The blast took place at around 10 am local time near a supermarket in the Shushary neighbourhood. A Russian military lieutenant colonel was killed after a car exploded in St Petersburg on Thursday, while his wife, who was also in the vehicle, was seriously injured, Russian media reported.The blast took place at around 10 am…
In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts found an unusual white rock on the Moon (Image Credit: NASA) When Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin explored the Moon in 1971, they were looking for rocks that could reveal how the lunar surface formed. During their mission, they spotted an unusually bright fragment near Spur Crater,…
A worker prepares the well on a Boston-area horse farm to lower Eden’s electrode (Image Credit: Bob O’Connor via IEE Spectrum) What if the rocks beneath our feet could one day be turned into a giant hydrogen factory, not by drilling up an existing fuel reserve, but by sending controlled bursts of electricity deep underground?…
22-year-old college student was shot and killed by police in Pennsylvania. (AP Photo) A 22-year-old college student was shot and killed by police in Pennsylvania after he mistakenly went to the wrong house and was waiting for his friends to pick him up, his father said.Police in Upper Pottsgrove Township, northwest of Philadelphia, responded around…
French’s journey started in the Spark Lab at Lexington Senior High School, where students are encouraged to explore emerging technologies and to build ideas that have real-world applications. A high school student’s vision of a virtual classroom is about to go far beyond the walls where it started. Lennox French, a student at Lexington Senior…
PC: Eocene penguin fossils as archives of Antarctic weathering and climate change: insights from micro-X-ray fluorescence elemental mapping Fifty-five million years ago, Antarctica looked nothing like the frozen continent we know today. Its coastlines were warm and humid, its shores home to some of the earliest penguins ever to exist, and its rocks were quietly…
A police officer in the small Massachusetts town of Stow has resigned just hours before a scheduled termination hearing, after an internal investigation found he repeatedly misused surveillance tools to track a former partner. Officer Jason Rogers allegedly used Flock Safety’s automated license plate reader system and state police databases to obtain information about the…
Rajendranauth Doodnauth MARAJ,/Image: Durham Regional Police A US-based Hindu priest has been arrested in Oshawa, Canada, for sexually assaulting a woman under the guise of a religious healing ceremony.Police said the victim and her family had hired the priest, identified as Rajendranauth Doodnauth Maraj, 50, to travel from the US to perform a Hindu religious…
Education is often measured by how much information a person can remember, but learning involves far more than simply collecting facts. Plutarch captured this idea with the words, “The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” The quote suggests that true education should encourage curiosity, independent thinking and…
Handkerchief Pool was a visitor favourite for its ability to pull in handkerchiefs and return them washed and clean. (NPS photos) Long before Yellowstone National Park became known for strict rules around its hot springs and geysers, visitors were encouraged to marvel at some of the park’s unusual thermal features.One of them was Handkerchief Pool,…