How an asteroid caused an explosion 1,000 times more powerful than Hiroshima
While its discovery involved more than one fumbling astronomer, the asteroid 2024 Y24 has been in the headlines for its high ...
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Giant Megafauna Lived Alongside Humans As Recently As 3,500 Years Ago
Carbon dating of teeth fragments found in Brazil reveals that some species persisted for thousands of years longer than ...
Trump job cuts could throw national parks and forests into ‘staffing chaos'
As their ranks diminish, park rangers say fewer employees could mean long entry lines, dirty bathrooms and potentially unsafe ...
Labor’s $200m energy promise ‘dreadfully’ unfulfilled
The state government has delivered less than a third of the 1,000 self-sufficient power units it promised for cyclone-impacted residents and farmers at the 2021 election.
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IRS fires 6,000 employees as Trump slashes US government
A tearful executive at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service told staffers on Thursday that about 6,000 employees would be fired, ...
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A new Microsoft chip could lead to more stable quantum computers
Microsoft has long been working on an alternative that could cut down on the overhead by using components that are far more ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit Earth in 7 years. Here’s what could happen — and what’s being done about it
The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS, telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first discovered 2024 YR4 on ...