Tag: Science

Delta Air Lines Launches Facial Recognition Checks

At this airport, boarding a plane is now a hassle-free experience for a select group of passengers. Delta Air Lines and the Transportation Security Administration in the US have teamed up to offer a check-in and boarding system using a facial recognition software system. The pilot program begins in Atlanta next week, with a similar…


Sun Unleashes Large Solar Flare Which Could Lead to Spectacular Auroras This Weekend: Experts

A large coronal mass ejection (CME) is expected to collide with the Earth’s magnetic field on Oct. 30 following an incredible solar flare eruption on Thursday. The sun unleashed an X1-class solar flare, its most powerful kind of flare, on Thursday. It peaked at 11:35 a.m.EDT (1535 GMT), according to an alert from the Space Weather Prediction Center…


Solar Wing Jammed on NASA Spacecraft Chasing Asteroids

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—NASA is debating whether to try to fix a jammed solar panel on its newly launched Lucy spacecraft, en route to explore an unprecedented number of asteroids. The problem cropped up shortly after the spacecraft’s Oct. 16 liftoff on a 12-year journey. After measuring the electric current this week, NASA reported Wednesday that…


The Heavens Declare (Episode 2): The Origin of the Universe Part 2

Can’t wait for more? Watch more Awesome Science content here now: awesomescitv.com/epochtv Want to purchase the DVD series or buy VOD? Click Here. Get 10% OFF every purchase now, enter this coupon code at checkout: EPOCHTV This episode introduces the entire series about origins and the two competing worldviews; the biblical and a naturalistic worldviews….


Dutchman Uses Worthless Coconut Husks to Make Profitable Pallets to ‘Save Millions of Trees’ per Year

From serving in the Dutch army to living on a beach in Barbados, Michiel Vos has trekked the globe finding his niche. Perhaps taking a cue from the beach where he once lived, Vos realized that coconuts were exactly what the world needed. Supply chain backlogs in California are in the news lately, but another…


Official: La Palma ‘Most Severe Volcano in 100 Years’

An erupting volcano on the Spanish island of La Palma continued to emit huge amounts of magma and black ash Wednesday after the collapse of an inner cone on the previous night. New lava flows emerged, causing landslides and overflows of magma into the primary lava flow that has advanced to the west of the…


La Palma Island Braces for More Quakes as Volcano Roars On

LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE, Canary Islands—Residents on Spain’s La Palma island braced Wednesday for the possibility of bigger earthquakes that could compound the damage from a volcano spilling lava more than five weeks since it erupted. Seismologists said a 4.6 magnitude earthquake shook the island a day after they recorded a 4.9 magnitude quake that…


Blue Origin Planning First Mixed-Use Business Park in Space

Blue Origin and Sierra Space have upped the space game with the announcement of a mixed-use business park, floating in low Earth orbit, slated to be launched sometime in the second half of this decade. The 32,000-square-foot Orbital Reef space station is designed with multiple purposes, and will “provide anyone with the opportunity to establish…


Astronomers Detect First Possible Planet Outside of Our Galaxy

NASA has announced the possibility of the first confirmed planet located outside of the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s space-based telescope Chandra X-ray Observatory identified a potential exoplanet in spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51), also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy. Exoplanets are planets outside of the solar system, but all previously confirmed and possible…


Socialist Venezuela Caused 50,000 Oil Spills From 2010 to 2016

On Oct. 25, a Center for Strategic and International Studies panel discussed some of the environmental damage taking place in Venezuela, which has been led since 1999 by socialist Hugo Chavez and, after Chavez’s death in 2013, socialist Nicolás Maduro. Sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), much of the event focused…