A new campaign called “Badvertising” is demanding an immediate end to adverts for large polluting cars. It says the government should clamp down on sports utility vehicle (SUV) car adverts in the way it curbed smoking ads. A car industry spokesperson said modern SUVs are the cleanest in history, and […]
Science & Technology
WASHINGTON: America’s first crewed spaceship to fly to the International Space Station in nearly a decade returned safely to Earth on Sunday (Aug 2), splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The successful mission, carried out jointly by SpaceX and NASA, demonstrated that the United States has the capacity once […]
Official figures from Brazil have shown a big increase in the number of fires in the Amazon region in July compared with the same month last year. Satellite images compiled by Brazil’s National Space Agency revealed there were 6,803 – a rise of 28%. President Jair Bolsonaro has encouraged agricultural […]
WASHINGTON: The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station on Saturday (Aug 1) with two US astronauts on board, beginning their journey back to Earth despite a storm threatening Florida. NASA footage showed the capsule drifting slowly away from the ISS in the darkness of space, closing […]
The two NASA astronauts who rode to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon are due to return on Sunday (Aug 2) after a two-month voyage that marked NASA’s first crewed mission from home soil in nine years. WASHINGTON: The two NASA astronauts who rode to the International […]
ABU DHABI: The oil-rich United Arab Emirates on Saturday (Aug 1) announced the startup of its Barakah nuclear power plant, a first for the Arab world. “UAE first nuclear reactor at the Barakah Nuclear Energy Plant has achieved first criticality and successfully started up,” tweeted Hamad Alkaabi, the country’s representative […]
A 17-year-old Florida boy masterminded the hacking of celebrity accounts on Twitter Inc, including those of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, officials said on Friday. REUTERS: A 17-year-old Florida boy masterminded the hacking of celebrity accounts on Twitter Inc, including those of Democratic presidential […]
WASHINGTON: A 17-year-old Florida boy masterminded the hacking of celebrity accounts on Twitter Inc, including those of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, officials said on Friday (Jul 31). A 19-year-old British man and a 22-year-old man in Orlando, Florida were also charged under US […]
Silicon Valley’s value is to be celebrated, but we shouldn’t turn a blind eye to its problems, says an observer. MEDFORD, Massachusetts: Big tech is back in the spotlight. The chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google testified before US Congress on Jul 29 to defend their market dominance […]
German manufacturer OHB-System has signed a €445m (£400m) contract to begin construction of a satellite network to monitor carbon dioxide. The CO2M constellation will consist in the first instance of two spacecraft, but there is an option for a third. The platforms will track the greenhouse gas across the globe, […]