Call it a special delivery: after six years in space, Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe is heading home, but only to drop off its rare asteroid samples before starting a new mission. The fridge-sized probe, launched in December 2014, has already thrilled scientists by landing on and gathering material from an asteroid some 300 million kilometres (185
Month: December 2020
Joe Biden will ask all Americans to wear face masks for the first 100 days of his term to stop the spread of coronavirus. The president-elect, who has frequently emphasised mask-wearing as a “patriotic duty”, will also order masks to be worn in all US government buildings. Speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Mr Biden said:
8:33 PM ET ESPN News Services ALBANY, Calif. — Golden Gate Fields has extended its suspension of live horse racing until Dec. 26, when its winter meet is scheduled to begin. The San Francisco Bay area track has been closed since Nov. 13 because of a COVID-19 outbreak. Initially, the track was closed for a
December 3rd, 2020 by Guest Contributor Photo of prototype of largest wind turbine in the world, courtesy GE Renewables. Courtesy of Union Of Concerned Scientists.By John Rogers, Senior energy analyst The first large-scale offshore wind farm in the United States may use the largest wind turbine in the world. Here are a few ways to
Minesto’s system is based on the idea of using a kite-like system in marine environments. Minesto A tidal power project located in the Faroe Islands has started to send electricity to the grid, in the latest example of how marine based technologies are being deployed and used around the world. The small 100 kilowatt tidal
Jason Kilar Getty Images On Thursday, AT&T‘s WarnerMedia announced it would release its entire 2021 slate of films directly on HBO Max at the same time they hit theaters. Investors and industry-watchers greeted it as earth-shattering news for the movie theater industry. AMC Entertainment fell 16% on the day. Cinemark fell 22%. WarnerMedia CEO Jason
Warner Bros will release all of its 2021 films, including Dune and The Matrix 4, online on the same day they hit cinemas. The move to put such major blockbusters straight on streaming service HBO Max is another blow to the struggling cinema industry, which has largely closed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Bangladesh government is moving thousands of Rohingya refugees to a remote island in the coming days – despite human rights groups’ calls to stop the process. Bhasan Char, which emerged from the sea less than 20 years ago, is exposed to annual flooding and cyclones during the monsoon season, which lasts for five months
Great Britain is arguably better known as a bleak little island on the edge of Europe, rather than as a renewable powerhouse, but ‘the times they are a-changin’. It won’t be surprising that Britain with its considerable coastline is ‘blowing in the wind’, but what is less well known is that occasionally there is sunshine
The latest round of talks on a post-Brexit trade deal “did not go well”, Sky News understands, with a UK source suggesting that hopes of an agreement are now “receding”. According to Sky’s deputy political editor Sam Coates, the sticking point was the so-called “level playing field”. This is the issue of preventing unfair competition
December 3rd, 2020 by Jesper Berggreen I received an email from my old acquaintance Robert A. Freling from Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) inviting me to watch a new documentary in which he and his team plays a major role: “Switch On.” The film is released from Switch Energy Alliance, in which Bureau of Economic
5:35 AM ET I began covering college football in 1987. Nick Saban wouldn’t be a head coach for another three years. Mack Brown had 11 career victories. The first story I wrote about the lack of racial diversity among major college football head coaches ran in 1992. The number of Black head coaches in major
Josh Brolin and Timothée Chalamet in “Dune.” Source: Warner Bros. Pictures AT&T‘s Warner Bros. announced on Thursday that all of its films scheduled to launch in 2021 will be released on HBO Max at the same time they are available in theaters. It’s currently a one-year plan. AMC shares were down nearly 8% on the
A young actress has given a royal performance for Prince Charles and Camilla – dressed in her supermarket workwear as she had to rush straight from the theatre to start her eight-hour shift. Tash Marshall performed her one-woman play Half Breed to the royal couple at London’s Soho Theatre on Thursday, before heading off to
Ryanair has ordered 75 new Boeing 737 MAX jets as the aircraft prepares for a return to the skies – and the Irish carrier sets its sights on a recovery in aviation next year. The airline announced the deal weeks after US regulators cleared the MAX to fly again following two deadly crashes, with European
The White House’s chief immunologist has told Sky News he believes the British approval of the Pfizer COVID vaccine has been done in a “much less deep” way than would have been done in the US. Dr Anthony Fauci told Sky News he believed the data “clearly shows that the vaccine is safe and effective” but
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