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Pacita Abad in Bristol: where art, craft and politics intersect (Reports)
By Laura F. Nixon on July 31, 2020
On October 5, 1946, Pacita Abad, a trapunto painter, a global Filipino artist, who described herself as a painter who paints “from the guts” was...
Study: Plunge in sunlight could have caused ‘snowball Earth’
By Christopher B. Taub on July 31, 2020
At least twice in Earth’s history, nearly the entire planet was encased in a sheet of snow and ice. These dramatic “Snowball Earth” events occurred...
Study: A weird long cloud on Mars has returned. It’s right on schedule
By Christopher B. Taub on July 31, 2020
A weird long cloud has formed so many times over the same Martian volcano that scientists have given up and named it. A recurrent feature,...
Aliens, ahoy! US senators reportedly got a classified briefing on UFOs
By Laura F. Nixon on September 18, 2019
Three US senators received a classified briefing about UFOs seen traveling at hypersonic speed by US Navy pilots, congressional and government officials told Politico. A...
Divers Spot Giant Jellyfish the Size of a Human Off Cornwall coast
By Laura F. Nixon on July 15, 2019
Divers have swum with a huge barrel jellyfish as big as a human off the coast of Cornwall. Lizzie Daly, a biologist with Wild Ocean...
EPA expands use of sulfoxaflor considered ‘very highly toxic’ to bees
By Laura F. Nixon on July 12, 2019
EPA expands use of sulfoxaflor considered ‘very highly toxic’ to bees. The Environmental Protection Agency announced July 12 it’s eliminating crop restrictions on a pesticide...
New lizard species found inside 125-million-year-old flying dinosaur
By Christopher B. Taub on July 12, 2019
New lizard species found inside a gliding dinosaur’s stomach, In the belly of one of the dinosaurs found buried in volcanic ash in Liaoning province,...
7 dead gray whales were found in Alaska over the weekend
By Christopher B. Taub on July 11, 2019
Researchers say there’s a spike in dead gray whales along the United States West Coast. The state of Alaska is up to 22 confirmed gray...
Black holes ‘on collision course’ with each other, finds new research
By Laura F. Nixon on July 11, 2019
Two supermassive black holes on a collision course, Each black hole’s mass is more than 800 million times that of our sun. As the two...
Rare Lava Lake Found on Remote British Island
By Laura F. Nixon on July 10, 2019
A rare “persistent lake” of lava has been found at the summit of Mount Michael, a snow-capped volcano in the South Sandwich Islands. Despite their...
World’s Biggest Bloom Discovered from Space
By Christopher B. Taub on July 10, 2019
NASA satellites used by scientists at the University of South Florida in Saint Petersburg’s College of Marine Science recently discovered the Biggest bloom of macroalgae...
4 400-year-old tomb of two priests found near Giza pyramids
By Staffs on May 4, 2019
Despite the current heat wave in Egypt, local and international journalists and photographers flocked to the Giza Plateau on Saturday to witness the announcement by...
Super blood wolf moon Is Coming in January 2019 (Reports)
By Staffs on December 27, 2018
Super blood wolf moon Is Coming in January 2019 (Reports). Get ready to do some serious skygazing in 2019. The new year will get off...