Rescue teams in Nepal pulled a 64-year-old woman named Chandrika Shrestha alive from her mud-buried home in the Nuwakot district on Saturday, ten days after a massive disaster struck the region, according to police and disaster response reports. Shrestha’s survival follows a devastating tsunami-like wall of water and mud that swept across the China-Nepal border … Read more
Thirty-four Australians remain missing following a catastrophic flash flood along the Nepal-Tibet border that has killed at least 160 people and left hundreds more unaccounted for, according to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong. The disaster, triggered when a massive chunk of glacier broke off, wiped out entire villages and hydropower projects … Read more
A four-tonne SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage crashed into the moon at 2.43 km/s, creating a crater estimated at 18 metres wide and four metres deep. According to astrophysicist and cosmologist Brad Tucker of the Australian National University, the event highlights a “growing problem” with space junk, noting that approximately one tonne of debris hits … Read more