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Renewable energy agency calls for doubling of investments

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WMO says 2019 second hottest on record

Schmidt said Earth as a whole is probably the hottest it has been during the Holocene - the past 11,500 years or so - meaning this could be the warmest period...

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Accidents with crushed SuperDraco system tests Dragon spacecraft crew in April, and the company and NASA have since said they have identified the cause of t...

The world's oceans were hottest on record in 2019

A study conducted by an global team of 14 scientists from 11 institutes across the world suggests that the world's oceans were the warmest in 2019 than a...

Smoke from Australian wildfires will travel around the globe

The powerful wildfires that have burned millions of acres of land are spreading so much smoke into the sky, NASA said that the smoke has circumnavigated the...

Scientists build first living robots using frog stem cells

In the future their unique feature may enable robotic versions that may be deployed to clean up microplastics from the ocean, locate and digest toxic materials,...

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Researchers have identified a protein that may be responsible for numerous benefits of a good workout, an advance that could eventually help combat muscle wasti...

Bush fires scorching Australia threaten PM Scott Morrison political survival

Newspoll showed that Morrison's approval rating dropped 8 points to the lowest level since he assumed the leadership of the Liberal Party in August 2018. Author...

Oldest Material On Earth Has Been Just Discovered

When stars die, particles formed within them are flung out into space . This stardust is between between 5 billion and 7 billion years old - older than the...

Oldest material ever found on Earth predates the entire solar system

They can exist for millions or even billions of years before they die and expel their key ingredients into space . This in turn helps the new star will be born...

Australia goes from defense to offense in a battle against forest fires

The weather is expected to remain benign for the next week, although any deterioration in conditions after that could see the wildfires flare up again. Since Se...

Teen NASA Intern Discovered New Planet

In the summer of 2019, Wolf Cukier had just finished his junior year at Scarsdale High School in NY when he landed a summer internship at NASA's Goddard Space F...

Korean American included in NASA's future Moon, Mars exploration program

It was noted that exciting opportunities await all members of the Astronaut Office, and that wonderful accomplishments can be achieved even on one's first fligh...

Australian firefighter dies battling blazes, raising death toll to 28

The 60-year-old married father of two was commended in November for 40 years of service with the forestry agency. NSW's National Parks and Wildlife Service st...

Korea reports 1st case of mysterious pneumonia

While some are less severe, other types of the coronavirus such as the MERS may be more deadly. "Preliminary identification of a novel virus in a short pe...

House approves bill to remove contaminants from drinking water

According to the Environmental Working Group , PFAS chemicals have been found in drinking water in OH communities including Cleveland Heights and Struthe...

White House Proposes Slashing Timelines For Highway Projects

In a dramatic rollback of environmental oversight, President Donald Trump took action Thursday to clear the way and speed up development of a wide range of ...

Thousands of Australians protest over climate change policy as bushfires rage

People in high-risk regions in New South Wales (NSW) and South Australia were also urged to think about leaving, but officials did not say how many. The prote...

NASA graduates 11 astronauts eligible for lunar missions

The core stage of the huge rocket being built to take the first woman to the Moon has left its factory in New Orleans for MS, where it will undergo its fina...

High school student discovers new planet while interning at NASA

The turn around the two stars of the TOI 1338 b takes 95 days. This irregular transit period is due to the fact that the planet is orbiting two stars that are...

Scientists Say Mars is Losing Water Faster Than Previously Estimated

Scientists announced that the water on the surface of Mars began to disappear. They also state that this situation does not correspond to past observations an...

NASA Satellite Captures Kangaroo Island's Bushfire Burn Scars

Various NASA satellites have been monitoring the devastating fires in Australia , and the agency just released before and after images of Kangaroo Island cap...

Titanic wave of star-forming gases found in Milky Way

Disentangling structures in the "dusty" galactic neighborhood within which we sit is a long-standing challenge in astronomy. The new wave has been named the R...

‘Joint, independent team’ will probe Boeing Starliner orbital glitch

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner after landing in the New Mexico desert on December 22nd. Nevertheless, when you test a spaceship that should transport human astron...

Astronomers Detect Elusive Fast Radio Bursts From A Nearby Spiral Galaxy

It's a location unlike any of the others, and astronomers are having to rethink their previous assumptions about how these signals are generated. The FRBs are e...

First lunar eclipse over Qatar sky to occur on Friday

Lunar eclipses occur on full moon days when the Earth comes between the Sun and the Moon, which results in obstructing some or all of the Sun's light from rea...

Greta Thunberg has flamed Meatloaf with scientific facts

That's led 17-year-old Thunberg to react in a Twitter post accompanied by a graph showing the rise in carbon emissions since 2000. Tweeting in her usual n...

SpaceX kicks off 2020 by launching Starlink satellites with change in design

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Aliens are Living Among Us on Earth, Says British Astronaut, Helen Sharman

In 1991 Dr Sharman became the first Briton in space after hearing a call for astronaut applicants on the radio while driving home from work. Sharman als...

Burger King to Test Meatless Impossible Pork "Croissan'wich" at 139 Locations

There is, however, a very similar nutritional profile and texture to real pork. Regarding availability, Impossible Foods didn't offer a timeline for its new...

Hubble spotted a big galaxy that makes our Milky Way look tiny

It was first witnessed by the University of Louisville, professor 'Benne Holwerda '. That work is now underway based on images captured by NASA's Hubble Spa...

NASA's planet hunting satellite found another potentially habitable earth-sized planet

If liquid water is on the planet's surface, it will heat up and evaporate, creating the presence of water vapor, broken down into hydrogen and oxygen, in the at...

This Friday, Don't Miss the Full Wolf Moon Eclipse

While penumbral lunar eclipses are usually a little darker, they cannot be easily distinguished from a regular full moon sighting but can be easily seen, as...

Venus could be volcanically active today, study

Filibert added: "For example, we could study how planets cool and why the Earth and Venus have active volcanism, but Mars does not". "Then we can better mo...

'Aliens exist, there's no two ways about it' says Yorkshire-born astronaut

The astronaut told The Observer Magazine that aliens exist and there are "no two ways about it". "There are numerous billions of stars on the market within th...