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Small Oxygen Leak Detected On The International Space Station
In April of 2013, Commander Chris Hadfield tweeted out a picture from the station, showing a small "bullet hole" in one of the solar panels. The fracture, he said, may be external damage and is believed to be the result of a micro-meteorite. [Full Article...]
Endangered sea turtles found dead in net
The office for environmental protection says the Olive Ridley turtles drowned after getting caught in the net. The endangered olive ridley turtles descend on various Mexican states to lay their eggs from May to September. It comes a week after 113 turtles were found dead between July 24 and August 13 in the Puerto Arista sanctuary in Chiapas state. The cause is still being investiga... [Full Article...]
Small Air Leak Detected on International Space Station
NASA is reporting that flight controllers at Mission Control in Houston and Moscow are working to fix a minute pressure leak on the International Space Station that was discovered at about 7 p.m. NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos operate the orbiting space lab along with the European Space Agency , Japan's JAXA and the Canadian Space Agency. [Full Article...]
Atlantic Coming Alive: tracking two tropical waves
The system, dubbed Invest 90L, would be named Florence if it becomes a tropical storm. Tropical Storm Norman strengthened slightly overnight and is forecast to become a hurricane today. Forecasters are also keeping an eye on a tropical wave in the north-central Caribbean Sea that is producing a large batch of thunderstorms. "By Sunday and into your Labor Day, some computer models are hinting a... [Full Article...]
Long-sought decay of Higgs boson observed: CERN
Observing the Higgs boson directly is impossible, thus, scientists look at the particle's decay products to infer properties of the parent bosons . An illustration of a Higgs boson decaying into two b-quarks. This elusive interaction is predicted to make up nearly 60% of the Higgs boson decays and is thus primarily responsible for the Higgs natural width. [Full Article...]
Small air leak detected aboard International Space Station
A NASA spokesman said it was premature to speculate on whether the three might have to return to earth early if the leak, even as small as it is, can not be stopped. "Overnight and in the morning there was an abnormal situation - a pressure drop, an oxygen leak at the station", Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies. [Full Article...]
Facebook targets running operations on 100% renewable energy by 2020
The projects are on the same grid as the company's data centres across Europe and the U.S. - a set-up Facebook claims has enabled it to take an "open and innovative approach" that benefits its own business as well as wider energy markets. [Full Article...]
'I Just Pray': Hawaiians Hunker Down as Hurricane Lane Lashes the Islands
She was not buying up water but had grabbed a few batteries "just in case", she said. A staffer will spend the night and place ice around their cages in case the air conditioning goes out. Iniki caused more than $3 billion in damage and left six dead. We've got water, we've got fountains with water and that's not a problem, but we are not equipped to provide food. [Full Article...]