[ad_1] Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world’s agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency said Tuesday. In one of the first of several teams of science agencies to calculate how off-the-charts warm 2023 was, the European climate agency Copernicus said the…
[ad_1] The average liter of bottled water has nearly a quarter million invisible pieces of ever so tiny nanoplastics, detected and categorized for the first time by a microscope using dual lasers. Scientists long figured there were lots of these microscopic plastic pieces, but until researchers at Columbia and Rutgers universities did their calculations they…
[ad_1] Private lunar lander Peregrine Mission-1, the first US spacecraft due to land on the moon’s surface since Apollo 17 in 1972, suffered an “anomaly” that experts are trying to resolve. The lander was scheduled to land on the moon on February 23. Peregrine Mission-1 – which took off earlier today appeared to lift off…
[ad_1] Confirming that the 54-million-ton asteroid, of which scientists lost track nearly two decades ago, posed no threat to our Earth on October 5 this year, the US space agency said: “There are no known asteroid impact threats to Earth at any time in the next century.” Astronomers eventually lost track of the 984-foot asteroid…
[ad_1] CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first U.S. lunar lander in more than 50 years rocketed toward the moon Monday, launching private companies on a space race to make deliveries for NASA and other customers. Astrobotic Technology’s lander caught a ride on a brand new rocket, United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan. The Vulcan streaked through…
[ad_1] LONDON (AP) — Roy Calne, a pioneer of organ transplantation who led Europe’s first liver transplant operation in 1968, has died aged 93. Calne’s family said he died late Saturday in Cambridge, England, where he was professor emeritus of surgery at Cambridge University. Born in 1930, Calne trained as a doctor at Guy’s Hospital…
[ad_1] BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The first person to spot it was a shovel operator working the overnight shift, eyeing a glint of white as he scooped up a giant mound of dirt and dropped it into a dump truck. Later, after the truck driver dumped the load, a dozer driver was ready to flatten…
[ad_1] WAJIMA, Japan (AP) — Rescue teams worked through snow to deliver supplies to isolated hamlets Sunday, six days after a powerful earthquake hit western Japan, killing at least 126 people. Heavy snowfall expected in Ishikawa Prefecture later Sunday and through the night added to the urgency. After Monday’s 7.6 magnitude temblor, 222 people were…
[ad_1] Among the dead was a 5-year-old boy who had been recovering from injuries after boiling water spilled on him during Monday’s 7.6 magnitude earthquake. His condition suddenly worsened and he died Friday, according to Ishikawa prefecture, the hardest-hit region. Officials warned that roads, already cracked from the dozens of earthquakes that continue to shake…
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (AP) — Underwater dump sites off the Los Angeles coast contain thousands of barrels of World War II-era munitions including anti-submarine weapons and smoke devices, marine researchers announced Friday. A vast survey of known offshore sites in April identified the munitions. The survey was a high-tech follow up in a region known…
