Home
Right now, the crews on board the International Space Station consist of three people. But by late next year, the crew size will grow to six. That means more food, more water and ultimately more waste.
3 Stars
0 Comments
She is a tough character in perhaps the toughest of all Olympic sports, but as she stood on the bank of the Guadalquivir river in Seville, trying to take in what she had just achieved, Natalie du Toit could not contain her emotion.
It is a disaster still shrouded in secrecy. The world is growing accustomed to seeing images of devastation, from earthquakes or calamitous storms, as they unfold. Here the military dictatorship continues to cordon off the areas worst hit by Cyclone...
Mahatma Gandhi needs no long introduction. Everyone knows about the man who lead the Indian people to independence from British rule in 1947.
So let’s just move on to some of my favourite tips from Mahatma Gandhi.
Microsoft has released the first free public beta of its WorldWide Telescope, the company’s new stargazing application. WorldWide Telescope offers high-res images of the night sky from sources like the Hubble Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray...
A UN-backed peace conference on resolving Somalia’s crisis has opened in neighbouring Djibouti.
Representatives from the government and Islamist opposition are attending but are refusing to talk directly.
“I call on them to think of the...
To sample the youthful sounds of Istanbul, snake down a narrow street behind Tunel square until you find Badehane. For years, this one-room corner café (General Yazgan Sokak 1D; 90-212-249-0550) in the buzzing night life district of Beyoglu has been a...
International scientists have used flowing water to simulate a black hole, testing Stephen Hawking’s theory that black holes are not black after all.
The researchers, led by Professor Ulf Leonhardt at the University of St Andrews and Dr Germain...
A woman who risked her life saving 2,500 Jewish children from the gas chambers died yesterday aged 98.
A new study of possible links between climate and geophysics on Earth and similar planets finds that prolonged heating of the atmosphere can shut down plate tectonics and cause a planet’s crust to become locked in place.
RSS
