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President Donald Trump welcomed the NHL's St. Louis Blues to the White House on Tuesday afternoon to celebrate the team's 2019 Stanley Cup championship win.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - MGM Resorts International announced the sale Tuesday of two casinos that will significantly alter its portfolio of Las Vegas Strip properties and offer up cash.

On the same day the Patriots cut practice squad kicker Younghoe Koo, New England reportedly worked out four free-agent kickers... Read More »

MIRANDA Kerr and husband Evan Spiegel revealed tonight that they have had a baby boy called Myles. It is the 36-year-old model‘s second child with the Snapchat boss and her third overall as she shares eight-year-old son Flynn with Orlando Bloom. The couple told People: “We are overjoyed at the arrival of Myles and so […]

A training camp and exhibition games between the two women's hockey powers will be held in November.

A study from the Association of American Universities released this week found that about a quarter of undergraduate women say they have been victims of sexual violence. Despite this high rate of victimization, Betsy DeVos’ Department of Education is making it harder for student survivors to access...

Talks of a last minute deal between the UK and the EU ready for the 19 October parliamentary tabling have begun to take place, with Brussels and London potentially agreeing to keep Northern Ireland within the EU customs code while legally outside of the Customs Union with the rest of the UK.

Two Jordanian planes arrive in Beirut to assist with firefighting efforts: NNA

David de Gea came off injured during Spain’s Euro 2020 qualifier with Sweden - but will the Manchester United goalkeeper be fit to face Liverpool this weekend?

MATTR has launched the MATTR CoLab Incubator to accelerate the development of decentralised identity technologies and solutions.

Canberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 07, 2019 - A titanic, expanding beam of energy sprang from close to the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way just 3.5 million years ago, sending a cone-shaped burst of radiation through both poles of the Galaxy and out into deep space.

That's the finding arising from research conducted by a team of scientists led by Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn from Australia's ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) and soon to be published in The Astrophysical Journal. Читать дальше...

A four-game East Coast swing offered the NHL champions the chance to swing by the White House (and to take in a baseball game, too).

Paris (ESA) Oct 04, 2019 - This Autumn is seeing a number of experiments controlling robots from afar, with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano directing a robot in The Netherlands and engineers in Germany controlling a rover in Canada.

Imagine looking down at the Moon from the Gateway as you prepare to land near a lunar base to run experiments, but you know the base needs maintenance work on the life-support system that will take days. It would be better to maintain the base from orbit so the astronauts can get straight to work once on the Moon.

Paris (AFP) Oct 13, 2019 - Designers of machine translation tools still mostly rely on dictionaries to make a foreign language understandable. But now there is a new way: numbers.

Facebook researchers say rendering words into figures and exploiting mathematical similarities between languages is a promising avenue -- even if a universal communicator a la Star Trek remains a distant dream.

Adelphi MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2019 - In an effort to make robots more effective and versatile teammates for Soldiers in combat, Army researchers are on a mission to understand the value of the molecular living functionality of muscle, and the fundamental mechanics that would need to be replicated in order to artificially achieve the capabilities arising from the proteins responsible for muscle contraction.

Bionanomotors, like myosins that move along actin networks, are responsible for most methods of motion in all life forms. Читать дальше...

The new phone boasts better facial recognition technology, a second camera lens, and motion-sensing technology

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. (NEWS10) – “Off the Beaten Path” profiles hidden gems in the area that are affordable, within driving distance, and most importantly, fun. In this adventure, NEWS10’s Cassie Hudson checks out the “Mystery Spot” in Lake George, N.Y. What is the Lake George Mystery Spot? Located behind the visitor center in Lake George, […]

Early look at the alternate "Concord" Air Jordan 11 Low.
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A Marvel-ous reaction.

Academy Award-winning actress Brie Larson was in Chicago for a comic book convention over the weekend, and her surprising guest spot at a superhero-like marriage proposal has now gone viral.

During a photo op with the “Captain Marvel” star at the ACE Comic Con Midwest in...

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker is looking to gain traction among Democratic voters in tonight's debate in Westerville, Ohio. CBSN political reporter Caitin Huey-Burns spoke with Booker's national press secretary Sabrina Singh about his plans going into the fourth Democratic debate.

DALLAS (AP) — Cheaper jet fuel and slightly higher fares helped United Airlines boost third-quarter profit 23% to $1 billion. The results released Tuesday were better than Wall Street expected, and United raised its forecast of full-year profit. United indicated that demand for leisure and business travel is holding up well despite concern about the […]

Defence minister Rajnath Singh asked scientists to develop an "indigenous innovation system", with less dependence on imported military systems, to achieve self-reliance in critical defence technologies. NSA Ajit Doval also called for "need-based" development of military technologies that targeted specific requirements of the armed forces.

Over the weekend we had our first round of frost advisories and lows in the 30s.  But, as long as you protected your plants, they probably made it through just fine.  While both a frost and freeze can be damaging to plants, it’s important to note that they are not the same thing.  A freeze […]