about sex, mental health and other subjects...

Hurricane Chris to bring heavy rain, strong winds to Newfoundland

It cautioned that swells generated by Chris "could cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions " along the coast of North Carolina and the mid-Atlan...

Planned Parenthood Protests Brett Kavanaugh's Nomination In Front Of Florida's Supreme Court

Susan Collins (R-ME) signaled she's not opposed to Kavanaugh. On Wednesday, the former press secretary for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign told ABC's Power...

Russia's Robotic Cargo Spacecraft Smashes Record for Trip to International Space Station

Progress-MS-09 is expected to dock to the ISS on July 10 at 04:39 Moscow time. Russia's space agency Roscosmos said the faster maneuver became possible th...

This Triassic Beast Paved the Way for the World's Largest Dinosaurs

But dinosaurs weren't always giants - during the earlier Triassic period they were mostly chicken-sized critters, and they didn't really grow to be massive un...

Brett Kavanaugh and the Midterm Effect

He has served on the D.C. Circuit Court for 12 years, and he has authored nearly 300 opinions . Working from the inside at the Supreme Court, Fitzpatrick sa...

Four-mile-long iceberg breaks off Greenland glacier in dramatic video

Rarely seen footage of a glacier losing a huge chunk due to rising seas has been released, putting issues of climate change in full view. It's hard to get a...

Do you approve of Trump's Supreme Court pick?

In one sense, an extensive portfolio of written opinions can provide insight into a judge's writing style and their thinking on many issues that are likel...

Israel Plans to Land on Moon

SpaceIL is backed mainly by private donors, including USA casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and billionaire Morris Kahn who co-founded Amdocs, one of Israel's bigg...

Starbucks phasing out plastic straws by 2020

Starbucks predicts that it will eliminate more than 1 billion straws yearly. Frappuccino drinks will continue to be served with dome lids that require straws, b...

Cotton: Democrats’ Opposition to Kavanaugh a ‘Laughable Political Game’

President Donald Trump's pick for the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh , could have a relatively clear path to confirmation in the Senate. "That sounds less li...

Houston model bitten by shark while swimming in the Bahamas

The model made a decision to keep calm despite having just been set upon, and raised her arm from the water so the blood wouldn't attract more sharks. Katarina ...

Hurricane Chris forms; not expected to make USA landfall

Winds are still at 70 miles per hour, making it a strong tropical storm approaching hurricane strength. What's left of Beryl, a tropical wave moving northwest...

With Pruitt’s Departure, More Than A Quarter of Trump’s Cabinet Has Changed

Trump said Pruitt's deputy, the former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler , would take over Monday as acting head of the agency. Pruitt, a former Oklahoma attorney...

Starbucks to Eliminate Plastic Straws From All Stores by 2020

The move is expected to eliminate the use of more than 1 billion straws a year. Those straws will be provided for blended Frappuccino beverages, or by special...

Tropical Storm Chris set to become hurricane, Beryl weakens

It was centered about 195 miles (315 kilometers) south-southeast of Cape Hatteras and was moving east-southeast at 2 mph (4 kph). A disorganized Tropical Sto...

Tropical Storm Chris could become hurricane

The storm was expected to strengthen to a hurricane by about 8 a.m. on Monday. A tropical storm warning is already in effect for that area, with hurricane c...

Gang Of Rhino-Poachers Meets Death In South African Game Reserve!

Captain Mali Govender, a police spokesperson, shared that detectives are undergoing an investigation to determine if more people were eaten than they presume....

Canada investigates run-ins between US customs, fishermen

The flare-up - amid recently heightened tensions between the United States and Canadian government over trade - revolves around the last, unresolved land-bor...

Beryl forms in the Atlantic Ocean

Peak wind speeds were estimated at 50 miles per hour, with some higher gusts. A tropical wave heading for the Caribbean is now a tropical depression and is ...

Hawaii’s proposed sunscreen ban is expected to become law this week

Those chemicals are: Oxybenzone and Octinoxate, which are found in many commercial sunblocks. In May, the state House and Senate passed legislation that pro...

Canada’s Ontario government scraps cap-and

The government said it would immediately start an orderly wind-down of all programs funded out of cap-and-trade carbon tax revenues but agreed to honour certain...

As US, NK resume talks, experts say speedy denuking unlikely

Victor Cha, the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, also told Axios that the Trump administration "needs to get a commitment ...

Beryl becomes first named Atlantic hurricane of 2018

Forecasters said the storm is expected to dump heavy rain across islands including Dominica and Puerto Rico, which could also be hit with winds of more than to ...

Mom who confronted Pruitt: "I'm glad he took the hint" and resigned

Yet, in tweets announcing Pruitt's resignation, Trump said the former Oklahoma attorney general had "done an outstanding job". Pruitt temporarily will be su...

Lions kill suspected rhino poachers on South African game reserve

Three white rhinos were killed by poachers at Sibuya in June 2016, and three rhinos were killed in May at the nearby Port Alfred Nature Reserves. The firearms h...

NASA working on quiet supersonic flight

In addition, audio sensors will be placed throughout the city. "We'll never know exactly what everyone heard". We won't have a noise monitor on their shoulder...

Air pollution can make you diabetic, India at greater risk: Lancet study

Louis, US. We've long known that exposure to air pollution can contribute to heart disease and cancer over time, and a new study finds another potential...

Mars Shows Off This Month Before Blood Moon Eclipse

The reason this lunar eclipse will be a particularly long one is because the moon will be passing nearly directly through the central part of Earth's shadow...

Environment Canada issues heat warning for Simcoe County

Environment Canada expects the system to bring elevated humidex values and warns that temperatures could reach heat warning humidex values in the mid-30s this ...

Mom Tells Off EPA Director Scott Pruitt at Washington Restaurant

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency U.S. EPA Administrator Scott PruittETA: You don't have to wait til your next Pruitt sighting to take action! "So, I would...

Scientists capture first ever image of newborn planet

In a remarkable image, the young planet is clearly visible, standing out as a distinctive bright spot just to the right of PDS 70, which is blocked out by a mas...