A Cold War nuclear bunker has been rediscovered underneath a centuries-old castle after being forgotten for 57 years. The bunker was decommissioned and sealed in 1968 and was lost until an archaeological dig by English Heritage successfully uncovered its location. In the event of a nuclear war, the space would…
Celebrating 100 Years Since Goddard’s Breakthrough Moment in Modern Rocketry
From the voyages of spacecraft to the Moon and beyond, to the launches of satellites that help us navigate, communicate, and understand our planet and the universe, the use of liquid-fueled rockets has been key to humanity’s use and exploration of space. Today marks 100 years since the first successful…
AI is nearly exclusively designed by men – here’s how to fix it
From left to right: Rachel Coldicutt, David Leslie, Rumman Chowdhury, Noura Al Moubayed and Wendy Hall Royal Society/Debbie Rowe It’s day two of the Women and the future of science conference at the Royal Society in London, but I’m finding it increasingly hard to concentrate on the speakers because my…
Mother shares haunting picture of daughter, 19, in hospital with meningitis after going to nightclub to celebrate birthday
Laying in a hospital bed, looking weak and attached to wires, this is one of the teenage meningitis victims – as her anguished mother told how she feared she was going to die. Casey Marlow, 19, was rushed to hospital a few days after her and her friends spent the…
Cañon Fiord’s Whirling Waters – NASA Science
For most of the year, ice blankets the waterways of the northern Canadian Arctic Archipelago. But during the brief summer melt season, the stark white and gray landscape transforms into a colorful, dynamic environment. On a particularly striking day in 2022, sediment plumes and fractured sea ice traced swirling eddies…
A 100-year-old theory might explain what’s wrong with quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics is both the most powerful theory physicists have ever devised and the most baffling. On the one hand, countless experiments have confirmed its predictions; the theory undergirds modern technology and enables the electronic devices we use every day. On the other hand, quantum mechanics describes an underlying reality…
Trump’s options for reopening the Strait of Hormuz from boots on the ground to naval escorts and holding Iranian ‘oil island’ to ransom as tank blockade continues
Iran has retaliated against the joint US-Israeli attacks by effectively shutting down one of the world’s most important waterways, the Strait of Hormuz. The crucial strait, a passageway between the Persian and Oman gulfs, is a channel for 20 per cent of the world’s oil and gas, as well as…
Pat McFadden pleads with Labour MPs to back ‘radical’ action to turn Britain’s welfare state into a ‘working state’ as he warns it’s ‘too easy’ for people to be signed off with sickness benefits
Labour MPs were today urged to support ‘radical’ reforms to turn Britain’s welfare state into a ‘working state’ amid growing alarm at the UK’s ballooning benefits bill. Pat McFadden, the Work and Pensions Secretary, told his party it is ‘not just here to keep things ticking over’ following its 2024…
NESC Develops Method for Estimating Risk When Reducing NDE
Download PDF: NESC Develops Method for Estimating Risk When Reducing NDE Performing nondestructive evaluation (NDE) can have both cost and schedule impacts, leading some to question whether descoping (i.e., reducing or eliminating) NDE inspections on certain spaceflight hardware could be possible. However, this approach would be counter to NASA’s Technical Standard…
The ancient Goths were an ethnically diverse group
An artist’s impression of how Visigoth warriors may have looked in the 5th century The Creative Assembly (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) The Goths were a multi-ethnic society, according to a study of DNA from Gothic graves. The people buried there had ancestry from places as far afield as Scandinavia, modern-day Turkey…