More than 200 years after being sunk by Adm Horatio Nelson and the British fleet, a Danish warship has been discovered on the seabed of Copenhagen harbour by marine archaeologists. Working in thick sediment and almost zero visibility 15 metres (49ft) beneath the waves, divers are in a race against time to unearth the 19th-century…
By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, April 2 (Reuters) – NASA sent four astronauts on the world’s first crewed lunar mission in half a century on Wednesday, in preparation for a first-ever manned landing on the moon’s South Pole in 2028, as a space race between the United States and China intensifies. China has only ever sent…
Drawing together leading experts from across the field, an international collaboration of cosmologists has created a unified approach for measuring the value of the Hubble constant. Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, the milestone could bring us a step closer to understanding why the universe appears to be expanding faster than our standard cosmological model predicts….
Nobody likes thinking about leaving loved ones behind, but it’s pretty normal to make a will even if you’re relatively young. If you’re enough of a smart home enthusiast that you’re using Home Assistant to control a wide array of devices, you might want to consider how this pans out if you’re no longer around….
Nasa’s Artemis II spacecraft has launched and is now orbiting Earth, where it will then head on to circle the Moon as part of a 10-day mission. The crew onboard are “safe, secure and in great spirits”, according to a Nasa official. Rebecca Morelle, the BBC’s science editor, was in Florida to watch the “spectacular”…
Thames Water is said to be close to a deal with its regulator that would allow the company to avoid new fines for four years, as long as it commits to investing in the business. The controversial offer, reported by the Financial Times, has been put forward by creditors who are hoping to save the…
Every state in the West is expected to face an above-normal threat of wildfire this summer, according to the latest projections, released Wednesday by the National Interagency Coordination Center. The government-run center publishes monthly reports predicting fire risk for the four months ahead, and the change since the March outlook is staggering. The agency denotes…
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — More than 200 years after being sunk by Adm. Horatio Nelson and the British fleet, a Danish warship has been discovered on the seabed of Copenhagen Harbor by marine archaeologists. Working in thick sediment and almost zero visibility 15 meters (49 feet) beneath the waves, divers are working against the clock…
Research in the International Journal of Business Information Systems suggests that the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is remarkably uneven across Italian firms. While some may have made a deliberate choice not to use AI, of the many that are planning to use it, some still lack the organizational structures needed to deploy the technology…
Indigenous people in the western United States invented dice more than 12,000 years ago, offering archaeologists the world’s oldest evidence of gambling and possibly the oldest use of probability, a new study reveals. But the purpose of these games of chance was very different from modern-day gambling, as the games helped people — mostly women,…
