Новости за 14.09.2019

Desperate Housewives actor was sentenced to 14-day in prison sentence for rigging college entrance exam score in favour of her daughter.

India's organised food service market is estimated to have touched Rs 1,48,353 crore in 2018-19, according to a report by the National Restaurant Association of India.

Chaminade's offense proved to be too much for Crespi, rolling up 55 points in a victory at West Hills.

The Saudi-owned satellite channel Al-Arabiya has reported an explosion and fire at the Saudi Aramco Abqaiq facility in the eastern part of the kingdom. There have been no reports of casualties or cause of the incident. According to the media report, the blaze was spotted early Saturday morning in Buqyaq, near Dammam, in the kingdom’s Eastern […]

Jeremy Hsu, NBC

Since the dawn of the space era more than six decades ago, there's been just one way to get to the moon and back: rockets. But a pair of graduate students say we should now be able to ferry humans and cargo between Earth and our natural satellite via a sort of high-tech elevator.

Ryan Mandelbaum, Gizmodo
Scientists have created something of a reverse solar cell: a tool that generates electricity from the darkness of night.As energy and how humans produce it continues to be an important modern conversation, a team of researchers have branched way out, trying to harness energy from whatever sources they could. They were able to generate enough electricity to power an LED using $30 in equipment, thanks to something called radiative cooling.

Jenna Sternberg, Massive
For approximately every human cell in our bodies, there is a tiny microorganism living inside us. On our skin, in our lungs, mouth, gut and more. Collectively, these microscopic bacteria, viruses, and fungi are called the microbiome. These organisms sometimes merely coexist, sometimes harm their human hosts, and sometimes provide benefits.

Henry Miller, GLP
In The Wealth of Nations, the 18th century economist and philosopher Adam Smith observed about the chicanery of some businessmen, People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Christopher Ferguson, Quillette
Recently it was reported that Pornhub had made a short adult film featuring a couple having sex on a polluted beach. If this seems like an odd (and frankly unsexy) idea, then bear in mind that every time the video is watched, Pornhub will donate money to Ocean Polymers, a non-profit company that seeks to remove plastic waste from the ocean.

TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) – Iran’s national volleyball team started its campaign in the 2019 Asian Senior Men’s Volleyball Championship with a 3-0 win over Sri Lanka on Friday.

Here are the day's political developments across the country

Mark Wolverton, Undark
For Andrew Maidment, the chief of physics for the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, it was one of the oddest phone calls he'd ever received. "A woman called me up once," he remembers, "and I hear this child screaming in the background, yelling and crying, crying. She starts off with, can I hug my son again?"

With the start of the 2019 Rugby World Cup just days away, Tudor is reaffirming its association with the New Zealand All Blacks. Fresh off a relentless battering of Tonga in their final World Cup warm-up game (92-7), New Zealand arrives in Japan as one...

Kristin Houser, Futur
Since the July arrest of Jeffrey Epstein on charges of sex trafficking, a number of huge names in the world of tech from Bill Gates to Elon Musk have attempted to defend or deny any inkling of a relationship with the financier.But one prominent computer scientist is seemingly going out of his way to insert himself into the scandal: MIT Visiting Scientist Richard Stallman.

HARARE, Zimbabwe (UPDATED) – Zimbabwe gave former leader Robert Mugabe a state funeral on Saturday with African leaders paying tribute to a man lauded as a liberation hero but whose 37-year rule was defined by repression and economic turmoil.

The 18-year-old from Almora had earlier beaten Denmark’s Kim Bruun 21-18 21-11 win in a 48-minute semifinal clash on Friday night.

David Nield, Science Alert
You might think you already know black even super-black Vantablack, previously the blackest material known to science but researchers just came up with a material that takes black to a new level of blackness.

A list of scores as provided by The Associated Press.

Tom Siegfried, Knowable Magazine
In the universe of TV's Doctor Who, the scariest adversaries of all are the hybrid robot-organic life-forms known as the Daleks.Each Dalek is a living being encased in a robotic shell equipped with lethal weaponry, frequently employed to terrify London, other cities or entire planets. But if you think that's scary, now imagine nanoDaleks, too small to see, scurrying around inside your body, each of them chanting Exterminate!

Bruce Bower, ScienceNews
Ancient North American hunter-gatherers had direct contacts with people living halfway across the continent, researchers say.A ceremonial copper object and related burial practices at a roughly 4,000-year-old human grave site encircled by a massive ring of seashells in what's now the southeastern United States closely correspond to those previously found at hunter-gatherer sites near the Great Lakes.

Nell Gluckman, Chronicle of Higher Education
It was a validating moment for Caleb Harper. Norman Foster, the renowned architect who designed Apple's circular headquarters, had come to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's research facility in a Boston suburb last June for a tour. He was there to learn about Harper's high-tech agriculture project and to explore future links between the Media Lab, where Harper works, and the architect's foundation.

MERRITT, B.C. – The Penticton Vees used a four-goal 2nd period performance to earn their third straight win to begin the season, … Continue reading GAME RECAP: Offence Continues To Shine In 7-3 Victory Over Centennials →

Beth Mole, Ars Technica
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated and revised the national tally of illnesses linked to the use of e-cigarettes, aka vaping, dropping the count from 450 possible cases to 380 confirmed and probable cases, the agency announced late Thursday.

Remember NBN's address checker tool? Despite a series of upgrades, the site never did a great job of providing an accurate answer on when you were getting connected. Thankfully, NBN Co has rolled out yet another tweak to the search engine that actually makes it useful. More »

Remember NBN's address checker tool? Despite a series of upgrades, the site never did a great job of providing an accurate answer on when you were getting connected. Thankfully, NBN Co has rolled out yet another tweak to the search engine that actually makes it useful. More »