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The World’s Richest Man in the First Half of the 19th Century Was a Chinese Merchant Who Lent Money to American Millionaires
If we asked who the wealthiest person in the world was in the first half of the 19th century, many would likely think of ...
Greek Reporter1d
First Map of Known World Created by Ancient Greek Anaximander
The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.
Borderless Europe fights brain drain as talent heads north
Talent flight to wealthier countries of the north is a problem for southern and central Europe, as workers take advantage of ...
New Scientist2d
Millions of phones create most complete map ever of the ionosphere
Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signal data from 40 million phones – a method that ...
Nature3d
Google uses millions of phones to map Earth’s ionosphere and improve GPS
When the air is partly ionized, freely moving electrons slightly slow down the radio signals travelling to Earth from GPS and ...
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Orbiter takes rare picture of Earth 180,000,000 miles away on Mars
An image released from the European Space Agency (ESA) shows a rare perspective of Earth 180 million miles away on Mars.
Ukraine-Russia war – live: 50,000 of Putin’s forces in Kursk, Kyiv says, as Russia ‘suffers record casualties’
The drone blitz came as Mr Trump advised his Russian counterpart not to escalate the Ukraine war, Reuters and The Washington Post reported. The British Army chief claimed Russia was losing the highest ...
Computer Weekly8d
Interview: Petra Molnar, author of ‘The walls have eyes’
Refugee lawyer and author Petra Molnar speaks to Computer Weekly about the extreme violence people on the move face at borders across the world, and how increasingly hostile anti-immigrant politics is ...
IRIS²: the new satellite constellation aimed at ensuring communications autonomy for the EU
Europe’s first multi-orbital satellite network aims to provide secure EU governmental communications. It will consist of some ...
Map Accurately Compares Size of Texas to Europe?
A map shared to social media in mid-October 2024 accurately compared the size of Texas to Europe. The map shared online moderately exaggerated the size of Texas; however it was more or less an ...
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Apophis: A New European Space Mission Could Get Up Close With A Large Asteroid That's Set To Brush By Earth
(MENAFN- The Conversation) The European Space Agency has given the ... If it were to hit Earth, it would cause wholesale destruction hundreds of miles from its impact site. The energy released ...
Atlas of the Human Planet: 50 years of population growth and urbanization trends uncovered
The new Atlas of the Human Planet reveals 50 years of global population growth and urbanization trends, providing insights ...