Wally Funk, aviation pioneer and oldest woman to go into space, dies at 87 | US news
Wally Funk, a trailblazing aviation pioneer who was denied the opportunity to become a Nasa astronaut and half…
The optics of an OCR increase during an election year
While the choice to hike the Official Cash Rate (OCR) can be justified economically, how these decisions are…
Sea lions chase tourists off popular California beach
Beachgoers in one Southern California town had to run for their lives after two massive sea lions came…
Leap Seconds Were a Headache. Now Timekeepers Are Considering a Leap Hour
In 2022, international timekeepers voted to phase out the leap second—an extra tick of time added to account…
July 9 Drought Monitor Update And Lawn Health Index With Recent Storms
After months of focusing on drought, the biggest challenge for many Central Maryland lawns has shifted. Thank you…
SpaceX wants to launch 100,000 Starlink satellites to orbit
SpaceX is nothing if not ambitious. Elon Musk‘s company just filed an application with the U.S. Federal Communications…
FWC investigates video showing woman petting gator in Silver Springs
NEW AT FOUR. AN INVESTIGATION IS UNDERWAY INTO A VIRAL VIDEO WHICH SHOWS A WOMAN PETTING AN ALLIGATOR.…
Returning astronauts describe pain in the soles of the feet and lower back within days of landing — the spine suddenly forced to support half the body’s weight again after months of weightlessness
When NASA astronaut Frank Rubio returned from his record-breaking 371-day mission aboard the International Space Station in September…
Death Divers Jump Off 65-Foot-Tall Iceberg in Greenland
Dumb ways to die. Photo: 00Nation // YouTube Death diving is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.…
NASA Space Telescope Maps Magnetic Fields of ‘Lighthouse’ Pulsar
For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) to directly measure the magnetic…
Physicist says splashy new cosmology study made ‘elemental’ mistake
Two weeks ago, when Till Sawala heard the news of a peer-reviewed paper that purported to upend our…
Zebra, emu, alpaca among 60 animals confiscated from West Omaha home
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) – The Nebraska Humane Society confiscated dozens of animals, including a zebra, from a West…