It’s a tactic humans have tried time and again thanks to its apparent simplicity: Dislike a pest? Enlist something that will eat it. On Monday, Australia’s environment ministry announced a new investment of more than $450,000 in U.S. dollars for two years of research into just such a scheme, aimed […]
Daily Archives: September 19, 2017
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Theorists believe a mysterious planet already hidden in the Solar System will collide with Earth, killing everyone and devastating the planet, sometime this Saturday. The bizarre claim has been put forward by a number of conspiracy fans, most notably David Meade. He has tied the disaster to a number of […]
WASHINGTON — Momentum has grown in recent days for a last-ditch GOP effort to partially repeal and replace Obamacare, movement that appears driven as much by the politics of health care as the policy behind it. The legislation that Republicans are rallying around is seen as the final hope of […]
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — With both military and commercial customers seeking more choices in satellite size and orbit, Lockheed Martin has rolled out a new family of satellite buses that consolidate the customized spacecraft the company has previously developed. Banking on the development of common components for satellite buses ranging in size […]
President Vladimir Putin watched through a cool drizzle in Russia’s far western reaches Monday, just 70 miles from his country’s border with the European Union, as Russian tanks and paratroopers battled fictional extremist groups. Fighter jets and missiles screamed overhead. The confrontation was just one part of “Zapad 2017,” a […]
More than 400,000 passengers have been hit and it expects payouts to cost £17million on top of a £4million loss. On Monday, 120 Ryanair pilots in Dublin reportedly attended talks at which a ballot for industrial action was discussed. Its pilots around Europe are also understood to be considering action. […]
The shocking footage shows an explosion tearing through Mexico City after the southern part of Mexico was rocked by a 7.1 earthquake. Flames can be seen engulfing a building in the distance before a huge ring of fire erupts towards the sky. Terrified onlookers can be heard yelling following the […]
New research suggests there’s wide variation in the risk that unmanned aircraft pose to people on the ground.
Whispering gallery mode resonators rely on a phenomenon similar to an effect observed in circular galleries, and the same phenomenon applies to light. When light is stored in ring-shaped or spherical active resonators, the waves superimpose in such a way that it can result in laser light. Investigators now report […]
A Florida college chancellor was abruptly forced out Monday after appearing to have always been on campus before Hurricane Irma to check on students, when she actually had fled the state. As the historic storm loomed, Sophia Wisniewska, the regional chancellor of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, sent […]
A deadly amphibian disease called severe Perkinsea infections, or SPI, is the cause of many large-scale frog die-offs in the United States, according to a new study.
LONDON — SpaceX does not want the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to exclude its future low-Earth orbit constellation as a potential Connect America Fund award recipient because of the way the agency classifies communications satellites. While giving no new details on the launch company’s proposed satellite broadband constellation, SpaceX argues […]
The quake hit five miles southeast of Atencingo in the state of Puebla at a depth of 32 miles today, Tuesday September 19. It shook the capitalof Mexico on the anniversary of the 1985 earthquake, which cost thousands of lives and destroyed buildings across the capital. The U.S. Geological Survey […]
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – With both launch costs and payload size going down, it will be easier for the U.S. Air Force to deploy the right kinds of sensors and systems to fight future space wars that will depend more on information and networking, said Gen. David Goldfein, Air Force chief […]
Toggling Do Not Disturb While Driving on and off is easy — once you add it to Control Center. Screenshot by Rick Broida/CNET Texting while driving is deadly. Everyone knows this, yet few drivers can resist the siren song of a newly arrived message. Too bad smartphones aren’t smart enough […]
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Blizzard released the new Overwatch patch today, launching on PS4, Xbox One and PC. And as fans who have seen the official updates notes will know, there’s been some major tinkering. Blizzard say that on the hero balance front, D.Va’s Defense Matrix uptime had proven to be too strong, but […]
North Korea was issued a major warning from Donald Trump, whose first UN General Assembly speech was met with applause after he sent a stark warning to despot leader Kim Jong-un. Pyongyang has pressed forward with its bid to create an arsenal of deadly nuclear weapons despite global condemnation and […]
Adventurer Emma Kelty, 43, from London, was last heard from on Wednesday September 13, days after posting about her fears of being robbed or murdered. The former headteacher’s last known location was around 150 miles west of the jungle city of Manaus, between the towns of Coari and Codajas. Ms […]