The protest on Tuesday in Washington included Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush. Source: CPD Action, Twitter. Several Democratic members of Congress were arrested during a protest in front of the supreme court in support of abortion rights. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush were among those at the…
For a few hours, Heathrow was the hottest place in the UK. Source: Shutterstock. For the first time in recorded history, the UK has exceeded 40C after The Met Office declared that Heathrow reached 40.2C yesterday afternoon. It was later confirmed that this record was broken when Coningsby in Lincolnshire hit 40.3C, surpassing the 2019…
“We can revolutionize the way we transport goods and travel in a way not experienced since the advent of the railways did in the 18th century – the last ‘transport revolution’,” said Altitude Angel CEO Richard Parker. The UK is set to have the world’s largest automated drone superhighway linking cities and towns across the…
Kylian Mbappe and Samantha Kerr are the faces of FIFA 23. Source: EA Sports. For the first time in history, a female footballer has made it on the global FIFA game cover with Australian and Matilda’s captain Samantha Kerr given the honour. EA Sports made the announcement on Twitter, which also revealed Frenchman and Paris…
Findings were published in the journal Scientific Reports. Researchers from Newcastle University in the UK discovered that clownfish have the ability to adjust their growth depending on the environment surrounding them. Through lab experiments that paired clownfish with varying sized anemones, scientists found that on every occasion the fish who were placed on larger anemones…
Elephants are estimated to have only a five percent cancer mortality rate compared to 25 percent for humans. More light has been shed on why elephants experience such low rates of cancer, that could one day be used to help human treatments. The research from an international team of scientists published in Molecular Biology and…
According to Tass News Agency it’s the first time in the history of the Russian justice system that anybody has been fined for systemically failing to remove information. The tech company has been fined 21 billion Rubles with a Russian court ruling that they failed to take down illegal content from YouTube. It was found…
A Columbia Engineering team built a robot that created a kinematic model of itself and can plan motion, reach goals and avoid obstacles in various situations. Source: Shutterstock. For the first time, a robot has been created that can learn a model of its entire body from scratch without any human help. In a new…
Ukraine’s President said in a Telegram post that the two top officials were fired after members of their agencies were found to be collaborating with Russia. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired Ukraine’s head of security and top prosecutor, saying many of their employees were collaborating with Russia. Orders dismissing the head of state…
JLo has now legally changed her name to Jennifer Lynn Affleck. Source: On The JLo. The pair tied the knot in Las Vegas over the weekend after rumours swirled yesterday that they had obtained a marriage licence. Lopez made the announcement in her newsletter On the JLo, giving subscribers details of the intimate ceremony which…