Neil Armstrong’s Moon Landing bag found in a closet by his widow
Carol Armstrong, the widow of the late Neil Armstrong, the first human to set foot on the Moon, found a Lunar Landing bag, known...
Termites may halt the expansion of deserts in Africa, Asia and S. America
Deserts in Africa, South America and Asia are expanding, and so far nothing has managed to halt their spread, except for perhaps termites, says...
Lewis Pugh to swim in freezing Antarctic in just Speedos in Ross Sea conservation...
Lewis Pugh, a maritime lawyer from London, plans to do five successive one kilometer swims in the Antarctic, where the water temperature will be...
Bletchley Park Codebreakers talk about their WWII work
Six women who worked as Codebreakers at Bletchley Park during World War II - The Debs of Bletchley Park - who were part of...
Alan Turing codebreaking notes used to stop draughts in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park
Top-secret documents belonging to Alan Turing, best-known for helping decipher the code created by German Enigma machines in World War II, have been found...
Iceland’s land is rising 1.4 inches annually due to climate change
Iceland’s land is rising, by 1.4 inches each year in many parts of the country, as glaciers melt and the crust below and nearby...
How do you unboil an egg? You untangle the proteins and let them refold
American and Australian scientists have worked out how to unboil an egg, specifically the egg white. You pull apart tangled proteins and allow them...
Our earliest primate ancestor lived in trees and looked like shrews
When we think of our earliest primate ancestors we do not think of tree-dwelling creatures that looked like squirrels or shrews and weighed less...
Mars helicopter being tested at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is testing a Mars helicopter that would fly around the Red Planet, scouting at low altitude and helping the...
Martian helicopter drone will scout ahead of ground-bound rover
NASA believes a helicopter drone flying around as a scout for the ground-bound rover would help the six-wheeled vehicle work more effectively. According to...