Ministers of European Union countries are discussing how to lessen their dependence on energy supplies from Russia as a result of its invasion of Ukraine.
Germany has acknowledged EU nations are still divided on a possible Russian energy embargo, the BBC reports. The energy minister says his country could handle an oil ban by the end of the year, but not a ban on gas.
Hungary has reiterated that it opposes a ban on either fuel.
Germany...
On April 27 on the straight of the Space Shuttle airstrip at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, the car created by the Politecnico di Milano-PoliMOVE broke the world speed record for a fully autonomous car on a straight (the previous record held by Roborace was 282.42 kph). The Politecnico Team had already achieved the record on April 26 but decided to raise the bar and improve its performance, Tech Xplore reports.
The speed of 309.3 kph...
By Scarlett Howard, Adrian Dyer, Andrew Greentree and Jair Garcia, The Conversation
"Two, four, six, eight; bog in, don't wait."
As children, we learn numbers can either be even or odd. And there are many ways to categorize numbers as even or odd.
We may memorize the rule that numbers ending in 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9 are odd while numbers ending in 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8 are even. Or we may divide a number...
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have detected two rocky alien worlds orbiting a nearby M dwarf star known as HD 260655. The newly found exoplanets are larger and at least two times more massive than the Earth, writes Tomasz Nowakowski of Phys.org.
TESS is conducting a survey of about 200,000 of the brightest stars near the sun with the aim of searching for transiting exoplanets. So far, it has identified over 5,600 candidate exoplanets...
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has sold roughly US$8.5 billion worth of shares in the electric car maker, just days after he agreed to buy Twitter.
The sale has led to speculation that it will help to finance his planned $44-billion buyout of the social media platform, the BBC reports.
Twitter's board agreed on Monday to accept a takeover offer from Musk.
Shares in Tesla fell sharply earlier this week, amid speculation that Musk would sell part...
A new genetic study involving more than 2,000 dogs and 200,000 survey answers from dog owners has revealed that a dog's breed is a poor predictor of behaviour on its own, reports Phys.org.
The first-of-its-kind, peer-reviewed study – conducted by professors, students, and researchers at University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School – is set to appear this month in the journal Science.
The major findings go against the popular beliefs that breed plays a role in how aggressive,...
Facebook stopped losing users as 2022 got under way, even as its owner reported its slowest revenue growth in a decade.
The number of daily active Facebook users grew to 1.96 billion in the first three months of the year, parent company Meta reported on Wednesday.
That marked a turnaround from last year, when the social network reported a decline in users for the first time. The drop wiped billions from the firm's market value, the BBC...
The high efficiency, light weight and flexibility of the latest solar cell technology means photovoltaics could provide all the power needed for an extended mission to Mars, or even a permanent settlement there, according to a new analysis by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley.
Most scientists and engineers who have thought about the logistics of living on the surface of the Red Planet have assumed that nuclear power is the best alternative, in large part...
The war in Ukraine is set to cause the "largest commodity shock" since the 1970s, the World Bank has warned.
In a new forecast, it said disruption caused by the conflict would contribute to huge price rises for goods ranging from natural gas to wheat and cotton.
The increase in prices "is starting to have very large economic and humanitarian effects," senior economist Peter Nagle, a co-author of the report, told the BBC.
"Households across the world...
In recent years, the golden word in precious metals has been palladium.
A crucial component in automobile catalytic converters and in emerging hydrogen fuel cell technology, the demand for this rare silvery white transition metal continues to outstrip supply, driving its price per ounce far above gold and silver.
Palladium and other rare, costly precious metals such as platinum, iridium, and ruthenium, are also crucial in chemical transformations, specifically transition metal catalysis, which has become an...
