At least 69 people have died and many more are missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Mauritania, coastguards in the north-west African country have said. Seventeen people have been rescued and a search is continuing for other passengers who were aboard the dugout canoe that was heading towards Spain’s Canary Islands. According…
MIT’s robot bee – released by the researchers In 2021, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) tried to build a robot pollinator based on the anatomy of bees. Bees’ flight capabilities are quite sophisticated, but strangely, the MIT roboticists ended up building a robot that sported 8 wings and 4 bodies. Now, a…
Metro leads with the news that a chickenpox vaccine is going to be given to children as part of routine GP appointments from next year. The paper notes that no childhood vaccine in the England is currently hitting its 95% uptake target, reporting that the chickenpox vaccine both helps prevent children developing severe symptoms and…
The Brunel Solar team from the Netherlands celebrates victory in Adelaide – credit, Charlie Bliss, Tim Hanley, Riley Williams, Julian Modra, Michael Hurren & Reece Calvert from Swift Hound. At the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, innovators and motorsport experts competed to race solar-powered cars 2,000 miles across the Australian Outback. Reminiscent of the 24 Hours…
A Metropolitan Police volunteer officer has been found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a child. James Bubb, who now identifies as a woman named Gwyn Samuels, groomed one of his two victims online before sexually assaulting her when she was just 12 years old. The 27-year-old defendant was also found guilty of raping a…
Ed Jackson (right) stands atop the summit of Tien Shan – credit SWNS A retired rugby star turned quadriplegic has made an unbelievable recovery from a broken neck to reach the peak of a previously unclimbed mountain in Asia. Ed Jackson became the first person to successfully ascend the unnamed, 15,485-foot-high peak in the Tien…
Watch: How the Catholic school shooting unfolded in Minneapolis Two children have been killed and 17 people injured after a shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis. The attack happened after 08:00 local time (14:00 BST) at Annunciation Church, where children had been attending a worship service during their first week of school. The FBI…
A polish drone used for mosquito control in Wroclaw – credit, UMW, released Pixabay Reprinted with permission from World at Large In Ghana, Kenya, Japan, Poland and probably other countries as well, it’s now the mosquitos who fear the sound of buzzing—from drones built to detect and destroy them. Economies of scale and widespread adoption…
The moment before a teenage girl stabs teachers at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman A teenage girl who stabbed two teachers and a pupil last year had previously been found with a knife, BB gun and war memorabilia in her school bag, a review has found. The girl, who cannot be named due to her age, was…
credit – Evelina Sabaliauskaite and Lukas Gruseckas, retrieved from Facebook In Lithuania, Welsh Corgi owners from around Europe came to celebrate the breed “and life in general” at the annual Corgi Race. Held in Vilnius for the fifth time, the Corgi Race is about as joyful an event as one could hope to see. The…
