It's hard to believe that it's already been almost nine months since SpaceX launched its Falcon Heavy rocket, sending a test payload into Sun-centric orbit, but here we are. Or the tweets are just Musk being faux-modest about what his company's accomplished. Tesla's expansion plans include India, as well as Africa and South America. [Full Article...]
Ozone is a colourless combination of three oxygen atoms kilometres above Earth's surface, it shields us from ultraviolet rays which cause skin cancer, crop damage and other problems. The report also said it was the first time the hole in the ozone layer had shrunk in both size and depth and size since 2000. As a result, in 1985 a gaping hole in the ozone over the South Pole was discovered. [Full Article...]
Now, a new study done in the Western Ghats has found that wind farms in biodiversity-rich areas can have deeper ecological consequences beyond already known impacts. Wind farms arrived in Chalkewadi nearly 20 years ago and Professor Maria Thaker (Bengaluru's Indian Institute of Science) and her team studied their impact on the local ecosystem between 2012 and 2014, said a report in The Hindu. [Full Article...]
While NASA's photo of the day sheds light on a "flying saucer's" crash-landing in a Utah desert from back in 2004, it's important to note that "no space aliens were involved" in this close encounter. This included unprecedented details about the composition of the Sun and the elemental differences between the star and the inner planets, as well as providing insights into the abundance of certain e... [Full Article...]
Harvard researchers have now said it "may be a fully operational probe sent intentionally to Earth's vicinity by an alien civilisation". The team termed the possible propulsion system a "lightsail of artificial origin". So we wrote this paper suggesting this explanation", Loeb told the Boston Globe. "Not 'where is the lack of evidence so that I can fit in any hypothesis that I like?" Anot... [Full Article...]
The Hubble telescope was launched on April 24, 1990, via the space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a formation of galaxies that looks like a smiling face, said the United States space agency NASA. [Full Article...]
The Sun newspaper reported Tuesday that Raab and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt would use the cabinet meeting to warn that any deal with the European Union that traps Britain within the bloc's orbit would never be approved by MPs. The Downing Street spokesman said the cabinet "needs more time" to consider mechanisms to ensure Britain can not be bound to the EU. Mr Gauke told a Channel 4 Brex... [Full Article...]
While Tesla chose China, not India, as the venue for its first production facility outside of California, Musk's latest tweets are nonetheless interesting for keen Tesla-watchers in India. "Not many products really do make us happier". It didn't hit the 5,000-a-week target until June 2018. The filing adds that Tesla is cooperating with a Justice Department request for information about Model 3... [Full Article...]