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…
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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…
After the navy and the pipeline owner also started surveys this week, Swedish prosecutors announced Friday that they would launch a fresh, complementary crime scene examination of the Nord Stream leaks. Public prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist issued a statement saying, “I have chosen to perform a number of supplemental inspections of the crime scene along with…
Even the social network admitted the roll out of the rules, which say anyone can ask Twitter to take down images of themselves posted without their consent, was marred by malicious reports and its teams’ own errors. It was just the kind of trouble anti-racism advocates worried was coming after the policy was announced this…
The social media giant took down accounts in France and Italy that were linked to a conspiracy movement called “V_V”, which inundated pro-vaccine posts with potentially tens of thousands of comments. “V-V” supporters also “mass-harassed” people on YouTube, Twitter, VKontakte and other online platforms, using swastikas or other images as well as calling doctors and…
A test run should humanity ever need to stop a giant space rock from wiping out life on Earth. It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) is a real proof-of-concept experiment, blasting off at 10:21 pm Pacific Time Tuesday (0621 GMT Wednesday) aboard a SpaceX rocket…
which will bathe the Moon in red, will be visible Thursday and Friday for a big slice of humanity. The celestial show will see the Moon almost completely cast in shadow as it moves behind the Earth, reddening 99 percent of its face. The spectacle will be visible for all of North America, as well…
Facebook is battling one of its most serious reputational crises yet after a whistleblower leaked reams of internal documents showing executives knew of their sites’ possibility for damage, prompting a renewed US push for regulation. “Facebook, now Meta, has failed to protect young people on its platforms and instead chose to ignore or, in some…
