WASHINGTON — Spanish IT company Indra will assist Barcelona-based Zero 2 Infinity in developing and promoting balloon-enabled systems for reaching the stratosphere and low Earth orbit. The two Spanish companies announced today a collaborative agreement where Indra will leverage its international presence and experience developing satellite technology for Earth observation, […]
Daily Archives: January 31, 2018
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(Anton Vaganov / Reuters) More A rare “super blue blood moon” had space enthusiasts across the world in awe Wednesday. People living in certain parts of the Western Hemisphere were able to catch a glimpse of an unusually large, glowing red moon Wednesday morning that NASA scientists have dubbed a “lunar […]
Excavated trenches at the site ofAttirampakkam, Tamil Nadu, IndiaSharma Centre for Heritage Education, India By Michael Marshall A mysterious cache of stone tools may end up revising our species’ prehistory. It seems people in Africa, Europe and Asia all invented the same kind of tools around 280,000 years ago. The […]
Synthetic drugs are all too easy to accidentally overdose onBrian Snyder/Reuters By Jessica Hamzelou AMERICA’S opioid crisis has spiralled further out of control. The latest figures reveal that more people in the US are dying from opioid overdoses than from motor vehicle accidents. The country’s life expectancy has dropped for […]
The child migrant, from Eritrea, was injured during an evacuation operation last Thursday, a spokesman for the Boulogne-sur-Mer prosecutor’s office said, adding an investigation had been launched by the Inspector General of Police (IGPN) into the incident. The spokesman said: “The IGPN investigation will focus on the injury sustained by […]
First, Andrew McCabe, the deputy director of the FBI and a key figure in the Russian interference case, stepped down earlier than expected after months of being publicly attacked by Trump. Then it was then announced that Rep. Devin Nunes, himself surrounded by conflict of interest questions related to the […]
Ford gave the Explorer a midcycle refresh for the 2018 model year, but it remained generally the same as before. If one report is to be believed, though, the Explorer is soon in for its most radical redo in decades. The 2020 Ford Explorer will return to a rear-wheel-drive-capable platform […]
Kate Middleton and Prince William have left Princess Charlotte, two, and George, four, at home. However, this evening they spent time with two other royal children. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge met Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel and their children at Haga Palace in Sweden today. Their children are […]