The car, known as Luca, was developed by students at the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands as part of an initiative to show how inventive companies can find new applications for the 2.1 billion tons of waste that the world produces each.
Since last year, when a truce between the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Islamabad was broken, assaults by Islamist militants have increased in Pakistan. More than 100 people were killed earlier this year in a Peshawar mosque blast.
For the thirty-first week in a row, protesters against the judicial reform flocked to the streets on Saturday in cities such as central Tel Aviv and northern Galilee, beating drums and honking horns. The Israeli parliament’s ratification of the “reasonableness clause” bill, the first component of Benjamin Netanyahu’s reform package, on Monday sparked an unprecedented…
According to a new study as reported on Science Daily, a significant area of Greenland was once an ice-free tundra landscape, maybe with trees and roaming woolly mammoths, in the recent geologic past (approximately 416,000 years ago). The findings support an earlier hypothesis that a large portion of the Greenland ice sheet survived over the…
Nematodes discovered in Siberian permafrost, according to an international team of researchers, are 46,000 years old and used survival strategies resembling those of a current lab favorite. Nematodes appear to be simple roundworms at first glance, but don’t underestimate them. Scientists reported in 2018 that they had identified and brought back to life two kinds…
Newly declassified hard drives taken from the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed reveal a groundbreaking look at his personal life. Experts sift through the 470,000 digital files to piece together a roadmap into the mind of a mass murderer. Examine his contradictory personal psychology, relationship with family and religion as well as his…
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Antiquities, archaeologists excavating a 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery uncovered in Gaza last year have discovered at least 125 graves, the majority of which still retain most of the corpses inside, as well as two unusual lead sarcophagi. From the biblical Philistines and ancient Egyptians through the Roman empire and the…
An upcoming epic historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by David Scarpa. It is based on the true story of Napoleon Bonaparte, primarily depicting the French leader’s rise to power as well as his relationship with Empress Josephine. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby as Napoleon and Josephine,…
