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Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday reached an agreement to buy with social media firm Twitter for roughly $44 billion. Twitter investors will get $54.20 in cash for each share of Twitter common stock they possess when the proposed deal closes, according to the terms of the agreement. “The Twitter Board conducted a thoughtful and […]
Ukraine’s national postal office, Ukrposhta, reported a cyberattack on Friday following sales of a postage stamp picturing a Ukrainian soldier making a vulgar gesture to the Russian cruiser Moskva that was sunk last week. Director General Ihor Smilianskyi said that Ukrposhta, the postal service, had been struck by a distributed denial-of-service attack that temporarily knocked […]
Researchers from Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History have unearthed 300,000-year old stone tools in Saudi Arabia, providing new insights into earliest hominin migrations into the Arabian Peninsula. The study suggests that dispersal of hominin beyond Africa did not involve adaptations to environmental extremes, such as to arid and harsh deserts. […]
NASA Uses Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) to Reveal Hurricane Willa’s Rainfall (Update: 26 October 2018) NASA has used its Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) data to calculate the amount of rainfall generated from Eastern Pacific Ocean’s Hurricane Willa. According to NASA, Tropical Depression 24E was formed on October 20, 2018, and it […]
Researchers at the University of Toronto (U of T) are currently working to establish an archeological park and a research center in Turkey. According to U of T, university archeologists are currently holding talks with Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The archeological park will be established at ell Tayinat site in Amuq Valley, located […]
On Thursday, a grizzly attacked a female black bear and cubs in woods south of Whitecourt, and entire fight was captured on camera by Logan Hunter who was hunting with his father in this remote area at that time. Logan Hunter who caught this fight on his mobile camera later posted the video on Youtube. […]
American Space Agency NASA has shared an image of a nearly perfect rectangular iceberg floating just off the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The almost perfect 90-degree angles of this slab of ice may puzzle many people, making them think that this geometrical shape was deliberately carved with a gigantic chainsaw. It is […]
The Public Health Agency of Canada has announced that it is investigating the outbreak of salmonella infections in five provinces: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Quebec. The source of outbreak is yet to be determined, although officials are investigating the role of cucumbers behind this outbreak as many people who became sick reported eating […]
A lunar meteorite that was found last year in northwest Africa has been sold for US$612,500, according to the Associated Press. The chunk of moon weighed 12 pounds (5.5 Kg), and composed of six fragments (largest fragment weighing about 6 pounds). It was discovered in Mauritania in northwest Africa, and unofficially called the “The […]
The mystery of strange, metal object that was found on a California farm has finally been solved. On October 18, a walnut farmer in Southern California discovered a weird, large metal object in his orchard. The farm is located south of Hanford, about half an hour south of Fresno. According to the farmer, this object […]
University of Alberta (UA) paleontologists have helped identify the fossil of an ancient baby sea monster discovered in Kansas, United States. According to researchers, this fossil is about 85 million years old, and belongs to a newborn Tylosaurus that died shortly after its birth. At the time of its death, it had not developed the […]
After returning to the United States following last week’s aborted launch of a Soyuz-FG rocket, NASA astronaut Nick Hague shared the details of the incident to the Associated Press in an interview. The astronaut described what actually happened after failure of Soyuz rocket forced the capsule to fly away from the failing rocket at speeds […]
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Starts Asteroid Operations Campaign (Update: 24 August 2018) NASA’s asteroid sampling spacecraft, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) was launched on September 8m 2016, and last week the probe captured the first glimpse of asteroid Bennu from a distance of about 1.4 million miles while beginning its final approach toward […]
Archeologists from the Indian Department of Archaeology have unearthed over 1,000 war rockets of 18th Century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan in India. These rockets are about 250–270 years’ old and were discovered from the silt of an abandoned well in a village named Nagara in Shivamogga region of Karnataka. The village is located about 385 […]
Researchers have unearthed 174-year-old fossils of a long-neck, plant-eating dinosaur in northwestern China’s Lingwu region. According to scientists, this dinosaur was a neosauropod—a member of the sauropods group of dinosaurs that were characterized by long necks and tails, small heads, and pillar-like legs. This latest discovery has forced researchers to rethink the history of long-necked […]
Lobbyists spent more than two billion dollars between 2000 and 2016 to influence climate-change-related legislation in the U.S. Congress, according to a new study carried out by the researchers from the Drexel University in the U.S. The analysis found that the fossil fuel companies, electrical utilities sector, and transport companies—which were likely to be hugely […]
A team of scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt and the FIAS has developed new models to estimate the size of neutron stars. According to the latest research, size of neutron stars doesn’t exceed the limit of 1.5 kilometers. In comparison, previous estimates about neutron star size varied from eight to sixteen kilometers. The new models […]
NASA’s Terra satellite has captured new images of Tropical Storm Daniel. These pictures were taken by the satellite’s Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument on June 24 when the storm was off the west coast of Mexico. According to NASA, the storm had degenerated into a remnant low pressure area by June 26. […]
A new archeological finding suggests that ancient people in Sweden knew the art of brewing beer even in the Iron Age. “We found carbonized malt in an area with low-temperature ovens located in a separate part of the settlement,” said Mikael Larsson, an archeologist from Lund University in Sweden. Larsson, who specializes in archeobotany (which […]
A team of researchers from the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) at DESY and Uppsala University (Sweden) has developed a new technique to heat water from room temperature to 100,000 degrees Celsius in just 75 femtoseconds (75 millionths of a billionth of a second) to produce an exotic state of water. According to scientists, […]
On Saturday, NASA astronauts and Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took a break from science to organize a small musical concert in space, showing their talent in this field. Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev posted a picture of the event on Twitter, showing how the crew played with guitars, flutes and even a […]
More students reported carrying guns in Chicago than in Los Angeles or New York City over the 2007 to 2013 time period, according to a new study carried out by a team of researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. These findings, published in the journal Injury Epidemiology, provide a historical background for […]
Researchers from the University of Otago have identified and named a new species of an ancient baleen whale, which according to researchers, existed more than 27.5 million years ago. The fossils of this prehistoric whale were discovered in 1988 from a fossil-bearing rock unit in the Hakataramea Valley in South Canterbury, New Zealand. The fossils […]
A team of scientists from San Diego is ready to embark on a new journey around the world in upcoming summer season to make new discoveries and find solutions to different global problems. For next few months, these scientists will travel various countries including China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Israel, the UK, The […]