Will American shad, striped bass and other fish return to early spawning grounds that were blocked off starting in the mid-1700s by early settlers? NYTimes.com - Published
New outbreaks in Europe, Asia and the Middle East prompted a second day of sliding stock prices. Nearly 80,000 people in 37 countries have been infected and at least 2,600 have died. NYTimes.com - Published
A Georgia woman says police lied to her to obtain a DNA sample in order to charge her son with a cold-case killing from 2001, NBC reports... Newsmax - Published
Niamey (AFP) Feb 22, 2020
A joint operation by Nigerien and French troops in southwest Niger killed 120 "terrorists" and seized bomb-making equipment and vehicles, the country's defence ministry.. Terra Daily - Published
Kinshasa (AFP) Feb 21, 2020
The Democratic Republic of Congo has authorised the startup of an experimental nuclear reactor that has been mothballed for more than a quarter of a century. "The.. Energy Daily - Published
Cadarache, France (SPX) Feb 25, 2020
Framatome held a ceremonial ribbon-cutting event in Cadarache, France, to mark the opening of its new engineering research and operations center and the.. Energy Daily - Published
Fessenheim, France (AFP) Feb 22, 2020
French state-owned energy giant EDF on Saturday began shutting down the country's oldest nuclear power plant after 43 years in operation. Environmentalists and.. Energy Daily - Published
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 24, 2020
In ancient Greek mythology, Icarus' wax wings melted when he dared to fly too close to the sun. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.. Energy Daily - Published
DeKalb IL (SPX) Feb 24, 2020
Researchers at Northern Illinois University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, reported Feb. 19.. Energy Daily - Published
Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Feb 24, 2020
The development of next generation solar power technology that has potential to be used as a flexible 'skin' over hard surfaces has moved a step closer, thanks.. Energy Daily - Published
Beijing (XNA) Feb 24, 2020
The China-France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSat) has been put into service after completing in-orbit tests, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources. During the.. Terra Daily - Published
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2020
NASA is partnering with the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand Space Agency, Air New Zealand and the University of Auckland to.. Terra Daily - Published
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 24, 2020
The Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince was on lockdown Monday after Haitian police attacked the army headquarters to demand better working conditions, sparking a gun.. Terra Daily - Published
Istanbul (AFP) Feb 23, 2020
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake in northwestern Iran on Sunday killed nine people, including children, in neighbouring Turkey and injured dozens on both sides of the border,.. Terra Daily - Published
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 24, 2020
Hong Kong will close its doors Tuesday to all arrivals from South Korea except returning city residents in response to the growing coronavirus outbreak, the territory's.. Terra Daily - Published
Yogyakarta, Indonesia (AFP) Feb 22, 2020
The death toll from a flash flood which hit a large group of students trekking along a river in Indonesia rose to eight Saturday, officials said as rescuers.. Terra Daily - Published
Tehran (AFP) Feb 24, 2020
Iran's government vowed Monday to be transparent after being accused of covering up the deadliest coronavirus outbreak outside China, dismissing a lawmaker's claim the toll.. Terra Daily - Published
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 24, 2020
Scientists have found evidence that green seaweeds were proliferating in Earth's oceans several hundred million years before modern plants began colonizing dry land... Terra Daily - Published
Paris (AFP) Feb 24, 2020
The new coronavirus outbreak is depriving Paris hotels, restaurants and retailers of big-spending Chinese visitors, the latest challenge for a French tourism industry facing.. Terra Daily - Published
Madrid (AFP) Feb 23, 2020
Airports on Spain's Canary Islands were closed again Sunday after a sandstorm hit the archipelago, airport authorities said. Air travel was first disrupted on the.. Terra Daily - Published
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 24, 2020
Haitian police demanding better working conditions shot up the army headquarters on Sunday, killing two servicemen and wounding a dozen more, the Defense Ministry.. Terra Daily - Published
Tokyo (AFP) Feb 24, 2020
Two more officials sent to a cruise ship quarantined off Japan to help with on-board efforts to contain the deadly coronavirus have contracted the illness themselves,.. Terra Daily - Published
Geneva (AFP) Feb 24, 2020
The World Health Organization on Monday said the new coronavirus epidemic had "peaked" in China but warned that a surge in cases elsewhere was "deeply concerning" and all.. Terra Daily - Published
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 25, 2020
A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to the first year of NASA's InSight lander mission. Findings described in a set of six papers published this.. Space Daily - Published
College Park MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2020
The first reports of seismic activity and ground vibrations on Mars are in. The red planet has a moderate level of seismic activity, intermediate between Earth and.. Space Daily - Published
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Feb 25, 2020
New data gleaned from the magnetic sensor aboard NASA's InSight spacecraft is offering an unprecedented close-up of magnetic fields on Mars. In a study published.. Space Daily - Published
Cologne, Germany (SPX) Feb 25, 2020
Mars is a seismically active planet - quakes occur several times a day. Although they are not particularly strong, they are easily measurable during the quiet.. Space Daily - Published
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 25, 2020
On 26 November 2018, the NASA InSight lander successfully set down on Mars in the Elysium Planitia region. Seventy Martian days later, the mission's.. Space Daily - Published
Amherst MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2020
In a new paper, climate scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution propose that massive amounts of melting sea ice.. Space Daily - Published
Exeter UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2020
Rapid Arctic warming has not led to a "wavier" jet stream around the mid-latitudes in recent decades, pioneering new research has shown. Scientists from the University.. Space Daily - Published
Washington (AFP) Feb 24, 2020
Katherine Johnson, a ground-breaking black NASA mathematician whose life was portrayed in the movie "Hidden Figures," died on Monday aged 101, the space agency said... Space Daily - Published
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2020
Delta-X, a new NASA airborne investigation, is preparing to embark on its first field campaign in the Mississippi River Delta in coastal Louisiana. Beginning in April,.. Space Daily - Published
Toulouse, France (SPX) Feb 25, 2020
The first two Airbus-built Pleiades Neo imaging satellites have started comprehensive environmental testing, to ensure they are ready for in-orbit operation... Space Daily - Published
Hoboken NJ (SPX) Feb 25, 2020
Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have created a 3D imaging system that uses light's quantum properties to create images 40,000 times crisper than current.. Space Daily - Published Also reported by •Science Daily
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 21, 2020
Raytheon announced Friday that it finished building the first radar antenna array for the U.S. Army's Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor, a next-generation.. Space Daily - Published
Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Feb 24, 2020
Lightning - one, two, three - and thunder. For centuries, people have estimated the distance of a thunderstorm from the time between lightning and thunder. The.. Space Daily - Published
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2020
Historically, the oceans have done much of the planet's heavy lifting when it comes to sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Microscopic organisms known.. Space Daily - Published
The United States could generate 20% of its electricity from wind within 10 years, without requiring any additional land, according to new research. Science Daily - Published
Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor roughly a billion years ago and were.. Reuters - Published
Milan is not a closed city, but it is a drastically slowed one, after a spike of cases in the region, raising anxiety about a broader slowdown. NYTimes.com - Published
Advanced design of the world's largest and most powerful stellarator demonstrates the ability to moderate heat loss from the plasma that fuels fusion reactions. Science Daily - Published
Researchers suggest that prolonged exposure to a pair of antioxidant proteins may contribute to enlargement of the liver and fatty liver diseases. Science Daily - Published
Scientists found that cloud seeding in the Idaho mountains produced a total of about 235 Olympic-sized swimming pools' worth of water. Science Daily - Published
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