According to the European Space Agency, a sizable asteroid will pass safely between Earth and the Moon on Saturday. This once-every-ten-year event will be used as a training exercise for planetary defense measures. The asteroid, 2023 DZ2, is thought to be 40 to 70 meters (130 to 230 ft) wide, about the same size as…
What led to the widespread extinction of crustaceans in late 2021 off the coast of northeast England? The government, which is constructing a new “freeport” that will be the region’s centerpiece, was relieved by a fresh discovery on Friday. According to the government, a number of customs-free zones are being planned to showcase Britain’s “post-Brexit…
Worldwide, lightning strikes 40–120 times per second, killing more than 4,000 people each year and incurring billions of dollars in damage. Yet the lightning rod, which was invented by American polymath Benjamin Franklin in 1749, continues to be the primary defense against these aerial bolts. Since years, a group of scientists from six research institutes…
The competition to be the first nation to launch satellites from the European continent has intensified as Sweden inaugurated its new launch facility on Friday, just days after a botched UK satellite launch. As competition heats up to be the first nation to launch satellites from the European continent, Sweden on Friday launched its new…
Under Lee’s leadership, Samsung rose to become the world’s largest producer of smartphones and memory chips, and the firm’s overall turnover today is equivalent to a fifth of South Korea’s GDP. Samsung’s meteoric rise helped make Lee South Korea’s richest and most powerful industrialist. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of…
Penrose, 89, was honoured for showing “that the general theory of relativity leads to the formation of black holes”, while Genzel, 68, and Ghez, 55, were jointly awarded for discovering “that an invisible and extremely heavy object governs the orbits of stars at the centre of our galaxy,” the jury said. Ghez is just the…
The disasters should sway those denying science that shows greenhouse gases are dangerously changing weather patterns, Cook said in a talk streamed during an online event by The Atlantic magazine. Cook reasoned that wildfires raging on the US West Coast, hurricanes slamming the South, and flooding in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions make a compelling…
Officials said at least 25 of the mammals had been freed so far. A large pod of long-finned pilot whales is currently stuck on a sandbar in Macquarie Harbour, on Tasmania’s rugged and sparsely populated west coast, scientists said. Images from the scene showed a shallow body of water, thick with scores of the large…
The huge decline in road traffic, air travel and other business activities across Europe during the coronavirus pandemic has led to sharp reductions in pollution over several major cities, new images published by the European Space Agency show https://t.co/u4CYLCjFDf pic.twitter.com/UwswDvsp8O — CNN International (@cnni) March 27, 2020 CNN)Most Europeans are currently living under severe restrictions,…
Abubakar disclosed this in a tweet on his verified Twitter handle on Sunday night. He did not mention the name of which of his sons was infected but revealed that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has been duly informed about the situation and that his son had been moved to the Gwagwalada Specialist Hospital…
