A very bright fireball streaked through the sky above of Santa Catarina, Brazil at around 21:40 UTC (18:40 local time) on March 24, 2019. The event lasted up to 7 seconds before the object disintegrated. The American Meteor Society received 31 reports by 12:00 UTC, March 25. The event was seen by many residents of
Month: March 2019
When tropical cyclone Idai made landfall near Beira, Mozambique on March 14, a spokesperson for the UN World Meteorological Organization called it possibly the the worst weather-related disaster to hit the southern hemisphere. This massive and horrifying storm caused catastrophic flooding and widespread destruction of buildings and roads in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. Mozambique’s
We all knew the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex was big. But palaeontologists in Canada have just identified the biggest lizard tyrant king yet – its name is Scotty, and boy was it a corker. From nose to tail-tip, Scotty measures 13 metres (43 feet), and would have cracked the scales at 8,800 kilograms (19,400 pounds),
Severe thunderstorms hit parts of southern United States on March 23 and 24, 2019, producing large hail, damaging winds and at least one tornado. The worst affected Sunday night was Collin County, Texas where a round of severe storms moved through the area producing baseball-sized hail (or even larger in places). Residents said the hailstorm
We’ve learned a lot about Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, since it was first discovered in 1846. Some scientists believe it could be an “ocean world” with liquid water – and maybe even harbor life. And now, pending approval, we might soon get our best glimpse yet. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposed on Tuesday at
Researchers have discovered that sun bears can precisely copy each other’s facial expressions in social situations. It’s a bigger deal than you might think, especially for scientists. When humans are in social situations, we often adjust our facial expressions in response to someone else. It’s called facial mimicry, and past a point of sufficient
Jupiter’s anomalous size and location in our Solar System has been puzzling researchers for years, since it doesn’t fit with our understanding of planetary formation. Now, astronomers think they’ve figured out how the gas giant ended up in its curious position. According to current models, giant planets form in the outer reaches of a
A science teacher from a remote village in Kenya has won a US$1 million global prize recognising and celebrating the impact and importance of the world’s best educators. Peter Tabichi, a maths and physics teacher from Kenya’s famine-prone Rift Valley, was selected out of 10,000 teachers from almost 180 countries to win the Varkey Foundation
The Great Red Spot, a storm larger than the Earth and powerful enough to tear apart smaller storms that get drawn into it, is one of the most recognizable features in Jupiter’s atmosphere and the entire solar system. The counterclockwise-moving storm, an anticyclone, boasts wind speeds as high as 300 miles (500 kilometres) per
A meteor that exploded above the clouds over the Bering Sea in December was caught on camera by NASA’s eyes in the sky. Just minutes after the meteor burst apart on 18 December 2018, the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument aboard the Terra satellite captured the scene in a sequence of images. Clearly visible
MH370 disappeared without a trace on March 8 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing carrying 239 people. A report leaked by The Australian suggests co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid used his phone before the Boeing 777 disappeared from radar. A telecommunications tower at Bandar Baru Farlim Penang in Malaysia tracked a mobile number registered
A rare tropical storm named Iba by the Brazilian Navy Hydrographic Center (BNHC) formed near the coast of Brazil on March 24, 2019. This is the first tropical storm to form in this region since 2010 and third ever in recorded history. At 16:00 UTC on March 24, Tropical Storm “Iba” had maximum winds of
A house proud mouse, considerately tidying up the workbench of the shed in which it lives, has been captured on video and shared online. The mouse pops out of a box, picks up some screws, nail clippers and a metal chain and carries them back into the box. It’s tempting to think the mouse is
A new UFO sighting has been posted online by the well-known alien hunter Scott C Waring. The UFO hunter has shared pictures and video purporting to show a “cloaked alien craft” hovering over a road in the UAE on Sunday, March 17. And Mr Waring claims the dramatic footage is evidence of intelligent extraterrestrials monitoring
A shallow earthquake registered by the BMKG as M6.3 hit the Molucca Sea, Indonesia at 04:37 UTC (11:37 local time) on March 24, 2019. The agency is reporting a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles). USGS and EMSC are reporting M6.1 at a depth of 37.4 km (23.2 miles) and 60 km (37.3 miles). The
A strong M6.1 earthquake has struck Andes region in western Colombia. The quake hit at 14:21 (local time) (19:21 GMT) at a depth of 113 kilometers (70 miles) some 7 kilometers (4 miles) away from El Dovio, about 370 kilometers (230 miles) west of the Colombian capital of Bogota. There have been no immediate reports
We are not even into April, but we’ve had 50 brush fires across Washington just this week. Firefighters usually start getting busy fighting brush fires and wildfires starting in June, so the fact that we’ve seen so many fires so far is significant. We’ve already had 50 brush fires in Washington, and it’s not even
A strong earthquake registered by the USGS as M6.1 hit El Dovio, Colombia at 19:21 UTC on March 23, 2019. The agency is reporting a depth of 113.3 km (70.4 miles). EMSC is reporting M5.8 at a depth of 87 km (54 miles). The epicenter was located 7.5 km (4.7 miles) NW of El Dovio (population 7
Tropical Cyclone “Veronica,” now a Category 3 cyclone on the Australian tropical cyclone intensity scale, is slowly moving toward the Pilbara coast on March 23, 2019. A severe coastal impact is expected on Sunday, March 24. Veronica may be traveling slower than a typical system as it crosses the coast, and as a result communities in the path of
The founder of MoviePass is back, and this time he’s not messing around. MoviePass co-founder Stacy Spikes has a new startup called PreShow, and it’s using a business model straight out of A Clockwork Orange: The company’s new app helps you score free movie tickets — as long as you sit through 15 to 20
Mount Everest’s glaciers are melting – and the remnants buried for decades below the surface are beginning to reemerge. Most alarming, expedition operators are starting to find the dead bodies of climbers who attempted to scale the mountain. Hundreds of people have died while attempting to climb the mountain since the 1990s, and the
Kalashnikov’s AK-47 represents a timeless design and an instantly recognisable icon of warfare, but one thing it cannot do is fly. But Russian arms maker Almaz-Antey Business Insider, 2018 on what looks like a literal flying AK-47 drone. Images filed with the patent show a minimalist drone formed around a Kalashnikov-style rifle, and were
California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a statewide wildfire emergency Friday, citing “extreme peril” to life and property, in an effort to speed up forest clearing measures. There have only been two other statewide emergencies in California this century: during the drought in 2014 and the subsequent tree die-off in 2015. The executive order piggybacks on
“This is the biggest disaster, as far as damage, we’ve ever experienced in our state,” says Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts. Nebraska historic floods kill millions of livestock We’ve got at least 400 million in livestock losses and 140 million in crop losses, says Ricketts. “There may be as many as a million calves lost in
The supposed UFO sighting was shared online by conspiracy theorist Scott C Waring, who runs the blog UFO Sightings Daily. The UFO-hunter claimed the video shows two “diamond-shaped” objects dashing across the Moon in a military-style formation. Mr Waring said the video is “100 percent proof” aliens are actively using the Moon as a reconnaissance
A strange life form has appeared on the barren lava fields left by last year’s eruption of the Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii. How this poorly understood insect manages to thrive in a harsh, sterile landscape when virtually nothing else can is a mystery. Prepare for the lava cricket invasion! The lava
That was really LONG! Eighteen months after Hurricane Maria destroyed Puerto Rico’s electrical grid, customers on an island off the coast of the U.S. territory finally had their power restored Wednesday. Puerto Rico Power Fully Restored 18 Months After Hurricane Maria Wiped Out the Grid The Electric Power Authority said it connected an underwater cable
Severe Tropical Cyclone “Trevor” was upgraded to Category 3 cyclone on the Australian tropical cyclone intensity scale. Trevor is expected to continue intensifying before it makes landfall somewhere between Port MacArthur and the Northern Territory/Queensland border. Authorities are urging residents to finalize preparations today, follow directions from emergency services, and have their cyclone kits ready. With severe
In 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon. It was an incredible technological and scientific achievement for the human race, and the 11 other men who followed in his footsteps are still the only humans to ever set foot somewhere other than Earth. Conspiracy researchers David S. Percy and
Roughly 12,800 years ago, planet Earth went through a brief cold snap that was unrelated to any ice age. For years, there have been geologists that have argued that this period was caused by an airburst or meteor fragments (known as the Younger Dryas Impact Theory). This event is believed to have caused widespread
After decades of research, an analysis of light has finally identified the age of an ancient star cluster in the Milky Way. It’s called HP 1, and it’s roughly 12.8 billion years old. That makes it one of the oldest ever found – not just in the galaxy, but in the entire Universe. HP
A shallow earthquake registered by the USGS as M5.5 hit Lake Rukwa region of southwestern Tanzania at 09:15 UTC (12:15 local time) on March 21, 2019, at a depth of 22 km (13.6 miles). EMSC is reporting M5.1 at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles). The epicenter was located about 52 km (33 miles) E
A state of emergency is in effect in Nebraska after massive floods triggered by rapid snowmelt, ice-covered rivers and heavy rain dumped by major late-winter storm. More heavy rain is expected in the region by the end of the week. The financial impact could be more than $1.3 billion, Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts said. That includes $449 million in
A spectacular discovery in south China is shedding more light on the mysterious lifeforms that crawled our planet half a billion years ago. In a shale bed next to Danshui River, palaentologists have excavated around 30,000 fossils dating back to the Cambrian period 518 million years ago. The newly discovered exquisite fossil bed, what
For a while now, scientists have been debating what to do with one of the most famous tools used to describe scientific certainty, the concept of ‘statistical significance’. Some think it’s fine as is. Others want to make it smaller, while yet others argue in favour of ditching it altogether. Assuming we did bite
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Why do we exist? This is arguably the most profound question there is and one that may seem completely outside the scope of particle physics. But our new experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has taken us a step closer to figuring it out. To understand why, let’s go back in time some 13.8
As we humans grow older and wiser, it’s not unusual to feel as if time were whizzing by, quietly gathering speed with every year. Mechanical engineer Adrian Bejan from Duke University now thinks he has figured out why, and just like ageing, he suspects the experience is both universal and inescapable. Adhering to the physical
Nearly half of the UK’s population believes in conspiracy theories, according to Google search results collected in mobile phone data research. About 30 million people or 46 percent of the UK believes in conspiracies while a third or 36 percent of the nation still sits on the fence. The study, carried out by Insurance2go, found
Heavy hail shattered vehicles and rooftops Tuesday morning in Jinping County southwest China’s Yunnan Province. This was the strongest hail in 30 years for Jinping County causing severe losses to locals. hailstorm china on March 19, 2019 “When I went to close the windows around 6:30, I found that there was a hailstorm and my
That’s a big sunspot!Two days ago, sunspot AR2736 didn’t exist. Now the rapidly-growing active region stretches across more than 100,000 km of the solar surface and contains multiple dark cores larger than Earth. Moreover, it has a complicated magnetic field that is crackling with C-class solar flares. The sunspot is inset in this magnetic map of the sun from NASA’s Solar
New activity/unrest was reported for 7 volcanoes from March 13 to 19, 2019. During the same period, ongoing activity was reported for 12 volcanoes. New activity/unrest: Barren Island, Andaman Islands (India) | Bezymianny, Central Kamchatka (Russia) | Karymsky, Eastern Kamchatka (Russia) | Kirishimayama, Kyushu (Japan) | Mayon, Luzon (Philippines) | Tengger Caldera, Eastern Java (Indonesia)
NASA’s tireless hunt for signs of alien life outside of Earth is primarily focused on the dusty surface of Earth’s closest neighbour, Mars. Every single day the US space agency receives a treasure trove of Mars photos from its famous Mars Curiosity rover. The NASA photos are then meticulously picked apart by scientists and conspiracy
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Heavy rain affecting Angola over the past couple of days caused deadly floods in the provinces of Benguela, Luanda, Huila and Zaire. At least 19 people have been killed and at least 8 remain missing. One of the worst affected areas is Catumbela in the Province of Benguela where officials reported 12 casualties and numerous
The Supermoon peaked in brightness early this morning around 1.42am GMT here in the UK. The Full Moon topped off an incredible trio of Supermoons, which began in January this year. Because of its rarity, some doomsday preachers and conspiracy theorists have dubbed the Supermoon an incredibly sinister portent of doom. The Supermoon coincided with
During a routine manoeuvre of a mini-shuttle on the exterior of the ISS which was being live-streamed to the world, a strange light appeared in the distance. The light gradually got closer, before the live stream of the orbiting laboratory went offline. This has led some to believe NASA is purposefully cutting the live feed
An impulsive solar flare measuring C5.6 at its peak time erupted from AR 2736, the source of yesterday’s C4.8 and associated asymmetric full-halo CME, at 03:12 UTC on March 21, 2019. The event started at 03:08 and ended at 03:15 UTC. There were no radio signatures that would suggest a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) was produced by the event.
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