Interesting Facts – Page 5

BMW Vision iNEXT: a new set of values

ENC News 17 Sep 2018

“This is the new normal: We will offer safe fully autonomous driving by 2021,” declared Klaus Fröhlich, the BMW board member responsible for development. By 2025, Fröhlich claimed, BMW will...

Climate: what are we to expect in the future

ENC News 04 Sep 2018

The northern hemisphere has experienced a record-breaking summer, with extreme temperatures sparking wildfires, baking landscapes and triggering disruption and devastation across four continents. Scientists have long warned that these intense...

Asteroid bigger than the Great Pyramid of Giza

ENC News 27 Aug 2018

An asteroid called 2016 NF23 is expected to “skim past” our planet in the next few days. As it hurtles through space at a speed of over 20,000 miles per...

Modern techniques explore the real-life mysteries of the Great Pyramid

ENC News 20 Aug 2018

The Great Pyramid of Giza may be able to focus electromagnetic radiation into pockets of energy inside its network of internal chambers and underneath its base, a new study has...

Did drought trigger the demise of the ancient Maya?

ENC News 13 Aug 2018

An enormous drought that swept across Mexico around 1,000 years ago triggered the demise of one of the world’s greatest ancient civilisations. Scientists studying the climate at the time of...

Are there other planets like Earth in the Universe?

ENC News 06 Aug 2018

Scientists have identified a whole set of planets where life could have begun just like it did on Earth. Researchers at Cambridge University found that the chances of life developing...

The world’s oldest bread cooked in 15 millennium BC

ENC News 29 Jul 2018

Early “haute cuisine” is thousands of years older than previously thought. Archaeologists have discovered what appears to be the birth of sophisticated cooking – at a Stone Age site in...

Huge part of Arctic ocean is shifting to Atlantic climate

ENC News 10 Jul 2018

Scientists studying one of the fastest-warming regions of the global ocean say changes in this region are so sudden and vast that in effect it will soon be another limb...

Travel from London to New York for 2 hours

ENC News 03 Jul 2018

Boeing is working on plans for a hypersonic passenger aircraft that would cut the journey time between London and New York to around two hours. The concept jet, unveiled by...

World’s Top 10 Airports 2018

ENC News 25 Jun 2018

The world’s Top 10 Airports of 2018, nominated by airport customers from across the world during the 2017-2018 World Airport Survey. SINGAPORE CHANGI AIRPORT Singapore Changi Airport connects customers to...

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