Новости за 28.06.2024

Charles Q. Choi, IEEE Spectrum

NASA has new plans to launch a tiny satellite mimicking a star into space. The goal of the laser-carrying, bread-box-size orbiter is to calibrate telescopes by...

The focus on key sectors like banking, IT, and FMCG is expected to sustain positive trends, with potential for Nifty to test 24,500 while finding support near 23,600

Former president Donald Trump during Thursday night's presidential debate boasted of killing "the two greatest terrorists, biggest terrorists anywhere in the world." After President Joe Biden referenced the deadly shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola in 2019, saying a terrorist "came along and killed three under [Trump's] administration," Trump countered by highlighting the deaths of […]

Tom Howarth, Sci Focus

A team of physicists from the University of California, Berkeley, has developed an unprecedentedly precise instrument designed to hunt for dark energy, the elusive...

Ethan Siegel, Big Think

Most of us, in our day to day lives, experience time as something that's fixed: always ticking by, in the forward direction, at an easily measurable rate that all...

Jennifer Nalewicki, Live Sci

Ancient Egyptian scribes worked in cramped and hunched over positions that were so extreme, it may have led to them developing

Sam Woolfe, iai

We think the Big Bang was the beginning of time and space itself. But there are problems with this story. The energy of empty space - known as the cosmological constant -...

University of Cambridge

Researchers led by the University of Cambridge used artificial intelligence techniques to map slush on Antarctic ice shelves, and found that 57% of all meltwater is...

Duke

Researchers have discovered a clue in Italian limestone that helps explain a mass extinction of marine life millions of years ago, and may provide warnings about how oxygen depletion...

University of Bristol

Ammonites were not in decline before their extinction, scientists have found.

University of Florida

In good news for our egos, both men and women were pretty accurate at rating their own physical attractiveness, according to a new study. Couples also tended to be...

Former President Trump and President Biden both accused each other of lying during the first general election presidential debate of 2024 Thursday. The exchange came after Biden accused Trump of wanting to cut benefits that Americans receive from Social Security and Medicare, which Trump has denied. “I’ve dealt with politicians all my life. I’ve been...

BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The following are the latest updates on energy and oil prices provided by London Stock Exchange Group at 0200 GMT, June 28.

BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The following are the latest updates on agriculture prices provided by London Stock Exchange Group at 0200 GMT, June 28.

BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhua) -- The following are the latest updates on metals prices provided by London Stock Exchange Group at 0200 GMT, June 28.

Celebrities are calling out CNN debate moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, saying that they didn’t actually do their job as moderators. Donald Trump and Joe Biden faced off in the presidential debate on Thursday night (June 27) and people are frustrated with how it went. Celebs including Barbra Streisand and Sophia Bush believe that [...]

WASHINGTON, June 27 (Xinhua) -- The ongoing expansion of trade restrictions and insufficient progress in addressing the vulnerabilities highlighted by the 2023 bank failures both pose important downside risks for the U.S. economy, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Thursday.

The world's largest lithium producers told a major industry conference this week they remain bullish on long-term demand for the electric vehicle battery metal despite the recent price plunge that has forced layoffs and curtailed expansions. Once a niche metal used primarily in ceramics and pharmaceuticals, lithium demand has grown rapidly over the past decade. But oversupply from China and a softening of aggressive EV adoption rates has dragged lithium prices down more than 80% in the last year.

The two men traded barbs on a host of issues as they each sought to shake up what opinion polls show has been a virtually tied race for months.

China suspended imports of Vietnamese durians from 33 sources this month, in a move suggesting some growers may have cut corners to quickly enter its vast, competitive market - and providing an opening for a slew of eager competitors to step in.

President Biden and former President Donald Trump each warned that World War III would begin if the other man is elected in November.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wasn't with his better-known rivals when they debated in Atlanta. But Kennedy responded in real time to the same questions that were posed to Biden and Trump in an unusual livestream on the social platform X. Host John Stossell kept Kennedy’s answers to the same strict time constraints imposed on the other candidates. Standing alone on a stage in Los Angeles, Kennedy opened his event dubbed The Real Debate by accusing CNN, host of the main contest... Читать дальше...

They’re currently set to select twice during Friday’s first round with picks Nos. 3 and 31 overall, then make seven Saturday picks, five of which will be in Rounds 2 and 3.