The site of Stonehenge in England was built in stages, from around 3,000 BC to 2,300 BC (AFP Photo/CHRIS J RATCLIFFE) More London (AFP) – Years of protests from druids and archaeologists have failed to derail plans for a new road tunnel near Britain’s Stone Age site of Stonehenge, which […]
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Land Rover Discovery SVX More It’s probably fair to say the legendary Land Rover Discovery hasn’t met with entirely universal acclaim since it was totally redesigned last year. While the company’s Range Rover brand can’t seem to do anything wrong at the moment, the Land Rover side of the business […]
If only…Courtesy Mick Hamer SCIENCE historians sometimes use a type of thought experiment called a counterfactual, otherwise known as a “what if?” What if Darwin hadn’t sailed on the Beagle? What if the ancient Greeks had invented steam engines? These are not just parlour games; they reveal the extent to […]
PARIS — International Launch Services last night conducted the second of three commercial Proton launches planned for this year, completing a nine hour and 12-minute mission carrying Hispasat’s Amazonas-5 satellite. Proton lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 3:23 p.m. Eastern, using its first three stages to reach a suborbital […]
The draft treaty was first presented in 2008 and will be updated for the second time in the upcoming UN General Assembly. The treaty is favoured by the majority of UN members, but the US has been opposing it arguing it relies too heavily on space and could be vulnerable […]
In a steamy basement garage in San Francisco’s Soma neighborhood, Cruise Automation CEO Kyle Vogt shows off the Generation 3, a car that looks like the electric Chevrolet Bolt, but which Vogt is calling the first production model self-driving car in the world. At least, it will be, once he […]
WASHINGTON — While still more than a year away from a flyby of a distant object in the solar system’s Kuiper Belt, the team running NASA’s New Horizons mission is already looking ahead to future extended missions that could include another flyby. In a Sept. 6 presentation to the Outer […]
Researchers have determined that major changes in plant behavior have occurred over the past 40 years, using measurements of subtle changes in the carbon dioxide (CO2) currently found in the atmosphere.