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Saturday Night Live coincidentally had a Hallmark Channel sketch all locked and loaded for last night’s Scarlett Johansson-hosted show. Which is good timing, since the unassuming home of your aunt’s favorite nondescriptly identical TV movies starring pleasant white people falling in tepid like suddenly found itself in…

I didn't expect to be compared to snails and Jesus Christ

The houses would be put up behind a pub

'I thought I was mental, I thought I was going mad'

Kyle Mizokami

History, Europe

The G11 was one design way ahead of its time.

Key point: The end of the Cold War had dramatic effects on global military procurements.

In the last days of the Cold War, West Germany developed perhaps the most advanced assault rifle of all time. A compact weapon capable of firing a withering 2,100 rounds per minute, the Heckler and Koch G11 utilized technologies not seen even in today’s armies. The advanced nature of the G11 came at a considerable cost however... Читать дальше...

Former boss of the struggling power utility says he’s willing to help end economy-crippling load shedding if requested and ‘kangaroo courts’ are set aside

Former boss of the struggling power utility says he’s willing to help end economy-crippling load shedding if requested and ‘kangaroo courts’ are set aside

Will Canada’s new passenger regulations make the skies a little friendlier? Find out how the new air passenger regulations affect you.

There has long been a gap between the number of men and women occupying business executive roles. Why is the gap so large?

Why it’ll take more than a gender-neutral doll to change how boys perceive femininity

A newly-wed woman fled from her in-laws' house with cash and ornaments after giving sedatives in the dinner to the entire family. The incident happened in the Chota Para area in the Badaun district, UP on Friday. Police said the bride fled with Rs 70,000 cash and ornaments worth Rs 3 lakh. According to police, Pravin and Ria got married on December 9.

There's a supermassive black hole - 4 million times our sun's mass - in the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers who've measured star movements near this central black hole are now saying there might be a 2nd companion black hole near it.

Goodreads rounds up 10 modern literary rom-coms that will get even the grinchiest of readers into the holiday spirit.

Rochester N (SPX) Dec 16, 2019
Rochester Institute of Technology and the Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia (IAR) have collaborated to make the first pulsar observations from South America. A new paper published in Astronomy and Astrophysics outlines how the team upgraded two radio telescopes in Argentina that lay dormant for 15 years in order to study pulsars. Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars with intense

Moscow, Russia (SPX) Dec 10, 2019
Scientists from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI), and Pulkovo Observatory discovered a unique neutron star, the magnetic field of which is apparent only when the star is seen under a certain angle relative to the observer. Previously, all neutron stars could be grouped into two big families: the first one included obje

Washington DC (SPX) Dec 11, 2019
Our Milky Way galaxy has an elegant spiral shape with long arms filled with stars, but exactly how it took this form has long puzzled scientists. New observations of another galaxy are shedding light on how spiral-shaped galaxies like our own get their iconic shape. Magnetic fields play a strong role in shaping these galaxies, according to research from the Stratospheric Observatory for In

Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Dec 13, 2019
A project lead by an international team of researchers use publicly available data with images of the sky dating as far back as to the 1950s to try to detect and analyse objects that have disappeared over time. In the project "Vanishing and Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations" (VASCO), they have particularly looked for objects that may have existed in old military sky catalo

Washington DC (SPX) Dec 13, 2019
Galaxies lead a graceful existence on cosmic timescales. Over millions of years, they can engage in elaborate dances that produce some of Nature's most exquisite and striking grand designs. Few are as captivating as the galactic duo known as NGC 5394/5, sometimes nicknamed the Heron Galaxy. This image, obtained by the Gemini Observatory of NSF's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Labor

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2019
Astrophysicists are redrawing the textbook image of pulsars, the dense, whirling remains of exploded stars, thanks to NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), an X-ray telescope aboard the International Space Station. Using NICER data, scientists have obtained the first precise and dependable measurements of both a pulsar's size and its mass, as well as the first-ever map of ho

Norman OK (SPX) Dec 13, 2019
A University of Oklahoma research group is reporting the detection of extragalactic planet-mass objects in a second and third galaxy beyond the Milky Way after the first detection in 2018. With the existing observational resources, it is impossible to directly detect planet-mass objects beyond the Milky Way and to measure its rogue planetary population. Members of the group include Xinyu D

Washington (UPI) Dec 12, 2019
New analysis by astrophysicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests dark matter could explain a mysterious source of gamma rays in the center of the Milky Way. Gamma rays are the the most energetic electromagnetic waves. Throughout the Milky Way, astronomers have traced gamma rays to two sources: supernovae and pulsars. But at the center of the Milky Way, scientists ha

Paris (ESA) Dec 16, 2019
It is now almost 10 years since ESA's CryoSat was launched. Throughout its decade in orbit, this novel satellite, which carries a radar altimeter to measure changes in the height of the world's ice, has returned a wealth of information about how ice sheets, sea ice and glaciers are responding to climate change. One of the most recent findings from this extraordinary mission shows how it can be u