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NASA's Cape Canaveral Launch Towers Are Now Demolished

16 July 2018, 04:23

Launch Complex 17 was set for demolition at 7 a.m. Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, commander of the Air Force's 45th Space Wing, presided over a brief demolition ceremony that closed a storied chapter in Cape history, while opening another that could se...

'A complete disaster': 8 endangered black rhinos die in Kenya after relocation

16 July 2018, 01:06

A senior official at the World Wide Fund (WWF) which partnered with the KWS to translate the rhinos expressed concern about the loss. He said the findings are consistent with cases of salt poisoning in other animal species, indicating the change fr...

Israel plans its first moon launch in December

14 July 2018, 11:48

If the module reaches the moon as expected on February 13, 2019, it will make history as the smallest and first privately funded unmanned spacecraft to land on the moon. Filled with fuel, it would weigh 585 kilograms when it will be launched, but i...

Chris now a Category 2 hurricane, moves away from NC

13 July 2018, 09:44

Chris was moving toward the northeast near 22 miles per hour (35 kph). "It's the remnants of the hurricane out in the Atlantic at the moment, just off the east coast of the USA". Latest path appreciation models from the NHC show Storm Chris will ...

Loesch Slams Dems for 'Shameless Fearmongering' About Trump SCOTUS Pick

13 July 2018, 08:02

The poll, released Thursday, found that 64 percent of Americans support the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the US, and they would not like to see it overturned. King also says calls to his office are overwhelmingly opposed...

Russian Federation launching fastest ship ever to space station

13 July 2018, 12:53

The Progress and its payload, consisting of almost three tons' worth of food, fuel and supplies, arrived at the orbital outpost at 6:31 p.m. PT. Russian Federation has consistently tried to keep cargo trips to the space station below six hours, s...

Fossils of ‘first giant’ dinosaur uncovered in Argentina

12 July 2018, 10:12

The fossil was discovered from the northwest of Argentina during a field trip. Scientists in Argentina have discovered the earliest-known "giant" dinosaur, revealing the evolution of gigantism began around 30 million years earlier than previously t...

Women's March slammed for goof in statement on Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination

12 July 2018, 08:38

In the one year and seven months he has been in office, Trump has won Senate confirmation for one Supreme Court justice, Neil Gorsuch, who replaced the late Antonin Scalia, and more than 40 lower court judges. Mr. Hawley predicted that his rival wo...

Two Republican women could sink Trump's US Supreme Court pick

12 July 2018, 04:55

Kay Cole James, president of the Heritage Foundation, said Trump "has selected yet another highly-qualified individual who, like Neil Gorsuch, will be impartial, fair, and principled". OK, that gives Trump a total of one votes. But, unlike presiden...

How Might The New Supreme Court Nominee Impact Abortion Rights?

12 July 2018, 01:42

The appointment of Supreme Court justices was once a fairly civil and bipartisan affair: when Ruth Bader Ginsburg was nominated in 1993, Senators voted 96-3 to confirm her. Fox News was the most-watched network during Monday's announcement, attrac...

Israel announces mission to land spacecraft on the Moon

12 July 2018, 12:23

Then, upon receipt of a command from mission control, the craft will enter a higher-altitude elliptical orbit around our planet, which will reach a point near the moon, project team members said. The SpaceIL lunar space craft. Once it completes its...

Stephen Colbert blasts Trump's Supreme Court nominee

12 July 2018, 06:39

Senator Kamala Harris added: "Listen if you are a young woman in America or you care about young woman in America pay close attention to this nomination". According to the New York Times , McConnell fears that Democrats could use this material to d...

Hurricane Chris to track south of Nova Scotia

11 July 2018, 12:28

The storm, however, may produce risky surf conditions, including a high rip along the coast of North Carolina and the mid-Atlantic states in the next few days and potentially creating life-threatening conditions, the NHC said in an advisory.

Starbucks is eliminating plastic straws from all stores

09 July 2018, 09:26

Straws, though, will still be available - made from paper or compostable plastic. The Seattle-based coffee chain estimates the action will save more than one billion plastic straws from hitting the garbage can each year, and is key to its "commit...

Tropical Storm Chris to avoid New England

09 July 2018, 07:41

Forecasters think the storm will not move much for the next day or so. Maximum sustained winds are near 40 miles per hour (65 km/h) with higher gusts. Ricardo Rossello urged people without sturdy roofs to move in with relatives or go to one of 14 g...

Tropical Storm Chris to bring showers

09 July 2018, 05:12

The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sunday that the storm has barely moved since Saturday. At noon today, Chris was 594 miles west of Bermuda, with winds of about 46mph and higher gusts. Gradual weakening is forecast during the next 48 ho...

U.S. Border Patrol reportedly stops Canadian vessels in disputed waters

08 July 2018, 11:16

Canadian and USA lobster fishermen have fished around Machias Seal Island - which is claimed by both nations - for decades. The U.S. border patrol attempted to stop Grand Manan fisherman Nick Brown in the grey zone, he wrote. The waters around the ...

Tropical Storm Beryl Forms in East Atlantic

08 July 2018, 05:28

A tropical depression is a low-pressure system with thunderstorms that produce maximum winds of about 39 miles per hour. The National Hurricane Center said the depression could become a tropical storm later on Thursday or Friday. The intensific...

Rhino IVF Could Resurrect Earth's Most Endangered Mammal

07 July 2018, 06:48

However scientists have a stock of stored frozen sperm from male northern white rhinos that could rescue the animal from extinction. It is first documented generation of blastocyst, or pre-implantation rhino embryos, using IVF procedures that had nev...

Hawaii bans sunscreens harmful to marine life

07 July 2018, 04:53

According to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, coral reefs are crucial to marine and human life. "Oxybenzone and octinoxate cause mortality in developing coral; increase coral bleaching that indicates extreme stress, even at tem...

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