Thousands of satellites and hundreds of thousands of objects orbiting Earth, such as debris and discarded rocket bodies, are being tracked to avoid collisions. Source: ESA/NASA, Flickr. A Tasmanian observatory has a new telescope mount that will help track fast-moving satellites and prevent catastrophic space collisions. The Greenhill observatory at Bisdee Tier near Hobart is…
Julian Assange married his long-time partner Stella Morris in prison earlier this year. Source: Shutterstock. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that he gave US president Joe Biden a letter offering Julian Assange asylum. Lopez Obrador was in Washington for a meeting with Biden to discuss several issues pertaining to both the US and Mexico…
This comes after the first quarter of 2022 saw over 200,000 users leaving the service. Source: Dominic Smith, Flickr. Netflix reported its second straight quarterly drop in subscriber growth, losing almost 1 million subscribers between April and July. It was not as bad as the streaming giant previous prediction of a 2 million subscriber loss.…
Officials say that a partnership with Spire Global will get the HYSM sensors into orbit. Source: Deep space, Ars Electronica, Flickr. The UK government has announced £3 million worth of funding for new space technologies that will help to deliver solar power directly from space. It’s known as the space-based solar power (SBSP) project and will…
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…