Seventy-five years ago today, a group of physicists, engineers and Army personnel assembled in New Mexico‘s forsaken desert in the pre-dawn hours of July 16, 1945 for a top secret operation, code name: Trinity. Their goal was to detonate the world’s first nuclear bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer is best known for his role as the scientific … Read more
NASA is set to send the first woman and next many to the moon in 2024 and has revealed what the crew will call home – an RV rover. The American space agency is ditching concepts of inflatable tents and underground bases, and is now looking at an pressurized surface vehicle. The space group recently … Read more
One of Britain’s new £3billion aircraft carriers could be sent to the Far East under new plans drawn up by military chiefs, reports today suggest. The class leading HMS Queen Elizabeth is expected to visit the region during its maiden grand voyage next year. The aircraft carrier is set to be involved in joint military … Read more
Britons want to go to the Maldives, Americans to Japan and Australians to Fiji: World map based on Google data illustrates nationalities’ most wished for 2021 holiday destinations On the map country names have been supplemented by its residents’ most yearned-for destinations for 2021 Map was created by a holiday firm, which analysed the most-searched … Read more
Japanese girl, three, starves to death after her mother left her alone for eight days so she could visit her boyfriend 600 miles away Saki Kakehashi, 24, from Tokyo, told police she thought ‘it would be alright’ She left her daughter Noa at their apartment and went to Kagoshima Prefecture Kakehashi had gone to visit … Read more
Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn wired more than £650,000 to a company linked to one of the men accused of helping smuggle him out of Japan in a box last year, prosecutors said in a new court filing. Prosecutors filed documents Tuesday detailing two wire transfers made by Ghosn in October 2019 as … Read more
Penguins can fire their faeces out of their rectum with such power they reach more than FOUR FEET away, scientists find Penguins have a high ‘rectal pressure’ that can expel excrement some distance This lets them keep themselves and their nests from getting soiled with guano Experts from Japan calculated just how far Humboldt penguins … Read more
Volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean is experiencing a ‘growth spurt’ – adding nearly 500 feet of land in under a month Nishinoshimay, a volcanic island, sits some 600 miles south of Tokyo, Japan Experts observed multiple eruptions since May that have added to its land mass Since June, some 500 feet has been added … Read more
Japan launches new 223mph bullet train that can ‘escape’ to safety in the event of an earthquake The N700S serves the Tokaido Shinkansen line which connects Tokyo with Osaka and Kobe It became the world’s first high-speed line when the first bullet trains began running on it on October 1, 1964 The train has an … Read more
Brad Pitt raved about the benefits of wearing face masks at pre-coronavirus trip to Japan last year: ‘I don’t know why we don’t do that’ By Deirdre Simonds For Dailymail.com Published: 16:40 BST, 5 July 2020 | Updated: 16:41 BST, 5 July 2020 Brad Pitt proved to be ahead of the curve in a recently resurfaced … Read more