TEHRAN (FNA)- The Damascus Army continued its advances towards the city of Khan Sheikhoun, the main bastion of Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay’at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) terrorist group and took control of a region as government forces dispatched new military convoy to Southern Idlib.
(Telecompaper) Kazakhstan national operator Kazakhtelecom has tested 5G in the city of Almaty. A 5G base station worked on the 3.5 GHz band with a 5G smartphone...
More than 2,000 people in Horsham are currently claiming universal credit support.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has distanced herself and her department from half-naked pictures shared alongside the department's "Read to Lead" initiative on Twitter.
Jeff Reine-Adelaide is set to join Lyon from Angers, unless Arsenal make an equivalent offer for their former player.
Adrian Lam has named the Wigan Warriors 19-man squad to face Warrington Wolves this Friday.
One change from last week as the injured Ben Flower is replaced by Chris Hankinson
Wigan Warriors vs Warrington Wolves, Friday 16th August, DW Stadium, K.O. 7:45pm.
Head Coach Adrian Lam has named the Wigan Warriors 19-man squad to face Warrington Wolves this Friday.
The Warriors will come up against the Wire for the fourth time this season on Friday after playing them at the Halliwell Jones Stadium on two occasions (one league... Читать дальше...
Brussels (AFP) Aug 13, 2019
The European Union has imposed duties on imports of subsidised biodiesel from Indonesia in order to level the playing field for EU producers, officials said Tuesday.
The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, imposed temporary duties ranging from eight percent to 18 percent but warned it could impose permanent measures by the end of the year.
A Commission investigation "found that
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Aug 13, 2019
In order to understand advanced materials like graphene nanostructures and optimize them for devices in nano-, opto- and quantum-technology it is crucial to understand how phonons - the vibration of atoms in solids - influence the materials' properties.
Researchers from the University of Vienna, the Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Japan, the company JEOL and La Sapienza Uni
[Times of Zambia] ZAMBIA 15s rugby team coach Lawrence Njovu believes his charges can still save the test series with a win in Uganda despite losing four players due to personal commitments.
The Director of Education in Tamil Nadu Dr S Kanappan has written to all Chief Education Officers to identify and take action against schools where children were made to wear wrist bands of different colours to identify their caste.According to the letter, the officer trainees of IAS 2018 batch had lodged a representation to the government which stated that students in some schools were being made to wear colour coded wrist bands which indicated their caste."These wristbands, which come in shades of red... Читать дальше...
Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Aug 13, 2019
New research, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, has found that Antarctic icebergs can weaken and delay the effect of Global Warming in the Southern Hemisphere.
Unabated Global Warming threatens the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet. Recent observations reveal a rapid thinning of the Pine Island and Thwaites glacier regions in Antarctica, which can be attributed partly to w
Exeter UK (SPX) Aug 13, 2019
The dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice through climate change has only a "minimal influence" on severe cold winter weather across Asia and North America, new research has shown.
The possible connection between Arctic sea-ice loss and extreme cold weather - such as the deep freezes that can grip the USA in the winter months - has long been studied by scientists.
Observations show that wh
Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 13, 2019
Welcome to the early solar system. Just after the planets formed more than 4.5 billion years ago, our cosmic neighborhood was a chaotic place. Waves of comets, asteroids and even proto-planets streamed toward the inner solar system, with some crashing into Earth on their way.
Now, a team led by University of Colorado Boulder geologist Stephen Mojzsis has laid out a new timeline for this vi
Trieste, Italy (SPX) Aug 09, 2019
Researchers have, for the first time, identified the sufficient and necessary conditions that the low-energy limit of quantum gravity theories must satisfy to preserve the main features of the Unruh effect.
In a new study, led by researchers from SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Waterloo, a solid theoretica
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 12, 2019
During the second field experiment for DARPA's OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program, teams of autonomous air and ground robots tested tactics on a mission to isolate an urban objective. Similar to the way a firefighting crew establishes a boundary around a burning building, they first identified locations of interest and then created a perimeter around the focal point.
OFFSET e
Research Triangle Park NC (SPX) Aug 13, 2019
A U.S. Army project discovery upends previous notions about how metals deform and could help guide the creation of stronger, more durable materials for military vehicles.
For nearly 100 years, scientists thought they understood everything there was to know about how metals bend. They were wrong.
Materials science and engineering researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, fun
Wright-Patterson AFB CO (SPX) Aug 12, 2019
The Air Force Research Laboratory, in partnership with several universities, has investigated the effects of space weather damage to polyimides, materials used extensively in spacecraft construction due to their high heat resistance.
The researchers determined the previously unknown chemical and physical effects of electron bombardment in Earth's magnetosphere on these polymers. Electrons
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A huge cache of unsecured biometric credentials and personal information has been discovered by security researchers, The Guardian reports. The breach, which was discovered by researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar alongside vpnMentor, included the fingerprint data of more than 1 million people, facial recognition information, unencrypted usernames and passwords, and other personal information of users of Suprema’s Biostar 2 security platform. The information... Читать дальше...
Paulo Dybala may have angered five-time Ballon d’Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo by liking this tweet that slams the superstar, as well as Juventus’ hierarchy. Paulo Dybala has liked a tweet blasting Juventus’ decision to put him up for sale this summer, the star’s like also suggests that he believes he’s better than superstar Cristiano Ronaldo. […]
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Federal flight regulators have added certain Apple laptops to its "no fly" list of banned items on U.S. flights, because of a risk their batteries could catch fire.
ADAM May has urged his Swindon Town team-mates to move on quickly from their Carabao Cup disappointment so it does not derail their flying start to the new League Two season.
MESUT OZIL was spotted being bundled into a car by security today as he left his home for the first time since Friday. The Arsenal star, 30, has not been seen near his North London home for five days after being caught in a gang war, but he has finally broken cover. He was spotted […]
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