A lost tabby is heading back to the Golden Coast after being lost for four years. The Guelph Humane Society have located BooBoo’s family in California after she was dropped off at their shelter earlier this month. Staff did a routine scan for a microchip and found one that led to BooBoo’s owners — all the way in Watsonville, Calif., ... Read More »
The first ever commercial flight to the Antarctic Circle from Dunedin New Zealand to intercept the auroral oval on the night of 23 March 2017. The 134 passengers on the sold-out flight were treated to an incredible display of light at the edge of space after the plane took off from Dunedin. Organiser and Otago Museum Director Ian Griffin said, ... Read More »
New research suggests the sand grains on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, behave similar to the packing peanuts used in shipping boxes. Lab experiments suggest the granules become electrically charged and clump together, resisting motion as they attach themselves to other hydrocarbons. Experiments led by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology suggest the particles that cover the surface of Saturn’s ... Read More »
A missing Indonesian man’s lifeless body has been found in the stomach of a 23-foot long python, who appears to have swallowed the victim whole. Akbar Salubiro, 25, first went missing on March 25 after he went out to harvest palm oil in a remote village on the island of west Sulawesi, Indonesia. Salubiro lived in a village on the ... Read More »
Facebook unveiled an upgrade that will allow users to post disappearing photos and videos, modeling the feature on Snapchat’s signature offering. The new camera effects allow users to tap on the camera icon on the top left corner of the Facebook app or swipe right from News Feed to try out the new in-app camera. The Facebook camera has a ... Read More »
Former Nasa astronaut Alan Bean has said he does not think an advanced alien civilisation has ever visited Earth – because if they had they would have made contact. Alan Bean, who was a pilot for the Apollo 12 mission that went to the moon in 1969, says that if intelligent life from another planet came to Earth, they would ... Read More »
Scientists have found signs of ancient dinosaur fossils from the Cretaceous Period in Australia. Actually Australia’s Jurassic Park is world’s most diverse site of dinosaur tracks. A team of palaeontologists identified 21 different types of dinosaur tracks on a 25km stretch of coastline north of Broome, in the remote Kimberley region in the north of Western Australia. Sauropod (long-necked, long-tailed ... Read More »
Scientists are launching a search for the extinct Tasmanian tiger (Thylacine) in Far North Queensland after a number of sightings were reported. Researchers will set up more than 50 camera traps in the remote Cape York Peninsula in the hope of spotting Tasmanian tigers, a species which was declared extinct in 1936. There is no doubt that the wolf-like Tasmanian ... Read More »
Four people, including two kids, have been found dead in a home near Ashcroft. The BC Coroners Service suspects carbon monoxide gas is to blame and has ruled out foul play. Carbon monoxide is an odourless and tasteless gas produced during the burning of any fossil fuel. A carbon monoxide detector is a reliable method of early detection of carbon ... Read More »
A Nova Scotia man has been told by his local government that his family name is misogynistic when displayed on a licence plate that has been in his family for 25 years. The man in question, who is named Lorne Grabher, was told by the Office of the Registrar of Motor Vehicles in Nova Scotia his “GRABHER” plate received a ... Read More »
Tesla CEO Elon Musk teased the upcoming Model 3 on Friday, by posting a video on Twitter of the “candidate version” of the vehicle taking its “first drive.” As we reported last week, Tesla started production of release candidate Model 3 vehicles, which are cars made almost entirely on production machines in order to test both the production process and ... Read More »
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