Monthly Archive: September 2018
Grey African parrot vanished from British owner’s home in Torrance, California in 2010 before reappearing in the same town. Rose Troup Buchanan – A grey African parrot, pictured here in México ( Getty ). A very British pet parrot named Nigel has …
A study finds that one member of a previously unidentified genus of the birds could have weighed more than 1,700 pounds. By Douglas Quenqua – An artist’s impression of an extinct elephant bird. A new study has identified a member of one genus …
Hello, tipping point. Brandon A. Weber – Lake Esieh, in Alaska – Chris Mooney. It’s in a part of Alaska that’s in the Arctic Circle. Each day the lake emits methane at a rate equivalent to about 6,000 cows. If more like it …
Cultured meat is the next step in a long history of alternatives to conventional meat. James R. Howe VI, Neuroscience and Genetics, UC San Diego – Produced in partnership with New Harvest – First cultured hamburger – unbaked. Now, more than …
David Szondy – BlckFly is a single-seater electric VTOL aircraft (Credit: Opener). Canadian-based aviation firm Opener Inc. has unveiled its new BlackFly single-seater aircraft, which it bills as a Personal Aerial Vehicle (PAV) and the world’s first ultralight all-electric fixed-wing Vertical Take-Off …
Michael Irving – The Chiense satellite Micius has helped break the quantum teleportation distance record, transmitting entangled photons across a distance of 1,200 km (746 mi) (Credit: Jian-Wei Pan). Chinese scientists have smashed the quantum entanglement distance record. Transmitting information through entangled …
Michael Irving – A new study has found that all iron tools from the Bronze Age, including King Tutankhamun’s dagger, were made from meteoric metal (Credit: University of Pisa). A weapon as legendary as the dagger of King Tutankhamun needs an epic backstory, and …
David Szondy – The vehicle-mounted laser combines a solid state laser with an advanced variant of the company’s Multi-Spectral Targeting System, installed on a small, all-terrain Polaris militarized vehicle (Credit: Raytheon). An energy weapon system built by Raytheon has clocked up an impressive score …
Michael Irving – Researchers have found colonies of asexual termites that contain no males at all (Credit: smuayc/Depositphotos). Some species of termites have been known to reproduce asexually on occasion, but most of the time they seem to do things the old …
David Szondy – Artist’s concept of the two MINERVA-II1 rovers (Credit: JAXA). Japan has scored a space race double first by becoming the first nation to land not one, but two rovers on an asteroid. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has …
