Sci-tech
'Shrinkflation': Why your food is getting smaller
Bread and breakfast cereals are the most likely to be affected by shrinkflation, whereby a product shrinks in size but its price doesn't. Among bread and cereals it found 36 cases of shrinkflation. "Our updated analysis of this subject indicates". "There was no trend in the frequency of size changes over this period, which included the European Union referendum", the statistics agency conclude... [Full Article...]
Miss the lunar eclipse overnight? Here it is in 60 seconds
The moon slips into Earth's dark umbral shadow during a total lunar eclipse over Angel de la Independencia in Mexico City on January 20, 2019. The next full lunar eclipse won't be seen again until May 2021. According to The Weather Network, since the moon would be "very near perigee - its closest distance to Earth", the result was a Super Blood Wolf Moon Total Lunar Eclipse. [Full Article...]
Found the missing link of human evolution
That stroke of luck eventually had led that to this week's finding which was later on mentioned in the journals. A new study broke ground this week by saying the two-million-year-old partial skeletons are from a new species called Australopithecus sediba that walked upright but spent time in trees-a transition between the ape-like genus Australopithecus and the genus Homo that apparent... [Full Article...]
China and NASA Decides to Collaborate on Moon Mission
Chinese space agency announced earlier that a tiny plant has grown in a special container inside the Chang'e-4 spacecraft , marking it the first plant to ever grow on moon . NASA provided the planned orbit path of LRO to China , but it turned out the spacecraft was not in the right place at the right time. It could even help provide a blueprint for growing resources during a future moon co... [Full Article...]
Climate change a national security issue: Pentagon
The Department of Defense (DoD) released a report yesterday examining the risks of climate change to a sample of 79 US military sites. Or this part on flooding: Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia has seen the sea level rise 14 inches since 1930. [Full Article...]
Look to the sky to see a blood red supermoon
Total lunar eclipses , by contrast, are visible over an entire hemisphere of Earth. The Sunday spectacular is the only full lunar eclipse that will take place this year. The facility, located southwest of Calgary, will be holding a special public viewing event from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. Only two other lunar eclipses have done that, in 1968 and 2000. [Full Article...]
Australia Launches Blockchain Platform For Goods Tracking
Launched by environmental group WWF and investment firm BCG Digital Ventures , OpenSC opensc.com is a website that harnesses blockchain technology to allow users to scan a QR code on a product or menu that reveals the full history and supply chain before they buy. [Full Article...]
Hitachi scraps Wylfa Newydd nuclear plant
Hitachi was struggling to find other investors to join it in the project, and had called on the government to step in to provide support. Hitachi has said it will take a ¥300 billion (£2.14bn) hit from the cancellation and expects around 300 job losses at its United Kingdom subsidiary Horizon Nuclear Power. [Full Article...]