Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

A picture of a mysterious and other-worldly horseshoe crab has earned Laurent Ballesta the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPY) 2023. The golden marine arthropod is seen hugging the bottom muds in waters off Pangatalan Island, in the Philippines. It is tracked by …

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Bad weather delays SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch of NASA's Psyche asteroid mission to Oct. 13.

The launch of NASA's Psyche asteroid mission has been delayed until 10:19 a.m. EDT (1419 GMT) on Friday (Oct. 13), to account for inclement weather that's barreling in from the Gulf of Mexico.  Psyche, NASA's probe to explore a metal asteroid of the same name, wa…

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104 year old Dorothy Hoffner who set the record dies days after sky diving.

Dorothy Hoffner, the 104-year-old Chicago woman who set the record for the oldest tandem skydive, died in her sleep just days after the monumental jump. Hoffner made worldwide news just 10 days ago on October 1, when she became the oldest living person to jump out of a plane…

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Solar and Lunar Eclipse in October 2023

October 2023 is set to be a remarkable month for astronomy enthusiasts and stargazers around the world. It will mark a rare celestial event when both Solar and Lunar eclipses will grace the night skies. These awe-inspiring natural phenomena offer a captivating glimpse into …

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Kenyan Kiptum Breaks Marathon World Record.

Kenya’s Kelvin Kiptum left the running world in awe as he shattered the men’s world record, clocking a time of just two hours and 35 seconds, to claim victory at the Chicago Marathon on Sunday. He broke the previous record set by Eliud Kipchoge in the 2022 Berlin Marathon. K…

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Atlas V rocket launching Amazon's 1st internet satellites today.

The first two prototype satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband constellation will lift off today (Oct. 6), and you can watch the action live. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the two spacecraft is scheduled to lift off today from Florida&#…

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Mercury was shrinking for at least 3 billion years — and it still might be today.

Since the 1970s, when NASA's Mariner 10 mission reached Mercury, scientists have known that the planet is shrinking as its core cools down. But while it's estimated that thermal contraction started some 3 billion years ago, it hasn't been clear whether it's …

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NASA’s Hubble Finds Bizarre Explosion in Unexpected Place.

A very rare, strange burst of extraordinarily bright light in the universe just got even stranger – thanks to the eagle-eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The phenomenon, called a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT), flashed onto the scene where it wasn't…

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Jon Fosse, a Norwegian master of spare Nordic writing, wins the Nobel Prize in literature.

Jon Fosse, a master of spare Nordic literature in a sprawling body of work ranging from plays to novels and children’s books, won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works that “give voice to the unsayable.” Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel literature committee…

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Further evidence points to footprints in New Mexico being the oldest sign of humans in Americas.

New research confirms that fossil human footprints in New Mexico are likely the oldest direct evidence of human presence in the Americas, a finding that upends what many archaeologists thought they knew about when our ancestors arrived in the New World. The footprints were d…

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Sri Lanka’s official reserves estimated at USD 3.5 billion.

The level of gross official reserves of the country were estimated at around USD 3.5 billion as of the end of September 2023, according to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL). However, this includes the swap facility from the People’s Bank of China to the tune of USD 1.4 bi…

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Sri Lanka to host 2023 Asian Women Parliamentarian Caucus annual meeting

Arrangements have been made to hold the Asian Women Parliamentarian Caucus Annual Meeting 2023 in Colombo this year, the Communications Department of Parliament says. This year, the theme of the Asian Women Parliamentarian Caucus is “Inclusivity & Diversity in Gender Equ…

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Scientists discover half-a-million-year-old wooden structure.

Scientists working in Zambia have discovered what are believed to be the remains of the world’s oldest wooden structure. Dated to some 476,000 years ago, they are almost a hundred times older than the Pyramids in Egypt. Professor Larry Barham from the University of Liverpool…

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Lost 4,400-year-old tomb found with Ancient Egyptian Mummy inside.

Archaeologists have rediscovered a lost tomb that contains the mummy of an ancient Egyptian official. The tomb belonged to Ptahshepses, who lived around 4,400 years ago during the 25th and 24th centuries B.C. Archaeologists with the Czech Institute of Egyptology at Prague…

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3 scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on tiny quantum dots.

Moungi Bawendi, of MIT, Louis Brus, of Columbia University, and Alexei Ekimov, of Nanocrystals Technology Inc., were honored for their work with the tiny particles that are just a few atoms in diameter and whose electrons have constrained movement.  This effects how they abs…

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Tharushi Karunarathna wins Gold at 2023 Asian Games.

Sri Lankan athlete Tharushi Karunarathna clinched the Gold medal in the Women’s 800m event at the 19th Asian Games Hangzhou, China, a short while ago. The 19-year-old clocked a time of 2.03.20 minutes to clinch the Gold medal in the women’s 800m event at the 2023 Asian Games…

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Sri Lanka clinch Bronze in women’s 4x400m relay

Sri Lanka team secured the bronze medal in the Women’s 4x400m relay event at the 2023 Asian Games being held in Hangzhou, China, a short while ago. The four Sri Lankan sprinters clocked a time of 3:30:88 minutes, setting a new national record in the event. Meanwhile, Sri Lank…

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Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a pair of scientists who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines. Professors Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman will share the prize. The technology was experimental before the pandemic, but has …

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Nobel Prize in Physics goes to scientists for work on electrons.

The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists who look at electrons in atoms during the tiniest of split seconds. Pierre Agostini of The Ohio State University in the U.S.; Ferenc Krausz of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian Uni…

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James Webb telescope makes 'JuMBO' discovery of planet-like objects in Orion.

Jupiter-sized "planets" free-floating in space, unconnected to any star, have been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). What's intriguing about the discovery is that these objects appear to be moving in pairs. Astronomers are currently struggling t…

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Giant asteroid the size of 100 capybaras to pass Earth Tuesday - NASA.

A huge asteroid the size of around 100 capybaras is set to pass Earth on Tuesday, October 3, according to NASA's asteroid tracker. The asteroid in question has been designated 349507 (2008 QY), according to the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's J…

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Ghana’s former first lady dies at 87.

Flags have been flying at half mast in Ghana in tribute to Theresa Kufuor, the wife of John Agyekum Kufuor, president of Ghana from 2000 to 2008. Born Theresa Mensah, the former first lady passed away on 1 October at the age of 87. As a scholar of political science and inter…

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465-million-year-old trilobite found with Gut Contents Preserved.

The newly-discovered fossilized specimen of Bohemolichas incola, a species of trilobite that lived during the Ordovician period, provides by far the most detailed source of information to date concerning the diet and the feeding mode of trilobites. Bohemolichas incola appea…

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Japan and India plan 2025 moon mission to hunt for water near the lunar south pole.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Is making progress on its rover for a joint mission with India to the south pole of the moon. JAXA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) agreed to the cooperative project back in 2019. ISRO, which recently made India …

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Archaeologists Discover 'Exceptional' 2,000-Year-Old Female Marble Stat.

An "exceptional" marble statue from the Roman era has been discovered in Italy, researchers have announced. The female figure dates to around 2,000 years ago—somewhere between the middle of the 1st century B.C. and the mid-1st century A.D. Researchers from the Spani…

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The World’s First Known Deep-Sea Octopus Nursery.

In early June, about 150 miles off the western shore of Costa Rica and 10,000 feet below the ocean’s surface, an octopus hatched just in time to see an alien invasion. As the newborn slipped from her egg and into her world—a strip of rocky seamount heated slightly by hydrot…

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Michael Gambon, veteran actor who played Dumbledore in ‘Harry Potter’ films, dies.

Veteran actor Michael Gambon, who was known to many for his portrayal of Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight “Harry Potter” films, has died, his publicist said Thursday. He was 82. A statement by his family, issued by his publicist, said he died followin…

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James Webb Space Telescope detects 1st evidence of carbon on Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified carbon dioxide originating from the salty liquid oceans of Jupiter's icy moon Europa.  Scientists have been aware for some time that oceans of water lie beneath the icy shell of Europa but did not know if these oceans had the…

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Tesla announces it produced its 5 millionth electric car.

Tesla has announced that it has produced its 5 millionth electric car this week – a milestone that many nayswyers thought impossible not so long ago. I’ve been reporting on Tesla long enough to remember the days where most people in the auto industry thought Tesla would neve…

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India tries waking up Chandrayaan-3 moon lander, without success.

Engineers at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) have begun attempts to wake the Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander and rover from hibernation after the two-week frosty lunar night. On Friday (Sept. 22), ISRO said in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that it has made…

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