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by European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) Europe observed by the FCI and the LI, on the 03/06/2023 at 12:00 UTC. Credit: European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) As the calibration and validation of the various elements of the spacecraft and ground segment progresses, data captured by the two …
Mark Dickey developed internal bleeding while exploring one of Turkey’s deepest caves. Rescuers said on Monday they were only hours away from pulling to safety a US explorer trapped for more than a week, and suffering from gastrointestinal bleeding, deep in a Turkish cave. Mark Dickey, 40, developed stomach problems on September 2 while examining …
Members of the CNSAS, Italian alpine and speleological rescuers, carry a stretcher with American researcher Mark Dickey during a rescue operation in the Morca cave, near Anamur, southern Turkey, Monday, Sept. 11, 2023. A rescue operation is underway in Turkey’s Taurus Mountains to bring out an American researcher who fell seriously ill at a depth …
Elementary math teacher Margie Howells teaches a fifth grade class at Wheeling Country Day School in Wheeling, W.Va., on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. Howells said that she turned to the science of math after wondering why there weren’t as many resources for dyscalculia as there were for dyslexia. Credit: AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar For much …
Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Flashes in the sky above Morocco moments before a devastating earthquake struck the country and killed thousands were captured in social media videos – similar to unexplained lights …
Koala numbers are threatened by deforestation, drought and bushfires. Australia’s most populous state announced Tuesday a logging ban in a forest haven for koalas, aiming to protect the local population from being wiped out. Logging has been halted in 8,400 hectares (21,000 acres) of forest, home to 106 “koala hubs” that are highly populated by …
Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Fossil tracks discovered in the Cape south coast of South Africa could likely be the oldest evidence yet of ancient human ancestors wearing footwear to tread across a …
Computers are ‘learning’ how to spot smoke from wildfires in California, giving firefighters a helping hand. When a wildfire erupted in the middle of a recent California night, it could have been a disaster. But thanks to a new monitoring system that uses artificial intelligence to scan for danger, firefighters were able to quell the …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Bill Leikam was reviewing footage from a wildlife camera he placed along a Palo Alto creekbed recently when something unfamiliar scampered across the screen. “I have enough experience with the wildlife out there to be able to identify every one of them just by their movement—this one had me baffled,” said …
Upper atmosphere phenomena known as subauroral ion drifts sometimes produce visible ribbons of light in the sky, like this one detected in Canada in 2015. Credit: Elfiehall, CC BY-SA 4.0 Near Earth’s poles, observers of the night sky often behold aurorae, colorful light shows in the upper atmosphere caused by interactions between the solar wind …