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Understanding of Earth's flowering plants blossoms in genome study
Flowering plants - from corn, wheat, rice and potatoes to maple, oak, apple and cherry trees as well as roses, tulips, daisies and dandelions and even the corpse flower and voodoo lily - are cornerstones of Earth's ecosystems and essential for humankind. New research based on genome data for 9,506 species, as well as an examination of 200 fossils, provides the deepest understanding to date of the evolutionary history of flowering plants, called angiosperms - the largest and most diverse plant g
3 min read - ScienceCNN
Sex and marriage patterns in an ancient empire revealed by DNA
Ancient DNA reveals new details about the Avars, warriors who built an empire that ruled Central and Eastern Europe for 250 years from the mid-sixth century.
6 min read - TechnologyThe Conversation
What is ‘techno-optimism’? 2 technology scholars explain the ideology that says technology is the answer to every problem
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen is one of this concept’s biggest enthusiasts.
4 min read - ScienceSpace
Mirrors in space could boost solar power production on Earth. Here's how.
Reflect Orbital plans to launch a constellation of orbiting mirrors to beam sunlight to solar power plants on Earth after dark.
5 min read - ScienceAssociated Press
China to send three astronauts to Tiangong space station, part of its ambitious program
China's space agency is making final preparations to send a new crew to its space station on Thursday as part of its ambitious program that aims to put people on the moon by 2030. The three-member crew of the Shenzhou-18 spacecraft will relieve the current team who have been manning China’s Tiangong space station since last October. China built its own space station after being excluded from the International Space Station, largely due to the United States’ concerns over the People’s Liberatio
2 min read - WorldNBC News
131 million in U.S. live in areas with unhealthy pollution levels, lung association finds
Nearly 40% of people in the U.S. are living in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution and the country is backsliding on clean air progress as the effects of climate change intensify, according to a new report from the American Lung Association.
5 min read - ScienceAssociated Press
Japan's moon lander wasn't built to survive a weekslong lunar night. It's still going after 3
Japan’s first moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, Japan’s space agency said Wednesday after receiving an image from the device three months after it landed on the moon. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said the lunar probe responded to a signal from the earth Tuesday night, confirming it has survived another weekslong lunar night. Temperatures can fall to minus 170 degrees Celsius (minus 274 degrees Fahrenheit) during a lunar night, and rise to around 100 Celsius (212
2 min read - ScienceAssociated Press
NASA leaders discuss global challenges, solutions with Mexico president, lawmakers and students
In a frequently tense relationship often defined by a shared border, the United States sent two officials with a different perspective to Mexico this week for a bit of space diplomacy. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and Deputy Administrator Pamela Melroy – both former astronauts --spent two hours chatting with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador Tuesday, took selfies with federal lawmakers and a day earlier spoke to an auditorium full of students and faculty from various Mexican universities.
2 min read - ScienceAssociated Press
The first glow-in-the-dark animals may have been ancient corals deep in the ocean
Many animals can glow in the dark. In a new study, scientists report that deep-sea corals that lived 540 million years ago may have been the first animals to glow, far earlier than previously thought. “Light signaling is one of the earliest forms of communication that we know of — it’s very important in deep waters,” said Andrea Quattrini, a co-author of the study published Tuesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
2 min read - ScienceSpace
NASA ends CloudSat Earth-observing mission after 18 years
NASA's pioneering CloudSat weather and climate mission has come to an end after nearly 18 productive years in Earth orbit.
3 min read - ScienceSpace
Earth's weird 'quasi-moon' Kamo'oalewa is a fragment blasted out of big moon crater
Scientists turned into cosmic crime scene investigators to reconstruct the impact that sent Earth's "quasi-moon" Kamo'oalewa rocketing from the lunar surface millions of years ago.
6 min read - EntertainmentSpace
Fortnite launches to the moon in new 'Lunar Horizons' simulation game
A preview of Fortnite's new free-to-play "Lunar Horizons" mission experience on the moon.
3 min read - HealthCNN
Scientists say USDA is sharing too little data too slowly on H5N1 flu
When the US Department of Agriculture announced late Sunday that it had publicly posted new data from its investigation into a bird flu outbreak in cattle, scientists eagerly searched a well-known platform used globally to share the genetic sequences of viruses.
8 min read - ScienceSpace
Building rockets and looking for life on Venus: Q&A with Rocket Lab's Peter Beck
Space.com caught up with Rocket Lab founder and CEO Peter Beck recently to talk about the company's ambitious plans for the future, which include a private life-hunting mission to Venus.
8 min read - WorldReuters
Greece conducts quake drill on tourist island of Crete
CRETE, Greece (Reuters) - "Exercise, exercise, exercise", read an emergency text message which alerted people on the island of Crete of a mock earthquake measuring 7.2 off the city of Heraklion. Tourists rushed to evacuate the hotel, while workers in vests offered first aid to an injured woman in a tent as part of a quake drill dubbed "Minoas" after the mythical Cretan Bronze Age king. "It's good, because then we know what we are doing in real situations," said British tourist Leah Pickles,
1 min read - ScienceSpace
Watch 4 solar flares erupt from the sun at nearly the same time in extremely rare event (video)
The quadruple eruption was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
3 min read - ScienceCBS News
Distant spacecraft sends data to Earth for first time in 5 months
In November 2023, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft stopped sending "readable science and engineering data."
2 min read - ScienceSpace
Slovenia signs NASA's Artemis Accords for cooperative space exploration
Slovenia signed NASA's Artemis Accords on April 19, becoming the 39th country to affirm their cooperation in future space endeavors to the moon and beyond.
2 min read - USSpace
Solar eclipse 2024: Live updates
Stay up-to-date with the latest news on the upcoming solar eclipses, including the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024.
70 min read - WorldSpace
ESA graduates the 'Hoppers': Europeans, Australian pass astronaut basic training
The "Hoppers" — five European astronauts and the first astronaut from the Australian Space Agency — are now ready to "hop" into their first flight assignments, having completed basic training.
4 min read - ScienceSpace
Watch the Full Pink Moon 2024 bloom in the night sky tonight
The Full Pink Moon of April 2024 steals the show tonight as it crosses the nighttime sky from dusk until dawn.
2 min read - HealthThe Conversation
What you eat could alter your unborn children and grandchildren’s genes and health outcomes
Studies show a parent’s poor diet could affect the genes of generations to come – and set up children and grandchildren for obesity and cardiovascular issues.
6 min read - ScienceSpace
Rocket Lab launches new NASA solar sail tech to orbit (video, photos)
Rocket Lab launched a South Korean Earth-observation satellite and new NASA solar-sailing tech this evening (April 23).
3 min read - BusinessSpace
SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites, aces 300th rocket landing (photos, video)
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent 23 more of the company's Starlink internet satellites skyward today (April 23).
2 min read - ScienceSpace
Pluto's heart-shaped scar may offer clues to the frozen world's history
How Pluto's Sputnik Planitia formed remains unknown, but researchers have imagined a body about the size of Switzerland crashing into Pluto at a shallow angle.
4 min read - ScienceCNN
Minerals are in short supply on Earth. This startup wants to mine asteroids
With minerals in short supply on Earth, private companies such as California-based AstroForge and international space agencies are turning to the prospect of asteroids in space.
9 min read - BusinessReuters
California to wrap up Exxon plastics probe 'in weeks', AG says
California will conclude a two-year investigation into Exxon and the fossil fuel industry's role in causing global plastic pollution by summer and decide if it will file a lawsuit against oil giant, its attorney general told Reuters on Monday. The state launched its investigation into the oil and petrochemical industry's role in creating and exacerbating the global plastic waste crisis in April 2022 and subpoenaed Exxon for documents. The plastics investigation mirrored similar actions it has
2 min read - WorldAssociated Press
In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice
There is one thing that distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van’s rice fields from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields across Long An province in southern Vietnam’s Mekong Delta: It isn’t entirely flooded. Using less water and using a drone to fertilize are new techniques that Van is trying and Vietnam hopes will help solve a paradox at the heart of growing rice: The finicky crop isn’t just vulnerable to climate change but also contributes uniquely to it.
6 min read - ScienceCNN
Voyager 1 is sending data back to Earth for the first time in 5 months
Engineers finally received a status update from the most distant spacecraft from Earth, after identifying the cause of the aging probe’s five-month communication issue.
6 min read - USNBC News
New tools from NOAA and CDC show people their risk from heat as another hot summer looms
The CDC and NOAA unveiled new tools that show people their risk from heat, following the planet's warmest year on record.
3 min read - ScienceSpace
Cosmic fountain is polluting intergalactic space with 50 million suns' worth of material
Astronomers have mapped a 20,000-light-year-long fountain of gas blasting from a nearby galaxy and polluting intergalactic space at 450 times the top speed of a jet fighter.
3 min read - ScienceSpace
India aims to achieve 'debris-free' space missions by 2030
India has announced its intent to join the global effort to reduce space debris in low Earth orbit.
3 min read - ScienceSpace
Scientists use AI to reconstruct energetic flare blasted from Milky Way's supermassive black hole
Combining AI and observations of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, scientists have reconstructed a 3D video of Sagittarius A* and its environment.
6 min read - SportsYahoo Sports
Broncos, Jets, Lions and Texans have new uniforms. Let's rank them
Which new uniforms are winners this season?
5 min read - BusinessYahoo Finance
Boeing Q1 results better than expected after tumultuous quarter headlined by 737 Max crisis
Boeing (BA) on Wednesday reported results that beat Wall Street expectations after a tumultuous first quarter.
3 min read - BusinessYahoo Finance
Microsoft to report Q3 revenue as Wall Street looks for AI growth
Microsoft will report its Q3 earnings after the bell Thursday, as investors look for AI growth.
2 min read - BusinessYahoo Finance
Donald Trump nabs additional $1.2 billion 'earnout' bonus from DJT stock
Trump is entitled to an additional 36 million shares if the company's share price trades above $17.50 "for twenty out of any thirty trading days" over the next three years.
2 min read - SportsYahoo Sports
Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy to get PGA Tour loyalty payouts
The PGA Tour is distributing equity to its players, past and present, who have helped build the Tour and remained in its ranks.
4 min read - WorldYahoo Finance
What US taxpayers will get for another $61 billion to Ukraine
Congress is finally providing more of the aid Ukraine needs to survive. Here's why this is money well spent.
7 min read - SportsYahoo Sports
Fantasy Baseball Trade Analyzer: It might be time to sell low on Corbin Carroll
Fantasy baseball analyst Fred Zinkie offers up some big-picture trading tips before April wraps up, along with some key players to make moves on.
5 min read - BusinessYahoo Finance
Biden is sending $61 billion to Ukraine. Much of it will pass through the US economy first.
Washington is spending another $61 billion to help Ukraine. But most of the money will flow through the US economy first.
3 min read - SportsYahoo Sports
Bears to reportedly request more than $2 billion in public money to fund $4.6 billion stadium project
The numbers for the Bears' proposed stadium project are astounding.
3 min read - SportsYahoo Sports
Lions, Penei Sewell reportedly agree to 4-year, $112M deal that makes him highest-paid OT in NFL
The Lions are handing out extensions like they just pulled the winning lottery ticket.
2 min read - SportsYahoo Sports
NASCAR: Erik Jones out for Dover race after suffering spinal fracture in Talladega crash
Jones was evaluated and released from the infield care center after the crash.
2 min read - NewsYahoo News UK
Moment members of public step in to calm horse charging through London
Footage taken by a Brazilian tourist shows several pedestrians stepping to soothe the black horse which caused damage after running through the London streets on Wednesday.
3 min read - BusinessYahoo Finance
Stock market today: Tesla surges, stocks flip flop as investors await Meta earnings
Tesla's surge is putting Big Tech earnings center stage as investors look to megacaps to lift stocks.
1 min read - SportsYahoo Sports
Report: NBA investigating Nikola Jokić’s brother for allegedly punching fan after Nuggets’ Game 2 win over Lakers
Strahinja Jokić appeared to punch a fan shortly after the Nuggets' wild win over the Lakers on Monday night in Denver.
2 min read - SportsYahoo Sports
Teams that will shape the Draft: QB needy teams outside top ten + top ten teams we can't figure out
Concluding our 'teams that will shape the Draft' series, Matt Harmon and Fantasy Pro's Thor Nystrom look at the QB needy teams outside the top ten - Minnesota, Denver, Las Vegas - as well as teams inside the top ten that could be wild cards - New York Giants, Tennessee Titans and New York Jets.
2 min read - SportsYahoo Sports
NBA playoffs: League admits refs missed multiple Knicks fouls before game-winner vs. Sixers
The wildest sequence of the NBA playoffs so far included multiple missed calls.
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