Claire Bugos, Sonian
British archaeologists have surveyed the wreck of a German U-boat for the first time since it sank 103 years ago. The remarkably intact vessel adds to the story of an especially fraught period of naval warfare during World War I.A team led by Rodrigo Pacheco-Ruiz of the University of Southampton discovered the submarine's remains during an exploratory dive this summer.
Meredith Fore, Inside Sci
What do a volcanologist, a pulmonologist, and a glassmaker have in common? They all worry about bubbles. The physics of how bubbles form, behave and pop is crucial to understanding natural phenomena as well as many industrial processes.
Manal Mohammed, Conv
Although political leaders have closed borders in response to COVID-19, scientists are collaborating like never before. But the coronavirus (SARS-COV-2) is novel and we don't yet have all the facts about it. As a result, we may have to change our approach as new scientific data comes in.
USL Championship continues to be impacted by COVID-19 postponements
Joe Harris may not be a star, but he’s still got plenty of gravity — enough pull to stretch defenses out of shape, and help the Nets win. That’s never been more apparent than in this restart. Harris scored 21 points in Friday’s playoff-clinching win over the Kings. He grabbed four rebounds, handed out four...
Leah Crane, NewSci
Physicists have spotted the Higgs boson performing a new trick, but one that brings us no closer to understanding the workings of fundamental particles.The Higgs boson, discovered at the CERN particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, in 2012, is the particle that gives all other fundamental particles mass, according to the standard model of particle physics.
Bradley van Paridon, Hakai Magazine
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic is a reminder of the devastation disease outbreaks can cause. But such disasters do not only affect humans. New research led by Claire Sanderson, a wildlife epidemiologist and immunologist at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, shows that disease outbreaks among marine mammals have quietly been on the rise.
Matt Williams, Univ Today
In 1950, Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi sat down to lunch with some of his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he had worked five years prior as part of the Manhattan Project. According to various accounts, the conversation turned to aliens and the recent spate of UFOs.
Ethan Siegel, Forbes
The earliest signal we've ever directly detected from the Universe comes to us from shortly after the Big Bang: when the Universe was merely 380,000 years old. Known today as the Cosmic Microwave Background, it's alternatively been called the primeval fireball or the Big Bang's leftover glow. It was an astonishing prediction dating back to George Gamow all the way in the 1940s, and it shocked the astronomical world when it was directly detected back in the 1960s.
Microsoft has been the primary suitor for TikTok, saying it was in talks to buy the company's US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand operations.
Michael Koziol, IEEE Spectrum
The only reason you're able to read this right now is because of the Internet standards created by the Internet Engineering Task Force. So while standards may not always be the most exciting thing in the world, they make exciting things possible. And occasionally, even the standards themselves get weird.
Bill Gates, GatesNotes
A global crisis has shocked the world. It is causing a tragic number of deaths, making people afraid to leave home, and leading to economic hardship not seen in many generations. Its effects are rippling across the world.Obviously, I am talking about COVID-19. But in just a few decades, the same description will fit another global crisis: climate change. As awful as this pandemic is, climate change could be worse.
Upon completion of his five-year term, World Bank’s former Country Director of Pakistan Patchamuthu Illangovan said Islamabad had made a request for appointment of a COA while India had sought a neutral expert to resolve their dispute on two hydroelectric projects.
The Ram temple is coming up today not because the BJP won a great popular victory but because the Supreme Court came out with an odd verdict that slammed BJP vigilantes for destroying the Babri Masjid and categorically named the Muslims as victims, yet created a new trust to build a Ram temple.
The city was bombed on August 9, 1945, leaving more than 70,000 people dead.
Staff member beats the starch out of a customer
Chelsea have had a sturdy first season under Frank Lampard as the team goes through a transitional phase and former Blues star Ricardo Carvalho has given his prediction on the future
Research shows 53% of naturalized Latinos and 52% of naturalized Asians voted in 2016, compared to 46% and 45% of their native-born counterparts, respectively
There was some respite from rain in Kodagu and Belagavi on Saturday, allowing relief and rescue workers to reach landslide sites, while minor landslips were reported and a flood-like situation prevailed in several parts.
The Covid-19 fatality toll of Nepalis residing in other countries has reached 191 this week.
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Earlier on Sunday, Singh announced that India will stop the import of 101 weapons and military platforms like transport aircraft, light combat helicopters, conventional submarines, cruise missiles among others on a staggered basis till 2024.