Scientists have identified a “space hurricane” – a woman about 620 miles wide of plasma in the atmosphere above the magnetic north pole. The hurricane struck in August 2014, but scientists did not know it had happened yet, when an international team of researchers took note of the event while …
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New York City is experiencing a new coronavirus strain sharing some of South Africa’s characteristics with different species, researchers said Wednesday. As of mid-February, a new variant named B..5.526 was present in 12 percent of coronavirus samples collected in and around the Big Apple Pal, said researchers at Columbia University …
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BEIJING (AP) – China says its Tienwen-1 spacecraft has entered temporary parking orbit around Mars in anticipation of a rover landing on the Red Planet next month. The China National Space Administration said the spacecraft conducted a maneuver to adjust its orbit as early as Wednesday morning and will remain …
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ROME (AP) – Europe’s most active volcano, Mount Atna, has frightened volcanologists who have erupted lava into the Sicilian skies in recent days. The latest eruption occurred overnight by around 0900 GMT on Tuesday, according to Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology. For a week now, Etna has been …
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NICE, France (AP) – A doctor slides a miniature camera into a patient’s right nostril, his bright miniature light turning the glow of his entire nose red. “A little tickling, ah?” She asked as she rumored around her nasal passages, discomfort causing tears in her eyes and rolling down her …
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