Defense Delivered’s sprinklers in action – credit, retrieved from Defense Delivered A pair of Colorado innovators have designed an autonomous sprinkler system to hose down a home if it detects an approaching wildfire. With both men having experienced the threat of wildfires first hand, each said they were driven to try and do something about…
Tessa Wongin Kuala Lumpur AFP via Getty Images US President Donald Trump and Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim oversaw the signing ceremony on Sunday As US President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One in Kuala Lumpur, it was at the end of a busy 24 hours that, by the White House’s account, included a flurry of…
62 years ago today, one man in the right place, at the right time, did the right thing, saving the world from probably nuclear war. Vasily Arkhipov is known as the “man who saved the world,” during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis when he stood down the other two officers aboard the Soviet submarine B-59…
A woman in her 20s has been raped in what police have called a racially aggravated attack. West Midlands Police were called to the Park Hall area of Walsall at about 19:15 BST on Saturday, and said the woman had been attacked at a nearby property by a man she did not know. The attacker…
80-year-old Natalie Grabow becomes oldest female finisher in triathlon competition – Credit: Ironman With every step toward the finish line, Natalie Grabow was proving it’s never too late to get started. Earlier this month, the 80-year-old grandmother from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, became the oldest woman to ever finish the punishing Ironman World Championship triathlon…
Reuters Donald Trump arrives in Kuala Lumpur as he kicks off a tour of Asia. US President Donald Trump has arrived in Asia for a whirlwind week of diplomacy, which includes a much-anticipated meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. Top of the agenda will be trade – an area where tensions between the world’s…
200 years ago today, the Erie Canal opened a passageway from New York to the Great Lakes. The canal was built to create a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Midwestern US and took 8 years to construct the 36 locks which overcame a total elevation differential of about 565 feet (172 m).…
Catherine Connolly: “I will be an inclusive president for all” Catherine Connolly has been elected as the president of Ireland after a landslide victory. She has become the 10th president of the Republic of Ireland after defeating Fine Gael’s Heather Humphreys, who had already conceded to her rival. The result, long clear from early tallies,…
by Getty Images For Unsplash+ Cutting your couch time by 30 minutes every day would give you an energy boost by improving metabolism, according to new research. It shows that reducing the time you’re seated can improve your body’s ability to utilize fats and carbohydrates for energy production. Study author Dr. Taru Garthwaite explained that…
BBC Let there be light – a therapeutic lamp can counter the darkness indoors on short days As the clocks go back and the darkness draws in, spare a thought for those living with the longest nights in the UK. In the depths of winter, Scotland’s northern isles will see barely six hours of daylight…
