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10 PhotosPhoto: NASA/Preston DychessJuly is half over, and Earth is now seeing its annual shooting star season. That’s right, the Perseid meteor shower is fast approaching, which will reach its peak on the night of August 11, 2024. of Perseid meteor shower A meteor is a small meteor that burns up in Earth’s atmosphere as Earth passes through the tail of Comet Swift-Tuttle. It is so named because the place in the sky where it appears to come from, the radiant point, is in the constellation Perseus. Meteors are familiar to us and pose no real danger, but the spectacle…

Flash Sale Don’t miss out on this great opportunity Standard Digital Access $3 per year Already a subscriber? Log in Santa Clara County officials plan to spray insecticides in parts of San Jose and unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County next week after finding mosquitoes that tested positive for the West Nile virus in the area. Those living in the 95127 and 95140 zip code area east of Alum Rock, centered around Calco Creek Drive, may see trucks driving around the area around 10pm that night, spraying insecticide to reduce adult mosquito populations, weather permitting. Spraying will last two to…

A coronal mass ejection is seen erupting from the Sun in June 2015. Image courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Space storms may soon be more accurately predicted than ever before, thanks to a major advance in our understanding of exactly when violent solar outbursts will strike Earth. Scientists say they are now able to make accurate predictions. speed One Coronal mass ejection (CME) is moving fast enough to impact Earth even before it has fully erupted from the Sun. A CME is an explosion of gas and magnetic fields that ejects from the sun’s atmosphere into space. these…

circleWe all know that we need to eat less salt to avoid high blood pressure, but that’s not the only way diet can help prevent hypertension, which affects one in three adults in the UK. Tim Spector, founder of the Zoe app and professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London, was diagnosed with hypertension after a mini-stroke in his early 50s, and this week shared some of the dietary changes he’s made since then, based on the latest science. Many of us, he explained in an Instagram post.None of us, including himself, are particularly sensitive to salt, so other…

Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Likhanov said the new measures were “better than nothing.”Article informationauthor, Nour Nanji & Sophie van Bruggenrole, Culture reporter7 hours agoFormer Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer Kristina Rikhanoff has welcomed the BBC’s decision to provide chaperones for stars during rehearsals following complaints about two of her co-dancers on the show.She told BBC News that celebrities “will feel a bit more comfortable” appearing on the show.Rehearsals are often “frustrating” and “pressurising”, she said, adding that celebrities would be “comforted knowing someone is watching and observing what’s going on”.Strictly has been hit by a series of damaging allegations…

If the Mariners showed signs of recovery against the Padres before the All-Star break and were hoping for a late comeback, tonight put a damper on the last slivers of those hopes. They looked helpless against the Astros, getting held scoreless for six innings by Hunter Brown and then being overwhelmed by Houston’s relief staff. Luis Castillo had a bad inning, but as we’ve seen many times before, the Mariners’ starting pitchers have to be perfect, and that’s usually not enough to win. Tonight, the Mariners surrendered their lead in the AL West to the Astros, and it felt right.…

A Belarusian court has sentenced a German doctor to death after finding him guilty of terrorism and mercenary activities, human rights activists say. Viasna, one of Belarus’s main activist groups, said in a statement that Rico Krieger, 30, was convicted of six charges in a closed trial in June. The group said Krieger faces execution by firing squad.The trigger for the charges remains unclear and the country’s state-run news agency did not provide further details about the allegations in its report.Belarus is the last country in Europe where the death penalty still exists and says it only applies to serious…

American Airlines reaches contract agreement with flight attendants by Gary Leff July 19, 2024 The Association of Professional Flight Attendants updated its members, saying that a tentative agreement had been reached with American Airlines. The negotiations took place this week in Phoenix, not Washington, D.C., and without the involvement of a federal mediator, making it clear that a deal is close and all that’s left to do is work out the details. This will allow American Airlines to tout that it has weathered labor unrest and major risks ahead of its second-quarter earnings report next Thursday. Specific details of the…

Bethesda Game Studios is the first Microsoft game developer to formally become fully unionized under the Communications Workers of America (CWA), forming a “full” union of developers including artists, engineers, programmers, and designers. Microsoft has recognized the union.The union was approved after 241 developers signed union authorization cards or indicated their desire to unionize through an online portal. Bethesda Games Studio Montreal unionization in late June And unionization ZeniMax has about 300 quality assurance staff in-house.Bethesda’s parent company.Bethesda Game Studios has announced a “wall-to-wall” union of 241 developers. “We, the majority of developers at Bethesda Game Studios Dallas, Rockville &…

Astronauts face a variety of risks during spaceflight, including microgravity, which can reduce bone density, and radiation exposure, which is a carcinogen, but these are chronic effects. The biggest risk for astronauts is fire, as escape would be difficult on a long mission. Mars Or somewhere beyond low Earth orbit. Scientists are studying the behavior of fires on board spacecraft to protect astronauts. Scientists at the University of Bremen’s Center for Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) are investigating the risk of fire on board spacecraft. They wrote in the Proceedings of the Combustion Research Institute:Effect of oxygen concentration, pressure…