Less than two days after arriving on the Florida Panhandle as one of the most powerful hurricanes in USA history, a Category 4 monster with 155 miles per hour winds that sheared roofs from houses and buildings and snapped trees and power poles, Michael moved off the East Coast early Friday morning and into the Atlantic Ocean as a post-tropical storm. [Full Article...]
Scott also said Monday afternoon that state health officials are reaching out to hospitals and nursing homes to be prepared. The forecast indicates Michael may be a Category 3 hurricane - with winds from 111 to 129 miles per hour - when it strikes. [Full Article...]
Michael is expected to reach major hurricane status on Wednesday as it approaches a landfall between Apalachicola and Pensacola, with 125 miles per hour winds, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday in its 11 a.m. With just a month to go before Election Day, Florida voters in evacuation zones were given an extra day to register to vote, once offices reopen after the storm. [Full Article...]
They say it's worth around $100,000, and is the sixth largest meteorite found in MI. " It's the most valuable specimen I have ever held in my life, monetarily and scientifically ", Sibescu expressed. He says the farmer who sold him the property told him it landed in his backyard in the 1930s. He contacted Central Michigan University who tested and confirmed that the rock was not only a meteorit... [Full Article...]
But these extrasolar satellites had lingered at the limits of detection with current techniques. The team used the telescope with the aim of finding evidence to either validate or refute the existence of the first exomoon. One of the authors behind the study - David Kipping from Columbia University in the United States - has been speculating about the possible existence of exomoons , and des... [Full Article...]
The system will remain a tropical storm for the next several days with little change in strength. If it becomes a tropical storm as predicted, Tropical Depression Fourteen is expected to bring squally, wet weather to South Florida beginning later today, according to Robert Garcia, senior meteorologist with the National Weather Service. [Full Article...]
Early on in his career at Bell Labs, he didn't get a raise and was anxious he would be fired after his research didn't pan out. While laser eye surgery is the most familiar application of their work, Moloney said, it has also let scientists probe fundamental forces acting within matter at very high temperatures and pressures. [Full Article...]
In doing so, he invented the optical tweezers that are today used to grab particles, atoms , viruses and living cells with their laser-based pincers. Her former PhD adviser, Dr Mourou, said he found it hard to describe his emotions at winning the Nobel Prize . Before Strickland and Mourou's pioneering work, the peak power of laser pulses was limited because, when cranked up to high inten... [Full Article...]
As excitement around the beluga sighting peaked, many wondered just how the whale ended up in the Thames. The sight of a beluga whale so far south - 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometres) from even Iceland - is exceptional. And boats in the water crowding the whale could cause it a great level of distress". Rescue teams are on standby in case the whale, which usually lives in the Arctic, gets into... [Full Article...]
He now heads Japan's largest online retail shop, Zozotown . He is the first to book a trip as a private passenger with the commercial space company for a voyage that hasn't been attempted since NASA's Apollo missions ended in 1972. Elon Musk looked enthusiastic and excited at the event. The new strategy is to still fly around the moon, but using an even bigger SpaceX rocket still in dev... [Full Article...]
Many people around the world wrongly concluded that America was "walking away from climate action" when Trump pulled the country out of the Paris climate accord , Bloomberg said , stressing that "nothing could be further from the truth". [Full Article...]
He said about BFR, it's "making people excited about the future - about getting up in the morning". That now stands to change with BFR and signals a synergy between SpaceX and Maezawa in terms of using the BFR architecture to make space accessible to everyone. [Full Article...]
As Hurricane Florence made landfall, it appeared many North Carolinians had listened. The third death happened in Hampstead, Pender County when a woman had a medical emergency and EMS crews could not get to her due to the storm, according to Tom Collins, Director of Emergency Management. [Full Article...]
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam says residents should shelter in place and stay off the roads as Hurricane Florence starts to come ashore in the Carolinas and its effects make their way north. About 10 million people could be affected by the storm. The town was under evacuation orders, but 150 people were trapped there by the storm as of Friday morning. [Full Article...]
Altria Group Inc, the parent of Philip Morris USA, said the storm could potentially affect tobacco fields, and is exploring its crop-buying options to offset any losses. Florence continues to grow in size and strength, now poised to become the strongest hurricane in nearly 30 years to hit the Carolinas as more than 1 million people began fleeing the US coastline. [Full Article...]
Isaac was a hurricane Sunday night but downgraded when maximum sustained winds fell below 74 miles per hour. The turbulent weather is coming off the back of one of number of major storms now raging in the Atlantic, another of which, Hurricane Florence , has caused mass evacuations on the east coast of United States this week. [Full Article...]
The space exploration startup tweeted this morning that it had signed its first passenger up for a trip in the company's BFR rocket. SpaceX will reveal more information regarding the private space flight to the Moon in a live webcast on 17 September. [Full Article...]
The center of the massive storm is then forecast to meander Thursday, Friday and Saturday over a stretch of coastline saturated by rising seas, inundating several states and triggering life-threatening floods. A turn toward the northwest is forecast to occur late Wednesday night. That most recent time was just past year, when Hurricanes Irma, Jose and Maria all reached hurricane status at the sa... [Full Article...]
He estimated about 1 million residents would flee the coast of his state, following earlier orders for the evacuation of more than 50,000 people from the southern-most Outer Banks barrier islands of North Carolina. The governors of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia declared states of emergency far ahead of the approaching storm. Residents in its path are being warned to gather supplies ... [Full Article...]
A hurricane watch is in effect for Edisto Beach, South Carolina to South Santee River, South Carolina and North of Duck, North Carolina to the North Carolina-Virginia border. US President Donald Trump signed declarations of emergency on Tuesday for both North Carolina and SC, freeing up federal money and resources for storm response. [Full Article...]
Less than two days after arriving on the Florida Panhandle as one of the most powerful hurricanes in USA history, a Category 4 monster with 155 miles per hour winds that sheared roofs from houses and buildings and snapped trees and power poles, Michael moved off the East Coast early Friday morning and into the Atlantic Ocean as a post-tropical storm. [Full Article...]
Scott also said Monday afternoon that state health officials are reaching out to hospitals and nursing homes to be prepared. The forecast indicates Michael may be a Category 3 hurricane - with winds from 111 to 129 miles per hour - when it strikes. [Full Article...]
Michael is expected to reach major hurricane status on Wednesday as it approaches a landfall between Apalachicola and Pensacola, with 125 miles per hour winds, the National Hurricane Center said Tuesday in its 11 a.m. With just a month to go before Election Day, Florida voters in evacuation zones were given an extra day to register to vote, once offices reopen after the storm. [Full Article...]
They say it's worth around $100,000, and is the sixth largest meteorite found in MI. " It's the most valuable specimen I have ever held in my life, monetarily and scientifically ", Sibescu expressed. He says the farmer who sold him the property told him it landed in his backyard in the 1930s. He contacted Central Michigan University who tested and confirmed that the rock was not only a meteorit... [Full Article...]
But these extrasolar satellites had lingered at the limits of detection with current techniques. The team used the telescope with the aim of finding evidence to either validate or refute the existence of the first exomoon. One of the authors behind the study - David Kipping from Columbia University in the United States - has been speculating about the possible existence of exomoons , and des... [Full Article...]
The system will remain a tropical storm for the next several days with little change in strength. If it becomes a tropical storm as predicted, Tropical Depression Fourteen is expected to bring squally, wet weather to South Florida beginning later today, according to Robert Garcia, senior meteorologist with the National Weather Service. [Full Article...]
Early on in his career at Bell Labs, he didn't get a raise and was anxious he would be fired after his research didn't pan out. While laser eye surgery is the most familiar application of their work, Moloney said, it has also let scientists probe fundamental forces acting within matter at very high temperatures and pressures. [Full Article...]
In doing so, he invented the optical tweezers that are today used to grab particles, atoms , viruses and living cells with their laser-based pincers. Her former PhD adviser, Dr Mourou, said he found it hard to describe his emotions at winning the Nobel Prize . Before Strickland and Mourou's pioneering work, the peak power of laser pulses was limited because, when cranked up to high inten... [Full Article...]
As excitement around the beluga sighting peaked, many wondered just how the whale ended up in the Thames. The sight of a beluga whale so far south - 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometres) from even Iceland - is exceptional. And boats in the water crowding the whale could cause it a great level of distress". Rescue teams are on standby in case the whale, which usually lives in the Arctic, gets into... [Full Article...]
He now heads Japan's largest online retail shop, Zozotown . He is the first to book a trip as a private passenger with the commercial space company for a voyage that hasn't been attempted since NASA's Apollo missions ended in 1972. Elon Musk looked enthusiastic and excited at the event. The new strategy is to still fly around the moon, but using an even bigger SpaceX rocket still in dev... [Full Article...]
Many people around the world wrongly concluded that America was "walking away from climate action" when Trump pulled the country out of the Paris climate accord , Bloomberg said , stressing that "nothing could be further from the truth". [Full Article...]
He said about BFR, it's "making people excited about the future - about getting up in the morning". That now stands to change with BFR and signals a synergy between SpaceX and Maezawa in terms of using the BFR architecture to make space accessible to everyone. [Full Article...]
As Hurricane Florence made landfall, it appeared many North Carolinians had listened. The third death happened in Hampstead, Pender County when a woman had a medical emergency and EMS crews could not get to her due to the storm, according to Tom Collins, Director of Emergency Management. [Full Article...]
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam says residents should shelter in place and stay off the roads as Hurricane Florence starts to come ashore in the Carolinas and its effects make their way north. About 10 million people could be affected by the storm. The town was under evacuation orders, but 150 people were trapped there by the storm as of Friday morning. [Full Article...]
Altria Group Inc, the parent of Philip Morris USA, said the storm could potentially affect tobacco fields, and is exploring its crop-buying options to offset any losses. Florence continues to grow in size and strength, now poised to become the strongest hurricane in nearly 30 years to hit the Carolinas as more than 1 million people began fleeing the US coastline. [Full Article...]
Isaac was a hurricane Sunday night but downgraded when maximum sustained winds fell below 74 miles per hour. The turbulent weather is coming off the back of one of number of major storms now raging in the Atlantic, another of which, Hurricane Florence , has caused mass evacuations on the east coast of United States this week. [Full Article...]
The space exploration startup tweeted this morning that it had signed its first passenger up for a trip in the company's BFR rocket. SpaceX will reveal more information regarding the private space flight to the Moon in a live webcast on 17 September. [Full Article...]
The center of the massive storm is then forecast to meander Thursday, Friday and Saturday over a stretch of coastline saturated by rising seas, inundating several states and triggering life-threatening floods. A turn toward the northwest is forecast to occur late Wednesday night. That most recent time was just past year, when Hurricanes Irma, Jose and Maria all reached hurricane status at the sa... [Full Article...]
He estimated about 1 million residents would flee the coast of his state, following earlier orders for the evacuation of more than 50,000 people from the southern-most Outer Banks barrier islands of North Carolina. The governors of North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia declared states of emergency far ahead of the approaching storm. Residents in its path are being warned to gather supplies ... [Full Article...]
A hurricane watch is in effect for Edisto Beach, South Carolina to South Santee River, South Carolina and North of Duck, North Carolina to the North Carolina-Virginia border. US President Donald Trump signed declarations of emergency on Tuesday for both North Carolina and SC, freeing up federal money and resources for storm response. [Full Article...]