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An electric drone you can sit in – could it take off?

Katharine Da CostaReporting fromOxfordshireBBCWhat about charging infrastructure?While the Axe...

Microsoft sets May end date for Skype after 14-year run

Before there was Zoom, Skype was the dominant...

Hurricane Lee Approaches New England With Effects Likely Confined to the Coast

Tropical storm warnings were in effect for parts of Canada and a wide stretch of coastal New England on Friday as Hurricane Lee moved toward Canada, where it is...

A Fireball Whacked Into Jupiter, and Astronomers Got It on Video

Ko Arimatsu, an astronomer at Kyoto University in Japan, received an intriguing email a couple of weeks ago: An amateur astronomer in his country had spotted a bright flash...

Wiping Out the Dinosaurs Let Countless Flowers Bloom

When a mountain-size slab of space rock rammed into the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, the fallout was apocalyptic. Tsunamis washed away coastlines, raging fires engulfed forests and...

Lough Neagh: What does future hold for UK’s largest freshwater lake?

It supplies half of Belfast's drinking water but blue-green algae has caused havoc on Lough Neagh this summer. Source link

Holiday travel alert: Don’t get duped by scammers

While the holiday season may be months away, now is the best time to book your travel to visit family and friends for those winter months. Typically, the further...

Covid Closed the Nation’s Schools. Cleaner Air Can Keep Them Open.

On a sunny afternoon in a cluttered music room at East High in Denver, two sophomores practiced violin while their music teacher, Keith Oxman, labored over a desk in...

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‘Ultrahigh Energy’ Neutrino Found With a Telescope Under the Sea

Deep in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, physicists have uncovered evidence of a ghostly subatomic particle catapulting through space with an energy they...

NASAs Massive Leap Forward With…..New Most Powerful Telescope To….

Melbourne: NASA will soon launch a new telescope which it says will create the “most colourful” map of the cosmos ever made. The SPHEREx...

Russia Is Wooing Western Energy Companies, but Will They Return?

Kremlin officials are dangling the prospect of lucrative investment deals for American energy companies, apparently seeking to convince President Trump that large economic gains...

Video Shows a Rare ‘Doomsday’ Fish Off the Coast of Mexico

The elusive oarfish, a creature nicknamed the “doomsday fish” because of its place in folklore as a precursor to disaster, was captured on video...

How Trump's 'drill, baby, drill' pledge is affecting other countries

Navin Singh KhadkaEnvironment Correspondent, BBC World ServiceGetty ImagesScientists have said there can be no new fossil fuel extraction and there needs to be a...