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Ex-astronaut who died in Washington plane crash was doing a flyby near a friend's home, NTSB says
The former Apollo 8 astronaut best known for taking the iconic “Earthrise” photo, who died last month while piloting a plane over the waters off Washington state, was doing a flyby near a friend's house when the fatal accident occurred, federal authorities said Tuesday. William Anders, whose “Earthrise” photo showed the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, had texted a friend to say he planned to do a flyby near her house on the western shore of Orcas Island, the National Transp
2 min read - USNBC News
Boa constrictor gives birth to 14 baby snakes after living alone for nearly a decade
A Brazilian rainbow boa constrictor kept at a school in England gave birth to 14 babies last month, despite having no contact with another snake for nearly a decade.
4 min read - ScienceCNN
60 million-year-old seeds reveal that dinosaur extinction paved the way for grapes
When an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, new animals and plants competed to survive on a changing planet. Grapes were the unlikely winners 60 million years ago.
6 min read - USNBC News
Hurricane Beryl is breaking records as it wreaks havoc in the Caribbean
Hurricane Beryl was the first Category 4 storm ever to form in the Atlantic Ocean in the month of June, and the earliest Category 5 storm on record.
3 min read - LifestyleSpace
'Great Food Truck Race' blasts off on 17th season with stop at NASA
"The Great Food Truck Race" lifted off for its 17th season by touching down at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Chef Tyler Florence welcomed nine teams to the "Blast Off Challenge."
6 min read - ScienceSpace
Former cryptocurrency company plans reality TV competition to pick next Blue Origin spaceflight crew
A reality television series may follow a company's efforts to send the 1st Nigerian and others to space aboard a Blue Origin vehicle.
3 min read - ScienceCNN
Several shark species are facing extinction. Here’s how you can help
Older than dinosaurs and trees, sharks have endured a lot throughout their 450 million years on Earth. They’ve even survived five mass extinctions, including the asteroid that wiped out 75% of life on the planet. But many species of these aquatic apex predators are now in danger of dying out forever.
9 min read - BusinessAssociated Press
Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI
Three years ago, Google set an ambitious plan to address climate change by going “net zero,” meaning it would release no more climate-changing gases into the air than it removes, by 2030. Google cited artificial intelligence and the demand it puts on data centers, which require massive amounts of electricity, for last year’s growth. Making that electricity by burning coal or natural gas emits greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide and methane, which warm the planet, bringing more e
4 min read - ScienceCNN
A fresh roadside pit revealed a dramatic shift in the Ganges. Scientists say they’ve traced the cause
Scientists have uncovered evidence that an earthquake rerouted the Ganges River 2,500 years ago in what’s now Bangladesh.
5 min read - ScienceReuters
Ants perform limb amputations on injured comrades to save their lives
Limb amputations are performed by surgeons when a traumatic injury such as a wound from war or a vehicle accident causes major tissue destruction or in instances of serious infection or disease. New research shows that some ants perform limb amputations on injured comrades to improve their survival chances. The behavior was documented in Florida carpenter ants - scientific name Camponotus floridanus - a reddish-brown species more than half an inch (1.5 cm) long inhabiting parts of the southeas
3 min read - ScienceSpace
Watch SpaceX catch Starship Super Heavy booster with 'chopsticks' in this animation
A new SpaceX animation shows the company catching a returning Starship Super Heavy booster with the "chopstick" arms of its huge launch tower.
3 min read - WorldSpace
Get an up-close look at China's Chang'e 6 farside moon rover (video)
More information has come to light regarding the hitchhiking mini-rover on China's Chang'e 6 sample-return mission to the moon's far side.
3 min read - WorldReuters
Deadly Hurricane Beryl churns toward Jamaica, causes 'immense destruction'
KINGSTON (Reuters) -Hurricane Beryl barreled toward Jamaica as a powerful Category 4 storm on Tuesday after battering smaller islands in the eastern Caribbean, and scientists cited human-caused climate change as the likely culprit for the storm's rapid strengthening. Beryl, the 2024 Atlantic season's first hurricane and the earliest storm on record to reach the highest category on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, hit St. Vincent and the Grenadines especially hard, according to Prime Minister Ralph Gon
4 min read - WorldYale Environment 360
Brazil Is Seeing a Record Number of Wildfires This Year
In the Amazon, Brazil has made huge gains in its battle against deforesters, but it is increasingly losing ground to another threat: climate change. Amid pervasive drought this year, the number of wildfires has hit a 20-year high, official figures show.
1 min read - OpinionCNN
Opinion: My Tractor Supply hat was a symbol. Now it’s in the garbage
Tractor Supply Co. cut DEI and climate change commitments following conservative criticism. David M. Perry says the company’s actions show short-sighted assumptions about their customers, including him.
5 min read - USSpace
Find a piece of SpaceX space junk? Call the hotline
SpaceX has established a debris hotline and a special email address to aid folks who may have found fallen pieces of the company's hardware.
2 min read - ScienceThe Conversation
From diagnosing brain disorders to cognitive enhancement, 100 years of EEG have transformed neuroscience
Deciphering how neurons talk to each other by reading the brain’s electrical activity has given scientists insights into memory and conditions like epilepsy and Alzheimer’s.
5 min read - ScienceSpace
International Space Station: Live updates
Find out what's going on at the International Space Station.
118 min read - ScienceSpace
Lego-inspired 'space bricks' could help scientists design moon habitats. Here's how
How European Space Agency scientists are using Lego-inspired "space bricks" to design lunar habitats.
2 min read - ScienceSpace
If alien terraforming emits greenhouse gases, our telescopes could detect it
A new thought experiment reveals how greenhouse gases can be used as a technosignature in the hunt for aliens.
4 min read - WorldReuters
Russia plans to create core of new space station by 2030
The head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, signed off on the timetable with the directors of 19 enterprises involved in creating the new station. The agency confirmed plans to launch an initial scientific and energy module in 2027. Russia has until now partnered with the United States and other countries on the International Space Station, one of the few areas where it still collaborates closely with the U.S. given the dire state of relations since its invasion of Ukraine.
2 min read - BusinessSpace
Not-so-static fire: Private Chinese rocket accidentally launches during test
Space Pioneer's new Tianlong-3 rocket took to the skies accidentally on Sunday (June 30), then crashed back to Earth in a dramatic explosion.
2 min read - ScienceCNN
NASA administrator weighs in on China’s historic lunar far side samples — and potential US access
China now has the first samples ever collected from the far side of the moon and says it will share them with scientists around the world. But a 2011 law complicates access for the US.
5 min read - ScienceSpace
Forbidden black holes and ancient stars hide in these 'tiny red dots' (image)
The James Webb Space Telescope found "tiny red dots" in the early universe representing overgrown supermassive black holes and stars that are impossibly old for the infant cosmos.
7 min read - ScienceSpace
Why puffy exoplanets often dance with perfect rhythm
New research has identified two distinct populations of puffy, sub-Neptune exoplanets with low densities, allowing them to stay in step with their planetary siblings.
5 min read - BusinessThe New York Times
The Rubik’s Cube Turns 50
Bright and early on the first Saturday in January, Tomas Rokicki and a few hundred fellow enthusiasts gathered in a vast lecture hall at the Moscone Center in downtown San Francisco. A big math conference was underway and Rokicki, a retired programmer based in Palo Alto, California, had helped organize a two-day special session about “serious recreational mathematics” celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Rubik’s Cube. Erno Rubik, the Cube’s inventor, was top of the show at 8 a.m., via videoco
9 min read - ScienceSpace
Watch Firefly Aerospace launch 8 cubesats to orbit tonight after scrub
Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket is scheduled to launch for the fifth time ever just after midnight on Wednesday (July 3), and you can watch the action live.
3 min read - ScienceCNN
How a group of butterflies flew 2,600 miles across the Atlantic Ocean without stopping
A study found a group of painted lady butterflies traveled 2,600 miles across the Atlantic Ocean without stopping. Experts say it may be a world record for insects.
5 min read - ScienceSpace
Once-in-a-lifetime star explosion, visible from Earth, could happen any day now
Binary star system T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) is about to go nova any day now. The recurrent nova explodes approximately every 79 or 80 years.
3 min read - ScienceThe Conversation
We’re decoding ancient hurricanes’ traces on the sea floor – and evidence from millennia of Atlantic storms is not good news for the coast
A look back at hurricane history suggests we may be significantly underestimating future risks.
8 min read - ScienceSpace
Astrophotographer captures extraordinary footage of the ISS flying in front of the sun
Astrophotographer Miguel Claro caught the International Space Station as it crossed in front of the sun, making for a truly epic time-lapse photo.
3 min read - ScienceSpace
This mysterious ancient computer has a 'calendar ring' that followed the lunar year
A hand-powered calculator from 2,000 years ago, known as the Antikythera mechanism, had a calendar ring that likely followed the lunar year.
4 min read - WorldAssociated Press
Japan successfully launches an advanced Earth observation satellite on its new flagship H3 rocket
Japan successfully deployed an upgraded Earth observation satellite for disaster response and security after it was launched on a new flagship H3 rocket Monday. The H3 No. 3 rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center on a southwestern Japanese island and released its payload about 16 minutes later, putting it into a targeted orbit as planned, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, said during a livestream. The Advanced Land Observation Satellite, or ALOS-4, is tasked primari
2 min read - SportsYahoo Sports
Klay Thompson’s dad ‘really disappointed’ he chose the Mavericks over the Lakers in free agency
Mychal Thompson, who won two titles with the “Showtime” Lakers, really wanted his son in Los Angeles.
2 min read - CelebrityYahoo Celebrity
Who is Jack Schlossberg? The grandson of JFK, singing shirtless to the Beatles and dancing the moonwalk at Walmart.
He cracks coconuts, takes down politicians and dances — sometimes while shirtless.
6 min read - PoliticsYahoo News
New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: 60% of Americans say Biden is not fit for another term as president after disastrous debate — yet 2024 contest with Trump remains too close to call
Before the debate, slightly more Americans said Trump’s criminal charges were a bigger problem than Biden’s age. But now those numbers have flipped.
8 min read - SportsYahoo Sports
4-time NBA All-Star, NCAA champion Kemba Walker announces his retirement from basketball
Walker retires at 34 years old after 14 professional seasons.
2 min read - BusinessYahoo Finance
Here's the biggest risk to Nvidia being a $10 trillion juggernaut
Nvidia won't be without stiff competition over the next decade.
2 min read - WorldEngadget
Texas age-verification law for pornography websites is going to the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court will hear a case about one of laws that led Pornhub to shutter operations in multiple states earlier this year.
1 min read - PoliticsYahoo Finance
7 crimes Trump could get away with in a second term
Donald Trump pushed the bounds of legality during his first presidency. Here's how far he might go during a second, now that the Supreme Court has let him.
6 min read - LifestyleYahoo Life Shopping
Nordstrom's 4th of July sale is epic: Score Tory Burch, Ugg, Longchamp and more
Find fireworks-worthy deals on everything from sandals and dresses to designer totes — save up to 60%.
1 min read - BusinessYahoo Finance
Investors have found peace in another Trump presidency
Markets appear to be taking presidential election theatrics in stride ... for now.
3 min read - SportsYahoo Sports
Based on a simple look at recent history, Jared Goff might have a decent shot at MVP
The Lions should be a good team, and that matters to the MVP race.
4 min read - WorldYahoo News
Photos: Deadly Hurricane Beryl breaks records as it bears down on the Caribbean
At least three people are dead after Hurricane Beryl began to bear down on the Caribbean.
2 min read - PoliticsYahoo News
Trump's sentencing delayed until September. Here's how the court immunity ruling affects his hush money conviction.
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's trial for 34 felony counts of falsifying business records announced Monday that he would delay sentencing the former president until September so he could hear arguments pertaining to the Supreme Court's latest ruling on presidential immunity.
4 min read - LifestyleYahoo Life Shopping
20 of Amazon's buzziest buys are on sale for 4th of July, starting at just $6
From a wildly popular portable fan to a bug repeller that actually works, snag these five-star helpers at a holiday discount.
1 min read - BusinessYahoo Finance
Powell encouraged by cooler inflation data: 'We are getting back on a disinflationary path'
Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell said Tuesday that he is encouraged by cooler inflation readings but reinforced that the central bank will need to see more evidence before cutting interest rates.
2 min read - CelebrityYahoo Canada Style
Connor McDavid’s fiancée Lauren Kyle celebrates upcoming wedding at bridal shower: See their relationship timeline
The pair are set to tie the knot this summer.
4 min read - EntertainmentEngadget
A new Resident Evil game is in the works from the director of Resident Evil 7
A new Resident Evil game is currently in the works, according to a Capcom announcement.
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