Dick Van Dyke, 98, becomes oldest Emmy winner ever.

Legendary Hollywood performer Dick Van Dyke made history at the 51st Daytime Emmy Awards at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles. On Friday, the 98-year-old actor, singer and dancer became the oldest Daytime Emmy winner when he took home the trophy for Best Guest Perf…

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Boeing launches NASA astronauts for the first time after years of delays.

Boeing launched astronauts for the first time Wednesday, belatedly joining SpaceX as a second taxi service for NASA. A pair of NASA test pilots blasted off aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule for the International Space Station, the first to fly the new spacecraft. The trip by …

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The chicken and egg problem of fighting another flu pandemic.

Even a peep of news about a new flu pandemic is enough to set scientists clucking about eggs. They worried about them in 2005, and in 2009, and they’re worrying now. That’s because millions of fertilized hen eggs are still the main ingredient in making vaccines that, hopeful…

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A Russian cosmonaut becomes the first person to spend 1,000 days in space.

A 59-year-old Russian cosmonaut has become the first person to spend 1,000 days in space, Russian space agency Roscosmos said Wednesday. Oleg Kononenko achieved the milestone on Tuesday, having made five journeys to the International Space Station dating back to 2008. His cur…

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Chinese scientists create mutant ebola virus in lab.

Scientists at Hebei Medical University in China have engineered a mutant virus using parts of the Ebola virus to study the disease and its symptoms. The study, published in Science Direct, involved injecting hamsters with the lethal virus, which resulted in their deaths wit…

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Fish oil supplements linked to greater first-time heart attack risk in study: ‘Not universally good or bad'.

A cardiologist, two dietitians shared cautions, tips on fish oil supplements and new study: ‘More isn’t always better’ Taking fish oil supplements could raise the risk of heart attack and stroke, a new study suggests. Among healthy people, regular use of fish oil was found to…

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Microplastics Found in Blood Clots in Heart, Brain and Legs.

Earlier this year, we got news from a landmark study that microplastics – tiny shards of plastic shed from larger chunks – had been found inside more than 50 percent of fatty deposits from clogged arteries. It was the first data of its kind to draw a link between microplast…

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SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites on 50th mission of the year.

SpaceX launched 20 of its Starlink internet satellites today (May 14), on the company's 50th orbital mission of 2024. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft — 13 of which feature direct-to-cell capability — lifted off from California's Vandenberg Space Fo…

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Helium leak delays Boeing's 1st Starliner astronaut launch to May 21.

The crewed debut of Boeing's Starliner capsule has been pushed back an additional four days. Starliner had been scheduled to lift off this Friday (May 17) on Crew Flight Test (CFT), a mission that will send NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to the Internati…

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David Sanborn, Grammy award-winning saxophonist dies.

David Sanborn, an influential saxophonist, who found success across the genres of pop, R&B, jazz and more, died Sunday. He was 78. Sanborn’s publicist confirmed the accuracy of the post when reached by CNN. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2018, but continued perf…

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Pig-Kidney transplant patient dies nearly two months after surgery.

The first recipient of a genetically modified pig kidney transplant has died nearly two months after he underwent the procedure, according to his family and the hospital that performed the surgery. Richard "Rick" Slayman had the transplant at Massachusetts General …

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Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip.

The first invasive brain chip that Neuralink embedded into a human brain has malfunctioned, with neuron-surveilling threads appearing to have become dislodged from the participant's brain, the company revealed in a blog post Wednesday. It's unclear what caused the th…

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World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target.

Hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C (4.5F) above preindustrial levels this century, blasting past internationally agreed targets and causing catastrophic consequences for humanity and the planet, an exclusiv…

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SpaceX launches 23 satellites from Florida on 1st leg of Starlink doubleheader.

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida today (May 8), on the first leg of a planned spaceflight doubleheader for the company. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 23 Starlink craft lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to…

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Bernard Hill, Titanic and The Lord of the Rings Actor, Dead.

Bernard Hill, who played Captain Edward Smith in Titanic and King Théoden in the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, has died. He was 79. The British actor passed away early May 5, his agent confirmed to the BBC, adding that the star's fiancée Alison and his son Gabriel wer…

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Voyager 1 Light-Sensing Instrument Non-operational.

Project officials report light-sensing instrument aboard NASA's Voyager 1, that had difficulty during encounter with the planet Jupiter March 5th, has been confirmed as no longer being able to record useful data. Tests conducted last week indicate that the light sensitiv…

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Switzerland signs Artemis Accords to join NASA.

Swiss Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin joined NASA administrator Bill Nelson Monday (April 15), at the space agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C., to become the latest country to sign on to the agency's Artemis Accords for moon exploration. Switzerland is the 37…

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We finally know why NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft stopped communicating — scientists are working on a fix.

NASA engineers have discovered the cause of a communications breakdown between Earth and the interstellar explorer Voyager 1. It would appear that a small portion of corrupted memory exists in one of the spacecraft's computers.  The glitch caused Voyager 1 to send unread…

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World's oldest conjoined twins, Lori and George Schappell die.

Lori and George Schappell, the world’s oldest living conjoined twins, have died. The twins passed away on April 7 of undisclosed causes, according to joint obituaries published by Leibensperger Funeral Homes in Hamburg, Pennsylvania. The Schappell twins were born in Pennsylva…

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A 605 MW PV plant in Germany is now Europe’s largest solar farm.

A 605 megawatt (MW) project in Germany has claimed the title of Europe’s largest solar farm, bumping a PV plant in Spain out of the top spot. The Witznitz Solar Farm near Leipzig, which is not state-subsidized, is owned by German investment firm HANSAINVEST Real Assets. It’s…

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