Tornadoes are tearing up the Midwest, Airbnb calls truce, and we've got some books for your long weekend. Here's the news you need to know , in two minutes or less. Today's Headlines Tornadoes are tearing up the midwest. So why are they so hard to predict? Over 200 tornadoes have hit the Midwest in the past week alone, wreaking havoc on the towns they
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Fierce storms lashed across the central US this week, unleashing hundreds of powerful tornadoes that carved a path of destruction through parts of Missouri and Oklahoma Wednesday night and left at least three dead . While the worst of the violent winds have passed, the region is now bracing for massive flooding, following record amounts of rain brought
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Editor’s note: This is a developing story about severe weather in the Midwest. We will update it as more information becomes available. This week brings atmospheric devastation to the Midwest: nearly 200 tornadoes have torn through the region since last Friday, including Jefferson City, the capital of Missouri, on Wednesday night. All told, the disasters
I think it's safe to talk about some Avengers physics now. I was inspired by an epic picture released by Marvel Studios, which you can see in the tweet below. (If Marvel puts it "out there," I don't personally consider it to be a spoiler.) The cool part is that you can see all these flying Avengers. There are a bunch of them. https://twitter.com/Avengers/status/1129823980716605440
(iStock) Memorial Day revelers who flock to the Jersey Shore are being advised to be wary of a real sting operation. Hundreds of unwelcome visitors – toxic jellyfish noted for their tiny size and excruciating sting – have been spotted in recent days by researchers in Barnegat Bay, according to reports. The latest count of almost 300 of the spineless
Even on my laptop’s tinny speakers, the sound is unmistakable: the click-clacking, slip-sliding sound of a Rubik’s Cube whipping into shape. “It’s my first solve of the day,” says Australian speedcuber Feliks Zemdegs, somewhat sheepishly. It’s early in Sydney, where he’s speaking to me over video chat from his apartment. Over his shoulder, I can see
Like the sun promises to rise each morning, hordes of crimson salmon — numbering in the tens of millions — faithfully return to Alaska's Bristol Bay each summer. This land of untrammeled rivers, streams, and lakes is home to the richest run of sockeye salmon on Earth. And largely for that reason, it's also the realm of Alaska's gloriously fat bears
This photo released by HBO shows Kit Harington as Jon Snow, left, and Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen in a scene from "Game of Thrones." (HBO via AP) (Spoiler Alert! This article contains information about the last episode of "Game of Thrones.") After eight seasons, the epic "Game of Thrones" TV series finally resolved the question of who will
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket containing 60 satellites from Cape Canaveral in Florida Thursday evening. The satellites, meant to bring broadband internet to underserved communities, deployed into low-Earth orbit an hour later, according to Space News. SPACEX SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES FALCON HEAVY, WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL ROCKET, FOR PAYING
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - A top NASA executive hired in April to guide strategy for returning astronauts to the moon by 2024 has resigned, the space agency said on Thursday, the culmination of internal strife and dwindling congressional support for the lunar initiative. Mark Sirangelo, named six weeks ago as special assistant to NASA Administrator
The first part of SpaceX's ambitious satellite internet network is in orbit. On Thursday evening, the spaceflight company deployed 60 of its Starlink satellites from its Falcon 9 rocket, which launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The launch took place just shortly after 10:30 p.m. local time, with the Falcon 9's first stage booster landing approximately
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - A top NASA executive hired in April to guide strategy for returning astronauts to the moon by 2024 has resigned, the space agency said on Thursday, the culmination of internal strife and dwindling congressional support for the lunar initiative. Mark Sirangelo, named six weeks ago as special assistant to NASA chief Jim
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - High-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX company launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida on Thursday on a mission to carry the first batch of five dozen small satellites into low-Earth orbit for his new Starlink internet service. The rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at about 10:30 p.m. local
A fireball believed to have been a meteor has been spotted crashing down from the sky in South Australia and Victoria. Data from the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies in California shows the meteorite landing site as a reasonably large blue-green dot on their map of reported fireballs, as picked up by US sensors. After reaching a speed of 44,100km/h
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MELBOURNE, Fla. (Reuters) - NASA has picked space technology company Maxar Technologies Inc as the first contractor to help build its Gateway platform in lunar orbit, a crucial outpost for America’s mission to relay astronauts to the moon in 2024, the U.S. agency said on Thursday. Shares of Westminster, Colorado-based Maxar jumped more than 20% following