Author: Lamia Yang

Several thousand shipwrecked Lego toys continue to wash up on Cornish beaches 25 years after falling overboard. The Tokio Express ship had indeed overturned its cargo after colliding with a rogue wave. In 1997, a rogue wave hit the Tokio Express head-on about 20 miles off the west coast of Cornwall. The freighter, coming from […]

It is practically impossible to know how many viruses live in the world, as well as their individual characteristics. However, an international group of researchers discovered 132 thousand new types of RNA viruses. That is, of the same type as SARS-CoV-2, responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic. Most viruses do not pose a risk to human […]

A group of researchers from the Institute of Industrial Science of the University of Tokyo (Japan) has developed a new model capable of modeling and predicting episodes of red snow, a surprising phenomenon that occurs in regions with polar or alpine climates. during the melting season. The results were published on January 6 in the […]

A few weeks after COP26, which took place in Glasgow, China announced record coal production for 2021. While the current emergency linked to climate change should logically sign the end of coal, this fossil fuel does not is thus not ready to disappear. An increase of 4.7% compared to 2020 The recent COP26 in Glasgow […]

The mummy of Pharaoh Amenhotep I, who ruled Egypt more than three millennia ago, recently passed on the scanner table. Analyzes show the ruler looked like his father and died aged around 35. His mummy was also lovingly restored some five centuries after his death in an attempt to “heal” the wounds inflicted by grave […]

This Tuesday, January 4, NASA operators successfully closed the process of releasing the sun visor of the James Webb Telescope. It was the most complex and delicate operation of the observatory’s long deployment phase. The Mission Team can now move on to the next important item on their to-do list: deploying the secondary and primary […]

NASA recently turned to religious thinkers to help assess and understand the existential challenge humanity could face if we found out about alien life. Are we alone in the universe ? This is probably one of the biggest questions in the history of mankind. So far, to our knowledge, Earth is an exception, but there […]

SpaceX may soon launch the largest rocket in the history of mankind. If this is only a first orbital test flight for the time being, we know about this interplanetary and fully reusable spacecraft designed to take astronauts to the Moon and Mars. However, SpaceX boss Elon Musk has even bigger ambitions. Indeed, this spacecraft […]