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Victor Glover: captain, pilot, astronaut.

Victor J. Glover, Jr. was selected as an astronaut in 2013 while serving as a Legislative Fellow in the United States Senate.  He most recently served as pilot and second-in-command on the Crew-1 SpaceX Crew Dragon, named Resilience, which landed May 2, 2021. It is the first...

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A mink in Utah is the first known case of the coronavirus in a wild animal

A wild American mink in Utah has tested positive for the coronavirus — the first wild animal found to be infected with the virus, researchers say.   The wild mink was infected with a variant of the coronavirus that was “indistinguishable” from viruses taken from nearby farmed...

Ivory from a 16th century shipwreck reveals new details about African elephants

In 2008, miners off the coast of Namibia stumbled upon buried treasure: a sunken Portuguese ship known as the Bom Jesus, which went missing on its way to India in 1533. The trading ship bore a trove of gold and silver coins and other valuable materials. But to a team of archaeologists and...

Bonobos, much like humans, show commitment to completing a joint task

Bonobos display responsibility toward grooming partners akin to that of people working together on a task, a new study suggests. Until now, investigations have shown only that humans can work jointly toward a common goal presumed to require back-and-forth exchanges and an appreciation of...

Iran is building something new at an underground nuclear site

Dubai, United Arab Emirates — Iran has begun construction on a site at its underground nuclear facility at Fordo amid tensions with the U.S. over its atomic program, satellite photos obtained Friday by The Associated Press show. Iran has not publicly acknowledged any new construction...

US cybersecurity agency warns suspected Russian hacking campaign broader than previously believed

An alarming new alert issued by the Department of Homeland Security's cyber arm Thursday revealed that Russian hackers suspected of a massive, ongoing intrusion campaign into government agencies, private companies and critical infrastructure entities used a variety of unidentified...

UK Based Gospel Artiste, SOPHY-YAH Out With New Single –Tells Citypeople Her Story

On Friday 21st, September 2020, UK based Gospel artist Sophy-Yah, who sings Gospel Hip Hop, RnB will release a new single. She spoke to Citypeople Online recently about her new release & success story. Below are excerpts of her interview. cont via...

Coronavirus live Africa: latest Covid-19 news - Tuesday 12 May

Africa Covid-19 update: 14:30 WAT Tuesday 12 May (15:30 CEST) According to the latest figures published by Johns Hopkins University, 4,201,921 cases have been detected worldwide, with 286,835 deaths and 1,467,412 people now recovered. Nigeria:...

Coronavirus: Ventilator fire blamed for Russia Covid-19 death

A fire at a St Petersburg hospital has killed five coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit. The blaze was apparently started by a short-circuit in a ventilator, Russian news agencies reported. The fire was quickly put out and 150 people were evacuated from the hospital, the country's...

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Edo Governor, Adams Oshiomhole set to re- marry Ethiopian model

19.05.2015 23:18
News by "Lahan Smith" from Lagos Nigeria Africa>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Since Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, lost his first wife to the cold hands of cancer in December 2010, he has been living life as it comes. The governor in 2013, while celebrating his fifth year in...

Another wizard caught in the grips of the Madina police Accra, #Ghana #Africa

16.05.2015 15:53
NEWS UPDATE by "THE WORLD FACE. NEWS REPORTER"... "IBRAHIM SAMBO" from Ghana Africa : >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>Another Witch/wizard caught in the grips of the Madina police Accra,Ghana. A person...

How Will Green Party's Medicine Go Down?

07.03.2015 21:20
The Green Party has held its biggest ever conference as the party tries to build momentum ahead of the General Election. With membership quadrupling in the last year, 1,300 delegates packed out Liverpool's conference centre. It comes after a widely mocked radio interview with leader Natalie...

The death of writing – if James Joyce were alive today he’d be working for Google

07.03.2015 21:03
If, five years ago, you’d asked me to name the most important French mid-20th century writer, I’d have mentally dipped a hand into a hat in which names of contenders such as Camus, Genet, Duras and Robbe-Grillet had been tossed, and pulled one out at random. Not any more. Right now I’d answer...

A Nazi in the family

07.03.2015 21:00
My German grandmother lived in Berlin during the war and saw through all but one of the Nazis. Minna Niemann poured scorn on the man she called Herr Hitler and lambasted his odious deputies: “That Goebbels is a gangster!” she would declare indignantly. Within four walls, the woman who was adored...

Women in low- and middle-income countries are 21% less likely to have a mobile phone than men,

07.03.2015 13:10
Women in low- and middle- income countries are 21 percent less likely to have a mobile phone than men, according to a new report on gender equality by the United Nations, while overall only 36 percent of women (and 41 percent of men) have access to the Internet. The U.N. Women report, to be...

CIA director John Brennan has ordered one of the largest reorganisations of the spy agency in its history.

07.03.2015 12:35
In a memo to staff, the director said that the changes were driven by a wider range of threats and the impact of technological advancements. The reforms aim to impose greater accountability on managers and to improve cyber capabilities. The biggest change is the breakdown of the division between...

Vietnam: Officials try to trace 'mystery amphibian'

06.03.2015 16:37
Officials in Vietnam are on the hunt for a mystery amphibian which was apparently captured and then sold in the north of the country, it's reported. Photos of the metre-long animal were posted on Facebook by a man who says he pulled it from a pond near his home in the Vinh Phuc region, Thanh Nien...

Cancer is a major problem for women in Africa: Zuma said

05.03.2015 15:31
"The women in Africa suffer in many cases from... the fear and stigma associated with cancer," he said in a speech prepared for delivery at the launch of the "Warriors Walk for Cancer" initiative by his wife Tobeka Madiba Zuma's foundation. Zuma said women with cancer often suffered discrimination...

"A good education can lift you...into a life you never could have imagined"

05.03.2015 15:25
President Obama and the First Lady have teamed up with the Peace Corps to expand access to education for adolescent girls around the world through the Let Girls Learn initiative. “A good education can lift you from the most humble circumstances into a life you never could have imagined.” — First...
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Canada gets its first giant panda cubs

07.11.2015 17:08
Earlier this month Er Shun and Da Mao, the giant panda pair on loan from China to the Toronto Zoo, became the proud parents of two healthy cubs. Now zoo staffers and Chinese experts are working round the clock to ensure everything continues to go smoothly. Dr. Chris Dutton, the head of veterinary...

Dingoes and Aboriginal Australians have likely been tight from the start

07.11.2015 17:07
For over thirty years now researchers have been trying to explain changes in the Australian archaeological records from around 5,000-years- ago, when people suddenly began using new tools, eating harder to process foods, and hunting a wider array of animals. While many would like to think these...

THE MYSTERY OF THE ARCTIC’S TOXIC, LETHARGIC SHARK

07.11.2015 17:06
ICELAND THEY have this delicacy called hákarl that recently initiated diners describe as “the worst tasting food on Earth,” “the world’s foulest food,” and “the worst thing I have ever had in my mouth.” To say it smells like a urinal would be generous. Not that anyone should be surprised,...

CLIMATE CHANGE CAUSES EXTREME WEATHER BUT NOT ALL OF IT

07.11.2015 17:02
CLIMATE SCIENCE IS confusing. For decades, scientists have said that more CO means higher temperatures, longer dry spells, and bigger storms. But ask them whether global warming caused a Midwest heatwave, the California drought, or a New York hurricane, and they’ll explain ad nauseam how hard it...

NASA probe shows how solar burps may have stripped Mars of water

07.11.2015 17:00
The Martian weather report is in. Information beamed back by NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft, which has been studying Mars’s atmosphere from orbit since September 2014, offers a new view of Mars’s history and could help pave the way for crewed missions to the Red Planet. One of Mars’s long-standing...

Hot Jupiters may have formed through planetary billiards

07.11.2015 16:07
were hot Jupiters , gas giants that orbit their stars in days or even hours. “The presence of hot Jupiters has been a major surprise with planet-hunting, and their existence has immediately challenged planet-formation theory,” says Aaron Boley of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver,...

Settle the question of life on Mars before conquering Red Planet

07.11.2015 16:01
Fresh evidence for liquid water means space agencies should focus on life- detection missions on Mars before establishing a human presence EVIDENCE that water still flows on Mars has raised hopes that the planet may support life. But those hopes mean different things to...

Stowaway Snail Helps Save Species from Extinction

07.11.2015 15:54
The tiny snail that just helped save its species from possible extinction wasn’t supposed to be there in the first place. Researchers at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry didn’t need that baby snail in their lab. They already had ten critically endangered Chittenango ovate...

Climate Change Signal Emerges from the Weather

07.11.2015 15:49
From Hawaii’s flurry of hurricanes, to record high sea ice in Antarctica, and a heat wave that cooked the Australian Open like shrimp on a barbie, 2014 saw some wild weather. How much of that was tied to climate change is what scientists around the world tried to answer in the Bulletin of the...

New Medical Devices Vanish Inside You

07.11.2015 15:46
Although the physician who first wanted to open blocked blood vessels was described as “something of a radical” by his colleagues, even he might have been surprised by the idea of a tiny plastic scaffold that holds open an artery and then dissolves. When Charles Dotter of Oregon Health & Science...
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A 'digital dark age' could help us let go of the past

16.02.2015 14:40
Who hasn’t started a spring clean and become sidetracked, having discovered an old photo album? Which of us doesn’t love perusing early Facebook pics? The man with the best job title in the world, chief internet evangelist and vice president at Google, Vint Cerf, has warned of a possible “digital...

FBI probes claim suspects in 1946 Georgia mass lynching may be alive

16.02.2015 14:12
US authorities are investigating whether some of those responsible for one of the American south’s most notorious mass lynchings are still alive, in an attempt to finally bring prosecutions over the brutal unsolved killings. FBI agents questioned a man in Georgia who was among several in their 80s...

Composer and pianist John McCabe dies aged 75

14.02.2015 15:22
A gifted artist, he had composed 13 symphonies by the age of 11, and his recordings of Joseph Haydn's piano sonatas are considered definitive. His own compositions included orchestral and chamber music, and he was director of the London College of Music between 1983 and 1990. Confirming his death,...

Vaccine opposition has ebbed and flowed over centuries

14.02.2015 15:17
NEW YORK (AP) — They're considered one of mankind's greatest medical achievements, yet people have balked at vaccines almost since the time of the first vaccination — in 1796, when an English country doctor named Edward Jenner inoculated an 8-year-old boy against smallpox. In the mid-1800s, people...

Ocean plastic is likely disappearing into the food chain, new study indicates

14.02.2015 15:03
When I tell people that we have a problem with too much plastic in our oceans, many invariably say how shocked they were when they heard about vast swirling islands of trash that accumulate in the oceans’ gyres. I wish this was the full extent of the problem. It is not. The drifting garbage...

HRT treatment raises risk of ovarian cancer, says study

14.02.2015 14:57
Women who undergo hormone replacement therapy (HRT) have a significantly increased risk of developing ovarian cancer, according to a major study. Researchers from the University of Oxford analysed 52 previous studies involving 21,000 women and found that even those who took it for less than five...

Jodrell Bank work threatened by housing plans, say scientists

14.02.2015 14:50
One of Britain’s most ambitious astronomy projects is under threat due to a large housing development being planned nearby, scientists have warned. Prof Simon Garrington, director of Jodrell Bank observatory, said proposals to build 119 houses just over a mile from the Lovell telescope in Cheshire...

Scientists create contact lens that magnifies at blink of an eye

14.02.2015 14:47
A contact lens that magnifies objects at the wink of an eye has been created by scientists to help people with impaired vision. The lens contains an extremely thin telescope that is switched on when the wearer winks their right eye and returns to normal when they wink their left eye. Eric...

Canadian company's genetically modified apples win US approval

14.02.2015 14:43
US regulators have approved what would be the first commercialised biotech apples, rejecting efforts by the organic industry and other GMO critics to block the new fruit. The US Department of Agriculture’s animal and plant health authority, Aphis, approved two genetically engineered apple...

Virtual cadavers may help surgeons save limbs and lives

14.02.2015 14:41
Soldiers will have full-body scans stored on their medical files to help surgeons rebuild them should they become injured in war, under plans drawn up by US doctors. The proposals call for computed tomography (CT) scans to create “virtual twins” of soldiers before they are deployed, so that...
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