A Russian company specializing in the study of the atmosphere wants to upgrade its sounding rocket and turn it into an expandable launch vehicle for small satellites that cannot wait for a larger rocket to go into orbit. Nano and micro satellites have become popular platforms for all sorts of space applications. As long as
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — State champion Los Alamitos and fellow California school Norco start 2018 the same way they finished last season — as the top two teams in the USA Today Sports/NFCA High School Super 25 poll — after both cruised through their first two games. No. 3 Oakleaf (6-0), which closed last season ranked
Spring is normally the season for buds to bloom but before Christmas thousands of extremely rare ice ‘flowers’ exploded onto the landscape of a Russian national park. Sadly, no sooner had they blossomed, and they were gone. The thousands of crystalline blossoms bloomed on Valdai Lake in northwestern Russia on Tuesday and, thankfully, visitors had
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Following a wild weekend that saw the top three suffer five defeats, Washington held on to the No. 1 spot in this week’s USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 Coaches Poll. The Huskies (29-1) collected 23 first-place votes and 781 points. No. 1 Washington and then-No. 3 UCLA entered the week as
Challenge crushed! At least that’s what Saskatoon’s police force had to say after a wanted man wrote “catch me if you can pigs” on the Saskatoon Crime Stoppers Facebook page in November. They certainly did. Joseph Vermette was arrested less than three weeks later, according to a Tuesday post on the page. Police didn’t share
Chinese courts have granted a preliminary injunction to US chip-maker Qualcomm which would effectively ban the majority of older iPhone models from sale in China, in a possible trade war counter attack. On the surface, the battle is between two major name tech companies, Apple and Qualcomm, who have been engaged in high-stakes legal battles
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Mahopac (N.Y.) freshman Shannon Becker, Alexandria (Ind.)-Monroe senior Mackenzie McCarty, North Johnston (Kenly, N.C.) senior Jada Santiago, Fleming County (Flemingsburg, Ky.) senior Morgan Fern and Coronado senior (Henderson, Nev.) Tatum Spangler were selected MaxPreps/NFCA National High School Players of the Week for games played the week of April 9-15. East RegionBecker was
NASHVILLE, Tenn. –National Pro Fastpitch announced its 2018 regular season schedule on Tuesday afternoon. The schedule slates each of the five NPF teams for 48 total games each and a season total for the NPF of 120 games over the course of nearly three months. Although the schedule positions each of the teams with
OTTAWA — Raj Grewal’s sudden resignation as a Liberal MP was prompted by a gambling problem, according to the Prime Minister’s Office. Grewal, who represented the riding of Brampton East, announced his immediate resignation Thursday, citing unspecified personal and medical reasons. On Friday, the PMO issued a statement saying that Grewal had informed the office
Russia’s gold production increased by three percent from January through September against the same period a year ago, according to the Gold Industrialists’ Union. Gold output reached 243,000 kilograms, the data from the Moscow-based group showed. The significant boost was reportedly due to increased volumes of ore processing in several of the country’s gold mines,