(FOX) According to the National Weather Service, one of the deadly tornadoes that struck the southern United States this week was an EF-5, the highest category of tornado and the strongest one in Mississippi since 1966. Smithfield was hit in mid-afternoon, this past Wednesday, causing 14 deaths and 40 injuries. This preliminar assessment is subject […]
A Pennsylvania pterosaur has been reported, not a fossil in the Pennsylvanian strata but a living pterosaur. In the summer of 2006, at about 8:00 p.m., . . . in southwest Greensburg, Pennsylvaniva, a karate teacher and two of his students were talking outside. Above some small trees . . . they saw something that […]
(CNN) In Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, Garum Tesfaye is a landlord, of a sort. He rents newspapers. Surrounded by worn-out copies of old newspapers, stacks of gossip magazines and the crisp print of the latest news, Tesfaye sits attentively, checking his watch every now and then. Near him, a pedestrian bridge provides shelter […]
Fifty years ago today, Yuri Gagarin, of the U.S.S.R., became the first human to be launched into space, electrifying the world and shocking the Soviet Union’s major competitor, the United States of America. The Russian pilot circled the earth in one orbit, in a Vostok spacecraft, to be precise the Vostok 3KA, which had flown in […]
