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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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Marriage and the making of scientific careers
14.02.2015 14:55
There are many examples of couples in the
history of science, though few are as well
known as Pierre and Marie Curie. What,
for example, of the less familiar Hertha
and William Aryton, who conducted work
on the electrical arc? These examples
suggest that unconventionality could be
the key to...
More teenagers trying e-cigarettes than tobacco, US study suggests
14.02.2015 14:45
More teenagers are trying or using e-
cigarettes than tobacco products, according
to a US study that has prompted fresh
concerns among some scientists about a
new generation of nicotine addicts. The
report is the first to claim such high rates
of e-cigarette use among 12- to 18-year-
olds, though...
US faces worst droughts in 1,000 years, predict scientists
14.02.2015 14:34
The US south-west and the Great Plains
will face decade-long droughts far worse
than any experienced over the last 1,000
years because of climate change,
researchers said on Thursday.
The coming drought age – caused by higher
temperatures under climate change – will
make it nearly impossible to...
'It taunts us spiritually': the fight for Indigenous relics spirited off to the UK
14.02.2015 14:16
When Gary Murray contemplates the
thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander objects held in the vaults of the
British Museum in London, he strikes a
simple analogy.
“All of these things that belong to our
people in Australia – they don’t tell a story
about the Queen of England, do they?”...
New Zealand rescuers hope to save 60 stranded whales
14.02.2015 14:13
Rescuers in New Zealand hope to have
saved 60 pilot whales after about 140 died
when they became stranded on a sandy
spit.
The pod became beached on Farewell Spit
in Golden Bay on Friday in one of the worst
such incidents in recent years.
There have been numerous whale
strandings in the past on...
Oldest and most distant galaxy ever discovered was a prolific star factory
25.10.2013 16:13
Astronomers have spotted the most
distant galaxy ever seen after a faint
ray of light struck a telescope on a
volcano in the middle of the Pacific.
The ancient group of stars lies 30bn
light years from Earth, far beyond
the handle of the Big Dipper that
traces a celestial saucepan in...
Scorpion venom is a painkiller for the grasshopper mouse
25.10.2013 16:03
The bark scorpion is, according to
Wikipedia, the most venomous
scorpion in North America, wielding
an intensely painful – and potentially
lethal – sting that stuns and deters
snakes, birds and other predators.
People unfortunate enough to have
experienced the sting say that it
produces an...
Metabolism gene mutations can cause childhood obesity, find scientists
25.10.2013 15:56
Scientists have discovered that defects
in a single gene can cause a rare but
severe form of obesity by disrupting
the body's ability to burn calories.
The study is the first to show that
genetics can play a role in what
many had long suspected: that some
people put on weight more easily...
US student 'scarred for life' in street attack three days after arriving in UK
25.10.2013 15:34
LONDON -- An American student was
attacked and slashed with a broken
bottle just three days after arriving in
Britain, police said Wednesday.
Francesco Hounye, who moved to the
U.K. from Florida to study aviation,
needed 23 stitches to his face after five
men beat him following a "heated"
verbal...
Dad burned teenage daughter to death for contacting fiance: Yemen police
25.10.2013 15:32
DUBAI -- A father burned his 15-year-
old daughter to death for keeping in
touch with her fiance, police in Yemen
said.
"The father committed this heinous
crime on the pretext that his daughter
had been keeping contacts with her
fiance," according to a statement
posted on a police website Tuesday....
