Two freight trains carrying toxic cargo collided near Hoxie, Arkansas early Sunday morning, killing two crew members and injuring two others.
Rosetta satellite begins to decipher composition of comet
The Rosetta spacecraft, a satellite launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2004, is making its final approach to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and already providing information about the composition of comets.
Missouri Governor declares state of emergency and curfew to calm Ferguson unrest
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew to begin midnight Saturday in the city of Ferguson, following the shooting death of an 18-year-old by a police officer.
Space hackers take control of NASA satellite
A vintage NASA spacecraft from 1970s, the International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3)– a spaceship without a moor after NASA scuttled the project and abandoned satellite– drifted through space for almost 20 years before a team of citizen space hackers re-discovered it, crowdfunded the project, acquired the project rights form NASA and rebuilt communications support equipment from scratch.
Follow your gut…the new way to screen for colon cancer
New way to test for colorectal cancer uses gut microbiome bacteria signatures to evaluate individual risk.
Satellite begins to orbit comet, prepares to land
In 2004, the European Space Agency launched the satellite Rosetta to complete an ambitious mission: not only was Rosetta to travel approximately 4 billion miles, make three gravity-assist flybys of Earth and one of Mars in order to make a precision rendezvous with a comet hurtling through space, but also then land on the comet.
Hawaii holds primary elections between hurricanes
Hurricane Iselle hit Hawaii’s Big Island late Thursday with high winds and heavy rain, as the rest of the Aloha State braced for a second hurricane, Julio, tracking closely behind.
Senate report: Some CIA actions were ‘torture’
The torture debate will continue with the release of a Senate report on the controversial interrogation techniques the CIA used after the September 11 attacks.
California governor declares emergency amid efforts to control wildfires
Dry lightning, blazing temperatures and severe drought conditions in California and Oregon are causing widespread devastation as crews battle more than a dozen wildfires in the region.
‘We tortured some folks’: Obama concedes US tortured after 9/11
US President Barack Obama remarked Friday on an impending report from the US Senate probe into the controversial CIA torture practices used to prevent terrorist attacks.
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