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CCC Urges UK Prime Minister to Keep Offshore Wind Promise

It says actions taken over the next year will define the UK's response to the climate crisis, particularly in light of the upcoming UN Climate Summit in Glasgo...

European Union deal on fishing quotas angers environmental groups

According to the United Nations, 17% of fish stocks worldwide are now overexploited; 52% are fully exploited; and 7% are depleted. In a year where scientific ...

‘World’s oldest forest’ found in abandoned quarry

Archaeopteris root system at the NY site. Credit: Charles ver Straeten. The team, including researchers from Cardiff University in the United Kingdom, mapped...

New class of ‘cotton candy’ exoplanets are the lightest ever found

The other awesome thing about transiting exoplanets is that when they dim the star's light, some of it gets filtered through the exoplanet's atmosphere (if ...

Breast cancer survivors "face other health risks after treatment"

Abemacilib is an oral selective inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinases 4 and 6 approved for HR-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer. With better surv...

First drive test of NASA’s Mars 2020 rover completed successfully

It can demonstrate the navigation function on its own; he further revealed. Lockheed Martin developed a heat shield using a tiled Phenolic Impregnated Carbon ...

Shipping industry proposes fund to tackle carbon emissions

To achieve the Paris Agreement's climate change goals, rapid decarbonization is vital - also for global shipping. "Research and development will be crucial, a...

We Won't Have a Winter Solstice Like This Till 2029

The Sun seems to stand still at the Tropic of Capricorn and then reverses its direction. Today, the sun will be at its lowest position throughout the Northern...

Ancient chewing gum reveals diet of Stone Age woman

It might have also relieved toothaches because of the antiseptic oils in the gum . But the DNA sequencing went betterthan anyone could have expected. War...

Alberta Appeal Court reserves ruling in federal carbon tax challenge

For that to work, she said, it must apply across the country in a way that provides an incentive for consumers to reduce their environmental burden. Langdon-T...

Boeing Starliner Spacecraft Set For First Launch This Week

Minutes after liftoff, Starliner will detach from the main rocket booster for a rendezvous some 254 miles (409 km) into space the following morning with the...

Earth’s Magnetic North Pole Is Heading To Russia — Science Shock

This system is called World Magnetic Model (WMM), a representation of the magnetic field observations that powers everything from navigational tools like GPS ...

Scientists narrow age estimate for fossils of human ancestor

They were also an exceptionally long-lived species, though the exact length of their tenure has been a matter of considerable debate. "Then around 120,000 or 13...

Your dog is counting how many treats you're feeding it

It turns out our pups are not so easily duped, as they're able to understand the basic concept of numbers and "more" or "less", according to a new bit of resear...

New England Patriots: 3 Bold predictions vs. Bills, Week 16

That changed Tuesday night, when Brady wasn't picked for the first time in 11 years. The AFC's quarterback representatives are the Baltimore Ravens' Lamar J...

Truck driver arrested in Florida in 1980 Colorado killing

He was being held in jail in Douglas County and it was not clear if he has a lawyer representing him who could speak on his behalf. She had only been in town tw...

NASA Discovers Another Magnetic Explosion On The Sun

As it fell, however, it met with the snarled magnetic field lines. This phenomenon, known as magnetic reconnection , has been seen many times before on the S...

Boeing sends first crew capsule to ISS this week

The weeklong mission should serve as a shakedown cruise for future crewed flights of Starliner capsules for NASA . The spacecraft will also be launched as ...

NASA's X-59 supersonic jet is cleared for final assembly

Dubbed the "son of Concorde" after the Mach 2 airliner, the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) is will cruise at Mach 1.42 (1,090 mph/1,754 km/h) and is ...

Ancient Starburst Evidence Found in Central Region of Milky Way

This initial period of star formation was followed by about six billion years during which very few stars were born. Based on the timing of the burst, the r...

Australia sees its hottest day on record

Australia recorded its hottest day on December 17 with a nationwide average high of 40.9 degrees Celsius (105.62 degrees Fahrenheit), the country's Meteorology ...

5700-year-old "chewing gum" yields complete human genome

It also has mild antiseptic properties, and so could have been used to relieve toothache. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen have succeeded in ex...

Hubble Watches Interstellar Comet Borisov Speed Past the Sun

Recently, Hubble Space Telescope clicked a detailed image of the comet. Currently, the head of the comet is around 185 million away from the earth. Its tail of ...

Glitch delays launch of Europe's exoplanet hunter

Cheops was scheduled to be launched on Tuesday morning at 8:54 GMT on a Soyuz-Fregat rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. "During final c...

Deforestation in Amazon jumps 100% in November over same month previous year

Destruction of the world's largest tropical rainforest totalled 563 square kms in November, which is more than double the area in the same month a year ago, a...

NASA finds water ice in Mars, releases map showing it

MAVEN's mission is to analyze how the Red Planet lost much of its atmosphere and water, transforming its climate from one which may have supported life to on...

SpaceX To Send Cannabis Into Orbit on Next Mission

While the idea of sending cannabis to space station sounds weird, it is worth noting that this is not the psychoactive drug that could get the astronauts high. ...

SpaceX Starlink Mission Launch

SpaceX plans to continue launching Starlink satellites in batches and says it's targeting service to parts of the northern United States and Canada in 2020, ...

NASA Chooses Asteroid Landing Zone for OSIRIS-REx Probe

The spacecraft will depart Bennu in 2021 and is scheduled to return to Earth in September 2023. Since its arrival in December 2018, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraf...

Astronauts Christina Koch, Jessica Meir Completed First All-Woman Spacewalk

Sandra Magnus, a former NASA astronaut who spent 136 days on the International Space Station , told Reuters she did not want events like Friday's spacewalk ...