Friday, January 31, 2020

Now for the Hard Part: EU-UK Trade Talks to Be Complicated by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

If you thought the drawn-out battle over the U.K.’s departure from the European Union was painful, wait until you see what comes next.

Published: February 1, 2020 at 02:30AM

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Apollo 14 Heads for Home

When leaving lunar orbit in February 1971, the crew of Apollo 14 watched this Earthrise from their command module Kittyhawk. With Earth’s sunlit crescent just peaking over the lunar horizon, the cratered terrain in the foreground is along the lunar farside. Of course, while orbiting the Moon, the crew could watch Earth rise and set, but the Earth hung stationary in the sky over Fra Mauro Base, their landing site on the lunar surface. Rock samples brought back by the Apollo 14 mission included a 20 pound rock nicknamed Big Bertha, later determined to contain a likely fragment of a meteorite from planet Earth. via NASA https://ift.tt/2S7blzx


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Bodies of 2 Crewmen Missing Since Boat-Tanker Crash Found by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

The bodies of two men missing since the collision of a fishing boat and a chemical tanker near Galveston, Texas, have been found in the fishing boat’s capsized hull, officials said Friday.

Published: January 31, 2020 at 06:06PM

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After Brexit: UK Leaves EU but What’s Next Far From Certain by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

Britain is leaving the European Union after 47 years of membership. That’s just the first stage of a journey that still has many twists in store.

Published: January 31, 2020 at 12:21PM

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What to Cook This Weekend by Sam Sifton


By Sam Sifton

It’s Super Bowl weekend, and we’ve got all the wings and dips you’ll ever need.

Published: January 31, 2020 at 10:30AM

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Japan Panel: Fukushima Water Release to Sea Is Best Option by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

A Japanese government panel on Friday roughly accepted a draft proposal for releasing into the sea massive amounts of radioactive water now being stored at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant.

Published: January 31, 2020 at 08:51AM

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The French Fishermen Who Could Sink Britain’s Post-Brexit Ambitions by Reuters


By Reuters

For the British government, a successful Brexit means re-asserting economic sovereignty and landing a trade deal with Europe. Trawler captain Stephane Fait and his fellow French fisherman could sink that plan.

Published: January 31, 2020 at 08:28AM

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Travellers Breach China Virus Lockdown by Taking Bridge Over Yangtze by Reuters


By Reuters

People are leaving and entering China’s Hubei province by foot over a bridge spanning the Yangtze river despite a virtual lockdown on vehicle traffic due to a coronavirus epidemic that has killed about 200 people.

Published: January 31, 2020 at 06:04AM

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The French Fishermen Who Could Sink Britain’s Post-Brexit Ambitions by Reuters


By Reuters

For the British government, a successful Brexit means re-asserting economic sovereignty and landing a trade deal with Europe. Trawler captain Stephane Fait and his fellow French fisherman could sink that plan.

Published: January 31, 2020 at 04:37AM

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S&P and Moody’s Warn Looser EU Ties Will Pressure UK Credit Rating by Reuters


By Reuters

The world’s two biggest credit ratings agencies, S&P Global and Moody’s, warned Britain on Thursday that its credit rating would be under threat if a post-Brexit trade deal significantly cut access to European Union markets.

Published: January 31, 2020 at 04:01AM

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Thursday, January 30, 2020

Britain Is Leaving. Europe Has to Change. by Jochen Bittner


By Jochen Bittner

There’s an enormous danger in doing nothing.

Published: January 31, 2020 at 01:00AM

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Goldilocks Zones and Stars

The Goldilocks zone is the habitable zone around a star where it’s not too hot and not too cold for liquid water to exist on the surface of orbiting planets. This intriguing infographic includes relative sizes of those zones for yellow G stars like the Sun, along with orange K dwarf stars and red M dwarf stars, both cooler and fainter than the Sun. M stars (top) have small, close-in Goldilocks zones. They are also seen to live long (100 billion years or so) and are very abundant, making up about 73 percent of the stars in the Milky Way. Still, they have very active magnetic fields and may produce too much radiation harmful to life, with an estimated X-ray irradiance 400 times the quiet Sun. Sun-like G stars (bottom) have large Goldilocks zones and are relatively calm, with low amounts of harmful radiation. But they only account for 6 percent of Milky Way stars and are much shorter lived. In the search for habitable planets, K dwarf stars could be just right, though. Not too rare they have 40 billion year lifetimes, much longer than the Sun. With a relatively wide habitable zone they produce only modest amounts of harmful radiation. These Goldilocks stars account for about 13 percent of the stars of the Milky Way. via NASA https://ift.tt/36HM1oX


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Britain’s Brexit Shrug: Just ‘Get On With It’ by Mark Landler


By Mark Landler

For the last three years, Britons have debated Brexit. Now that it is here, there is a sense of relief even though the country still must decide what sort of Brexit it wants.

Published: January 31, 2020 at 12:14AM

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Florida Mistakenly Man Pumps $60 of Gas on Deck of His Boat by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

Mistakenly inserting a fuel nozzle into a fishing pole slot, a Florida man pumped $60 worth of gasoline onto the deck of his boat and the ground of a gas station, fire rescue officials said.

Published: January 30, 2020 at 01:39PM

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Ireland Wary of UK’s Optimism for EU Trade Deal This Year by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

Getting a new trade deal between the U.K. and the European Union by the end of the year — as the British government claims will happen — would be a feat “nearly without precedent,” the Irish finance minister said Thursday.

Published: January 30, 2020 at 12:24PM

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‘New Dawn’ Brexit to Do List: Money, Charming Trump and Making Friends by Reuters


By Reuters

The United Kingdom leaves the European Union at 2300 GMT on Friday but Prime Minister Boris Johnson has a bulging to do list for what he has cast as a “new dawn” for the country.

Published: January 30, 2020 at 11:55AM

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The Perfect ’72 Dolphins and Football’s Ultimate Toll by Ken Belson


By Ken Belson

The N.F.L. is celebrating its only team to go through an entire season without losing. That glory came at a cost as several of the team’s prominent players were found to have C.T.E.

Published: January 30, 2020 at 10:32AM

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Explainer: Brexit ‘Done’ at Last-Now for the Hard Part by Reuters


By Reuters

At the stroke of midnight in Brussels on Friday, Britain will leave the European Union and Prime Minister Boris Johnson will deliver on his election promise to “Get Brexit Done”.

Published: January 30, 2020 at 07:10AM

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Brexit Finally Arrives Friday: A Momentous Yet Quiet Moment by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

Friday will mark a truly historic moment, but almost nothing will happen.

Published: January 30, 2020 at 06:48AM

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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Two Custers and a Comet

This lovely starfield spans some four full moons (about 2 degrees) across the heroic northern constellation of Perseus. In telescopic exposures made during the nights of January 24, 26, and 28 it holds the famous pair of open or galactic star clusters h and Chi Persei with comet PanSTARRS (C/2017 T2) captured each night as it swept left to right across the field of view. Also cataloged as NGC 869 (right) and NGC 884, both star clusters are about 7,000 light-years away and contain stars much younger and hotter than the Sun. Separated by only a few hundred light-years, the clusters are both 13 million years young based on the ages of their individual stars, evidence that they were likely a product of the same star-forming region. Discovered in 2017 while still beyond the orbit of Saturn, Comet PanSTARRs is a new visitor to the inner solar system and just over 13 light-minutes from planet Earth. Always a rewarding sight in binoculars, the Double Cluster is even visible to the unaided eye from dark locations. C/2017 T2 could remain a telescopic comet though. One of the brightest comets anticipated in 2020 it makes its closest approach to the Sun in early May. via NASA https://ift.tt/2RZhkX0


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Britain to Introduce Bill to End Automatic EU Fishing Rights in UK Waters by Reuters


By Reuters

The British government said it will introduce a bill into parliament on Wednesday for legislation to end automatic rights for European Union vessels to fish in UK waters.

Published: January 29, 2020 at 01:52PM

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10 Things to Know for Today by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:

Published: January 29, 2020 at 06:33AM

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Post-Brexit Talks Gear Up for Fish Fight Between EU, UK by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

When it comes to U.K.-European Union relations, there’s nothing like slapping a fish around. After all, both sides have been contesting who rules their waves practicallysince the United Kingdom became a member in 1973.

Published: January 29, 2020 at 05:51AM

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536 Fishermen Stranded on Giant Ice Floe Rescued in Russia by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

Russia’s emergency services rescued 536 ice fishermen after they got stranded on a giant ice floe that broke off the island of Sakhalin in eastern Siberia, officials said.

Published: January 29, 2020 at 04:12AM

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Confined at Home, Chinese Get Creative to Beat Boredom by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

Chinese around the country confined to their apartments either by choice or by order are making the best of the situation as cities remain in lockdown in a desperate bid to contain a new, dangerous virus.

Published: January 29, 2020 at 04:09AM

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Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Britain to Introduce Bill to End Automatic EU Fishing Rights in UK Waters by Reuters


By Reuters

The British government said it will introduce a bill into parliament on Wednesday for legislation to end automatic rights for European Union vessels to fish in UK waters.

Published: January 29, 2020 at 01:16AM

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Milky Way over Yellowstone

The Milky Way was not created by an evaporating lake. The pool of vivid blue water, about 10 meters across, is known as Silex Spring and is located in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, USA. Steam rises off the spring, heated by a magma chamber deep underneath known as the Yellowstone hotspot. The steam blurs the image of Venus, making it seem unusually large. Unrelated and far in the distance, the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy rises high overhead, a band lit by billions of stars. The featured picture is a 3-image panorama taken last August. If the Yellowstone hotspot causes another supervolcanic eruption as it did 640,000 years ago, a large part of North America would be affected. via NASA https://ift.tt/310DFaC


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Brexit Crusader Farage: ‘I’ll Miss Playing the Villain’ by Reuters


By Reuters

As Nigel Farage packed a few belongings into a box at his office in the European Union’s parliament in Brussels on Tuesday, he reflected that he will miss the very institution on which – as its bluntest critic – he built his political career.

Published: January 28, 2020 at 04:07PM

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Victims of Alabama Boat Dock Fire Loved Living on Water by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

Roughly two dozen people lived on Dock B at Jackson County Park Marina, and none was rich or famous. They were middle-class adults and children, not yachters, folks who liked having a Tennessee River bywater for their backyard.

Published: January 28, 2020 at 11:03AM

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Monday, January 27, 2020

Star Formation in the Tadpole Nebula

What’s all of the commotion in the Tadpole Nebula? Star formation. Dusty emission in the Tadpole Nebula, IC 410, lies about 12,000 light-years away in the northern constellation of the Charioteer (Auriga). The cloud of glowing gas is over 100 light-years across, sculpted by stellar winds and radiation from embedded open star cluster NGC 1893. Formed in the interstellar cloud a mere 4 million years ago, bright newly formed cluster stars are seen all around the star-forming nebula. Notable near the image center are two relatively dense streamers of material trailing away from the nebula’s central regions. Potentially sites of ongoing star formation in IC 410, these cosmic tadpole shapes are about 10 light-years long. The featured image was taken in infrared light by NASA’s Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite. via NASA https://ift.tt/311nmus


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The Latest: Some of the Questions Are Fun and Games by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

The Latest on Media Night from Super Bowl 54 (all times EST):

Published: January 27, 2020 at 08:12PM

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Italy’s Salvini Loses ‘Aura of Invincibility’ in Emilia Setback by Reuters


By Reuters

Matteo Salvini’s surprisingly clear defeat in a key regional election on Sunday brusquely halts what seemed an unstoppable rise for the Italian hard-right leader and disrupts his progress towards national power.

Published: January 27, 2020 at 07:16PM

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They’re Stealthy at Sea, but They Can’t Hide From the Albatross by Katherine Kornei


By Katherine Kornei

Researchers outfitted 169 seabirds with radar detectors to pinpoint vessels that had turned off their transponders.

Published: January 27, 2020 at 03:00PM

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Review: In ‘Goodnight Nobody,’ a Getaway Goes Awry by Alexis Soloski


By Alexis Soloski

Haunted by Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” Rachel Bonds’s restless and friable play gathers a group of mostly artists at a lakeside retreat.

Published: January 27, 2020 at 12:54PM

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The Most Delicious Cold Candied Oranges by Sam Sifton


By Sam Sifton

Gabrielle Hamilton has a beautiful new recipe for fresh, firm seedless oranges poached in a light sugar syrup. Make it soon.

Published: January 27, 2020 at 10:30AM

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Multiple People Dead in Alabama Boat Fire, Officials Say by Johnny Diaz


By Johnny Diaz

About 35 boats were destroyed during an early morning fire Monday in Scottsboro.

Published: January 27, 2020 at 09:45AM

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Steady Nadal Beats Animated Kyrgios in 4 at Australian Open by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

Rafael Nadal left the muttering and the preening, the underarm serving and the ‘tweening, to his younger, flashier opponent, Nick Kyrgios.

Published: January 27, 2020 at 01:12AM

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Harvey Weinstein on Trial: What’s Happened So Far by Corey Kilgannon


By Corey Kilgannon

The actresses Annabella Sciorra and Rosie Perez testified at the proceeding, and prosecutors offered tawdry details about what they said were assaults on women.

Published: January 27, 2020 at 05:28AM

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A $100 Million Bet That Vacationland Can Be a Tech Hub, Too by Eduardo Porter


By Eduardo Porter

A benefactor’s big gift will create a research center in Portland, Maine, testing a small city’s ability to prosper as a magnet for innovation.

Published: January 27, 2020 at 03:00AM

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Sunday, January 26, 2020

Comet CG Evaporates

Where do comet tails come from? There are no obvious places on the nuclei of comets from which the jets that create comet tails emanate. One of the best images of emerging jets is shown in the featured picture, taken in 2015 by ESA’s robotic Rosetta spacecraft that orbited Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Comet CG) from 2014 to 2016. The picture shows plumes of gas and dust escaping numerous places from Comet CG’s nucleus as it neared the Sun and heated up. The comet has two prominent lobes, the larger one spanning about 4 kilometers, and a smaller 2.5-kilometer lobe connected by a narrow neck. Analyses indicate that evaporation must be taking place well inside the comet’s surface to create the jets of dust and ice that we see emitted through the surface. Comet CG (also known as Comet 67P) loses in jets about a meter of radius during each of its 6.44-year orbits around the Sun, a rate at which will completely destroy the comet in only thousands of years. In 2016, Rosetta’s mission ended with a controlled impact onto Comet CG’s surface. via NASA https://ift.tt/2RMSedO


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Saturday, January 25, 2020

Hills Ridges and Tracks on Mars

Sometimes, even rovers on Mars stop to admire the scenery. Just late last November the Curiosity rover on Mars paused to photograph its impressive surroundings. One thing to admire, straight ahead, was Central Butte, an unusual flat hill studied by Curiosity just a few days before this image was taken. To its right was distant Mount Sharp, the five-kilometer central peak of entire Gale crater, the interior of which Curiosity is exploring. Mount Sharp, covered in sulfates, appears quite bright in this colorized, red-filtered image. To the far left, shrouded in a very dark shadow, was the south slope of Vera Rubin ridge, an elevation explored previously by Curiosity. Between the ridge and butte were tracks left by Curiosity’s wheels as they rolled forward, out of the scene. In the image foreground is, of course, humanity’s current eyes on Mars: the complex robotic rover Curiosity itself. Later this year, if all goes well, NASA will have another rover — and more eyes — on Mars. Today you can help determine the name of this rover yourself, but tomorrow is the last day to cast your vote. via NASA https://ift.tt/37ru2UN


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China Deal Might Not Bail Out Lobster Industry This New Year by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

American seafood exporters are optimistic that a new trade deal with China will allow them to claw back into one of the world’s biggest markets for lobster, but help might not have arrived in time for the biggest day on the calendar.

Published: January 25, 2020 at 09:36AM

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Friday, January 24, 2020

Rubin s Galaxy

In this Hubble Space Telescope image the bright, spiky stars lie in the foreground toward the heroic northern constellation Perseus and well within our own Milky Way galaxy. In sharp focus beyond is UGC 2885, a giant spiral galaxy about 232 million light-years distant. Some 800,000 light-years across compared to the Milky Way’s diameter of 100,000 light-years or so, it has around 1 trillion stars. That’s about 10 times as many stars as the Milky Way. Part of a current investigation to understand how galaxies can grow to such enormous sizes, UGC 2885 was also part of astronomer Vera Rubin’s pioneering study of the rotation of spiral galaxies. Her work was the first to convincingly demonstrate the dominating presence of dark matter in our universe. via NASA https://ift.tt/30UeOVP


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One Year on, Brazilian City Haunted by Deadly Dam Collapse by The Associated Press


By The Associated Press

Like she has so many other nights, Ana María Gomes is awakened by the cries of her husband and tries to calm him as he shouts for help from his mine coworkers. She convinces him the dam collapse that devastated their city of Brumadinho and killed …

Published: January 25, 2020 at 12:03AM

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UK Finance Sector Ready to Wave Brexit White Flag Amid ‘Fish for Finance’ Talk by Reuters


By Reuters

Britain’s finance sector is losing hope of securing even basic access to European Union markets from Dec. 31, as talk that the EU wants UK fishing rights in exchange draws the industry into a political struggle between the bloc and its departing m…

Published: January 24, 2020 at 02:55PM

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What to Cook This Weekend by Sam Sifton


By Sam Sifton

Get yourself ready for the week ahead with a batch of baked potato soup, or some roast beef for sandwiches.

Published: January 24, 2020 at 10:30AM

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When the Prince of Wales Is Your Landlord by Amie Tsang


By Amie Tsang

On England’s southwestern coast, a community built by the Duchy of Cornwall is attracting residents who have bought into Prince Charles’s housing philosophy.

Published: January 24, 2020 at 08:28AM

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In the Bahamas, a Strong Market for New Luxury Homes by Shivani Vora


By Shivani Vora

Three new high-end developments have brought a rise in sales to foreign buyers. The lack of an income tax is another attraction.

Published: January 24, 2020 at 05:03AM

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On a Nude Beach With My Parents, Baring Almost All by Matt Knight


By Matt Knight

My Speedo stayed on but my secrets came out.

Published: January 24, 2020 at 05:00AM

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Thursday, January 23, 2020

Into the Shadow

On January 21, 2019 moonwatchers on planet Earth saw a total lunar eclipse. In 35 frames this composite image follows the Moon that night as it crossed into Earth’s dark umbral shadow. Taken 3 minutes apart, they almost melt together in a continuous screen that captures the dark colors within the shadow itself and the northern curve of the shadow’s edge. Sunlight scattered by the atmosphere into the shadow causes the lunar surface to appear reddened during totality (left), but close to the umbra’s edge, the limb of the eclipsed Moon shows a remarkable blue hue. The blue eclipsed moonlight originates as rays of sunlight pass through layers high in Earth’s upper stratosphere, colored by ozone that scatters red light and transmits blue. The Moon’s next crossing into Earth’s umbral shadow, will be on May 26, 2021. via NASA https://ift.tt/2vliLaJ


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