At the centre of the Spanish crisis is the capital’s district of Lavapies, where the biggest African community lives in Madrid. Protests turned into carnage as hundreds of people started smashing shop windows and setting fire to bins, paralysing the entire neighbourhood. According to Spanish police, 16 policemen and four civilians […]
Daily Archives: March 16, 2018
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Tencent Games In case you haven’t been following, battle royale-style games are kind of a big deal these days. The concept is simple: 100 players drop onto an island and fight until there’s just one person left standing. It’s intense, competitive and stressful in a weirdly fun way — and […]
Florida International University student Alexa Duran was driving home from a doctor’s appointment, her best friend next to her in the passenger’s seat, when the unimaginable happened: A bridge collapse right on top of them. At least six people were killed by the force of the 950-ton walkway, including Duran, […]
Veronica is terrifying enough without knowing it is based on real events. Many viewers have confessed they can’t even watch the terrifying Netflx movie to the end. The story of a young girl experimenting with ouija boards who encounters demons, evil spirits and possessions is directly inspired by the horrifying […]
By analysing a prehistoric site in the Libyan desert, a team of researchers has been able to establish that people in Saharan Africa were cultivating and storing wild cereals 10,000 years ago. In addition to revelations about early agricultural practices, there could be a lesson for the future, if global […]
Birds do it and so do doughnut-shaped fusion facilities called ‘tokamaks.’ But tokamak chirping — a rapidly changing frequency wave that can be far above what the human ear can detect — is hardly welcome to researchers who seek to bring the fusion that powers the sun and stars to […]
Piezoelectric materials, which generate an electric current when compressed or stretched, are familiar and widely used: lighters that spark when you press a switch, microphones, sensors, motors and all kinds of other devices. Now a group of physicists has found a material with a similar property, but for magnetism. This […]
A new study calls attention to post-storm hazards posed to tree care workers and provides safety recommendations.