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September 8, 2024
Earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second. For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our clocks in a few years because the planet is rotating a tad
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Fly me to the moon. Or, at least, to Maine. Maine’s largest airport is now home to the second largest piece of the moon on Earth, according to moon rock enthusiasts who installed the extraterrestrial chunk. The moon piece is a little bigger than a rugby ball and is on loan
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A large suburban Philadelphia county has joined dozens of other local governments around the country in suing the oil industry, asserting that major oil producers systematically deceived the public about their role in accelerating global warming. Bucks County’s lawsuit against a half dozen oil companies blames the oil industry for more frequent and intense storms
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VEENDAM, Netherlands (AP) — A 420-meter (quarter-mile) white steel tube running alongside a railway line in the windswept northern Netherlands could usher in a new era in the transportation of people and freight. The tube is the heart of the new European Hyperloop Center that opens Tuesday and will be a proving ground in coming
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LONDON (AP) — The newest endangered baby gorilla at the London Zoo is more than six weeks old but doesn’t yet have a name. Zookeepers aren’t even sure if it’s a male or female because they haven’t been able to get close enough to examine it. A photo taken Monday by The Associated Press shows
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MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian spacecraft with three astronauts successfully docked Monday at the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Russian Oleg Novitsky and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus reached the space outpost after Saturday’s blastoff from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan that followed an aborted launch attempt
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GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Welcome to New Jersey, known around the world for Tony Soprano, Turnpike tolls, chemical plants, and … maple syrup? A university in the southern region of the state is proposing the possibility of New Jersey being the source of the syrupy brown topping typically used on pancakes. As a part
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Forecasters are warning of a geomagnetic storm in Boulder, Colorado that could disrupt radio signals due to a burst of plasma from a solar flare. The event may also provide an opportunity for spectacular aurora sightings. The Saturday alert from the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado states that there is no need for
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RENO, Nev. (AP) — In what will be a tiny big-game hunt for some of the largest animals in North America, Nevada is planning its first-ever moose hunting season this fall. Wildlife experts have observed a significant increase in the number of moose in Nevada over the last five years, with a population now exceeding
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A Soyuz rocket launched from Russia successfully transported three astronauts to the International Space Station on Saturday, after a prior launch delay just two days earlier. The Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan successfully launched a spacecraft with NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Russian Oleg Novitsky, and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus on board. The scheduled liftoff
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