Offshore wind farms can provide us with clean, renewable energy to power our homes. But they can also provide us with delicious seafood, as researchers in Denmark have shown. Swedish state-owned power firm Vattenfall and Aarhus University in Denmark have teamed up to create the world’s first offshore wind farm that doubles as an underwater […]
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Chinese rocket crashes into mountain after unexpected launch
A Chinese space rocket crashed into a mountain on Sunday after blasting off without warning during a test of its engines, according to dramatic footage captured by onlookers. The Tianlong-3 rocket, developed by a rival to Elon Musk’s SpaceX, took off unexpectedly during what was intended to be a ground test of its booster. Spectacular […]
Woman Working 3 Jobs Struggling With A Lifetime Of Overdrafts Receives An Unexpected Gift From Dave Ramsey, Bringing Her To Tears
Woman Working 3 Jobs Struggling With A Lifetime Of Overdrafts Receives An Unexpected Gift From Dave Ramsey, Bringing Her To Tears During an episode of the personal finance help show, The Dave Ramsey Show, the show host and celebrated finance guru, Dave Ramsey, received a call from a woman who decided to change her finances. […]
Fort Collins father and fisherman dies while kayaking during unexpected storm
LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Family members have identified a kayaker who went missing days ago as Uriel Rodriguez-Lopez. After an extensive search, the 24-year-old’s body was found in a reservoir in Larimer County, near Loveland. Uriel had a passion for fishing and loved being on the water, but the dangers of the water combined […]
How Roaring Kitty Surpassed Another Unexpected Investing Icon
From Memes To Millions: How Roaring Kitty Surpassed Another Unexpected Investing Icon Pages and pages have been written in the last few years about two surprising investing icons, Keith Gill and Nancy Pelosi. Gill, a former financial analyst, is widely recognized for igniting the GameStop surge in late 2020 through his YouTube channel as Roaring […]
Florida medical marijuana patients get an unexpected email praising DeSantis
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida has more than 700,000 medical marijuana patients and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis — who is battling a proposal to allow recreational use of marijuana — wants them all to know what a great job he’s doing. The Department of Health last week sent a blast email to its medical marijuana […]
The unexpected behavior of pulsing stars could help us measure the universe
New research offers the most precise measurements yet of pulsating Cepheid stars, which may hold clues about the immense size and scale of our universe. Cepheids are a type of variable star that brighten and dim within a short period of time, exhibiting specific luminosity patterns. However, while this rhythmic behavior allows astronomers to calculate […]
Water frost detected on Mars volcanoes in ‘unexpected’ first
The equatorial region of Mars is home to the solar system’s tallest volcanoes, which — in addition to standing as tall as three Mount Everests in some cases — likely hide an unexpected frosty phenomenon, a new study has found. The biggest one — Olympus Mons — is 16 miles (26 kilometers) high and a whopping […]
A giant, ‘sunbathing’ fish that washed ashore in Oregon turned out to be an unexpected oddity
A giant species of fish that was first discovered seven years ago washed ashore in Oregon last week, according to marine biologists who study the animal. Beachgoers in Gearhart, a small town just south of the Washington border, found the 7.3-foot-long hoodwinker sunfish, also called a mola tecta, on June 3. The species was first […]
‘Sudden, brief, and unexpected:’ dearMoon crew laments cancellation of private SpaceX Starship moon mission
The dearMoon crew has shared their disappointment on social media following the mission’s abrupt cancellation. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa canceled his planned flight around the moon on June 1 due to delays with SpaceX’s Starship megarocket, which has yet to fly a single crewed test flight. Maezawa initially booked the private trip in 2018 and […]
An unexpected company is about to announce a new smartphone
HTC isn’t a name that’s been relevant in the U.S. and global smartphone market since 2019. After a peak of 10.7% of the market in 2011, the company suffered a massive decline to 0.05% in 2019 and largely discontinued phone sales in the U.S., China, the U.K., and elsewhere. HTC even pulled its devices off […]
This Unexpected Pain Is a Common Sign of Prostate Cancer, According to Urologists
Man discussing prostate cancer signs with his doctor Prostate cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in men, ranking only behind lung cancer in deaths. About 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lives, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). Those numbers are grim, but here’s some […]