Russian thrusters have accidentally titled the International Space Station (ISS) for the second time this year. The Soyuz MS-18 was scheduled to bring a small crew back to Earth early Sunday morning. During a planned pre-departure test at around 5:02 a.m. EDT, the thrusters continued to fire beyond the end of the test, resulting in […]
Canadian researchers said they identified a new, mysterious kind of killer whale that hunts large mammals—like grey whale calves—and prefers the Pacific’s deepwater canyons for hunting than along the coast, according to reports. Josh McInnes, a researcher from the University of British Columbia, said these “outer coast transient whales” are believed to be a subset […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) could be key in helping scientists identify the next animal virus that is capable of infecting humans, according to researchers. In a Tuesday study published in the journal PLoS Biology, the Glasgow-based team said it had devised a genomic model that could “retrospectively or prospectively predict the probability that viruses will be […]
