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Stoke House has introduced the primary profitable hot-fire check of an engine designed for its upcoming reusable rocket. The Kent, Washington-based firm examined its new full-flow, staged-combustion (FFSC) rocket engine on June 5 on the firm’s check website in Moses Lake, Washington. Pictures from the check present the engine kicking up a big plume of sand and rocks because the …

Harmful flooding from a tropical disturbance inundated a lot of southern Florida on Wednesday, blocking roads, floating autos and delaying the Florida Panthers on their technique to Stanley Cup video games in Canada in opposition to the Edmonton Oilers. The disorganized storm system was pushing throughout Florida from the Gulf of Mexico at roughly the identical time because the early …

Join CNN’s Marvel Idea science publication. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The traditional Maya metropolis of Chichén Itzá in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has lengthy been related to human sacrifice, with a whole bunch of bones unearthed from temples, a sacred sinkhole and different underground caverns. An extended-held false impression is that the victims …

A plan to construct an enormous monkey-breeding facility that would finally home 30,000 long-tailed macaques in a small Georgia metropolis has sparked a multipronged authorized battle pitting residents in opposition to an organization whose executives have confronted scrutiny for his or her previous dealing with of animals destined for medical analysis. The destiny of the ability is within the fingers …

A gif displaying a yellow-wrapped spacecraft with solar-panel wings in area. Simply outdoors Hiroya Yamaguchi’s workplace is a blackboard crowded with exploded stars, spaceship schematics and spectral strains. The A4 printouts obscure virtually all of the free area, apart from a tiny nook the place he generally scribbles in white chalk. Proper now, Yamaguchi, an affiliate professor at Japan’s Institute …

The wreck of the ship that famed explorer Ernest Shackleton died on greater than a century in the past has been discovered on the ocean flooring off the coast of Canada, in keeping with a news release from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Shackleton was a legendary explorer who sailed to the perimeters of the Earth, together with 4 journeys …

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In 1967, an underground cistern generally known as a chultun was found close to a sacred physique of water at Chichen Itza, an essential historic Maya metropolis on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. Skeletal stays of greater than 100 kids have been discovered inside. Now, DNA obtained from 64 of them is providing perception into baby …

A uncommon eruption of sunshine from a lifeless star will possible be seen to folks on Earth this summer season in a fleeting however probably stark celestial show that scientists are calling “a once-in-a-lifetime occasion.” The technical time period for the approaching cosmic explosion is nova, which occurs when a white dwarf lights up abruptly and infrequently strikingly within the …

ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland (AP) — The wreck of the final ship belonging to Sir Ernest Shackleton, a well-known Irish-born British explorer of Antarctica, has been discovered off the coast of Labrador in Canada, 62 years after it went lacking. The wreck was discovered by a world group led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. The Quest was discovered utilizing sonar …

Archaeologists have uncovered proof of Roman, Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements in Essex, southern England, in findings described as “extremely fascinating.” The settlements, found throughout excavations earlier than a deliberate water pipeline was laid, present a “actual image into what bizarre folks’s lives had been like,” Benjamin Sleep, a senior archaeology and heritage advisor at Stantec – the corporate …