UK prepares for a space flight launch
A UK commercial space mission is set for lift off Monday evening. A 747 will carry a rocket to 35,000 feet before releasing it to continue its ascent into space carrying satellites.
A UK commercial space mission is set for lift off Monday evening. A 747 will carry a rocket to 35,000 feet before releasing it to continue its ascent into space carrying satellites.
More than 200 years after Napoleon met defeat at Waterloo, the bones of soldiers killed on that famous battlefield continue to intrigue Belgian researchers and experts, who use them to peer back to that moment in history.Clothes and accessories are not reliable indicators of the nationality of skeletons found on the Waterloo battlefield, he stressed.
The United States Department of Defense said on Thursday, February 2, it had detected and was tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon in US airspace.The Pentagon said the balloon was traveling well above commercial air traffic and did not "present a military or physical threat to people on the ground.“Instances of this kind of balloon activity have been observed previously over the past several years,” the Pentagon said. “Once the balloon was detected, the [US] government acted immediately to protect against the collection of sensitive information.”According to an Associated Press report, “One of the places the balloon was spotted was Montana, which is home to one of the nation’s three nuclear missile silo fields at Malmstrom Air Force Base.”Footage taken by Chase Doak in Billings, Montana, captured an unusual object visible in the sky amid reports of sightings and a ground stop in the area.Storyful could not independently verify the object. Credit: Chase Doak via Storyful
C/2022 E3 (ZTF) comet is visible with the naked eye from certain locations
Cargo carrier ABX took Insider behind the scenes on a tour of its freight operation at New York's JFK International Airport.
With the help of NASA, architects are working on a prototype that uses a mixture of algae and fungi to "grow" houses on the Moon and Mars.
Object will be close enough to see – and could offer Nasa important information about the solar system
War, budget cuts, a pandemic and a crash: For all its trials, Europe's ExoMars mission might be more deserving of the name Perseverance than NASA's Martian rover.For its new lander, the ESA hopes to take advantage of US engines used to get NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance rovers onto the Martian surface.
Vikings brought dogs and horses over to the UK, new evidence has found. Researchers from Durham University and Vrije Universiteit in Brussels made the discovery while looking at human and animal remains at the UK's only-known Viking cemetery in Heath Wood, Derbyshire. Scientists believe this indicates that Vikings were bringing animals over from Scandinavia, as well as stealing them upon their arrival.
‘Closer look demonstrates that the impression resulted from decay of a modern beehive’
The live feed, provided by NASA, shows astronauts Nicole Mann and Koichi Wakata performing the second spacewalk of 2023.
The Boeing 747 was not only designed for passenger and cargo use, but specially-modified versions also carried the space shuttle and the president.
STORY: Packed sandwiches, the radio on, all while rolling through the vast desert of Western Australia sounds like an idyllic road trip. But that was how a search team scoured the outback this week for a Caesium-137 capsule a highly radioactive device smaller than a coin, that had vanished in the outback. It fell off the back of a truck driven by mining firm Rio Tinto in early January. And anyone in close proximity to the capsule for an hour, would have got a dose equivalent to 10 chest X-rays. The Caesium capsule was eventually found on Wednesday. Bronte Sial, a health physicist for the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, told Reuters regular radiation emergency training helped avoid dangers linked to collecting the device. “It's one thing using your detectors to find the device, it's the other thing is having the right personnel who know how to safely control, safely collect the item and what to advise."“Once all our teams were there, we gave each other a big celebration. We're very excited.” The weeklong search, up and down an 870-mile stretch of road, involved around 100 people in vehicles equipped with radiation detection sensors. Another main challenge, Sial said, was avoiding the traffic. “The danger for us mainly was the fact that if it was near a road, the consequences of the road traffic. Because there's a lot of B-double trucks, large, heavy rigid trucks moving. That was more the concern than the (radioactive) source for any individual person.” Another crucial tool: Sial said while searching for a dime-sized device in the outback, it also helps to have the right music. “My teammate was in charge of the playlist, there was only one condition. I just said, make sure we don't have any electronic sounds while we were there because our instruments are sometimes more of an electronic beat kinda thing, if they do go into alarm. So, I think we just had Stone Temple Pilots.”
STORY: The tiny device was found in the state's remote northwest on Wednesday (February 1). The week-long search retracing the truck's journey involved 100 people from at least five government agencies. Officials said the Caesium-137 capsule was found on Wednesday when radiation equipment mounted to a car speeding along the Great Northern Highway detected gamma rays. It lay about 2 yards from the side of the road in an area far from any community. No one is thought to have been exposed to radiation and the site was not permanently contaminated, officials said.Verified by members of Australia's Defence Force and sealed in a lead container, the capsule will be securely stored at an unidentified facility.
The disease, whose discovery was overshadowed by the COVID pandemic, is more frequent in men over the age of 50, though women can also be affected.
Bird flu has been creeping slowly closer to home since the outbreak started in October 2021. Now bird flu has spilled to mammals in the UK, with otters and foxes testing positive for the virus. Bird flu isn't about to become the next Omicron, but the possibility of the virus mutating means scientists are keeping a watchful eye.
In the early morning of 18 January 2023, Hawaiian Standard Time, the Subaru-Asahi Star Camera captured a mysterious flying spiral over Maunakea, Hawaii. The origins of the strange spiral are officially unknown but astronomers believe the spiral to be related to the SpaceX company's launch of a new satellite - which was launched on the same day. The spiral could be bright enough to see with a human eye, reflecting the sunlight; however, the camera captured it very clearly with higher sensitivity. In addition, the dark sky of Maunakea enhanced the spiral's detailed structure. The Subaru Telescope is an 8.2-meter optical-infrared telescope near the summit of Maunakea, Hawaii. It is operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), National Institutes of Natural Sciences.
The United States Department of Defense said on Thursday, February 2, it had detected and was tracking a high-altitude surveillance balloon in US airspace.The Pentagon said the balloon was traveling well above commercial air traffic and did not "present a military or physical threat to people on the ground.“Instances of this kind of balloon activity have been observed previously over the past several years,” the Pentagon said. “Once the balloon was detected, the [US] government acted immediately to protect against the collection of sensitive information.”According to an Associated Press report, “One of the places the balloon was spotted was Montana, which is home to one of the nation’s three nuclear missile silo fields at Malmstrom Air Force Base.”Footage taken by journalist John Martin in Billings, Montana, captured an unusual object visible in the sky amid reports of sightings in the area.Storyful could not independently verify the object. Credit: John Martin via Storyful
A SCOTTISH laser firm has hailed a major link-up with a “world-leading” supplier for the international sale of its products.
This morning, the world woke up to some unsettling news. According to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), the H5N1 “bird flu” virus – a lethal pathogen which has killed hundreds of millions of birds around the world – has turned up in mammals, including foxes and otters in Britain.
The study was published in the journal 'PLOS One' on Feb. 1. According to the new study, microplastics can pass through blood vessels to reach vascular tissue.