First orbital rocket launched from Europe crashes seconds after blast-off
Oslo, Norway -- The first orbital rocket launched from continental Europe crashed seconds after blast-off Sunday, in a closely watched...
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UAE’s satellite, developed by Emirati engineers, launched from California to aid disaster relief and earth observation
With cutting-edge features like high-resolution imaging and electric jet propulsion, MBZ-SAT will enhance environmental surveillance, disaster management, and infrastructure monitoring,...
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Webb telescope promises new age of the stars
Researchers using the new observatory have found the furthest galaxies ever observed, one of which existed just 350 millions years...
- Scientists say the Webb telescope, now orbiting the sun at a million miles from Earth, should last 20 years, twice its guaranteed lifetime
- Jupiter has been captured by the telescope in incredible detail which is expected to help understand the workings of the giant gas planet
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NASA’s Orion spaceship slingshots around Moon, heads for home
Monday's was the last major maneuver of the mission, which began when NASA's mega Moon rocket SLS blasted off from...
- European Service Module fired its main engine for over three minutes to put the gumdrop-shaped Orion on course for home
- Once it returns to Earth, Orion will have traveled more than 1.4 million miles, said Mike Sarafin, the Artemis mission manager
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Indonesia villagers race to escape eruption as sky turns black
LUMAJANG, INDONESIA - Thousands of villagers living near Indonesia's Mount Semeru were racing for refuge Sunday to the wail of...
- Locals fled on motorbikes sometimes three at a time as a mushroom cloud of ash approached and monsoon rains lashed the area in East Java.
- Indonesian authorities raised their alert level for the volcano to its highest after the crater spewed hot ash a mile into the sky.
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‘Carbon credits need more supply, integrity to meet global demand’
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - Carbon credits could make a significant contribution to achieving net zero by 2050, but only if...
- Trade in voluntary carbon credits could grow 100-fold by 2050 if teething problems are addressed.
- A carbon credit allows a country or organization to produce a certain amount of carbon emissions and it can be traded if the full allowance is not used.
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Natural disaster losses hit US$115 bn this year, says Swiss Re
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - Natural catastrophes have caused an estimated US$115 billion of insured losses in 2022 to date, driven by...
- Swiss Re added that so-called secondary natural disasters such as floods and hailstorms caused more than $50 billion of insured losses.
- Total insured losses topping $100 billion for a second consecutive year, said Swiss Re.
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SpaceX postpones mission to put Japanese lander on Moon
The US space agency wants to develop the lunar economy in the coming years by building a space station in...
- A Falcon 9 rocket is now scheduled to blast off at 3:37 am (0837 GMT) Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Florida
- Measuring just over 2 by 2.5 meters, it carries on board a 10-kilogram rover named Rashid, built by the UAE
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UAE moon rover launch put off, to run more ‘pre-flight checks’
Dubai, UAE— The UAE’s moon rover launch has been delayed by one day in order to run more pre-flight checks,...
- Rashid Rover, the Arab world’s first lunar mission, is now scheduled to launch at 8:37 a.m. (GMT) on Thursday, Dec.1, from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US
- The integrated spacecraft once launched will take a low-energy route to the moon rather than a direct approach
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All regions experienced water extremes in 2021, says UN
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - All regions of the world saw water extremes last year - both floods and droughts - and...
- Large areas of the planet recorded drier than normal conditions in 2021, the UN's World Meteorological Organization said.
- Some 3.6 billion people face inadequate access to freshwater at least one month per year.
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In Hawaii world’s largest volcano erupts for first time in decades
Hawaii's Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano in the world, has erupted for the first time in nearly 40 years,...
- Mauna Loa has been showing signs of building to an eruption for years, according to the USGS.
- The USGS which said the ongoing eruption was visible from Kona, a town on the west coast of Hawaii's main island some 72 kilometers from the volcano.
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NASA successfully places Orion spacecraft in lunar orbit
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES - NASA's Orion spacecraft was placed in lunar orbit Friday, officials said, as the much-delayed Moon mission...
- The spacecraft is to take astronauts to the Moon in the coming years -- the first to set foot on its surface since the last Apollo mission in 1972.
- While in lunar orbit, flight controllers will monitor key systems and perform checkouts while in the environment of deep space, the agency said.
First orbital rocket launched from Europe crashes seconds after blast-off
Oslo, Norway -- The first orbital rocket launched from continental Europe crashed seconds after blast-off Sunday, in a closely watched...
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Error-prone AI chatbot dog leads Japan’s elderly astray
Tokyo, Japan - A cartoon canine AI chatbot designed to cheer up and inform lonely older residents of western Japan is...
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Swedish researchers find snoozing in the morning isn’t bad
Stockholm, Sweden - You snooze, you lose? Swedish researchers said Wednesday that might not be the case, after their study even...
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NASA to unveil first images of historic asteroid sample
OSIRIS-REx wasn't the first mission to rendezvous with an asteroid and bring back samples for study -- Japan succeeded in...
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Trio wins physics Nobel for illuminating electrons
France's Pierre Agostini, Hungarian-Austrian Ferenc Krausz and Franco-Swede Anne L'Huillier won the Nobel prize in physics for research using ultra...
- The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences likened the process to how the flapping wings of a humming bird turn into a blur for the human eye.
- "We can now open the door to the world of electrons," Eva Olsson, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics, said in a statement.
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mRNA COVID vaccine experts awarded Nobel Medicine Prize
Kariko, 68, and Weissman, 64, longstanding colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania in the US, have won a slew of...
- While the prizewinning research dates back to 2005, the first vaccines to use the mRNA technology were those made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna against Covid-19.
- The mRNA vaccines, together with other COVID vaccines "have saved millions of lives and prevented severe disease in many more," the jury said
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UN conference adopts plan to reduce harmful chemicals
PARIS, FRANCE - A new roadmap to reduce the environmental risks from chemicals and waste was adopted at a United Nations...
- The plan sets out 28 concrete targets and guidelines for key sectors across the entire lifecycle of chemicals, from production to waste.
- It calls for a transition to more sustainable chemical alternatives, responsible management of chemicals in industry, agriculture and healthcare.