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The meteorite that struck the front walkway of Joe Velaidum's home in Canada left a star-shaped pattern of debris on the pavement
Doorbell camera catches rare footage of meteorite striking home’s front walkway
EDMONTON, Canada — It was a simple, sunny afternoon on Canada’s Prince Edward Island as Joe Velaidum and his partner, Laura Kelly, set off to walk their dog. Noticing a stray leash lying in the yard, Velaidum briefly stopped to pick it up before setting off on a quick walk.Minutes later, a meteorite pummeled the walkway — exactly where Velaidum had been standing — and a Ring doorbell camera captured the entire incident on video.“I never stop on that spot — ever,” Velaidum told CNN about the incident, which occurred in July 2024. “And looking back on it now, we noticed, because of the video, if I had stayed on that very spot for just two minutes longer, I absolutely would have been struck and probably killed by this meteor.”Months later, after undergoing lab analysis that...
January 23, 2025

Doorbell camera catches rare footage of meteorite striking home’s front walkway

The Indus script consists of signs and symbols, primarily found on stone seals like this one
A million-dollar challenge to crack the script of early Indians
WASHINGTON — Every week, Rajesh PN Rao, a computer scientist, gets emails from people claiming they've cracked an ancient script that has stumped scholars for generations.These self-proclaimed codebreakers — ranging from engineers and IT workers to retirees and tax officers — are mostly from India or of Indian origin living abroad. All of them are convinced they've deciphered the script of the Indus Valley Civilisation, a blend of signs and symbols."They claim they've solved it and that the 'case is closed'," says Rao, Hwang Endowed Professor at the University of Washington and author of peer-reviewed studies on the Indus script.Adding fuel to the race, MK Stalin, the chief minister of southern India's Tamil Nadu state, recently upped the stakes,...
January 17, 2025

A million-dollar challenge to crack the script of early Indians

A royal Bengal tiger on a dirt road in the jungle in Chitwan National Park in Nepal
Nepal's leader says it has too many tigers
KATHMANDU — Nepal has been celebrated globally for tripling its tiger population in a decade — but Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli thinks the country may have been too successful."In such a small country, we have more than 350 tigers... We can't have so many tigers and let them eat up humans," he said last month at an event organized to review the country's COP29 outcomes.Attacks by tigers claimed nearly 40 lives and injured 15 people between 2019 and 2023, according to government data. But local communities say the figure is much higher."For us, 150 tigers are enough," Oli declared in December, even suggesting that Nepal could send its prized big cats to other countries as gifts.How many tigers are too many? There is no one answer, experts say. It depends on...
January 17, 2025

Nepal's leader says it has too many tigers

The comet was seen from the International Space Station over the weekend
Rare comet may be visible for first time in 160,000 years
WASHINGTON — A bright comet could be visible in skies across the globe over the coming days for the first time in 160,000 years.Nasa said the future brightness of a comet is "notoriously hard" to predict, but that Comet C/2024 G3 (Atlas) could remain bright enough to be seen by the naked eye.On Monday, the comet was at perihelion, the point at which it is closest to the Sun, which influences how bright it appears. Experts say it could be visible from Monday night.While the exact locations for possible visibility are unknown, experts believe the comet, which could shine as bright as Venus, may be best observed from the southern hemisphere.The comet was spotted last year by Nasa's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System.Dr Shyam Balaji, a researcher in astroparticle...
January 14, 2025

Rare comet may be visible for first time in 160,000 years

The A23a iceberg had been spinning on the same spot for months
World’s biggest iceberg, A23a, is on the move again
LONDON — The world’s largest iceberg is on the move again, drifting through the Southern Ocean after months stuck spinning on the same spot, scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have said.Spanning an area of 3,672 square kilometers (1,418 square miles) when measured in August – slightly bigger than Rhode Island – the A23a iceberg has been carefully tracked by scientists ever since it calved from the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf in 1986.It remained grounded on the Antarctic’s Weddell Sea floor for more than 30 years, probably until it shrank just enough to loosen its grip on the seafloor.Then, the iceberg was carried away by ocean currents before it became stuck again in a Taylor column – the name given to a spinning vortex of water caused by ocean currents hitting an...
December 17, 2024

World’s biggest iceberg, A23a, is on the move again

This humpback whale, photographed here off the Pacific coast of Colombia, made an epic migration
Whale makes epic migration, astonishing scientists
LONDON — A humpback whale has made one of the longest and most unusual migrations ever recorded, possibly driven by climate change, scientists say.It was seen in the Pacific Ocean off Colombia in 2017, then popped up several years later near Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean — a distance of at least 13,000 km.The experts think this epic journey might be down to climate change depleting food stocks or perhaps an odyssey to find a mate.Ekaterina Kalashnikova of the Tanzania Cetaceans Program said the feat was "truly impressive and unusual even for this highly migratory species".The photograph below shows the same whale photographed in 2022, off the Zanzibar coast.Dr Kalashnikova said it was very likely the longest distance a humpback whale had ever been recorded traveling.Humpback...
December 11, 2024

Whale makes epic migration, astonishing scientists

Nasa astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch and Jeremy Hansen
Nasa delays astronaut flight around the Moon
WASHINGTON — US space agency Nasa has announced a further delay to its plans to send astronauts back to the Moon.The agency's chief, Bill Nelson, said the second mission in the Artemis program was now due for launch in April 2026.The plan had been to send astronauts around the Moon but not land in September 2025. The date had already slipped once before, from November of this year.That will mean that a Moon landing will not take place until at least 2027, a year later than originally planned.The delay is needed to fix an issue with the capsule's heat shield, which returned from the previous test flight excessively charred and eroded, with cracks and some fragments broken off.Nelson told a news conference that "the safety of our astronauts is our North Star"."We do...
December 06, 2024

Nasa delays astronaut flight around the Moon

Russia's Nauka module is seen docked to the Zvezda module's Earth-facing port on the International Space Station on July 29, 2021. The Soyuz MS-18 crew ship (center) is docked to the Rassvet module
NASA worries space station leaks in Russian module are potentially ‘catastrophic’ 
WASHINGTON — A Russian-controlled segment of the International Space Station is leaking, allowing pressure and air to bleed out. The situation has reached a fever pitch as cosmonauts scramble to patch problem areas and officials from Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, and NASA disagree about the severity of the problem.The football field-size space laboratory must remain pressurized and filled with breathable gases to host a rotating crew of astronauts, which it has done since 2000 in separate but connected Russian and US sections. Problematic leaks were first identified in 2019 in a tunnel that connects a Russian module, called Zvezda, to a docking port that welcomes spacecraft carrying cargo and supplies.But the rate at which the module is bleeding air hit a new high this...
November 15, 2024

NASA worries space station leaks in Russian module are potentially ‘catastrophic’ 

Scientists say the newly discovered coral is in good health
World’s largest coral found in the Pacific
BAKU — The largest coral ever recorded has been found by scientists in the southwest Pacific Ocean.The mega coral — which is a collection of many connected, tiny creatures that together form one organism rather than a reef — could be more than 300 years old.It is bigger than a blue whale, the team say.It was found by a videographer working on a National Geographic ship visiting remote parts of the Pacific to see how it has been affected by climate change.“I went diving in a place where the map said there was a shipwreck and then I saw something,” said Manu San Felix.He called over his diving buddy, who is also his son Inigo, and they dived further down to inspect it.Seeing the coral, which is in the Solomon Islands, was like seeing a "cathedral underwater", he...
November 14, 2024

World’s largest coral found in the Pacific

Voyager 2 captured this image of the planet Uranus during its flyby in 1986
New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong
PASADENA — When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way astronomers understand the ice giant. But the data collected by the probe also introduced new mysteries that have continued to puzzle scientists in the decades since the historic flyby.Now, a new look at the data has revealed that Voyager 2 happened to zoom by the distant planet during a rare event, which suggests that scientists’ current understanding of the planet may have been shaped — and skewed — by an unusual stellar coincidence.The findings of the study, published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, may have solved some of the riddles created by Voyager 2’s odd Uranus readings.“The spacecraft saw Uranus in conditions that only occur about 4% of the...
November 12, 2024

New Uranus research suggests what’s known about the planet could be wrong

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