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A British-operated cruise ship has smashed into Indonesian coral reefs in an area regarded as one of the world’s best preserved marine environments. The Caledonian Sky, which was carrying 102 passengers and 79 crew to the Philippines, ran aground in the Dampier Strait after a bird-watching trip to the island of Waigeo in West Papua. Tabloid Jubi reported that after …

NASA Glenn engineer Dr. Peter Peterson prepares a high-power Hall thruster for ground testing in a vacuum chamber that simulates the environment in space. In the image, Peterson can be seen preparing the high-power thruster – a device that the agency says is ‘critical’ in the future of deep space exploration. Called the Hall Effect Rocket with Magnetic Shielding (HERMeS), …

For the second year in a row, the Great Barrier Reef is suffering from a mass bleaching that poses great threat to its overall health. The bleaching is part of a global event affecting the world’s coral reefs over the past two years. Experts from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority spent six hours yesterday flying over the Reef …

Humpbacks have been gathering in large groups in a bizarre never-before-seen behaviour that is baffling researchers. According to a research published in Plos One on 1 March, based on data collected on three separate research cruises in 2011, 2014 and 2015, as well as a handful of public observations from aircraft, there have been 22 instances in which groups of …

NASA Researchers have gotten a closer look at one of the largest stars ever discovered in a super star cluster, thanks to images from the Hubble Space Telescope. This beautiful Hubble image reveals a young super star cluster known as Westerlund 1, only 15,000 light-years away in our Milky Way neighborhood, yet home to one of the largest stars ever …

UFO experts say they’ve found evidence of alien bases on the Moon with images which have left experts scratching their heads. Serial alien enthusiast SecureTeam10 believes that these images show a lunar structure which may have been built by extraterrestrials. The photos were taken by Nasa‘s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been scouring the surface of our natural satellite since …

Archaeologists have discovered a colossal statue, possibly depicting Egyptian pharaoh Ramses the Great, in a muddy pit in a Cairo suburb, Egypt’s antiquities ministry announced. A remarkable find was revealed this week—literally—when a team of Egyptian and German archaeologists extracted a massive, 3,000-year-old statue, believed to represent Ramses II, from the muddy depths of an Egyptian slum. The 26-foot-tall quartzite …

The greenhouse gas carbon dioxide has long been considered as a primary contributor to global warming but Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt does not think so. Pruitt, in his responses to questions in an interview with CNBC, once again demonstrated that he is unqualified to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA chief disputes climate consensus,” March 10). He said …

NASA has established radar capabilities to pinpoint tiny pieces of hardware lost in space and has already used it to find a lunar orbiter which mysteriously vanished in 2009. The Indian Space Research Organization launched Chandrayaan-1 in October 2008 for “chemical, mineralogical and photo-geologic mapping of the Moon,” according to The Indian Express. Less than a year later, researchers said …

Scientists have found the world’s oldest crocodilian eggs that were laid 152 million years ago. Scientists—in a study published this week in PLOS One—say they’ve discovered the world’s oldest known crocodile eggs. The fossilized eggs are 152 million years old and were dug up during a years-long excavation in Portugal—some of them in dinosaur nests, strangely enough. Researchers say it’s …

Harvard scientists have proposed a theory about the possibility of mysterious celestial phenomena known as fast radio bursts (FRB) being caused by alien space travel or advanced alien technology. A report published Thursday from the Cambridge-based CFA explored the kind of power we would need to harness on earth to produce similar radio bursts across the galaxy. First discovered in …