Osaka, Halep open Roland Garros campaigns
PARIS: World number one Naomi Osaka begins her French Open campaign on Tuesday looking to take another step closer to a third successive Grand Slam title.
PARIS: World number one Naomi Osaka begins her French Open campaign on Tuesday looking to take another step closer to a third successive Grand Slam title.
A knife-wielding man has allegedly attacked at least 19 people, including eight children in a mass stabbing in Tokyo. As many as three people have been confirmed dead, according to Japanese authorities. The alleged attacker has been detained and the motive for the attack remains unknown.
Coalition MPs have returned to Canberra for the first partyroom meeting since the May 18 election, where Scott Morrison told his team ‘we must burn for the Australian people every single day’. Tuesday’s meeting has been a celebration of their surprise third term in power, with a focus on getting back to business ‘to govern humbly’ under the stewardship of the Prime Minister and his new-look ministry. The National Party is seemingly tense over the ministerial re-shuffling and the loss of a cabinet portfolio... Читать дальше...
A group of U.S. Navy pilots reported seeing unidentified flying objects while training over the East Coast in 2014 and 2015 in an interview with The New York Times ...
UNLV junior Justin Kim lost a three-way playoff Monday morning at Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and didn’t advance to the fourth round.
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Marshall Shepherd, Forbes
Random things inspire what I write in Forbes Science - current events, extraordinary weather, or the need to debunk bad science. However, the inspiration for this piece was a conversation with a man while sipping Pinot Grigio and munching on lobster cakes at a fancy reception.
Steven Novella, Neurologica
Energy storage is now a critical technology for the future of our energy infrastructure. We want to move to renewable forms of energy, but many of them are intermittent sources, and so energy storage will be necessary. At low penetration, up to about 30%, we can essentially use the grid as if it were a battery putting unused energy into the grid when producing excess, and then taking from the grid when demand exceeds production.
Gabriella Bernardi, Cosmos Mag
A new study has revealed the precarious future of the famous lagoon in the historical Italian city of Venice.The research, just published in the journal Scientific Reports, documents with unprecedented accuracy the imprint of multiple human activities on the sea-floor of the lagoon through mapping carried out with high-resolution geophysical instruments.
In an attempt to increase its footprint in the southern states, the BJP will recast itself as a pan-Indian party and not a “Hindi-speaking outfit” in time for the next Lok Sabha election, senior functionaries said
Matt Williams, U-Today
There's no sense in sugar-coating it Venus is a hellish place! It is the hottest planet in the Solar System, with atmospheric temperatures that are hot enough to melt lead. The air is also a toxic plume, composed predominantly of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid rain clouds. And yet, scientists theorize that Venus was once a much different place, with a cooler atmosphere and liquid oceans on its surface.
Andrew Porterfield, Gen Lit Proj
Blame Vincent Van Gogh. The artist became famous for his works which now hang in nearly every major museum on the planet. He also became famous for his madness, including an episode in the late 1880s when he cut off a portion of his ear, apparently to spite fellow artist and housemate, Paul Gauguin
MELANIA TRUMP gave the Empress of Japan a touching gift during the US Presidential visit to the country on Monday.
Yuen Yiu, Inside Science
For the first time in history, humans have detected a changing magnetic field on a planet other than our own -- Jupiter. The latest revelation could help scientists better understand how a planet's magnetic field changes over time.The discovery was made by NASA's Juno spacecraft, named after the Roman goddess -- mother of Mars and wife of Jupiter.
John Timmer, Ars Technica
As we move from a season marked by unstoppable heating units and into one dominated by aggressive air conditioning. Figuring out how to optimize the thermostat involves a balancing of individual comfort and energy efficiency. But a new study suggests that there's an additional factor that should feed into decisions: the performance of any employees or students who happen to be subjected to the whims of whoever has access to the thermostat.