A mysterious "continuously active" object known as a "Trojan asteroid" has been discovered in Jupiter's orbit, making it the first known object like it.The object, known as 2019 LD2, has a "comet-like tail" made up of gas and dust. It was first observed by the University of Hawaiʻi's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope system…
science Coronavirus How does a relatively common type of virus turn into one so deadly it could spur a pandemic? The answer may lie in its microscopic spikes. Posted on May 22, 2020, at 12:09 p.m. ET NIAID via Flickr / Via Flickr: niaid Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein BuzzFeed News has reporters around the…
The search is on for the mysterious World War II sweetheart of a Royal Air Force Spitfire pilot who was killed in the famous Great Escape.Flt. Lt. Alastair ‘Sandy’ Gunn was shot down over Norway on March 5, 1942, during a mission to photograph the German battleship, Tirpitz. Gunn bailed out from the plane but was captured…
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U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…