One flight closer to space tourism Virgin Galactic is one flight closer to becoming a commercial "spaceline." The company's passenger spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, completed its first rocket-powered flight Monday morning above the Mojave Desert in California. More
U.S. plans to drop gray wolves from endangered list The planned ruling would eliminate protection for the top predators, but scientists and conservationists say the proposal is flawed. Federal authorities intend to remove endangered species protections for all gray wolves in the Lower 48 states, carving out an a exception for a small pocket of about 75 Mexican wolves in the wild in Arizona and New Mexico, according to a draft document obtained by The Times. More
New calls to rename Higgs boson One of the scientists who developed the theory of the Higgs boson says the particle should be renamed to acknowledge the contributions of others involved in the work. More
A meteorite 100 times bigger than the dinosaur-killing space rock may have nourished early microbial life The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests. 11/2/2024 - 5:19 pm | View Link
The Dinosaur Age Ended With Two Asteroids, Scientists Say The impact site of the second asteroid is called the Nadir crater, where rock was liquified and a tsunami launched into the Atlantic Ocean. 11/2/2024 - 2:30 am | View Link
The Sound of Science The duo from NIU STEAM return and, this time, they're putting on their paleontologist hats! They dig up the answer to a young listener's question: "How did they find the fossils of the dinosaurs?" ... 11/1/2024 - 7:04 am | View Link
Dinosaur Dental will buy back your unwanted Halloween candy The event allows for you to drop off your unwanted or not-given-out Halloween candy at Dinosaur Dental. You’ll receive $1 for every pound of candy. Organizer Jamie Matts said the event is a great way ... 10/31/2024 - 11:35 am | View Link
Paleontologists Discover Dinosaur Fossils in Hong Kong for the First Time Paleontologists have made the first discovery of dinosaur fossils in Hong Kong, found within red sedimentary rocks on the tiny, uninhabited Port Island (also called Chek Chau, meaning “red island”) ... 10/30/2024 - 7:10 am | View Link
1st preserved dinosaur butthole is 'perfect' and 'unique ... The dinosaur's derrière is so well preserved, researchers could see the remnants of two small bulges by its "back door," which might have housed musky scent glands that the reptile possibly used ... 11/2/2024 - 7:26 am | View Website
Triops: Facts about the three-eyed 'dinosaur shrimp' 80 million-year-old dinosaur 'mini eggs' unearthed at Chinese construction site are the smallest ever found — and belong to a never-before-seen T. rex relative Duck-billed dino with absolutely ... 11/2/2024 - 3:15 am | View Website
Newfound T. rex relative was an even bigger apex predator, remarkable ... 80 million-year-old dinosaur 'mini eggs' unearthed at Chinese construction site are the smallest ever found — and belong to a never-before-seen T. rex relative Duck-billed dino with absolutely ... 11/2/2024 - 2:03 am | View Website
'We were freaking out': Scientists left 'flabbergasted' by detailed ... 80 million-year-old dinosaur 'mini eggs' unearthed at Chinese construction site are the smallest ever found — and belong to a never-before-seen T. rex relative Duck-billed dino with absolutely ... 11/1/2024 - 11:47 pm | View Website
What was the typical life span of a dinosaur? Sauropods — a group of long-necked leaf eaters that includes the largest dinosaurs that ever lived — likely had the longest lives of all of the dinosaurs, with the oldest-known sauropods ... 11/1/2024 - 9:03 pm | View Website
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday threatened Israel and the U. S. with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke as Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch yet another strike against Israel after its Oct. 26 attack on the Islamic Republic that targeted military bases and other locations and killed at least five people.
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Any further attacks from either side could engulf the wider Middle East, already teetering over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon, into a wider regional conflict just ahead of the U.
LONDON — Britain’s Conservative Party on Saturday elected Kemi Badenoch as its new leader as it tries to rebound from a crushing election defeat that ended 14 years in power.
The first Black woman to lead a major British political party, Badenoch (pronounced BADE-enock) defeated rival lawmaker Robert Jenrick in a vote of almost 100,000 members of the right-of-center Conservatives.
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She got 53,806 votes in the online and postal ballot of party members, to Jenrick’s 41,388.
Badenoch replaces former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who in July led the Conservatives to their worst election result since 1832.
On Friday afternoon, with only a few days left in the presidential race, the federal agencies that help safeguard American elections issued a warning to voters about a video that had been circulating online. It appeared to show immigrants voting illegally in Georgia, and U. S. intelligence officials had concluded that it was the latest in a series of fakes produced by “Russian influence actors.”
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“This Russian activity is part of Moscow’s broader effort to raise unfounded questions about the integrity of the US election and stoke divisions among Americans,” read the statement from the FBI and two other federal agencies, who warned that Russia would continue to creating and spreading these fakes even in the weeks and months after the elections.
Few voters are as easily overlooked as Americans living outside the United States. This population–of émigres, military personnel, dual citizens, and people born outside the U. S. to American parents–is both disparate and elusive. It is thought to number at least 4.4 million people, some 2.8 million of whom are eligible to vote in U.
JOHANNESBURG — The government of Mauritius on Friday banned access to social media websites ahead of parliamentary elections on Nov. 10 in which Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth is seeking a second term in power.
The directive was announced by the national communications regulator, which said social media sites will be banned until Nov.
The end may not be near, but the end is clear—according to those who have kept a close eye on Myanmar’s ongoing civil war, since a military coup toppled its civilian government in 2021. While the fighting between the junta and armed resistance groups was locked in a stalemate for the first two years of the conflict, observers note that the third year has seen the military on the back foot.
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The protracted conflict has been estimated to have killed over 50,000 people and displaced around three million.