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Retailers warn Trump tariffs will trigger consumer price explosion — who will he blame?  Boing Boing Higher Prices Are Coming for Household Staples – WSJ  The Wall Street Journal ‘Sneakflation’: How Trump’s tariffs are gradually raising costs for American consumers  CNN Investors are ignoring the coming wave of tariff-driven inflation, Deutsche Bank warns  Fortune Commentary: Trump’s trade war is hurting most sectors of the …

ROSELAND, La. — Tyreik Taylor had barely wiped the oil from his hands when the sky behind him lit up.  Fifteen minutes after the 26-year-old drove home, a roar thundered from the plant where he helped mix chemicals for motor oil and had just punched out. Fire consumed the air, the collapsing metal groaning and liquids hissing as they escaped …

The inside of a star turned on itself before it spectacularly exploded, according to a new study from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Today, this shattered star, known as the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, is one of the best-known, well-studied objects in the sky. Over three hundred years ago, however, it was a giant star on the brink of self-destruction. The …

Teen who survived house explosion was in basement, had to escape through fire  KSDK ‘Widespread damage’ in STL County explosion, 3 injured  FOX 2 Video captures devastating aftermath of St. Louis County home explosion that left teen critically injured  Fox News Update: Three Transported To Mercy Hospital Burn Unit After Explosion  RiverBender.com Officials still investigating cause of North County explosion  KMOV Source link

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An X-ray jet blasts through wreckage surrounding a supernova. | Credit: NASA/Swift/Cruz deWilde Astronomers have used a newly discovered and still mysterious class of cosmic explosions to better understand the process of stellar life and death in the distant universe. The blasts in …

Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope captured a before-and-after image of a star exploding brightly. With the images one year apart, the contrast shows how bright a supernova is, and how that brightness fades over time. What is it? The supernova explosion, designated as SN 2018gv, is found in the spiral galaxy NGC 2525. According to NASA, Hubble began observing the …

Astronomers have used a newly discovered and still mysterious class of cosmic explosions to better understand the process of stellar life and death in the distant universe. The blasts in question are Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs), recently discovered outbursts of X-rays that last for just a few minutes. The source of FXTs has been shrouded in mystery. Now, with the …

Onionlike Space Explosion May Be a New Type of Supernova  The New York Times Extremely stripped supernova reveals a silicon and sulfur formation site  Nature Scientists get a rare peek inside of an exploding star  ABC News A dying star revealed its heart  Science News Supernova Reveals What The Inside of a Star Really Looks Like  ScienceAlert Source link

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists for the first time have spotted the insides of a dying star as it exploded, offering a rare peek into stellar evolution. Stars can live for millions to trillions of years until they run out of fuel. The most massive ones go out with a bang in an explosion called a supernova. Using telescopes that …

BALTIMORE (AP) — Investigators on Tuesday were trying to determine what caused an explosion aboard a cargo ship laden with coal as it departed Baltimore’s harbor for East Africa. Officials said no one was injured in the blast Monday evening, which prompted a mayday call when it was reported near the site of last year’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. …