The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world’s five major oceans, where the geographic North Pole can be found. All land, internal waters, territorial seas and Exclusive Economic Zones in the Arctic are under the jurisdiction of one of the eight Arctic coastal states. These include Canada, Denmark, […]
Daily Archives: July 11, 2019
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I never thought I’d be able to jump out of a plane and land on the outside of another in VR without getting irrecoverably sick, but Defector let me do just that. This Oculus Studios-published action game is a bit like being inside a Mission: Impossible movie, and it can […]
Residents across Gulf Coast states on Thursday braced for a tropical storm — and potential hurricane — that’ll bring high winds and deadly, torrential rains. Tropical Storm Barry was brewing in the Gulf of Mexico and could make landfall, somewhere between Louisiana and the Florida Panhandle by Friday morning, forecasters […]
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian prosecutors Thursday charged the administrator of a Facebook page that supports former autocratic president Hosni Mubarak with spreading false news and undermining national interests after a post implied Mubarak did more to help Egypt’s poor than the current government of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. Karim Hussein, whose […]
New York City police are investigating a possible hate crime directed at Megan Rapinoe after posters of the World Cup champion were defaced with homophobic slurs. The defaced posters, which were at a Manhattan subway station, were reported early on Monday morning. The US had won the Women’s World Cup […]
Southern right whale mothers and calves communicate with one another using quiet moo-like calls to avoid attracting predators such as killer whales and sharks source: newscientist.com
Engineers and technicians in Sagamihara, Japan, cheer for Hayabusa2’s successful second touchdown on the asteroid Ryugu. ISAS/JAXA By Dennis NormileJul. 11, 2019 , 11:00 AM Japan’s Hayabusa2 successfully completed its second touchdown on the asteroid Ryugu and probably captured material from its interior that was exposed by firing a projectile into the asteroid […]
Coronation Street’s Gemma Winter (played by Dolly-Rose Campbell) hasn’t had the easiest of rides on the ITV soap. She is currently pregnant with Chesney Brown’s (Sam Aston) babies – and they’re having quadruplets. However, it seems her woes are about to get worse as she reunites with her mother, Bernie, […]