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Powerful comet shower from Oort Cloud racing towards Earth, study finds
2+ hour, 49+ min ago (266+ words) A star passed near Earth and the Sun and jostled objects in the Oort Cloud 2. 5 million years ago, sending them on a journey towards us. They are all long-period comets, meaning most of them would still be on their first…...
Northeast India: Japan's new geo-economic corridor
9+ hour, 58+ min ago (349+ words) Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, just before her visit to India on Wednesday, called the country an indispensable partner in advancing her updated Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) vision. That language matters, because "indispensable" is diplomatic code for "we need…...
Geo News off air: Why Pakistan banned major channel for 15 days
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (266+ words) WION Pakistan's media regulator has suspended the broadcast licence of Geo News, one of the country's largest private television channels, for 15 days The suspension follows a June 26 programme named 'Safar-e-Ishq" marking Muharram, a highly sensitive period in the Islamic calendar…...
Earth to be slammed by ripples of a supermassive black hole collision unfolding in our backyard
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (249+ words) WION Two black holes are moving towards each other 500 million light-years from our solar system and will merge in about 100 years When this happens, Earth will also feel the effects of the cosmic event Study co-author Silke Britzen told BBC…...
How Google warned Venezuela of an earthquake using Android phones as seismometers
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (279+ words) WION Seconds before the 7. 2 magnitude earthquake struck Venezuela, Android users received a warning from Google The alert displayed the estimated magnitude of the earthquake and how far it was from the user's location, offering them a tiny window in which…...
California Earthquake Threat? Scientists Warn Pressure Is Still Building
1+ week, 6+ day ago (269+ words) WION - /California Earthquake Threat? Scientists Warn Pressure Is Still Building US-Iran: Washington And Tehran Sign Landmark Deal, But Critical Disputes Remain Sherwood Forest's 1, 200-Year-Old Major Oak Tree Dies UK Politics: Outcome of Makerfield By-Election Could Put Keir Starmer's Leadership at…...
Cosmic Tempest: Record-breaking black hole winds clocked at 30% the speed of light
2+ week, 6+ day ago (225+ words) Astronomers detect the fastest black hole winds ever recorded, tearing through space at an astonishing 30% of the speed of light. To put these extreme speeds into a terrestrial context, researchers have looked to the Saffir-Simpson scale used to measure tropical…...
Fossil Fuels Dominate Global Electricity Generation
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (283+ words) WION Fossil Fuels Dominate Global Electricity Generation Fossil fuels continue to dominate global electricity generation, accounting for the largest share of power produced worldwide. Coal, oil, and natural gas remain key energy sources despite the rapid expansion of renewable technologies....
China's 'gold veins' worth $83bn in Wangu are different than others. Here's why
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (468+ words) WION - /China's 'gold veins' worth $83bn in Wangu are different than others. Here's why China's Wangu gold field in Pingjiang County could have more than 1, 000 tonnes of gold if current estimates are true. Geologists in the Hunan Province say, besides the…...
China just shook Starlink with a 5 times faster laser from a distance of 36, 000km
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (351+ words) 60x further, 5x faster: China just shook Starlink with a tiny laser from a distance of 36, 000km'WION China just shook Starlink with a 5 times faster laser from a distance of 36, 000km Chinese researchers achieve a 1 Gbps satellite laser downlink from 36, 000 kilometres above Earth…...