Interesting Facts – Page 5

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...

Scientists watched a black hole eating a star

ENC News 18 Jun 2018

Scientists have seen the vast blast thrown out by a black hole eating a star for the first ever time. Researchers have finally watched the formation and expansion of the...

Solar roads

ENC News 12 Jun 2018

The Tokyo metropolitan government plans to introduce “solar roads” that collect energy from the sun via solar panels installed beneath the surface of the roads. The effort is aimed at...

Kilauea: one of the world’s most active lava-spewers

ENC News 06 Jun 2018

As Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano continues to release lava following two weeks of violent eruptions, now is a good a time as any to explore the science behind the rocky magma-spewers....

Unprecedented insight into ancient Mars’ history

ENC News 29 May 2018

A tiny meteorite from Mars nicknamed “Black Beauty” has provided scientists with an unprecedented insight into ancient processes that shaped the red planet’s surface. Discovered in the Sahara desert and...

Are octopuses aliens from outer space?

ENC News 22 May 2018

Octopuses are aliens. That’s the claim being made by a team of 33 researchers published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. They are not referring to aliens in a metaphorical sense,...

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