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See a glacier spawn an iceberg in this dramatic video

The breaking off took place over the course of 30 minutes and began the night of June 22; the video has condensed the time of the incident to about 90 seconds. ...

'First blue whale' caught in 50 years

An Icelandic whaling company has been accused of slaughtering an endangered blue whale in a "deplorable act", provoking anger and condemnation from the global m...

Supreme Court nominee dishes out mac and cheese to homeless

On Monday night, President Donald Trump announced his nominee for the newest Supreme Court justice , Brett Kavanaugh . Despite Barber's optimism, Brad Dac...

Illegal ivory found on sale in 10 European countries

Three-quarters of the items tested were also found to be from after 1947, a date after which ivory products can only be sold with government-issued certificates...

Saturn Exchanges Plasma Waves With Its Moon Enceladus

The perceptions appear out of the blue that the waves travel on magnetic field lines interfacing Saturn straightforwardly to Enceladus. During its final orb...

Newly discovered wasp has monster stinger

You probably don't need any more reasons to dislike them, but just in case you do, scientists just discovered a new wasp species in the Amazon that looks like i...

Rhino poachers 'eaten alive' by lions — TORN APART

Rhino poachers kill rhinos in order to remove their horns and sell them as rhino horns cost as much as gold by weight on the black market. A group of poach...

Listen to the Mournful Wails of Planets and Moons

Sulaiman et al found a powerful interaction of plasma waves moving from Saturn to its rings and Enceladus. Enceladus is immersed in Saturn's magnetic field ...

NASA Plans to Bring to Earth a Piece of Mars

Unlike the two rovers NASA now has operating on Mars , Airbus' rover will be able to ship samples back to Earth, giving scientists physical access to soil ...

Blood moon: what it is and how to watch

Blood Moon 2018 will last one hour and 43 minutes, almost 40 minutes longer than our most recent Super Blue Blood Moon combo that took place on January 31st of...

Shark attacks California Instagram model in Bahamas

A 19-year-old college student and Instagram model was posing for a bird's-eye water photo in the Bahamas when a shark bit her on the wrist, BuzzFeed News ...

Russian Progress cargo reaches Space Station in record time

A Soyuz rocket is scheduled to launch the uncrewed Progress 70 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:51 p.m. EDT (2151 GMT) to deliver ...

Shark bites University of Miami student in Bahamas

A model from Houston says she loves sharks even after she was bitten by one in the Bahamas. Hocher sent NBC News a picture of a sign at the marina that warn...

Giant dinosaur bones get archaeologists rethinking Triassic period

According to scientists, Ingenia prima was the first dinosaur species to reach gigantism and even though it was a long way from the 70 tonnes (tons) that the bi...

DEVELOPING: Gov. Scott Declaring State Of Emergency Over Algae Blooms

Congressman Brian Mast today urged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to use emergency authority to stop Lake Okeechobee discharges until they "can definitively p...

Spiders Use Atmospheric Electricity to Fly Hundreds of Miles | Biology

She confirmed what Darwin noted centuries ago after watching hundreds of spiders flying across the ocean for 60 miles . It has been observed that spiders use...

Starbucks, citing environment, is ditching plastic straws

That's right all plastic straws will be completely eliminated from Starbucks stores very soon, the company wants to get rid of them all by the year 2020...

Israel to launch its first spacecraft to the moon

SpaceIL and the state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries plan to launch their unmanned craft in December, the team said at a press conference at an IAI facilit...

Fossils of ‘first giant’ dinosaur uncovered in Argentina

However, the newly discovered fossils show that, in fact, there is more than one way for gigantism to emerge in dinosaurs. The find was published in the speci...

Enormous 4 mile long iceberg filmed breaking from Greenland glacier

The video, which shows sea level rising as the ice from the glacier enters the ocean, may be viewed here: http://bit.ly/2tWk5fO . But there is much that scient...

Scientists find the oldest pigments in the world

After crushing the very, very, very old rocks to a powder and analysing the molecules of ancient organisms, researchers struck gold. Australian researchers ha...

Four-mile-long iceberg breaks off Greenland glacier in dramatic video

This phenomenon, also known as calving (the breaking off of large blocks of ice from a glacier), may also be instructive to scientists and policy makers. While ...

Acting EPA chief 'puts a premium on transparency'

Glider trucks are a combination of new truck bodies with older engines. In July 2017, after Fitzgerald Glider Kits petitioned EPA to do so, the agency ann...

Solar Probe Gets Cutting-Edge Heat Shield

Engineers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab install the thermal protection system, or heat shield, on the Parker Solar Probe . The agency has also inv...

SpaceX wants to land rockets at Vandenberg AFB

The options will depend on how much fuel the rocket uses to land. The request is being made to the FCC because the operation would require communication transmi...