Geek We Now Have an Image of the Second Interstellar Object Ever ObservedGizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum Last week, the Minor Planet Center announced that astronomers had tentatively discovered the second interstellar object on record—and now we have a …
Food (UK) Feeding the 11 billion: the small Dutch town ending our food crisisWired UK - Sami Emory Describing itself as the primary knowledge-intensive agrifood ecosystem in the Netherlands, Food Valley, as it's known, promises food-related …
Why the Amazon's vast wildfires are really bad news for the planetWired UK - Chris Baraniuk It’s the biggest forest in the world, the “lungs of the Earth”. But huge swathes of it are burning. Brazil’s space research agency INPE has counted …
Business School Do we need to walk 10,000 steps a day?BBC Future - Claudia HammondMost of us have heard that we should be hitting 10,000 steps a day to keep healthy and fit. But the research behind this target might surprise you. Many of us track our steps with smart watches, pedometers
The UK's shift to clean energy is about to get really, really toughWired UK - Matt Reynolds It’s been a bad year for fossil fuels in the UK. In May, Great Britain went two weeks without burning any coal for electricity – the longest stretch …
'One giant leap': US marks Apollo mission 50 years onmoondaily.com Cape Canaveral (AFP) July 17, 2019 Fifty years after a mighty rocket set off from Florida carrying the first humans to the Moon, a veteran of the …
This Asteroid Orbits So Close to the Sun, Its Year Lasts Just 151 DaysGizmodo - George Dvorsky Introducing 2019 LF6, an asteroid so close to the Sun that a year lasts only 151 days. Known as an “Atira” asteroid, its orbit falls entirely inside …
Wednesday briefing: The UK is failing its climate change goalsWired UK - WIRED Get WIRED's daily briefing in your inbox. Sign up here The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has warned that the UK is not prepared for a warming …
This is the First-Ever Photo of Quantum Entanglementpetapixel.com - Michael Zhang Scientists have unveiled the first photograph ever captured of quantum entanglement, the physical phenomenon in which two or more “entangled” …
How an alien-hunting Russian billionaire is helping crack one of the Universe's biggest mysteriesWired UK - Katia Moskvitch In spring 2007, David Narkevic, a physics student at West Virginia University, was sifting through reams of data churned out by the Parkes telescope …
We can't switch to zero-carbon energy without nuclear powerWired UK - Roger Highfield When the sun isn’t shining, and the wind isn’t blowing, where can the UK turn for low-carbon sources of energy? For Jim Al-Khalili, a physicist and …
Sugar taxes work. The proof Boris Johnson is wrong on 'sin taxes'Wired UK - Will Bedingfield Milkshakes – weapon of choice for the politically disenfranchised, bountiful source of sweet frothy goodness, and now part of a fundamental …
The World's Second-Largest Rainforest Is Losing the Carbon It’s Held for a Thousand YearsGizmodo - Maddie Stone The Congo Basin is the second-largest rainforest on Earth, and like most tropical forests, it’s getting chewed up by humans. That’s a problem for the …
Seven ways to recycle betterwhich.co.uk - By Vicki Crowe Whether it’s giving packaging a quick rinse or taking stretchy plastic to a supermarket collection point, there’s lots you can do to cut down on …
The Tube has a massive dust problem. But TfL has a plan to fix itWired UK - Amit Katwala When a London Underground train hits the brakes, its wheels grind against the tracks, throwing up tiny specks of metal and other particles. There’s …
NASA Is Officially Sending an Aerial Drone to Titan and It's a Dream Come TrueGizmodo - George Dvorsky With its oily black seas, hazy golden atmosphere, and electrically charged sand, Saturn’s moon Titan is one of the most intriguing objects in the …
OSIRIS-REx NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Takes Stunning Photo of Asteroid Bennu From Just 0.4 Miles AwayGizmodo - Tom McKay NASA’s asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which is currently in position around the tiny, near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, has transmitted its …
Supermarkets Almost half of supermarket packaging isn’t easily recyclable, Which? findswhich.co.uk - By Vicki Crowe Only 52% of supermarket packaging can be easily recycled according to our latest recycling investigation. We dissected packaging from a range of …
Exoplanets This Could Be the Most Earth-Like Exoplanet Discovered YetGizmodo Scientists have discovered a pair of temperate, Earth-sized exoplanet candidates around a nearby star, according to a new paper. What makes this …
Space Five ethical questions for how we choose to use the Moonmoondaily.com Melbourne, Australia (The Conversation) Jul 13, 2019 The Moon has always served as an inspiration for humanity, and there are many potential benefits …
‘Pillars of Creation’ Photos: NASA vs. a Backyard Photographerpetapixel.com - Michael Zhang Pillars of Creation is a famous photo of the Eagle Nebula captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Photographer Andrew McCarthy recently captured …
Making fuel out of algae could clean up dirty planesWired UK - Sabrina Weiss While industries are racing to reduce their carbon footprint, one is lagging behind: aviation. There may be only a few thousand planes in the air at …
Tuesday briefing: New predictions anticipate two metre sea level rise by 2100Wired UK - WIRED Get WIRED's daily briefing in your inbox. Sign up here New predictions anticipate two metre sea level rise by 2100 A new paper paper based on …
The Chernobyl disaster may have created a paradise for wildlifeWired UK - Adam Rogers Until the 19th century, the Pripyat River basin on the border between Ukraine and Belarus was wetland and forest. As usual, humans kind of ruined it. …
How Nasa failed female astronauts and built space travel for menWired UK - Abigail Beall In mid-March 2019, astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch were readying themselves to make space history. Later that month, the pair were …
It's Hard to Believe How Close This Asteroid Is Going to Get to EarthGizmodo - Ryan F. Mandelbaum While space agencies simulate an asteroid impact this week at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference, there’s a real asteroid they’re monitoring that …
You should declare your own climate emergency. Here's howWired UK - Charmian Love On May 1, the UK Parliament took the unprecedented step of declaring an environment and climate emergency. The proposal, which was put forward by …
The UK just went a week without using coal. Here's how it did itWired UK - Amit Katwala In 1882, the Edison Electric Light Company opened the world’s first commercial coal-fired power station at an unlikely central London address. The …
Vital signs can now be monitored using radarspacedaily.com Waterloo, Canada (SPX) May 05, 2019 A radar system developed at the University of Waterloo can wirelessly monitor the vital signs of patients, …
