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DENALI PARK, Alaska (AP) — A driver was killed and a passenger in his car injured after hitting a moose near the entrance to Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve. The vehicle’s collision with the moose occurred around 1 a.m. Friday, just south of the entrance to the Denali Park Road near Mile 235 of the George Parks Highway, also …

A whale has died after being struck by a boat Saturday afternoon along the Barnegat Bay in Ocean County, New Jersey. Officials with the Marine Mammal Stranding Center said they received a call from the New Jersey State Police Marine Unit after they spotted a whale in the Barnegat Bay, near the inlet, around 2:45 p.m. Saturday. MMSC staffers connected …

Members of the National Transportation Safety Board speak before an investigative hearing about the January midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet and a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images Three days of hearings held by federal investigators this week shed new light on …

Recently, Professor Dong Eon Kim from POSTECH’s Department of Physics and Max Planck Korea-POSTECH Initiative and his research team have succeeded in unraveling for the first time the mystery of the ‘electron tunneling’ process, a core concept in quantum mechanics, and confirmed it through experiments. This study was published in the international journal Physical Review Letters and is attracting attention …

San Francisco 49ers defensive end Tarron Jackson was hospitalized after a collision at training camp on Sunday. Head coach Kyle Shanahan announced the news to reporters after a morning practice session. Per beat writers on the scene, Jackson went down to the turf after being blocked and did not get up. He received treatment on the scene and was taken …

A Southwest Airlines plane takes off from Hollywood Burbank Airport. On Friday, a Southwest plane leaving from the same location had a near-miss with another aircraft. Mario Tama/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Mario Tama/Getty Images North America A Southwest Airlines flight dropped several hundred feet in a matter of seconds to avoid a midair collision, after the …

Two Southwest Airlines flight attendants are being treated for injuries after a passenger jet heading to Las Vegas from southern California took a dramatic plunge shortly after takeoff on Friday, the airline and passengers said. Southwest flight 1496, headed from Burbank to Las Vegas, received two alerts that made the plane climb and then descend, according to a statement from …

Two Southwest flight attendants hurt after jet dives to avoid mid-air collision  Reuters Southwest flight abruptly descends to avoid mid-air collision with another plane near Burbank airport  ABC7 Los Angeles Southwest flight plummets, injuring flight attendants  BBC Southwest Airlines jet dives as a fighter jet crosses its path near Los Angeles  CNN Southwest flight descends 475 feet to avoid ‘midair collision’ with Hawker Hunter  ABC …

A Southwest flight climbing away from Burbank Airport suddenly descended hundreds of feet Friday afternoon, possibly to avoid a mid-air collision. The plane was at 14,100 feet above Angeles National Forest headed northeast to Las Vegas at 12:03 p.m. when it abruptly dropped to 13,625 feet, data from Flightradar24 showed. The drop of around 500 feet came moments after the …

Did a Cosmic Collision Dam the Grand Canyon? A 56,000-Year-Old Mystery  SciTechDaily Meteor impact may have triggered massive Grand Canyon landslide 56,000 years ago  Space Explosive meteor strike may have dammed the Grand Canyon and created a lake  Earth.com A meteor may have led to the formation of the Grand Canyon, new study says  MSN Meteor Crash May Have Caused an Ancient Lake to …