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Pluto's Heart Has Another Mountain Range

NASA(NEW YORK) — The photos taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft continue to come back to Earth revealing new details about Pluto’s complex geology. The latest photo released by NASA shows Pluto’s heart-shaped feature is home to a second range Read More

Russia Using North Korean Workers For Slave Labor

Pontus Edenberg/iStock/ThinkStock(VLADIVOSTOK, Russia) — Human rights groups are claiming that Russia is using North Korean ‘slave labor,’ according to the BBC. Suffering from what it calls the worst drought in a century, one of North Korea’s few Read More

Three Spanish Journalists Feared Kidnapped in Syria

dk_photos/iStock/ThinkStock(MADRID) — Three Spanish journalists are feared to have been kidnapped in Syria. The head of the Spanish Journalists’ Federation says that Antonio Pampliega, Angel Sastre, and Jose Manuel Lopez crossed into northern Syria from Turkey Read More

Earth to Philae: Lander Once Again Falls Silent

ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA(NEW YORK) — Earth to Philae … where are you? The European Space Agency said the Philae comet lander, which recently woke up on the Comet 67-P, has once again fallen silent. Researchers say Read More

Salt Lake in Turkey Turns Red Because of Algae Bloom

File photo. iStock/Thinkstock(AKSARAY, Turkey) — A popular salt lake in Turkey recently turned a deep red color thanks to an enormous bloom of Dunaliella salinas algae. Saline lake Tuz Gola, the second-largest lake in Turkey, is slowly evaporating amid the summer Read More