Tag: Science
Did you solve it? Where’s the best place to tie your shoe in an airport?
The solution to today’s travel teaser. Earlier today I asked you the following questions: You are in an airport, and you are walking from security to your gate. The distance includes stretches of travelator, or moving walkway, and stretches of floor. You have a constant walking speed, u, and the travelators also have constant speed, […]
Tim Peake comes back to Earth with a bump Soyuz touchdown ends astronauts incredible journey
After 186 days orbiting the Earth, Briton returns from space Tim Peake returned to Earth yesterday at the end of his six-month stay on the International Space Station. His journey home took place in a craft that fell from a height of 410 kilometres and decelerated from 27,600 km/h to a standstill in less than […]
Dagger in King Tut’s tomb was made with iron from a meteorite
Researchers who analyzed metal composition of dagger within wrapping of mummified teenage king say it strongly suggests an extraterrestrial origin A dagger entombed with King Tutankhamun was made with iron from a meteorite, a new analysis on the metal composition shows. In 1925, archaeologist Howard Carter found two daggers, one iron and one with a […]
Milky weigh: our galaxy has the mass of 700bn suns, say scientists
Most accurate measurement so far has estimated the collective mass of the Milky Ways stars, black holes, dust, dark matter – and unidentified flying objects Our galaxy has a collective mass 700 billion times that of the sun, according to the most accurate measurement yet by scientists. The estimate covers the mass of all the […]
Brexit would threaten world-class British research, major report warns
Report reveals how critical fields of research, and particular regions of the country, would fare should EU funding dry up Great swaths of research under way in universities and businesses across the UK will come under threat should Britain leave the EU, according to a major report into the nations finances. Crucial work on cancer, […]