Northrop Grumman's first big test of its future OmegA rocket seems to have ended in a small explosion. Today, the company fired up the main engine on the rocket during a ground test in Utah. Toward the end of the test, part of the vehicle's engine burst apart, sending pieces of ...
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The data provide new constraints on the universe's first era ofgalaxy formation, called the Epoch of Reionization. Most astronomers think that early stars came to life in massivegas clouds, generating the first galaxies. The energetic light pumped out by these stars is thought to have ionized ...
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KLIX) A 60-year-old Twin Falls man is in a Utah burn hospital after a pickup truck exploded earlier today.According to the Twin Falls County Sheriff's Office, Bryan Silvester was taken by air ambulance to the University of Utah Burn Unit a little after 10:22 this m...
His paper co-authored with Columbia University colleagues appears today in the journalNature. Using supercomputers, the trio simulated the dynamics of collapsars, or old stars whose gravity causes them to implode and formblack holes. Under their model, massive, rapidly spinning collapsars eject heavy...
In the New York Times, travelers and privacy experts present their views on whether the millimeter-wave scanners I discussed yesterday are an unacceptable invasion of privacy. Quoting a Utah Republican who sponsored a bill (which passed the House but not yet the Senate) banning the use of the...
The article provides updates regarding the refinery explosion at a 10,500 Silver Eagle refinery in Wood Cross, Utah. It says that four workers are being hospitalized following the explosion and fire of a tank that contains flammable hydrocarbons. Relative to this, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board...