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Disasters More than 80 flood alerts are issued in the United Kingdom as the north of England and East Anglia prepares for torrential rain. (Sky News) Law and crime Former de facto President of Argentina Jorge Videla and General Reynaldo Bignone are found guilty of overseeing the systematic theft of at least 400 babies from political prisoners during military rule's Dirty War. (BBC) British ...
25 May 2012: SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft (pictured) becomes the first commercial spacecraft to rendezvous with the International Space Station. The year 2012 involved many significant scientific events and discoveries, including the first orbital rendezvous by a commercial spacecraft, the discovery of a particle highly similar to the long-sought Higgs boson, and the near-eradication of guinea ...
The 2012 World Karl Popper Debate Championships are held in León, Mexico from 2 to 6 July. The results, announced on the WKPDC official website on 7 July, declare Pakistan the winner of the championship and Zainab Hameed best speaker and debater.
2012: Higgs boson is discovered at CERN (confirmed to 99.999% certainty) 2012: Photonic molecules are discovered at MIT; 2014: Exotic hadrons are discovered at the LHCb; 2014: Photonic metamaterials are discovered to make passive daytime radiative cooling possible by Raman et al. [135] [136] 2016: The LIGO team detects gravitational waves from ...
1925 - Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher, is accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act; 1927 - Birth of Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician; 1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit
Air bubbles within a deep ice core drilled in Antarctica could reveal why Earth suddenly began to experience longer ice ages nearly 1 million years ago. Last year was the planet’s hottest in ...
Business and economy Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates open new pipelines bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, the shipping lane that Iran has repeatedly threatened to close. (The Financial Times) Disasters and accidents A bus crash kills at least 39 pilgrims in the southern Nepali town of Parasi. (BBC) Hand, foot and mouth disease kills 149 people in Hunan, China. (Bangkok Post) [permanent ...
Try these five simple habits in 2025 that can help increase your life span by years and improve the overall quality of your health as you age. 5 Science-Backed Ways to Live a Longer Life Skip to ...