More From Immanuel Jotham
Listening for infrasound from roiling lava lakes can help forecast volcanic eruptions
Infrasound waves follow the ebb and flow of lava lakes inside volcanoes and can be used to predict eruptions, say scientists.
Feb 18, 2018
US Army tanks getting Trophy anti-missile system
Trophy APS protects tanks by firing at the threat and destroying them before they reach the tank.
Feb 15, 2018
SpaceX's Starman spotted cruising through space at incredible speeds by astrophotographer
The Tesla is headed for an orbit between Mars and the asteroid belt.
Feb 15, 2018
Watch the first-ever video of a trillion ton iceberg that broke off Antarctica as it floats into the ocean
The iceberg continues to calve and disintegrate as it reaches warmer waters.
Feb 15, 2018
SpaceX Falcon Heavy's first customer will be the US Air Force - find out what they will launch
SpaceX has an installed capacity to build about 400 rocket engines per year, that is, over 100 launches by 2020.
Feb 15, 2018
Russia claims its super-manoeuvrable Su-35 is 'second to none in the air'
The Su-35 is one of Russia's most dangerous fighters and is waiting for a major upgrade soon.
Feb 14, 2018
US Navy wants $300m to develop 4 new laser weapons - what you need to know
The Navy's rail gun project is dead, but four new lasers are in the horizon.
Feb 14, 2018
Watch: Drone navigates through forests and buildings in real time without intricate maps
Researchers devised a way to teach small drones to see and detect the environment they fly through without depending on intricate maps.
Feb 14, 2018
Nasa's New Horizons will give us the next 'Pale Blue Dot' photo in 2019
A new image that will be shot next year from outside the Solar System will remind us how the Earth is nothing more than "a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam".
Feb 14, 2018
US Air Force's B-21 Raider stealth bomber could phase out the B-2 Spirit and the B-1B Lancer
The next-gen stealth bomber is expected to arrive in the mid 2020s.
Feb 13, 2018
Oxford scientists capture breathtaking photo of a single atom suspended in an electric field
A strontium atom is suspended in high vacuum and illuminated between two electrodes with a blue laser.
Feb 13, 2018
Nasa budget 2019: All you need to know about the Trump administration's plans for the space agency
From an outpost on the moon and build flying cars to funding cut for the international space station and earth science missions, the budget covers a lot of things
Feb 13, 2018
Elon Musk will name his next drone ship 'A Shortfall of Gravitas'
Elon Musk's next drone ship will be used on the east coast to handle landings at Cape Canaveral. SpaceX uses drone ships as landing pads for their Falcon 9 rocket cores in the sea.
Feb 13, 2018
Trump administration wants to privatise the ISS and end federal funding
The ISS could be handed over to the private sector like a piece of real estate.
Feb 12, 2018
Oumuamua was in a violent collision that set off a billion-year tumble before it reached the Solar System
It will eventually stop tumbling, but that is not likely to happen for millions of years.
Feb 12, 2018
Nasa extending life of its veteran Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter by using stars for navigation
The craft will switch to software-based stellar navigation to conserve power and extend service life.
Feb 12, 2018
SpaceX fires up rocket that will carry the first two 'global internet' Starlink satellites
The launch, in which a Falcon 9 rocket will carry a 1350 kg Paz satellite and two 400 kg Starlink demo satellites into to a 514km Sun-Synchronous Orbit, is set for 17 February.
Feb 12, 2018
US Marine Corps' latest weapon is a quadcopter drone and every squad will get one
Marines are the first and so far the only branch in the US armed forces, apart from the Special Operations Command, to provide drones to soldiers on the ground at this level.
Feb 11, 2018
Russian Navy will soon field a large amphibious ship that can carry 13 battle tanks and 300 marines
The Ivan Gren will be delivered to the Navy by spring this year.
Feb 11, 2018
Global Drug Survey 2017: What drugs are likely to hospitalise you - what you need to know about them
The survey found that alcohol has put more people in the emergency room than cocaine.
Feb 11, 2018
Falcon Heavy: The world's most powerful rocket launch in pictures
Updates on where the Roadster is headed and wild conspiracies about the launch.
Feb 11, 2018
US Army's self-driving Humvee, the 'Wingman', will soon be able to shoot down enemy targets
The army is testing the robotic Humvee to find out if the autonomous vehicle can engage targets with its remote-controlled machine gun.
Feb 08, 2018
No one knows why ozone layer at lower stratosphere continues to erode despite improvement over the Antarctic
The new findings of the ozone layer come after Nasa announced that the efforts of the Montreal Protocol had actually worked.
Feb 08, 2018
Nasa will soon launch Dream Chaser spaceplane on supply mission to ISS
Dream Chaser is an autonomous spaceplane that does not need a crew to operate.
Feb 08, 2018
Is Elon Musk paying more attention to SpaceX than Tesla? Model 3 delivery pushed back to 2019
Tesla seems to be prioritising more expensive versions of the car to the cheaper base variant.
Feb 08, 2018
171,000 year-old artefacts reveal female Neanderthals used fire to craft wooden tools
This is the first recorded instance of fire being used to fashion tools.
Feb 07, 2018
The Sun's strongest magnetic field ever measured came from a sunspot wider than Jupiter
The field was expelled in the same month as the record-breaking flare shot out of the Sun.
Feb 07, 2018
The universe's oldest sounds will soon be recorded by the world's largest radio telescope array
Called as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the astronomical instrument will look for answers to the universe's most fundamental scientific questions.
Feb 07, 2018
What is the Sea Hunter? US Navy now has the world's largest drone vessel made by Darpa
The Sea Hunter is 132ft long and weighs over 140 tonnes. It can traverse the oceans for months on end without a single human on board.
Feb 07, 2018
Falcon Heavy: How to watch SpaceX launch 'world's most powerful rocket' to Mars
The Falcon Heavy will be the world's most powerful rocket ever launched.
Feb 06, 2018
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