The 2021 edition of the “chess Wimbledon” at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee will go down as perhaps the most remarkable, surprising and controversial of all the annual tournaments which began in the small North Sea town in 1938. Its wartime editions in hungry times are still honoured by pea […]
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The Square Kilometre Array Observatory aims to build 130,000 wire antennas in Australia. The image shows a cluster of existing prototypes (left) next to an artist’s impression of the finished array (right). SKAO/ICRAR By Daniel CleryFeb. 4, 2021 , 8:50 AM The Square Kilometre Array has been a dream of […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Court of Justice said Thursday it does not have jurisdiction to rule in a case brought by Qatar against the United Arab Emirates alleging “discrimination against Qatar and Qatari citizens” linked to a boycott by four Arab nations. The decision brings to an […]
(CNN) — “Rendezvous on Champs-Elysees. Leave Paris in the morning with T-E-E. In Vienna we sit in a late-night café. Straight connection, T-E-E.” Kraftwerk’s minimalist 1976 tribute to the pleasure of long-distance train journeys will likely be familiar to music fans, but to a generation of Europeans, Trans Europe Express […]
Artwork: The parabolic antennas will be sited in South Africa One of the grand scientific projects of the 21st Century is ‘Go!’. The first council meeting of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory has actioned plans that will lead to the biggest telescope on Earth being assembled over the coming decade. […]
The World Health Organization investigators in Wuhan say they have been given data ‘no-one has seen before’ and have not ruled out that Covid escaped from a lab. Dr Peter Daszak, a British zoologist on the WHO team, said last night that China was being open with them and allowing them to explore […]
Until we reach the herd immunity milestone for Covid-19, when 75 percent to 90 percent of the population has been immunized through communal exposure or vaccination, we will be wearing masks, socially distancing and living in a world of glassed-off bank tellers and Lysol dependence. But one underused tool could […]
PARIS — A French court ruled on Wednesday that France had caused “ecological damage” by insufficiently reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, a landmark decision that environmentalists said they hoped would be more than merely symbolic as such cases are increasingly brought to courts internationally. The court said it would give […]