Category : science

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Sudan's Bashir fights for survival as protests spread

Addressing soldiers this month, Bashir, a 75-year-old former paratrooper who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1989, warned the "rats to go back to their holes" and said he would only move aside for another army officer, or at the ballot box. If s...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Swimmers return to bathe with Palau's golden jellyfish

Swimming with the famous golden jellyfish in Palau can be put back on the bucket list following a two-year ban, but bathers may be stung with a hefty price increase for the pleasure. The government ordered the famed Ongeim'l Tketau Jellyfish Lake cl...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

That Flying-Car Future Looks Like a Dystopia

It seems increasingly likely that aerospace companies and startups are rushing to embrace a world of vertical take-off robotaxis. A Boeing Co. prototype flying taxi completed its first test flight on Tuesday and Airbus SE’s drone-style self-drivin...

by Heidi Harley - 5 years ago

Brazil dam disaster leaves 34 dead, hundreds missing

Thirty-four people were confirmed dead and nearly 300 missing Saturday, with hopes fading of them being found alive, after a dam collapsed at a mine in southeast Brazil. The disaster struck Friday at the Vale mine near the city of Belo Horizonte in...