New research led by the University of Victoria (UVic) has illuminated a significant and previously unrecognized source of seismic hazard for the Yukon Territory of northwestern Canada. The Tintina fault is a major geologic fault approximately 1,000 km long that trends northwestward across the entire territory. It has slipped laterally a total of 450 km…
Lightning might not strike twice, but black holes apparently do. An international group of researchers led by Tel Aviv University astronomers observed a flare caused when a star falls onto a black hole and is destroyed. Surprisingly, this flare occurred about two years after a nearly identical flare named AT 2022dbl, from the exact same…
An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between the stars using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft. Astronomers used X-rays from two binary star systems to detect sulfur in the interstellar medium, the gas and dust found in the space between stars. It’s…
A concept image of NASA’s Fission Surface Power Project NASA NASA is going to build a nuclear reactor on the moon by the mid-2030s. That’s the plan outlined in a new directive from the US space agency’s acting administrator, Sean Duffy. It isn’t a new idea – NASA awarded contracts in 2022 to three companies…
David Deans Political reporter, BBC Wales News BBC Owain Williams has been at the centre of a spat over a selection in Cardiff Wednesday marks Eluned Morgan’s first year in charge as first minister. Other than leading her party into the next Senedd election, her basic task was to mend a Labour group trashed by…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency is weighing a plan to slash a multibillion-dollar Biden-era green energy program focused on installing solar panels on residential properties, Fox News Digital has learned. The EPA is considering sending letters to dozens of nonprofits and state groups that received federal…
Press Association The government and the British Medical Association will restart talks in the coming days to end the long-running resident doctor dispute in England. It comes after BMA leaders met Health Secretary Wes Streeting on Tuesday, following a five-day walkout at the end of July. The BMA said it had agreed to a “window…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia asserted that she is “radically AMERICA FIRST,” shaming those who are not and labeling them as “the enemy.” The congresswoman said that the nation is “falling apart.” “I’m America First. Maybe even America only. I don’t care if you call…
The Cabinet Office spent more than £30,000 trying to block the publication of a questionnaire used by ministers to declare their financial interests. BBC News first requested a copy of the document in January 2023 using Freedom of Information laws after the then Conservative Party chairman Nadhim Zahawi was sacked for breaching the ministerial code….
Sextortion e-mails have been with us for quite a while, and these days, most security professionals tend to think of them more in terms of an “e-mail background noise” rather than as if they posed any serious threat. Given that their existence is reasonably well-known even among general public, this viewpoint would seem to be…
