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PM Imran leaves for Davos to attend World Economic Forum

He said: "We should end once and for all the ultra-high-consuming festival of mutual back-slapping that is the elites" " world economic forum' ". "This was th...

Malaysia returns 42 containers to United Kingdom in purge of 'illegal' foreign waste

The containers held more than 3,700 tons of plastic waste, and originated from 13 countries. But these issues appear to have been ironed out, with even the ex...

Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort's successful completion clears way for crewed flights

After some weather-caused delays, SpaceX launched the uncrewed Crew Dragon spaceship atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space C...

No in-flight abort for SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft today

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They appeared to have starved, but the underlying cause and its potential connection to the "Blob" and heatwave has been unclear. Common murres have wonde...

Bushfire smoke to return to Australia after full circuit of the globe

There is "no doubt" that climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires around the world, researchers said on Tuesday, as Australia's government faces criti...

NASA All Women Spacewalk For Second Time Surpasses Helmet Glitch

Jessica Meir and Christina Koch had been staunch getting started on battery replacements Wednesday when Koch's helmet camera and lights came off. Koch and Mei...

The Stanford researchers' PigeonBot provides insight into the mechanics of bird wings

Just like Velcro used in fasternings, it is even possible to hear the distinctive "ripping" sound as feathers are pulled apart again and folded back in the bird...

Microsoft pledges to remove entire historical carbon footprint by 2050

Microsoft , one of the world's most valuable companies, said in a blog post that it has been carbon neutral since 2012 but that "neutral is not enough to ad...

Risk BlackRock CEO: Climate Change is Causing a 'Fundamental Reshaping of Finance'

In his annual letter to CEOs posted on the company's website on Tuesday, Fink forecast a "fundamental reshaping of finance" and said companies must act or fac...

Mysterious objects discovered at the center of the galaxy

Some astronomers believe they are clouds of gas, others argue that they look more like odd stars wrapped in dust. During the last decade, experts looking in ...

EBRD, IRENA agree to rapidly increase share of renewables

Peak oil projections have been proven false and consumption is growing according to the International Energy Agency's (IEA) latest projections. The report ch...

Fever chart: Earth had its hottest decade on record in 2010s

The World Meteorological Organization, which consolidates analysis from NOAA and NASA as well as datasets from the U.K.'s Met Office and the University of E...

SpaceX to blow-up Falcon 9 rocket

Liftoff is set for 8 a.m. EST (1300 GMT), NASA has said . SpaceX wants this test to go properly to point out that Crew Dragon is able to launch NASA astro...

Oceans were hottest on record in 2019

Researchers say they are particularly concerned about the Southern Ocean warming and it's affects on the Antarctic Ice Shelves. Scientists say a similar situa...

Smoke from Australia’s fires will make ‘full circuit’ around the world

In order to make these conclusions, NASA's team said they studied ultraviolet aerosol indexes, tracking the aerosols and smoke in the skies, as well as UV i...

Xenobot: The First Self-Healing and Living Robots

Bottom: The lab-grown xenobots, made from cells. Though the usual stem cells came from frogs - the African clawed frog, Xenopus laevis - these so-known ...

Could a pill replace exercise? Scientists make bold claim about new protein

If continued tests yield similar results, MI scientists have noted that we could eventually see a pill synthesized and made available for human consumption that...

Scott Morrison calls for bushfire royal commission amid devastation

The fires, which have ravaged Australia for months, have spread quickly and overwhelmed efforts to contain them. "We want to reduce emissions and do the best ...

Scientists have found on Earth the star dust of ancient Suns

Philipp Heck , a curator at the Field Museum, associate professor at the University of Chicago , said, "They're solid samples of stars , real stardust". As fo...

Seven-billion-year-old stardust in meteorite 'oldest solid material found'

They are made of silicon carbide , the first mineral formed when a star cools. While it's actually not unheard of for meteorites to contain grains of mater...

17-Year-Old NASA Intern Discovers First World With Two Stars

Wolf Cukier, 17, from Scarsdale, New York , made the discovery while peering through the agency's orbiting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (Tess ) a yea...

Purdue alum slated to graduate with NASA's latest astronaut class

She will now be eligible for missions to the space station as well as including spaceflight to the moon and Mars. This was the first public graduation ceremony ...

Tiffany & Co uses ads to tell the PM to fight climate change

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Wuhan flu caused by new virus from Sars family, says China

Previously, Chinese authorities subsequently reported that laboratory tests ruled out SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, influenza, avian influenza, adenovirus and other c...

House approves bill requiring regulators to identify chemical products as health hazards

The Trump Administration, under its own PFAS Action Plan , promised to establish a drinking-water standard by the end of past year as well as explore designa...

Trump Administration Proposes Major Changes To Bedrock Environmental Law

Trump said the changes would deliver "gleaming new infrastructure " to the United States and would "completely overhaul the dysfunctional bureaucratic system t...

Blaze kills firefighter in Australia

Australia urged almost a quarter of a million people to evacuate their homes on Friday and prepared military backup as authorities said the next few hours coul...

Moon river: Rocket part ferried on the mighty Mississippi

It has since been modified and extended by several meters to accommodate the SLS core stages. Space launch system rockets are expected to take astronauts to t...

A 17-year-old NASA intern just discovered a brand new planet

The intern, Wolf Cukier, on closer examination found that it was indeed a circumbinary planet, which is one that orbits two stars. Data published by NASA r...

Red Planet's water loss: Weak gravity of Mars can not prevent from escaping

Ultraviolet radiation from the sun breaks separated water in Mars' upper air to form hydrogen and oxygen, and a lot of this hydrogen skims off into space, giv...

Teens rescue koalas from Australia bushfires, social media sends love

The bottom photo, before the fire, was taken December 16, 2019. The video was captioned: "Amid the awful bushfires in Australia, my cousins went out and saved...

New Milky Way map reveals huge wave of stellar nurseries

Numerous stellar nurseries found within Gould's Belt are present within this wave. Nobody expected "we live next to a enormous, wave-like collection of gas ...

NASA and Boeing will form a team to investigate Starliner glitch

Once the investigation team is chosen, the probe could take two months to complete, NASA said . Boeing and SpaceX are the two companies developing the next g...

Mysterious fast radio burst discovered emitting from nearby galaxy

It's a location unlike any of the others, and astronomers are having to rethink their previous assumptions about how these signals are generated. And the FRBs...