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The USGS has announced the powerful earthquake was of a magnitude 6.7. Other affected countries include parts of Syria, Georgia, and Armenia. Related articles. Earthquake shock: Two biggest US earthquake faults 'might be linked'. Mount Etna: 'Earth's ...

An exploding star that blazed to life 240 million light-years away in the Perseus constellation may have consumed its dead neighbor, new research shows. Although the blast, officially known as SN 2006gy, grew brighter and measured hundreds of times more ...

A private hospital is looking into operations carried out by a doctor it has stopped from practising.

In a live broadcast on Wednesday, January 22, NASA celebrated 16 years of incredible accomplishments by the Spitzer Space Telescope, one of its four “Great Observatories” in space. The event featured comments by NASA Director of Astrophysics Paul ...

It looks like the United States' long human spaceflight drought is about to end, in a big way. No astronauts have launched to orbit from American soil since July 2011, when NASA's space shuttle fleet was retired. Ever since, the nation has relied on Russian ...

A concussion diagnosis depends upon a careful assessment of symptoms. Now the largest study to date of sports-related concussion points to a potential medical assist when evaluating a college athlete for this injury. Certain proteins in the blood are ...

NileSat, an Egyptian satellite operator, has picked SpaceX to launch a new communications satellite in 2022. SpaceX and Nilesat signed a contract in Cairo, Egypt Tuesday (Jan. 21) for the launch of the hefty NileSat-301 geostationary communications ...

A large broadcast satellite built by Boeing has suffered catastrophic damage to its batteries and is now at risk of exploding in orbit over Earth. AT&T-owned DirecTV revealed the issue in a special request to the Federal Communications Commission, asking for ...

I was born a Capricorn (please don't judge me), but the Sun was in the middle of Sagittarius when I was born. As a professor emeritus of astronomy, I am often asked about the difference between astrology and astronomy. The practice of astrology, which ...

Electronics are showing up everywhere: on our laps, in pockets and purses and, increasingly, snuggled up against our skin or sewed into our clothing. But the adoption of wearable electronics has so far been limited by their need to derive power from bulky, ...

Physicists can create serious mathematical models of stuff that is very far from physics—stuff like biology or the human brain. These models are hilarious, but I'm still a sucker for them because of the hope they provide: maybe a simple mathematical model can ...

Coastal areas in the US are at increasing flooding risk and climate change-driven sea-level rise could trigger mass migration of 13 million Americans to inland cities, researchers have warned. The people could be forced to relocate due to rising sea levels by ...

A York County fourth-grader has a chance to make history this year by naming NASA's next Mars Rover, and he might even get to travel to Cape Canaveral, Florida, to see the launch. Eamon Reilly, 10, is one of nine finalists in a nationwide contest to name ...

Human pressure on the world's oceans accelerated sharply at the start of the 21st century and shows no sign of slowing, according to a comprehensive new analysis on the state of the ocean. Scientists have dubbed the dramatic rise the "Blue Acceleration.

When the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) sends its first astronaut into space, it won't have to worry about building her a spacesuit. Vyommitra is a half-humanoid robot that ISRO plans to send to space this December during a bid to successfully ...

Date: January 23, 2020; Source: DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory; Summary: Take biomass-derived acetone -- common nail polish remover -- use light to upgrade it to higher-mass hydrocarbons, and, voila, you have a domestically generated product ...

Researchers from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) used a new technique to show how electrical impulses are traveling at high speed in the brain. It appears that myelin, the sheath around neurons, creates a coaxial cable producing multiple ...

Even though the Moon lacks atmosphere, it holds massive amounts of oxygen, all combined with the dust on its surface in the form of oxides. In 2019, researchers revealed a study that concentrates on how to extract the oxygen from a Moon's dust – also ...

NASA's Kepler spacecraft was designed to find exoplanets by looking for stars that dim as a planet crosses the star's face. Fortuitously, the same design makes it ideal for spotting other astronomical transients—objects that brighten or dim over time. A new ...

Allosaurus was a fierce predator at the top of the dinosaur food chain millions of years before Tyrannosaurus rex claimed its “king of the dinosaurs” title and researchers have now discovered the earliest known species of Allosaurus. The new species ...