The search giant is headed for a historic showdown with the Department of Justice. The DOJ is just one of many threats.
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How German military scientists likely identified the nerve agent used to attack Alexei Navalny
On 2 September, German Chancellor Angela Merkel revealed that Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition politician, had been poisoned with a nerve agent “identified unequivocally in tests” as a Novichok—one of a family of exotic Soviet-era chemical weapons. Merkel, a chemist by training, did not reveal the nature of the tests, […]
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Video of the Day: 1959 drag-race action in NHRA documentary film
The all-American motorsport of drag racing blossomed during the decade of the 1950s, and by 1959, when this film was made by the National Hot Rod Association, had become a hot bed of private-team efforts to squeeze 10ths of seconds out of quarter-mile ETs.
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2,200-year-old Chinese text may be oldest surviving anatomical atlas
The texts were written on silk and buried in a tomb.
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China’s Rocket Booster Comes Crashing Down near School
The Long March 4B rocket successfully launched an Earth-observing satellite.
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Okay, New Idea. Oumuamua is an Interstellar “Dust Bunny”
Explaining the concept of a dust bunny to small children can be quite amusing. No, it’s not actually alive. It’s moving around because of really small currents of wind that we can’t even see. It’s mainly formed out of dead skin and spider webs. No, the spiders don’t actually eat […]
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DfT launch consultation that could kerb pavement parking
The DfT has launched a public consultation to see if banning all vehicles from parking on the pavement should be adopted