A strong earthquake struck a rural and mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan in the early hours of Wednesday, killing 1,000 people and injuring 1,500 more in one of the deadliest earthquakes in decades, the state news agency reported. . Officials warned that the already sad death toll could rise. Information remained scarce about the magnitude …
A strong earthquake in Afghanistan kills at least 1,000 people Read More »
The tech giants form a standard body of metavers, but without Apple • FRANCE 24 English FRANCE 24 English Meta and other tech giants form a body of metaverse standards, without Apple Financial Post Microsoft, Meta and others are founding an open standards group of metavers The Verge Metaverse shares: Facebook, Microsoft, Nvidia Form Standards …
From the orbit, this landscape of Mars looks like a honeycomb or a cobweb. But the unusual polygon-shaped features are not created by Martian bees or spiders; they are actually formed from a process of seasonal change underway created from water ice and carbon dioxide. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) …
A strange honeycomb pattern on Mars appears to be made up of water ice and CO2 Read More »
A confusing scene at a passport office in downtown Montreal saw police call in to help handle the crowds on Tuesday, while hopeful travelers pledged to spend the night just to secure their place in line. . For some, just waiting to get a passport has grown from hours to days. Sonia Basili left her …
Auston Matthews wins the 2022 NHL Hart Trophy Maple Leafs star Auston Matthews wins the Sportsnet.ca Hart Trophy The big winner of the Matthews NHL Awards with Hart and Ted Lindsay TSN SIMMONS: Auston Matthews lands Hart. One wonders if one day it will be the Stanley Cup? Toronto Sun. How does the 2021-22 season …
The House Committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday outlined Donald Trump’s relentless pressure to cancel the 2020 presidential election, with the aim of proving that it provoked widespread personal threats to election workers and to local officials who defended their efforts. The panel resumed focusing on Trump’s efforts to undo Joe …
Longitudinal data showed that the ability to complete a 10-second leg position in the middle and end of life was associated with all-cause mortality. People who could not maintain a leg position for 10 seconds had almost twice the risk of death for the next 7 years (HR 1.84, 95% CI 1.23-2.78, P
The Ottawa AIDS Committee will hold an information session on monkeypox on Thursday, June 23 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm to answer questions about the virus. Ottawa Public Health (OPH) is opening monkeypox vaccine clinics and has begun offering vaccines to people most at risk for the virus. During the Ottawa Board of Health …
Ottawa Public Health administered 100 doses of monkeypox vaccine Read More »
By Jeff Henson DREAM HOUSE LOTTERY June 21, 2022 | 9:59 AM The Grande Prairie Rotary Club has selected the builder and location of the 2023 Dream Home Lottery grand prize. For the second time in the 30-year history of the lottery, Unique Home Concepts has been selected to design and build the home, which …
Plans are already underway for the 30th anniversary of the Rotary Dream Home Lottery Read More »
Washington, after repeatedly stopping the “wet general rehearsal” of the Artemis 1 rocket, NASA has successfully completed the crucial power test of its Megacoet Space Launch System (SLS). The Artemis 1 wet suit rehearsal ended at 7:37 p.m. EDT on June 20, NASA said in a statement. “This is the first time that the team …
NASA’s Artemis 1 mission to the moon completes a crucial fuel test Read More »