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Paris (AFP) Dec 7, 2020
Slashing global emissions would result in "substantial" near-term rewards by reducing the risk of unprecedented warming even within the next two decades, according to a new study Monday. Most nations have signed up to the landmark Paris agreement goals of limiting global temperature rises to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and the more ambitious target of beneath

Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Dec 07, 2020
The Gaia space telescope has measured the acceleration of the Solar System when it orbits the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Solar System motion relative to the stars agrees with the results by Finnish astronomers in the 19th century. Moreover, the observational data by Gaia improves satellite navigation. Finnish researchers are participating in this massive endeavor, that results in three-

Madrid (AFP) Dec 2, 2020
Spain is to invest 600 million euros (725 million dollars) in developing artificial intelligence over the next two years as part of plans to transform its national economy, the premier said Wednesday. The programme would run from 2021 to 2023, starting with an initial injection of 330 million euros, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said. Developing artificial intelligence (AI) is one of th

Washington DC (SPX) Dec 07, 2020
The world's largest solar observatory, the U.S. National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, just released its first image of a sunspot. Although the telescope is still in the final phases of completion, the image is an indication of how the telescope's advanced optics and four-meter primary mirror will give scientists the best view of the Sun from Earth throughout the next so

Bonn, Germany (SPX) Dec 07, 2020
An international research team including a number of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, used the APEX submillimeter telescope in 5100 m altitude in Chile to map an extended part of the Southern Galactic plane covering an area of more than 80 square degrees. Spectral lines emitted from several molecules, including the rare isotopologues 13CO and C18O of

Washington DC (SPX) Dec 07, 2020
As stars evolve from the red giant branch to the red clump, they accumulate lithium on their surfaces. How does this accumulation happen? b>The Red Giant Branch... br> /b> Stars with less than eight solar masses, or low mass stars, live fairly placid lives. A low mass star would start off burning hydrogen in its core like all main sequence stars. Once the core hydrogen has been exhausted

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 07, 2020
NASA has selected two SmallSat missions - a study of Earth's outer most atmosphere and a solar sail spaceflight test mission - to share a ride to space in 2025 with the agency's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP). The missions - the Global Lyman-alpha Imagers of the Dynamic Exosphere (GLIDE) and Solar Cruiser - were selected as Solar Terrestrial Probes (STP) Missions of Opportuni

Rochester NY (SPX) Dec 07, 2020
In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, researchers at the University of Rochester were able to use magnetism to determine, for the first time, when carbonaceous chondrite asteroids - asteroids that are rich in water and amino acids - first arrived in the inner solar system. The research provides data that helps inform scientists about the early origi

Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 03, 2020
Using a novel design likely suggested by an American scientist whose work has been largely forgotten, a group of Chinese researchers say they have created an aircraft engine that can propel an airframe as fast as 11,800 miles per hour, or Mach 16. According to the South China Morning Post, the revolutionary new engine is a standing oblique detonation ramjet (Sodramjet) design, with no movi

Tokyo (AFP) Dec 6, 2020
Japan space agency officials on Sunday hailed the arrival of rare asteroid samples on Earth after they were collected by space probe Hayabusa-2 during an unprecedented mission. In a streak of light across the night sky, a capsule containing the precious specimens taken from a distant asteroid arrived on Earth after being dropped off by the probe. Scientists hope the samples, which are ex

Washington DC (AFNS) Dec 07, 2020
United States Space Force surpassed another milestone when it marked the one-year operational anniversary of the Space Cockpit. Space Cockpit is a situational awareness tool that allows satellite operators to visualize the satellites they control in a real-time, video game-like application. Originally commercial software, 1st Lieutenants Tory Smith and Jacqueline Cromer, Space Commercially

Washington (AFP) Dec 8, 2020
Chuck Yeager, a World War II fighter ace who was the first human to travel faster than sound and whose gutsy test pilot exploits were immortalized in the bestselling book "The Right Stuff," died Monday, his wife said. He was 97. "It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm ET," Victoria Yeager tweeted on her husband's account. "

Lake Forest CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2020
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THIS week, one of Diana’s five bridesmaids, India Hicks, announced her wedding to her partner of 25 years. She said: “After months of lockdown, many people were ready to kill each other – we were ready to get married.” But despite having remained close to Prince Charles over the years, India. Now 53, says she […]

Cases are understood to be rising more sharply in the under 18s and also in the over 60s

Most respondents found video calling made them more anxious than telephone calls and nearly half of them said it was worse than face-to-face meetings.

NASA has forecast the Sun may now be set for a tumultuous time, with its next peak activity cycles predicted to be the one of the strongest ever seen.

[Nation] Kakamega Homeboyz FC held visiting Posta Rangers to a 1-1 draw in a Football Kenya Premier League (FKPL) match at Bukhungu Stadium in Kakamega on Sunday.

Coronavirus vaccine: 90-year-old UK woman becomes first in world to receive Pfizer vaccine

Sources say her decision is in protest against Palestinian Authority's decision to resume coordination with Israel.

DRIVING schools have welcomed dramatic changes to how driving lessons and tests are conducted from January.

Jamie Foxx is reflecting on the difficult times his family has endured lately. The 52-year-old Just Mercy actor posted a photo of his younger sister Deidra Dixon to Instagram on Monday,...

SAINSBURY'S recently released its Christmas delivery slots which has seen high demand this year due to many Brits turning their shopping habits online. However the supermarket has shared other ways customers can get their festive goods.

Donald Trump was supposed to be yesterday’s man. His margin of defeat now stands at a hefty six million popular votes, or four percent, his efforts to hold onto power are looking more and more foolish, and even diehard supporters like Republican senator Roy Blunt of Missouri now acknowledge that Joe Biden will “likely” take More