NASA probe to deliver package to Utah desert after 7-year wait
DUGWAY, Utah (KTVX) – A 30-minute drive into the remote Dugway Proving Grounds is a patch of desert that is expecting a unique package drop. A package that has taken …
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Science news this week: Burping black holes and radioactive wild boars
This week in science news we’ve seen black holes burping up stars, radioactive Bavarian wild boars and a rather ingenious use for spent coffee grounds. So, what about those burping …
Gareth Southgate hails Evan Ferguson and confirms England interest in Newcastle starlet
Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Evan Ferguson has never given Gareth …
What do neurons, fireflies and dancing the Nutbush have in common?
Computer scientists and mathematicians working in complex systems at the University of Sydney and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Germany have developed new methods to …
Billion-light-year-wide ‘bubble of galaxies’ discovered
An artist’s representation of the ‘bubble of galaxies’ Ho’oleilana, which spans a billion light years. Astronomers have discovered the first “bubble of galaxies,” an almost unimaginably huge cosmic structure thought …
Logging is growing in a Nigerian forest home to endangered elephants. Rangers blame lax enforcement
NIGERIA: Roaring chainsaws sent trees crashing to the ground, and bare-chested men hacked away at the branches beside a muddy road. Others heaved logs onto a truck, where they were …
Worm: Neurosurgeon investigating patient’s mystery symptoms plucks a worm from woman’s brain in Australia
CANBERRA: A neurosurgeon investigating a woman’s mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient’s brain. Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi was performing a biopsy …
Comb jelly likely descended from ‘sister of all animals’
We still don’t know what the world’s first animal looked like, but scientists say it arose roughly 700 million years ago from a soup of single-celled organisms floating in the …
$7 million project begins to rebuild historic Northern California wharf wrecked in huge winter storms
It was arguably the most dramatic image from the powerful storms that battered Northern California’s coastline in January: The Capitola Wharf, an 855-foot-long landmark that dates back to 1857, torn …
Geoff Durbin obituary | Medicine
My husband, Dr Geoff Durbin, who has died aged 78, was a consultant neonatologist whose early research was one of the crucial steps in improving the treatment of babies with …