AMSTERDAM — A bus with Spanish license plates and containing gas bottles was found near a concert hall where earlier on Wednesday a rock concert was canceled due to a threat, Rotterdam’s mayor said. Ahmed Aboutaleb told a news conference it wasn’t clear whether the threat and the bus were […]
Daily Archives: August 24, 2017
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NASA offered extensive coverage of the August 21 total solar eclipse and the space agency isn’t done sharing. NASA shared an “Image of the Day” on Wednesday, showing the moon’s shadow, or umbra, on the face of the Earth as it blocked the sun’s rays. Only six people — NASA’s Randy […]
LOGAN, Utah — A Japanese company whose first sounding rocket launch last month failed to reach space will try again by the end of the year as it continues work on a small launch vehicle. Interstellar Technologies performed the first launch of Momo, the first privately-developed sounding rocket in Japan, […]
Workers covered a statue of Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in Charlottesville, Virginia, with a black tarp on Wednesday afternoon in a symbol of mourning for the woman who was killed after a white nationalist rally earlier this month. A small crowd cheered as crews covered the statue […]
A State Department science envoy quit Wednesday, citing President Donald Trump’s “attacks on core values of the United States” in a scathing resignation letter that also featured an acrostic poem spelling out “IMPEACH.” Daniel Kammen, a professor of energy at the University of California, Berkeley who’d been appointed as a […]