Light pollution has long troubled astronomers, who generally shy away from deep sky observing under full Moon skies. The natural light from a bright Moon floods the sky and hides views of the Milky Way, dim galaxies and nebula, and shooting stars. In recent years, human-made light pollution has dramatically surpassed the interference of even […]
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WASHINGTON — The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) awarded a contract Feb. 7 to Spire Global, partnered with OroraTech, to develop a constellation of cubesats to monitor wildfires. CSA and other Canadian government officials announced that Spire’s Canadian subsidiary, Spire Global Canada, won a contract worth $72 million Canadian ($50.4 million) to develop 10 satellites for
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A Lufthansa flight from Miami to Germany made an emergency landing in Montreal on January 19 after the captain lost consciousness mid-flight. The Boeing 747-8i, flight LH463, was diverted while over the Atlantic, with the senior first officer taking control. Flight attendants assisted the incapacitated captain as the crew issued a distress call. Due to
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Turning priorities and goals into action is essential across all hospitality disciplines. From a people perspective, HR needs professionals who understand the company’s direction and have a vested interest in implementing it. It is all about execution. When I interview HR candidates, if they say, I wanted to go into HR because I love people,
The University of Pretoria (UP) recently hosted its annual Welcome Day event to induct first-year students who will soon be embarking on their university journey. Held on Saturday, 1 February 2025 at Rembrandt Hall on Hillcrest campus, this special event saw incoming students along with their parents and guardians visit the campus for a day
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Kampala, Uganda — As US President Donald Trump ends nearly all foreign aid funding, access to medicines that have suppressed an epidemic for decades will disappear. Clinics that provide medicine to people with HIV/AIDS, as well as drugs that prevent transmission of the virus, closed here this week as the United States stopped nearly all
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KYIV, Feb 7 (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pored over a once-classified map of vast deposits of rare earths and other critical minerals during an interview with Reuters on Friday, part of a push to appeal to Donald Trump’s penchant for a deal. The U.S. president, whose administration is pressing for a rapid end
Donald Tusk has once again criticised the Pact on Migration and Asylum and doubled down on his refusal to comply with the legislation. ADVERTISEMENT Poland will not implement the Pact on Migration and Asylum, the all-encompassing reform the European Union has introduced to collectively manage the irregular arrival of asylum seekers, Prime Minister Donald Tusk
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(To get this story in your inbox, subscribe to the TIME CO2 Leadership Report newsletter here.) In his first weeks in office, President Donald Trump has sought to take a wrecking ball to climate and environmental policy. He has directed his administration to roll back a wide range of regulations and aims to undercut the
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The world loves a good “rise of” story — one that captures the first months of a now-superstar artist’s meteoric rise, whether it’s Elvis or the Beatles or Madonna or Prince or Nirvana (that sound you hear is keyboards clicking on “Rise of Chappell Roan” biopic scripts). It’s an undeniably compelling premise: seeing how and
