A partnership between Axiom Space and Space X has seen the first US private mission to the International Space Station (ISS) a success. Axiom Space utilised the Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket to launch three men and an accompanying astronaut to the ISS with each man paying over AUD $70 million for the record-breaking experience.…
In a world where companies are looking for environmentally friendly alternatives, Airbus has taken an unlikely approach to powering one of their old A380s. At the end of March, Airbus successfully powered two trial flights using cooking oil. Both flights were test-run in France with the first one lasting three hours and fuelled by a…
Two of Charles Darwin’s notebooks have been returned to Cambridge University after they were stolen in 2000. These journals played an important role in the English naturalist discovering the theory of evolution according to Cambridge University Librarian Dr Jessica Gardner who detailed how staff came across the historical items. “We don’t know a lot, but…
Engineers at Stanford University have taken solar panels to the next level by creating a solar cell that can still produce electricity despite operating during the night. These new panels work on a thermoelectric generator which coverts temperature differences into electrical energy. Protocol simplified the meaning by saying that the generators capture energy that radiates…
Virgil Griffith was sentenced to more than five years in prison and fined USD $100,000 for advising more than 100 people in North Korea on using cryptocurrencies to evade US sanctions. The former Ethereum developer was arrested in November 2019 for giving a presentation at a crypto conference in Pyongyang earlier in April that same…