Category : science

The catch-up: Your daily 5pm round-up of today's top stories

Including the Grenfell Tower model investigation and an 'alien object' in our solar system.

Portugal to build satellite launch pad, lab with China

Portugal plans to build an international launch pad for small satellites in the Azores and has agreed with China to set up a joint research center to make satellites on the mainland, its science and technology minister said on Tuesday. The governme...

Pentagon Says Russian Jet Flew Too Close to U.S. Aircraft

Pentagon says Russian jet flew too close to U.S. aircraft

Open SESAME: Jordan’s particle accelerator breaks down atoms – and barriers

“We come from many countries,” Messaoud Harfouche, an Algerian beamline scientist, says as he checks a monitor. In what is being hailed as a breakthrough in science diplomacy, a particle accelerator in Jordan is breaking down atoms and barriers, off...

People Who Can't Get Their Hands on 'I Voted' Stickers Are Utterly Disappointed

Sometimes civic pride is not quite enough.

A Student Behind Nigel Farage Did an Eye Roll Seen 'Round the World

A student has turned herself into eye roll girl meme at a Brexit debate by rolling her eyes at Nigel Farage.

NASA posts image of crashed ‘flying saucer from outer space’

What on Earth is this thing?

Italian Physicists Wrote a 'Perfect Pizza' Equation, Because Not All Heroes Wear Capes

In the mouth-watering study, two physicists (Andrey Varlamov of the Institute of Superconductors, Oxides and Other Innovative Materials and Devices in Rome and Andreas Glatz of Northern Illinois University) and one food anthropologist (Sergio Grasso,...

Remains of Nazi 'Flying Bombs' Uncovered in British Woods

Archaeologists have discovered the exploded remains of a German V1 "flying bomb" that crashed in a forest in 1944 on the way to its target in London. It was one of thousands of"retaliation weapons," or "Vergeltungswaffen,"launched by Nazi Germany in...

Save the planet! Save humanity! Befriend an octopus

The 20th-century philosopher Martin Buber believed that humans often miss out on opportunities to make new friends—in the form of the flora and fauna that share our planet. Buber said that people can engage in real dialogue with trees and creatures....

Superbugs killed 33,000 Europeans in 2015: study

In a study published in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, an EU-wide team of doctors examined data on more than a dozen combinations of antibiotic resistant bacteria across the continent, and developed a model for infection and death rates...

China unveils new 'Heavenly Palace' space station as ISS days numbered

China unveiled on Tuesday a replica of its first permanently crewed space station, which would replace the international community's orbiting laboratory and symbolises the country's major ambitions beyond Earth. The 17-metre (55-foot) core module wa...

Researchers created an artificial society to find the causes of religious conflict

To understand religious warfare, you could study the hundreds of historical or ongoing world conflicts that center on religion. Or you could program an AI to mimic human psychology and generate artificial societies, and then run it millions of times...

Tesla Starman Floats Past Mars At 44500mph

Plan for huge laser signal ‘to tell aliens where we are’

Is sending signals into space really a good idea?

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