New Zealand has passed legislation against cigarette sale to persons born on, or after, January 1, 2009. The bill was passed by 76 legislators while 43 opposed it. The date of passage is 13 December, 2022 and it comes into Read More …
World’s first surviving nonuplets, comprising nine babies from a single birth, have returned home after 19 months in hospital. The babies, five girls and four boys, were born by Caesarean section on 4 May, 2021 in a hospital in Casablanca, Read More …
Reuters News Agency has released a report of forced abortions for rescued pregnant women and girls seized by armed terrorist groups in northeast Nigeria. The report which covers the period from 2013 to November, 2021 and published on 7 December, Read More …
Ernie Puffett, 84 years old, has enrolled for Physics GCSE at Chichester College in West Sussex, England. His old school re-admitted him, long after he tried five times and failed to pass the examination. He is giving the examination a sixth try. Read More …
For centuries, scientists have suspected that the Universe was not static but, without a model or proof. If the Universe is static and filled with stars, any direction one looks in the sky is supposed to end eventually on a Read More …
China’s most powerful rocket, the Long March-5B Y3 rocket, used to launch Mengtian laboratory, the final module for Tiangong Space Station, on 31 October, 2022 has made an uncontrolled re-entry to Earth. It crashed into the Southcentral Pacific Ocean about Read More …
China has successfully launched Mengtian laboratory module, the third and final component of its space station, Tiangong, that is under construction. The laboratory module was launched atop China’s most powerful rocket, the Long March-5B Y3 rocket on 31 October, 2022 Read More …
This giant tortoise specie, Chelonoidis phantasticus, thought to have gone extinct 100 years ago, is still alive, It was found in Fernandia Island in the Galapagos in 2019. DNA tests on this specimen believed to be 80 to 100 years Read More …
The most popular peaceful use of nuclear energy is arguably, in electricity generation. Nigeria requires 25,000 to 30,000 mw of electricity for any meaningful economic development. Total output has been about 3,700 mw from total grid capacity of 6,000 mw. Read More …
South Korea has launched its first fully domestically produced space rocket. The three-stage rocket, KSLV-II Nuri, was launched at the Naro Space Centre, Goheung, on 21 October, 2021 (09:00 WAT), with the intention of putting a 1.5-tonne payload into a Read More …
