Research begins on the future of the Washington Crossing Bridge as the commission that operates the span over the Delaware River decides whether it needs to be replaced, improved or left in its current state. Initial talk of possible replacement earlier this year was met with opposition by locals in Upper Makefield. The new years-long […]
By Will Dunham (Reuters) – About 4,000 years ago, the last of Earth’s woolly mammoths died out on a lonely Arctic Ocean island off the coast of Siberia, a melancholy end to one of the world’s charismatic Ice Age animals. But what doomed this last mammoth population on Wrangel Island? A new genomic analysis deepens […]
Stamp Duty Tax Successive governments have provided stimulus after stimulus to encourage property buying. It’s easy to understand why – housing affordability is a major challenge, especially for the young. But by encouraging house price inflation, tax breaks could well be making the problem worse in the long run. Just as more people face renting […]
Conventional wisdom holds that the island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, once had a large population that crashed after living beyond its means and stripping the island of resources. A new research study my colleagues and I conducted has struck another blow to this notion by using artificial intelligence to analyze satellite […]
Hunter Biden may be doomed to lose his clear-cut criminal gun trial this week. He’s laid the groundwork for appeals, arguing he’s only charged because he’s the president’s son. Experts told Business Insider that he may have a point — but appeals courts may not buy it. For all the drama, the trial against Hunter […]
Russia knows Putin’s Crimea bridge is “doomed,” a Ukrainian official told The Economist. Dmitry Pletenchuk said Russia is using a new railway because it knows the bridge is in trouble. Ukraine has long threatened to destroy the bridge and could use US-supplied long-range ATACMS. Russia knows its Crimea bridge is doomed, which is forcing it to […]
Russia knows Putin’s Crimea bridge is “doomed,” a Ukrainian official told The Economist. Dmitry Pletenchuk said Russia is using a new railway because it knows the bridge is in trouble. Ukraine has long threatened to destroy the bridge and could use US-supplied long-range ATACMS. Russia knows its Crimea bridge is doomed, which is forcing it to […]
A Vermont state game warden had to kill an aggressive black bear in Underhill last Friday, May 24, at about 6:30 in the morning after the bear adopted a “predatory stance” with its head lowered, and began to approach and circle the warden. In an interview with the Burlington Free Press, Jaclyn Comeau, black bear […]
Kristi Noem’s damage-control tour is in full swing. It appears destined for the same fate as her late dog Cricket: dead in a gravel pit somewhere near Pierre. But at Mar-a-Lago, even before the revelation about her dog, Noem had long ago been cast aside as a likely running mate, according to six people close […]
I wonder what the people will look like. You know, the ones police in Texas are supposed to stop and question if they look as if they might be in the U.S. illegally. Lone Star Republicans passed Senate Bill 4 last year, which would make illegally crossing the border into Texas from Mexico a misdemeanor […]
Astronomers have discovered that a distant, scorching hot planet twice the size of Jupiter is on a death-spiral trajectory that will send it careening into its parent star. A crash is expected to happen relatively soon, cosmically speaking. Researchers have predicted for some time that this planet, named WASP-12b, will eventually take a dive into […]
Grainy orange and yellow pixels form the shape of a satellite with various protruding panels and masts against a sky of black. The European Space Agency has released images showing some of the final orbits experienced by a European satellite before its fiery reintroduction to Earth’s atmosphere. The school-bus-sized European Remote Sensing (ERS-2) satellite reentered […]