The Pentagon has successfully tested a hypersonic glide body capable of flying five times faster than the speed of sound. The test was conducted at the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii Thursday night where it traveled at hypersonic speeds and landed on ‘a designated impact point.’ Known as the Common-Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB), … Read more
ALABAMA Alabama health officials on Tuesday ordered the closure of day cares, senior centers and on-site restaurant dining in six counties to contain the coronavirus outbreak. The order from the Alabama Department of Public Health applies to Jefferson County, which has the highest number of cases, and the surrounding counties of Tuscaloosa, Walker, Blount, St. … Read more
Skincredible! Researchers create an electronic bandage that helps wounds heal FOUR TIMES faster E-band was wrapped around the chests of rats with a cut on their backs When they breathed, a positively and negatively charged layer rubbed together Generated an electric field that encouraged the influx of skin-healing cells By Alexandra Thompson Senior Health Reporter … Read more
Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice SIX TIMES FASTER than in the 1990s with sea levels set to rise 6.6 inches by 2100 — putting 400 million people at flood risk — if global warming goes unchecked Researchers combined ice sheet surveys with data from 11 satellite missions Antarctica and Greenland lost 6.4 trillion tonnes of … Read more
If you’re finding your Linux system performance not quite up to par, enable zRAM for a more efficient swap system. Image: Jack Wallen If you’ve dealt with Linux long enough, you are fully aware of swap. If you’re relatively new to Linux, this is what you need to understand about a swap partition: The swap … Read more