Students at a preparatory school are being given old-fashioned ‘brick’ phones as smartphones become increasingly restrictive. Brighton College Prep School in London’s posh Kensington and Chelsea district is to give pupils aged 10 and up a basic Nokia phone, which will only allow them to receive text messages and calls. The £30,000-a-year school will become … Read more
Archaeologists are puzzled by the discovery of dozens of Bronze and Iron Age child graves in southern Norway. The graves, each marked by circles of precisely placed stones, were found last year by a team from the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History near Fredrikstad, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Oslo, close to the … Read more
By Ella Nun A chef who struggled to control himself when it came to food lost 33 pounds in 16 months by eating just one meal a day. Simon Parnell, from St Margaret’s, between Dover and Deal, weighed 27kg at his heaviest and struggled to fit into a size 8XL. Simon Parnell has lost 15 … Read more
A chef who struggled to control himself when it came to food lost 30 pounds in 16 months by eating just one meal a day. Simon Parnell, 42, tipped the scales at 35 stone at his heaviest and struggled to get down to size 8XL. He had been binging on crisps, pastries and fizzy drinks, … Read more
Tens of thousands of meteorites have been found on Earth, but the vast majority remain shrouded in mystery. These rocks obviously come from space, but it’s difficult to determine their exact origins, in the solar system or even beyond, without knowing their flight paths. But now researchers believe they have linked a meteorite discovered decades … Read more
A double quasar has been discovered moving towards a major merger, lighting the ‘cosmic dawn’ just 900 million years after the Big Bang. They are the first quasar few spotted so far back in cosmic time. Quasars grow quickly supermassive black holes in the cores of hyperactive galaxies. Streams of gas are forced down the … Read more
Edward C. Stone, who opened a window to the farthest reaches of the solar system while serving as chief scientist of NASA’s Voyager mission, which oversaw a pair of spindly, plutonium-powered spacecraft that continue to operate billions of miles from Earth, died in June 9 at his home in Pasadena, California. He was 88. His … Read more
Edward C. Stone, the visionary physicist who sent NASA’s Voyager spacecraft to run rings around our solar system’s outer planets and, for the first time, go further to unravel interstellar mysteries, died Sunday at his home in Pasadena, California . 88. His death was confirmed by his daughter Susan C. Stone. Inspired by the launch … Read more
Humanity has lost an interstellar pioneer. Ed Stone, who was a project scientist for NASA’s groundbreaking Voyager mission from 1972 to 2022, died on Sunday (June 9) at the age of 88. “Ed Stone was a pioneer who dared mighty things in space. He was a dear friend to all who knew him, and a … Read more
Ed Stone, the scientist who spent 50 years leading NASA’s groundbreaking Voyager mission to the outer planets and led the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when it landed its first rover on Mars, died Tuesday. He was 88. A physicist who started on the ground floor of space exploration, Stone played a leading role in NASA missions … Read more