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More than 40 Killed, 700 Hurt in Indonesian Earthquake

A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia's West Java province on Monday killing 46 people, the national disaster agency said, as rescue workers and authorities worked to determine the full extent of the damage. The quake struck on land in Cianjur town, about 75 km southeast of the capital, Jakarta, at a…

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‘Like a Shotgun’: Tongan Eruption Is Largest Ever Recorded

A deadly volcanic eruption near Tonga in January was the largest ever recorded with modern equipment, a New Zealand-led team of scientists revealed Monday. The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted underwater with a force equivalent to hundreds of atomic bombs, unleashing a 15-meter (50-foot) tsunami which demolished homes and killed…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Tongan volcanic eruption was largest ever recorded

WELLINGTON: A deadly volcanic eruption near Tonga in January was the largest ever recorded with modern equipment, a New Zealand-led team of scientists said on Monday.

Bangkok Post

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NASA says people will be living on the Moon within this decade, as Orion nears fly-by

Humans could be living on the Moon during this decade, according to a NASA official. But Mars is the ultimate goal.

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It's time-out for leap seconds: an expert explains why the tiny clock adjustments will be paused from 2035

Meeting in Versailles, France, on Friday, the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) has called time-out on “leap seconds” – the little jumps occasionally added to clocks running on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to keep them in sync with Earth’s rotation.

The Conversation

Scientists are close to solving an exoplanet mystery

Today, the number of confirmed exoplanets stands at 5,197 in 3,888 planetary systems, with another 8,992 candidates awaiting confirmation.

Inverse

Scientists are looking into this last-minute strategy to save the planet from asteroid disaster

Based on the recent DART mission, scientists are working on perfecting a last-minute mission to deflect an asteroid heading for Earth.

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Tracking CO2 emissions from space could help support climate agreements

The central objective of the Paris Agreement is to limit Earth’s warming to well below 2 C above pre-industrial levels, but preferably 1.5 C.

The Conversation

Nasa boss explains when humans will be living on the Moon after new rocket launch

The Artemis 1 rocket is carrying the Orion lunar spacecraft, which is manned with a model of the human body, used to measure the impacts of the flight on people in space

Daily Mirror

Astronauts to live and work on the moon by 2030, Nasa official says

Head of Orion lunar programme says Artemis 1 mission is ‘first step to long-term deep-space exploration’

The Guardian - UK

Moment pregnant woman gives birth to baby in a canoe after failing to reach hospital

The woman gave birth to her baby in a canoe on a waterway in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil, where a man traveling in a larger boat noticed her in pain and stopped to help

Daily Mirror

From Apollo to Artemis: 50 years on, is it time to go back to the moon?

Last week’s Nasa launch is the first in a flurry of successors to the Apollo programme, reopening the debate on the value of sending humans into space

The Guardian - UK

Our writers predict World Cup winners, player of the tournament & dark horse

Qatar is ready to take centre stage for the greatest tournament on earth, with the competition kicking-off today.

The National (Scotland)

Mystery ocean crater discovered is 'related' to the meteorite that wiped out dinosaurs

A mystery crater that has been found on the Atlantic Ocean's floor is said to be 'related' to the meteorite which wiped out the dinosaurs, according to new research

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'Rick and Morty' Season 6 Episode 7 release date, time, title, and trailer for Adult Swim’s sci-fi show

After a midseason hiatus, the intergalactic hijinks return in full force on Sunday.

Daily Mirror

Humans will be living on the Moon 'and doing science' in the next 10 years, NASA says

Howard Hu, who leads NASA's Orion lunar spacecraft programme, revealed that people will be living on the Moon's surface and carrying out science there "in this decade"

WEKU

The world generates so much data that new unit measurements were created to keep up

The mass of the Earth can now be measured as 6 ronnagrams rather than 6,000 yottagrams. An electron's mass can now be said to be about 1 rontogram rather than 0.001 yoctograms.

Los Angeles Times

Supershear earthquakes are super powerful, and a lot less rare than previously thought

On April 18, 1906, San Francisco phonograph dealer Peter Bacigalupi’s day began like none other.

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Life inside Death Valley with just 576 residents, where temperatures hit scorching 94C

Across the globe, many countries experience sweltering summers while praying for cooler temperatures but there is only one place that takes the title for the hottest place on Earth

The Guardian - UK

How does a rhino grow horns, and what was the longest war? Try our kids’ quiz

Five multiple-choice questions – set by children – to test your knowledge, and a chance to submit your own junior brain-teasers for future quizzes

The Guardian - UK

Earth weighs in at six ronnagrams as new prefixes picked for big and small

Ronna, quetta, ronto and quecto added to International System of Units in first such change for more than 30 years

The Conversation

Wildfires often lead to dust storms – and they’re getting bigger

Wildfires affect large areas of the Earth’s surface and many of their effects occur at an alarming speed. The fires that consumed half of Australia’s Kangaroo Island in 2019 left a trail of animal corpses in their wake. In 2021, wildfires burned over 2.5 million acres of land in California.

France 24

France's energy mix in turmoil

Rising gas and oil prices have plunged Europe into its worst energy crisis in decades. France has been hit hard, but perhaps not for the reasons you would expect. Nuclear and hydroelectric power, the country's main sources of electricity, are both running out of steam. Has the French energy mix…

WEKU

Iceland tells tourists it's like an alien planet. A NASA scientist agrees

"Iceland. Better than space." That's the new tagline from Iceland's tourism board. We asked the head of Visit Iceland why her country might have an edge over space — and consulted NASA as well.

Inverse

Scientists figured out how to solve an ancient Martian mystery — with rocks found on Earth

Martian meteorites found their way to Earth. In turn, they bore a chemical that has the secret to how much water was on ancient Mars.

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