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Kotozakura won his first Emperor’s Cup on Sunday, November 24 when he swatted down fellow ozeki Hoshoryu in a winner-take-all bout on the final day of the Kyushu Basho. In the day’s final bout at Fukuoka Kokusai Center, Hoshoryu went on the attack with several arm thrusts to the neck and upper body of his […]
In other notable Canadian results Saturday, Graeme Fish of Moose Jaw, Sask., was fourth in the men’s 5,000 and Valérie Maltais of Saguenay, Que., was fifth in the women’s 3,000. Competition wraps up Sunday with the team pursuit, second 500 races, the mass start and the mixed-gender relay. This report by The Canadian Press was […]
This edge-on viewpoint makes the galaxy’s disk appear as a sharp line through space, with its prominent dust lanes forming thick bands of clouds that obscure our view of the galaxy’s glow. If we could fly above the galaxy, viewing it from the top down, we would see this dust scattered across UGC 10043, possibly […]
For twelve years, we’ve watched Curiosity crawl its way over the rocky surface of Mars, decoding mysteries of the Red Planet and broadcasting back home pictures and data from the strange Martian environment. The Mars rover, built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), has slowly scaled Mount Sharp since 2014. This mountain, officially monikered “Aeolis […]
In Trout Lake, a small community in southwest Washington, the peaks of nearby volcanoes and canopies of old-growth forests draw the eyes up. But when Julie Beeler sets out into the surrounding woods, her gaze points downward. Beeler, an artist, describes her home as a “fungal paradise.” Here, mushrooms are her muse. Hundreds of […]
ARIOSTEA’s ELEMENTAE SURFACES INSPIRED BY PORTUGUESE LIMESTONE Ariostea, part of the Iris Ceramica Group, brings the raw characteristics of Portuguese stone into contemporary architecture with its Elementae full-body porcelain stoneware project. Offering versatile solutions for both residential and commercial spaces, the luxury technical ceramics combine strength with a flawless finish, providing durable architectural surfaces ideal […]
A remarkable image of the Milky Way’s swirling colours over Easter Island’s famed Moai statues was captured recently by photographer Josh Dury, a seasoned astrophotographer and contributor to Space.com. During his trip to Easter Island for last month’s annular solar eclipse, Dury took advantage of the island’s pristine night sky to photograph the ancient statues […]
There’s a moment in every rave when the sweat dries and emotions get the best of you. longstoryshort‘s new EP, IN MY MIND, lives precisely in that transformative instant. The electronic music virtuoso, one of the genre’s greatest shapeshifters, performs a masterful vanishing act in the project, wherein he provides the fury of the rave […]
Article content VANCOUVER — Jason Maas of the Montreal Alouettes captured the Annis Stukus Trophy on Thursday night as the CFL’s coach of the year. Maas was honoured during the CFL’s awards banquet. Voting for the award was conducted by the Football Reporters of Canada and nine CFL head coaches. Maas guided Montreal (league-best 12-5-1 […]
On September 26, 2024, as Hurricane Helene battered Florida’s Gulf Coast, it produced significant storm surges, impacting numerous communities across the region. During this extreme weather event, NASA’s Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE), stationed aboard the International Space Station, observed gravity waves in the atmosphere approximately 55 miles above Earth’s surface. This data, gathered as part […]