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SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket from Southern California

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SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on April 6, 2024. (SpaceX) SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Friday evening. The rocket lifted off at 8:14 PM PT Friday night’s mission, dubbed NROL-186, involved the transport of a payload for … Read more

Major fault line off the west coast could trigger a catastrophic magnitude 9 earthquake, research shows – and it’s due to a blow

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The Cascadia Subduction Zone extends along a 600-mile stretch of the Pacific Ocean off the coasts of southern Canada, Washington, Oregon and northern California. If it erupts, it could cause a magnitude 9 earthquake to hit the region. The darker areas mark the region that would suffer the most damage and extend inland where the devastation would be more moderate

An underwater fault line along America’s west coast could trigger a megaquake that would be more devastating than California’s ‘Big One’, a new study suggests. Using underwater mapping techniques, scientists have mapped the Cascadia Subduction Zone – a 600-mile-long fault line stretching from southern Canada to Northern California – in unprecedented detail. It has been … Read more

Apple WWDC 2024 LIVE updates: All expected announcements, including iOS 18, AI features and more

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By Matthew Phelan Senior science reporter for Dailymail.Com Published: 12:22 EDT, June 10, 2024 | Updated: 2:04 PM EDT, June 10, 2024 Advertisement Apple’s highly anticipated annual conference for software developers, where the tech giant is expected to finally unveil plans to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into its products, kicks off Monday, June 10 at … Read more

How scientists shipped astronomy’s largest camera from California to Chile

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a cross-bar crane hoist hanging from a support beam across the ceiling of a warehouse suspends a large black cylinder with two green straps, connected to the cylinder at four points. Four workers in orange highlighter apparel stand around the suspended cylinder, and another stands off to the left.

After twenty years of work, the camera is the heart of the future Vera C. Rubin Observatory arrived at her home last week. It now lies at the top of Cerro Pachón Mountain in Chile. This camera is the final major component of the Rubin Observatory’s Simonyi Survey Telescope, where it will be installed after … Read more

The mystery of circular depressions off the coast of California has been partially solved

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Circular depressions about 500 feet wide off the coast of Central California are quite old and owe their longevity to sediment flows, new research shows. However, the original cause has yet to be discovered. The Sur Pockmark Field has puzzled oceanographers since its discovery in 1998. More than 5,000 shallow circular depressions are packed into … Read more