Stealth gas contracts awarded amid high-profile crewed Starliner mission NASA has awarded key contracts to a half dozen companies that will supply liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen in support of operations at agency centers and facilities across the United States, the ... 06/6/2024 - 5:08 pm | View Link
Space pictures! See our space image of the day Boeing's Starliner spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station ... (1615 GMT), where they will conduct a roughly eight-day mission testing their spacecraft while aboard the ... 06/5/2024 - 5:59 am | View Link
Star Refrigeration researchers unveil pioneering research at the 8th IIR International Conference on Sustainability and Cold Chain 2024 LONDON, June 4, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Leading engineers from Star Refrigeration will be presenting findings from their latest scientific papers at this year's International Conference on ... 06/4/2024 - 1:40 am | View Link
Boeing Starliner's first astronaut flight halted at the last minute An unplanned hold in the countdown of a spacecraft bound for the International Space Station ... it would not pose a risk to the crew or the mission. As it turned out, the leak rate remained ... 06/1/2024 - 6:55 am | View Link
Search the United Nations It is this notion that framed the theme and logo of this year’s observance of the International Day of Peace ... the United Nations' founding mission. Since its inception, the UN has played ... 09/10/2022 - 2:16 pm | View Link
St. Petersburg, Fla. — At first, fossil-hunting diver Alex Lundberg thought the lengthy object on the sea floor off Florida’s Gulf Coast was a piece of wood. It turned out to be something far rarer, Lundberg said: a large section of tusk from a long-extinct mastodon.
Lundberg and his diver companion had found fossils in the same place before, including mammoth teeth, bones of an ancient jaguar and parts of a dire wolf.
Washington — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to address a joint meeting of Congress on July 24, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Congressional leaders last week formally invited Netanyahu to come speak, delivering the most recent show of wartime support for the longtime ally despite mounting political divisions over Israel’s military assault on Hamas in Gaza.
A World War II Navy veteran was being mourned Thursday following his death while en route to France to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a trip friends said he’d talked excitedly about making.
Robert “Al” Persichitti of Fairport, New York fell ill during a stop in Germany last week and died in a hospital, his longtime priest and friend, the Rev.
Washington — The horse transformed human history – and now scientists have a clearer idea of when humans began to transform the horse.
Around 4,200 years ago, one particular lineage of horse quickly became dominant across Eurasia, suggesting that’s when humans started to spread domesticated horses around the world, according to research published Thursday in the journal Nature.
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There was something special about this horse: It had a genetic mutation that changed the shape of its back, likely making it easier to ride.
“In the past, you had many different lineages of horses,” said Pablo Librado, an evolutionary biologist at the Spanish National Research Council in Barcelona and co-author of the new study.
As Russia’s war grinds on, the Biden Administration is now taking on bigger risks to support Ukraine. The latest example is a White House decision to allow Ukrainian forces to use U. S.-provided weapons to strike targets inside Russia. We may also soon see NATO personnel on the ground in Ukraine to train fighters.
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Six months ago, Western leaders weren’t ready to discuss either of these changes—at least not publicly.
TOKYO — Called “Tokyo Futari Story,” the city hall’s new initiative is just that: An effort to create couples, “futari,” in a country where it is increasingly common to be “hitori,” or alone.
While a site offering counsel and general information for potential lovebirds is online, a dating app is also in development.