Новости за 21.06.2024

Japan spent a record ¥9.8 trillion ($62 billion) earlier this year to prop up the yen.

Forwards (21) Allan Alaalatoa (#896), West Harbour Juniors) Angus Blyth (uncapped, Casuarina Beach Rugby Club) Charlie Cale (uncapped, Beecroft Junior Rugby Club) Matt Faessler (#969, USQ Saints) Nick Frost (#953, Hornsby Lions) Langi Gleeson (#960, Harbord Harlequins) Alex Hodgman...

GIG Mobility and Travelstart Nigeria have partnered to launch integrated booking services for air and road travel, enabling passengers to buy air and bus tickets on a single platform. While GIGM is a land transport company, Travelstart Nigeria deals in the aviation business. The two firms announced their alliance at a press conference in Lagos

US schools that lack or have limited air conditioning are letting students out of class during heatwaves.

India defeated Afghanistan by 47 runs in the T20 World Cup Super Eights match. Jasprit Bumrah's outstanding performance led to Afghanistan being bowled out for 134 while chasing 182. Former cricketer Mohammad Kaif praised Bumrah's skills and impact on the game. On a slow-paced Barbados wicket, Bumrah took three wickets for just seven runs in his four-over spell.

Objects may have been used for sewing tough fabrics—or possibly as ornaments

Matt Reynolds, Wired

In 1996 the United States hit peak potato. Americans were eating 64 pounds of the vegetables each year—more than at any point since modern records began in 1970. A...

Former President Donald Trump is raising his debate expectations for President Joe Biden after spending months describing him as a weak, mentally unfit leader.

Long build up is seen in the Bank Nifty Futures, where Open Interest rose by 7 per cent(Prov) with Nifty rising by 0.75 per cent

I wrote about the passing of the great Willie Mays yesterday. This paper asked me to do that in the name of a personal relationship I had with the man, and because it all seemed to cry for an immediate response.

Isaac Schultz, Gizmodo

In two dimensions, it's the Reuleaux triangle: an equilateral triangle with curved arcs connecting each corner, creating a shape with a constant width but a smaller...

Hannah Devlin, The Guardian

George Murray Levick, an explorer with the Scott Antarctic expedition, spent the summer of 1911-12 taking detailed notes on the breeding cycle of Adélie...

Jess Thomson, Newsweek

While being attractive can have its perks, better-looking people may be more likely to develop problems with alcohol.

Stuart Vyse, Skeptical Inquirer

It began at lunch with a professor in the Physics Department. I mentioned that I'd just taught a lesson about the moon illusion—the apparent larger size of...

Daniel Clery, Science Magazine

Living on one of the seven Earth-size planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system would be strange indeed. Looming ominously in the sky is an enormous red star, prone to...

The Oilers center has sparked two consecutive wins as the Florida Panthers on Friday will try for a third time to win the NHL championship

Chris Kirkland, The Conversation

Our planet was born around 4.5 billion years ago. To understand this mind-bendingly long history, we need to study rocks and the minerals they are made...

Max G. Levy, Sequencer

Ferris Jabr's sense of the world changed when he learned about rain in the Amazon. It's no surprise that rain and the world's most voluminous river feeds the world's...

Aylin Woodward, WSJ

In the universe of Frank Herbert's

Ethan Siegel, Big Think

When you think about the idea of time travel, you likely think about the fantastic possibility of going backward in time to an event in the past, rather than our...

Andrey Feldman, Live Sci

A peculiar cluster of stars swirling around the violent center of the

Joanne Silberner, Undark

Last June, an anti-noise advocacy group, Quiet Communities, sued the Environmental Protection Agency for

The treatment plant is now $3 billion over budget, or about five times its original price tag.