Each year locals from Golden Bay at the top of New Zealand’s South Island know to expect a whale beaching at a narrow strip of sand curving into the Cook Strait, known as Farewell Spit.
Mars once had water, and could perhaps even have harbored life as we know it. But our knowledge of the red planet is limited to that first assertion being a fact and the second still speculation.
Nine Merlin engines ignited and throttled up to nearly 2 million pounds of thrust Sunday during a brief hold-down firing of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, sending a plume of smoke out of the flame trench at Kennedy Space Center’s historic launch pad 39A as …
SHANGHAI, Feb 13 (Reuters) – Chinese cities that sit on three pollution “highways” have been told to coordinate efforts to reduce emissions, as Beijing and the country’s northeast regions brace for another bout of heavy smog this week, state media …
While much of the Northeast was forced to batten down the hatches last week against strong winds, heavy snow and other icy conditions, the usually frigid Arctic experienced the opposite – a period of unseasonably mild weather and high temperatures …
Gilead Sciences logo Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD) – Equities researchers at Jefferies Group issued their Q1 2017 earnings per share (EPS) estimates for Gilead Sciences in a research report issued on Wednesday.
RoboThespian welcomes visitors to the opening of Robots at London’s Science Museum with suitable drama. The life-sized humanoid blinks its pixelated eyes, moves its head and gestures theatrically as it introduces the exhibition with great enthusiasm.
What does President Donald Trump think about climate change, and what does he plan to do about it? Over the course of his long public life, Trump has held a range of opinions, many of them contradictory.
Back in June 2016, NASA commissioned 21 scientists to design a lander headed for Europa, conjure up science objectives for it and figure out if the mission is feasible.
(Mirror Daily, United States) – The story about the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls dates back to the late forties, when a group of teenagers exploring the hills of Wadi Qumran, stumbled upon a cave.
Instead of focusing on earthly concerns, the University of California, Berkeley radio astronomer spent most of his time scanning the outer reaches of the cosmos, searching for the earliest stars in the universe.
Blue jets, red sprites, elves, and pixies are some of the rare phenomena that interest our scientists. Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen captured a spectacular video of blue jet lightning while aboard the ISS.
Scientists have invented a new kind of thin material that can cool a surface against the heat of the sun without using energy or typical air conditioning, a study said Thursday.
A penumbral lunar eclipse and a bright green comet gave skywatchers across the globe a double treat Friday night (Feb. 10) and early into Saturday morning.
This is a scatter plot analysis of the critical risk points from the option market for Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE:CSC) compared to its own past and the Technology ETF.
One of the biggest questions in the search for life in the universe is a simple one: how common are the ingredients needed to make life-giving planets?
PLATTSBURGH – People around the world will be watching the birds especially carefully on four consecutive days coming up. Not the Alfred Hitchcock thriller, but for the Great Backyard Bird Count, set for Friday, Feb. 17, through Monday, Feb. 20.
Wall Street renowned brokerages following SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (NYSE:SAIC) have now given a mean price target of $88.5 on its stock.
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