science / science - 6 years ago

Joe Biden Adopts a Rescue Dog Named Major

Biden took 10-month-old Major home on Saturday

science / science - 6 years ago

Trump visits fire-wracked California as more than 1,000 missing

President Donald Trump expressed sadness Saturday at the devastation in a California town, as more than 1,000 people remain listed as missing in the worst-ever wildfire to hit the US state. Two huge blazes have created a serious smoke problem across vast areas in the state, and when Trump stepped o...

science / science - 6 years ago

Musk Says SpaceX Isn’t Planning to Reuse the Falcon 9 Rocket

Falcon 9 will only go through "minor tweaks to improve on reliability only, provided NASA & USAF are supportive," Musk said when answering a question from a Twitter user. In 2016, Musk introduced the term BFR as a rocket not only designed to take passengers and cargo to Mars, but also travel within...

science / science - 6 years ago

Justice Sotomayor on Kavanaugh Coming to the Supreme Court: 'The Nine of Us Are Now a Family'

Sotomayor said she is not letting personal politics get in the way of working together

science / science - 6 years ago

Why a new discovery means humans should keep an 'open mind' about extraterrestrial life

Scientists in Hawaii have detected "Oumuamua," an object entering our solar system from the outside. For the first time in history, scientists have detected the first interstellar object ever observed. In October 2017, an elongated interstellar object named "Oumuamua" — the first to enter the sola...

science / science - 6 years ago

How blasting worms into space could help slow down the ageing process

A tiny transparent worm could be the key to finding out how to stop the frailty and ill health which often comes with old age. British scientists are sending tens of thousands of worms into space in a government backed project to see if two drugs can prevent or slow down muscle wasting brought on by...

science / science - 6 years ago

2018 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #46

A chronological listing of news articles posted on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week, i.e., Sunday, Nov 11 through Saturday, Nov 17. Editor's Pick Policies of China, Russia and Canada threaten 5C climate change, study finds Ranking of countries’ goals shows even EU on co...

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“Little ogres”: A scientific discovery has unearthed a new kingdom of life

Scientists say we’re all eukaryotes: Plants, animals, fungi, and tiny multicelled organisms called protists are the four kingdoms of life, which encompass everything living that we’ve found on Earth. But a new discovery from Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, published in Nature, claim...

science / science - 6 years ago

California cities now have the worst air pollution on Earth as smoke blows into town

Oakland, a Northern California city with a population of over 425,000, had the worst air quality in the world Saturday morning. Wildfire smoke wafting over from the still-growing Camp Fire — by far the deadliest wildfire in state history — had inundated many heavily-populated California cities and t...

science / science - 6 years ago

Climate change protests block London bridges

Hundreds of climate change protesters blocked London bridges on Saturday demanding a dramatic new environmental policy. "We've basically got three demands," said Gail Bradbrook, one of the organisers. People think that climate change is something happening to somebody else at some other time, but...

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Excavators find tombs buried in Bolivia 500 years ago

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Archaeologists say they found tombs at a Bolivian quarry containing remains from more than 500 years ago that give an insight into the interaction of various peoples with the expanding Inca empire.

science / science - 6 years ago

At a Peculiar Summit in Papua New Guinea, America Is Still the Odd One Out

APEC delegates attack Donald Trump's trade war and protectionist policies

science / science - 6 years ago

Climate change protesters block off 5 London bridges

Hundreds of protesters have turned out in central London and blocked off the capital's main bridges to demand the government take climate change seriously. A group called "Extinction Rebellion" ...

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Rural America Is the Real Prison in Showtime's Escape at Dannemora

The real protagonist of director Ben Stiller’s seven-part miniseries based on the 2015 prison break is the fugitives' tailor shop supervisor Joyce “Tilly” Mitchell, who provided them with the contraband tools they used to carve a path to freedom.

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Michelle Obama's 'Becoming' Is a Book America Needs, From a Woman It Does Not Yet Deserve

Angie Thomas, author of 'The Hate U Give,' reviews Obama's memoir