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What's in a Tokyo 2020 medal? Old phones, discarded cameras

Tokyo 2020 claimed this is "thanks to the huge levels of support from the public and companies across Japan and from national and global athletes". Stations ...

Internal discussions on SNC-Lavalin prosecution included Wilson-Raybould

The Globe reports that SNC-Lavalin repeatedly lobbied Justin Trudeau's aides for a deal and Trudeau's office leaned on Wilson-Raybould to make it happen. "Nothi...

2018 was 4th Warmest, but Next 5 Years Could Break Records

The world temperature in 2018 was the fourth hottest ever recorded, only next to 2016 (the warmest), 2015 and 2017, say the specialists of the National Administ...

British-Built Mars Rover Name Revealed

The name was revealed by astronaut Tim Peake and science minister Chris Skidmore at an event in Stevenage on Thursday as part of a public competition launched...

Small Satellites That Accompanied InSight Lander To Mars Go Silent

While the two Mars Cube One satellites have launched towards Mars as a test project for advanced communication systems in deep space, the fact that they wen...

NASA, SpaceX aim for March test of 1st new astronaut capsule

In early January, NASA said that the first unmanned launch of the SpaceX-designed Dragon 2 to the ISS was planned for February. NASA and SpaceX are now ai...

Previous year was fourth hottest on record: outlook sizzling - United Nations

The average global temperature during 2018 was 1.42 degrees F above the 20th-century average. Nine of the 10 warmest years on record have all occurred since 20...

Ocasio-Cortez Begins to Sketch Out Details of ‘Green New Deal’

The " Green New Deal " isn't so much about fighting global warming as it is about "social justice", according to the plan's main champion New York Rep. Among ...

Nissan pulls plug on new model amid Brexit concern

Addressing to an initial abandoning of X-Trail productions in Britain less than two months before a chaotic Brexit , the Sky report stated, "Precise details of...

Stunning Image Of Moon's Rear Side Captured By Chinese Satellite

The photo was taken with a camera linked to an amateur radio transceiver on board the Chinese DSLWP-B/Longjiang-2 satellite. But as the image shows, the moon's ...

Himalayan glaciers in grave danger

Theicy peaks of the Himalayas are under threat from climate change caused by human action - and two-thirds of Himalayan glaciers could melt. Nepal's Hindu Kus...

Galactic Twist: The Warped Shape of Our Milky Way's Disk

It turns out that the further the stars are from the center of the galaxy, the weaker their gravitational pull is. "It is notoriously hard to determine distan...

Magnetic north is moving quickly causing compasses to show misleading directions

It is used extensively in navigation by the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.K. Ministry of Defense and many civilian systems-so knowing exactly where the nort...

Trump to tap ex-energy lobbyist David Bernhardt to head Interior

Bernhardt, now the acting secretary at the Interior Department , is widely expected to continue pushing the Trump administration's plan to boost domestic fos...

Magnetic North Pole's 'Pretty Fast' Moving to Russia's Siberia - Scientists

The pole is moving about 34 miles a year, scientists say, crossing the worldwide date line in 2017 on a journey towards Russian Federation. "This out-of-cycle...

Climate change is actually changing the color of the ocean

In the interim, Dutkiewicz said , paying close attention to changes in the oceans' colour can offer the first clues of the changes that are underway. The res...

NASA Reports Giant Hole Beneath Thwaites Glacier

That cavity is big enough to hold 14 billion tons of ice or 5.6 million Olympic-sized swimming pools. The entire Thwaites glacier is as big as Florida, and no...

USA thaws from Arctic deep freeze as death toll climbs

In Chicago , which experienced temperatures as low as -30C earlier this week, temperatures of -7C felt positively balmy as a measure of normalcy returned to the...

Astronomers Accidentally Discover a Hidden Galaxy Right Next Door

The Hubble Space Telescope team initially planned to determine the age of a globular cluster by measuring its faintest stars, but ended up stumbling upon a s...

Chang'e-4 Shows Moon's Far Side Colder than Expected During Night

The rover and the lander of the Chang'e-4 probe have been awakened by sunlight after a long "sleep" during the first extremely cold night on the moon, said th...

NASA's Curiosity rover makes unexpected discovery on Mars mountain

Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS. By examining variations in gravity, they can calculate the density of the underlying rock, revealing all sorts of thing...

US polar vortex blamed for at least 21 deaths

The weather station at the Moline Quad-City Airport sent a reading of minus-29 degrees at 11:19 p.m., which was enough to break the record , and then continued...

Massive Cavity Discovered Beneath Antarctic Glacier

Thwaites Glacier has almost the mass of Florida and accounts for 4 percent of global sea level rise. Before they made the discovery, Nasa researchers were...

Over 20 dead in USA polar vortex, frostbite amputations feared

In Chicago , temperatures have touched a low of minus 30 degrees Celsius, and the surface of the Chicago River has frozen in parts. Mail deliveries were su...

Plants Suggest Arctic Summers Haven’t Been This Warm In 115,000 Years

The plants were found in and around the island's Penny Ice Cap region, in elevations ranging from several hundred meters to a mile above sea level. An image o...

Mysterious mile-wide object spotted at edge of our solar system

The Kuiper Belt was named in honor of Dutch-American astronomer Gerard Kuiper, who postulated a reservoir of icy bodies beyond Neptune. But they tend to be mu...

Polar Vortex Set to Drop Arctic-Cold Temperatures on Chicago, Minneapolis

The medical examiner's office in Milwaukee, where temperatures plunged to minus-42 degrees, confirmed on Tuesday the death of a 55-year-old man found dead in ...

The Newest Pictures of Asteroid Bennu Are Unreal

OSIRIS-REx will orbit Bennu for the rest of the year before approaching close enough to snatch a rock sample from the asteroid's surface. "During this phase, ...

GE consolidates all renewable energy business under one banner

GE has announced that it intends to intensify its focus on the growing renewable energy market by consolidating all of the company's renewable and grid assets...

NASA isn't giving up on the Opportunity rover yet

The last that the team of engineers at NASA heard from Opportunity was in June 2018 before a planet-wide dust storm covered Mars in a red haze. The new comm...

NASA warn ‘dangerous’ Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica on verge of COLLAPSE

However, the researchers say that the size and growth rate of the hole surprised them. This huge opening at the bottom of the Thwaites Glacier - a mass infa...

United States polar vortex 2019: USA faces historic low temperatures

United States media attributed at least five deaths since the weekend to the freezing conditions and a major snowstorm that preceded the blast of Arctic air gr...

Spy chief contradicts Trump's claims of progress with North Korea

North Korea is " unlikely " to surrender its nuclear weapons, while Iran is not "currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activity" several T...

Trump mocks global warming in tweet amid Midwest chill

Despite Trump's claims, 2018 was among the hottest on record across the globe and the planet is expected to get hotter according to experts . "People can't las...

Brutal cold surging on Midwest

The last time the polar vortex slipped south to the U.S. was in 2014, but experts believe climate change could increase the frequency of these bitterly cold s...