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Colts trade up to draft Wisconsin RB Jonathan Taylor
Taylor joins a backfield that features 1,000-yard rusher Marlon Mack (1,091 yards), Jordan Wilkins and Nyheim Hines . Finishing with a 7-9 record in 2019, the Colts finished seventh in the league in rushing with 2,130 yards . In 13 games as a junior last season, he completed 260-of-405 passes (64.2 percent) for 3,132 yards with 23 touchdowns to eight interceptions. Taylor is the high... [Full Article...]
Scientists discover 19 interstellar asteroids 'hiding in plain sight'
But, unlike the recently identified interstellar visitors 'Oumuamua , and comet 21/Borisov , which are just passing through our Solar System without stopping, these travellers are thought to have been present when Earth and the rest of the planets were just beginning to evolve. [Full Article...]
Pope prays for EU unity ahead of virus conference
He said , "In this Easter season of renewal, let us pledge to love and esteem the attractive gift of earth, our common home, and to care for all members of our human family". "Light blinds them and they can not see". They are like human bats: they can only move about during the night. "And we too, when we are in sin, are in this state: we do not tolerate light. [Full Article...]
Asteroid’s pictures go viral after it looks like it’s ‘wearing a mask’
Masi will set his Virtual Telescope towards asteroid OR2 to analyze the asteroid from a closer angle. As per the agency, the asteroid, which has been identified as 2020 HN3, is now flying across space and moving toward Earth at a speed of nearly 10,000 miles per hour. [Full Article...]
Mike Pompeo: Obama, Biden Were ‘Wildly Soft’ on China
Pompeo said that Beijing is still refusing to hand over a sample of the virus, which was first detected in Wuhan. According to a Reuters tally, the coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 180,000 people worldwide, including almost 48,000 in the United States , making it the worst-hit country by official statistics. [Full Article...]
SpaceX completes essential mission, launching seventh batch of satellites
Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are scheduled to be the first riders in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station. Following stage separation, SpaceX landed Falcon 9's first stage on the "Of Course I Still Love You" drone ship, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. [Full Article...]
Astronomers find a planet that never was
So, the researchers think, what was thought to have been a planet beyond our solar system, was actually dust caused by the massive collision of two asteroids. Adding to the mystery, earlier images showed the object to continuously fade over time, they say. Then, as the cloud dispersed, the faux-planet Fomalhaut b dissolved into nothingness. [Full Article...]
West Virginia counties pick up passing grades & better in air quality report
She is a doctor and director of air pollution and health research at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California. Fine particles smaller than 2.5 microns, also called PM2.5, can lodge in the lungs or even penetrate into the bloodstream, increasing incidences of heart attack, stroke, and arrhythmia, and worsening asthma and other respiratory diseases. [Full Article...]