Bison don’t follow bus schedules, but a Sunday post on the popular Facebook page Yellowstone National Park: Invasion of the Idiots has sparked a lively debate about the etiquette of driving through the park’s famous bison jams. Photos with the post show a tour bus pulling out of a line of vehicles stopped by bison … Read more
Updated at 5:30 am Eastern with comments from the SES earnings call. WASHINGTON SES is acquiring rival satellite operator Intelsat for $3.1 billion, a deal that would bring together two major GEO satellite operators in a market facing growing competition from LEO constellations . The companies announced on April 30 that they had agreed to … Read more
Before the identification of the gene PI3K as the cause of a group of disorders with overlapping clinical features, PIK3CAThe related overgrowth spectrum (PROS) was described in terms of its many clinical findings, including CLOVES, (vascular, skeletal and spinal anomalies of congenital lipomatosis overgrowth) and CLAPO (capillary malformation of the lower lip and lymphatic abnormalities … Read more
HELSINKI The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is supporting a new set of diverse and cutting-edge missions, advancing its ambitious space science agenda. Initiatives spanning distant lunar astronomy, astrophysics, exoplanets and heliophysics aim to place China at the forefront of astronomical research and space exploration. Wang Chi, director of the National Space Science Center (NSSC) … Read more
The Aswan High Dam Reservoir is one of the largest water reservoirs in the world and suffers from high rates of water evaporation due to the region’s very hot and dry climate. Floating photovoltaic installations can be a remedy, while offering a good combination for hydroelectric power generation. April 30, 2024 Lior Kahana An international … Read more
And you thought rush hour was bad on Earth! New research suggests that some “cosmic intersections” have failed “traffic lights” that make black hole collisions almost inevitable. At the heart of all large galaxies are cosmic monsters called supermassive black holes, huge voids that surround everything in the galaxies themselves. This turbulent behavior influences things … Read more
A normally elusive predator was spotted prowling a Southern California town for a week until it struck gold in the form of a makeshift turkey coop behind a private home, officials said. The homeowners were surprised to find a mountain lion in the shed behind their home on Saturday, April 27, the city of Hesperia … Read more
LONDON – SpaceX’s spacecraft will be a game-changer for space-based solar power generation and will make orbiting power plants not only affordable, but cheaper than many other methods of generating electricity in the Earth, according to Michigan-based start-up Virtus Solis. Virtus Solis, founded by former SpaceX rocket engineer John Bucknell, presented its solar energy radiation … Read more
The American theoretical physicist Joseph Polchinski once said that the existence of magnetic monopoles is one of the safest bets that can be made about physics yet to be seen. In its search for these particles, which have a magnetic charge and are predicted by various theories that extend the Standard Model, the MoEDAL Collaboration … Read more
STOW A 175-year-old dam needs immediate repair, and Stow officials are looking at steps to ensure any improvements can handle future climate change. “The fact is, the engineering numbers have changed expectations have been raised for what would be considered a once-in-500-year rainstorm,” said Bruce Fletcher, a project manager working for the city. “And currently … Read more