Urgent action needed as malaria evolves resistance to key drug
Malaria parasites are developing resistance to artemisinin, a key drug used to treat malaria. Resistance levels in some areas of East Africa have increased from under 1% to over 20% in just 3 years. Parasites resistant to artemisinin first evolved in Rwanda, Uganda and Eritrea and have since spread within and across country borders. Over […]
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards intercepted UAE-managed tanker, IRGC says
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they seized an UAE-managed tanker called the Ambrey in the Gulf on Thursday. They accused it of smuggling fuel. The vessel had seven foreign crew on board and was carrying nearly 850,000 liters of smuggled fuel from Iranian smugglers, according to statement on IRG’s website. It said the crew were from […]
US says Iran moving forward on a key aspect of developing a nuclear bomb
US national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Iran has made progress on developing fissile material, a key component for a nuclear weapon, in recent months. They said Iran is talking more publicly about obtaining a nuclear bomb. This rhetoric has increased since Iran’s unsuccessful missile attack on Israel […]
NASA rolls giant Artemis 2 moon rocket core off the factory floor for astronaut mission
– NASA rolled the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will launch the Artemis 2 mission off the factory floor at the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans. – Artemis 2 will launch four astronauts around the moon in 2025, the first crewed lunar mission since Apollo. – The 212-foot […]
Road trip! Tour the universe with these gorgeous images from NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope
Newly released images from NASA’s Chandra X-ray telescope take viewers on a road trip through the universe, offering spectacular sights of various cosmic attractions. The recent Chandra data builds on previously released images from the James Webb Space Telescope. Layering the image data from both space telescopes reveals cosmic features that emit different wavelengths of X-ray, optical or […]
Israeli jets strike Houthi targets in Yemen after Tel Aviv attack
Houthi-run Al Masirah TV reported that Israeli warplanes targeted areas in and near the port of Hodeidah in Yemen with several missiles. They said the air strikes hit import facilities and a coastal road, claiming several people were injured. The report could not be independently verified. Israel and the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis in […]
Sun blasts out 2nd X-class flare this week, triggers more radio blackouts
– The sun emitted another powerful X-class solar flare on July 16th from active sunspot region AR3738. This was the second X-class flare this week from this sunspot. – X-class flares are the strongest type of solar flare, and this one caused a shortwave radio blackout over parts of the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, Europe and […]
Astronomers could use a synthetic cosmos to unravel dark matter mysteries
Astronomers have created a “synthetic universe” using supercomputer simulations to help predict what the next generation of space and ground-based telescopes will observe. The simulations model how the universe would appear to the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. They include nearly 4 million simulated images. The synthetic universe was […]
Fossil of an ancient shark that swam in the age of dinosaurs solves centuries-long mystery
Researchers in New Zealand believe that a whale carcass found washed up on a beach may be a spade-toothed whale, one of the rarest whales in the world. Spade-toothed whales have never been observed alive and very little is known about them. Only 6 previous specimens have been found. The whale was identified by its […]
Melting Sea Ice Is Making the Northwest Passage More Dangerous
A new study finds that melting Arctic sea ice is making the Northwest Passage route from Europe to Asia through northern Canada more dangerous for ships to navigate. As the Arctic warms, older, thicker sea ice that used to get trapped near the North Pole is drifting southward into the path of ships traversing the […]