Skyrora, a satellite launch company based in Scotland hopes to be able to send a rocket into space by spring 2021 after completing a ground fire test. The company created a mobile launch platform and finished a full fire test of its Skylark-L rocket in just five days – the first from the UK in … Read more
Two hearts can respond very differently to the same piece of music, either by speeding up or slowing down, according to a new study. European Society of Cardiology researchers found classical music can trigger either slower or faster heart recovery rates, depending on the person listening. Patients with mild heart failure showed shorter heart recovery … Read more
Cold War spy satellite imagery is helping scientists track the decline of animals and their habitats in Kazakhstan over the past 50 years Images from the Cold War’s Corona programme imaged a region of Kazakhstan The photographs were declassified five years after the fall of the Iron Curtain Scientists have used them to track the impact of … Read more
A planet is born! Astronomers find the first direct evidence of a new world being formed around a distant star A dense disc of dust and gas was spotted surrounding young star AB Aurigae The star is 520 light years away from Earth and has a spiral structure around it Twists in the centre of … Read more
Paw patrol! Footage shows Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot herding sheep on a farm in New Zealand Spot gathered together the unruly farm animals with the help of two sheepdogs Robot can reach speeds of up to 3mph and costs less than £30,000 to lease Video also shows the robot marching through an orchard and … Read more
Antarctica could turn GREEN as climate change causes algae to bloom across the surface of the snow – and penguins are partly to blame By Ian Randall For Mailonline Published: 12:23 BST, 20 May 2020 | Updated: 12:23 BST, 20 May 2020 Antarctica could turn green as climate change causes algae to bloom across the … Read more
Men have evolved to grow beards in order to protect their jaws from incoming punches from foes, a study has found. Facial hair is the most evident manifestation of sexual dimorphism — physical differences between males and females — in humans. But its actual purpose has long remained an enigma, with some researchers claiming its purpose … Read more
NASA’s head of human spaceflight quit on Monday, just days before the first commercial mission to take astronauts to the International Space Station. Elon Musk‘s SpaceX will become the first commercial company to fly astronauts to the ISS in a flight that will also be the first from US soil since 2011. Doug Loverro, who … Read more
An almost complete 300,000-year-old elephant skeleton with eight-foot tusks has been recovered from a former mine in Germany. The Eurasian straight-tusked elephant, Palaeoloxodon antiquus, died by the shores of an ancient lake before its corpse was scavenged by carnivores. Human ancestors are thought to have eaten from the carcass, as 30 small flint flakes and … Read more
Google is developing a ‘smart’ hoodie drawstring that lets you control the music on your phone by twisting and tapping the cord The wearable cord is made up of intertwining conductive and insulating fibres Conductive fibres let it to perform complex capacitive sensing when handled This allows it to distinguish gestures including flicking, sliding and grabbing Wearers … Read more