Last month, an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter from the U.S. Marine Corps landed on the Japanese aircraft carrier Izumo. The occasion marked 76 years since Japan last operated an aircraft carrier. By 2030, Japan will run at least two carriers, all with American assistance. With a remarkable flight that resurrected Japan's carrier aviation program last month, the...
Credit: iStock Documents pertaining to the sinking of the USS Thresher are currently being declassified by the U.S. Navy. All 129 aboard were killed when the submarine sank in April 1963 while conducting a training operation. The Navy was compelled by a lawsuit to make accident investigation files public. There was no single incident or mistake that led...
An image of a Russian Satellite. Credit: iStock In a test of an anti-satellite missile on Monday, November 15, Russia demolished one of its older satellites. Members of the International Space Station were obliged to seek refuge in their spacecraft in the immediate aftermath of the test because the impact produced a cloud of space debris...
Fish are thought to adjust their tail stiffness in order to swim efficiently over a wide range of speeds, but how and when they tune the amount of stiffness has been a mystery. A model created by University of Virginia School of Engineering researchers that combines robotics, fluid dynamics and biomechanics has revealed the...
The plastic material is of precious help. Some might also say it is an inevitability. However, it causes a tremendous harmful influence on our environment. Well, consider the Great Pacific rubbish patch, an oceanic accumulation of trash so enormous that it is generally referred to as a trash island. The area is twice the size...
Photo-driven catalytic process based on the Al–N–C catalyst. Credit: NIMTE The team of Professor Chen Liang and Professor Lu Zhiyi's team at the Ningbo Innovation and Product Engineering Institute (NIMTE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) suggested a highly activated carbon-based catalyst that can make direct use of the renewable resources (e.g., solar energy)...
This photograph from 2016 reveals a rift that widened even further and launched a large Delaware-sized iceberg from Antarctica's Larsen C ice sheet in the space of a few months. Credit rating: NASA/GSFC/OIB The scientists have found an ice process that may have caused a Delaware-sized iceberg to break off Antarctica's massive Larsen and sea...
The physical scientists will no doubt amazingly discover it, nevertheless there are many people worldwide who genuinely believe that the Planet is flat. Rachel Brazil finds out why such viewpoints are significantly held and how the physical vicinity should remain the ideal response. Sometime in 2017, American rap artist B.o.B (real name Bobby Ray Simmons...
Santa Claus isn't expected to notice smoke. Misty smoke of raging Arctic wildfires has reached the North Pole for the first time in recorded history, and NASA satellites have photographs to prove it. On the sixth of August, NASA's MODIS, a photographic sensor on the Aqua satellite, captured true-color images of a "vast, thick, acrid...
The Venus’s-flower-basket is a sea sponge found at depths of 100 to 1,000 meters in the Pacific Ocean near the Philippines. A new study shows how the creature’s porous, glassy skeleton alters the flow of seawater. Simulations reveal that this deep-sea glass sponge's skeleton is more than simply pretty A Venus's flower basket is not all...
