A new particle accelerator four times bigger than the Large Hadron Collider is a step closer after CERN agreed to back the £19 billion (€21bn) project. The Future Circle Collider (FCC) will have a 62 mile (100km) circumference and be six times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The next-generation particle-smashing machine will … Read more
The Kepler mission has spotted thousands of exoplanets since 2014, with 30 planets less than twice the size of Earth now known to orbit within the habitable zones of their stars. Launched from Cape Canaveral on March 7th 2009, the Kepler telescope has helped in the search for planets outside of the solar system. It … Read more
£13 BILLION subsidy for biomass power plants ‘should be reviewed’ as burning wood pellets releases more carbon dioxide per unit of electricity than coal, think-tank reveals Supporters claim biomass power is carbon-neutral as burned trees are replanted But carbon released by burning wood may not be reabsorbed for centuries Climate change think-tank Ember has called … Read more
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A galaxy far, far away! NASA’s New Horizons travels 4.3 billion miles to perform the first interstellar ‘parallax’ experiment that shows stars are positioned differently in space than when viewed from Earth NASA’s New Horizons performed the first interstellar ‘parallax’ experiment It snapped images 4.3 billion miles from Earth of Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359 Due … Read more
Google faces $5 BILLION lawsuit for ‘illegally invading the privacy of millions of users’ by ‘tracking their internet use through incognito mode’ Google has been hit with a class action suit filed in San Jose, California The law suit alleges Google continued to collect data during ‘incognito’ mode Google says they clearly state that some … Read more
Glaxosmithkline pledges 1 billion doses of special chemical to improve effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 28 May 2020 | Updated: 22:12 BST, 28 May 2020 Glaxosmithkline has delivered a major boost in the search for Covid-19 vaccines, vowing to pump out one billion doses of a … Read more
Matt Hancock announces the UK is to ‘stockpile’ protective gowns, masks and gloves as domestic firms sign deals to provide two BILLION items of PPE for the Government and the NHS Health Secretary said that authoritieds no longer struggling with demand Will now build up stocks against future outbreaks Domestic deals to produce two billion items … Read more
Astronomers capture image of super-rare galaxy 11 billion light-years away from Earth that looks like a ‘cosmic ring of fire’ Star formation has been named R5519 and provides snapshot of early universe Galaxy has a hole in its centre that is two billion times the sun-Earth distance Discovery was announced in the journal Nature Astronomy … Read more
Ant and Dec share a light-hearted clip as they joke about signing more than seven BILLION copies of their new book in one sitting By Raven Saunt For Mailonline Published: 17:58 BST, 23 May 2020 | Updated: 18:16 BST, 23 May 2020 They recently joined a host of British stars as part of a new … Read more