Engineers are battling to save the European Space Agency’s (Esa) flagship Earth observation mission – Envisat. Controllers say the eight-tonne spacecraft appears to be in a stable condition, but they are not receiving any data at all from it. Contact was lost with Envisat at the weekend shortly after it downloaded pictures of Spain’s Canary [...]
Read the rest of this story »2> The chances of finding life on Mars could be improved by looking in craters made by asteroids, according to a study. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh said organisms had been discovered thriving deep underneath a site in the US where an asteroid crashed 35 million years ago. They believe such craters provide refuge [...]
Read the rest of this story »Nearly twice as many emperor penguins inhabit Antarctica as was thought. UK, US and Australian scientists used satellite technology to trace and count the iconic birds, finding them to number almost 600,000. Their census technique relies in the first instance on locating individual colonies, which is done by looking for big brown patches of guano [...]
Read the rest of this story »The Road Safety Management Services Ltd (RSMSL), a Ghanaian-owned company that is overseeing the management of road safety and road accidents in Ghana – has acquired and delivered thirty eight (38) new sophisticated tow trucks to all the ten regions of Ghana. Three different categories of tow trucks have been acquired from China with [...]
Read the rest of this story »Information reaching Today indicates that activities of Solar Mining Company, a local gold mining company operating within the Fanteakwa District of the Eastern Region have culminated in the pollution of the Anoma and Akusu rivers within the township. This paper gathered that the usage of mercury by Solar Mining Company for its mining [...]
Read the rest of this story »Frogs matter – they play a vital role in the food chain, and some have been found to produce chemicals that cure human diseases. But a fungus dubbed “the amphibian smallpox” is making many species extinct. So scientists are mounting a rescue operation. It’s the middle of the night in the rainforests of central Panama. [...]
Read the rest of this story »Checks by Today indicate that residents who were affected in a rain storm in Wassa Akropong in the Wassa Amenfi East District (WAEDA) of the Western Region are still writhing in pain and living in a state of uncertainty since the incident occurred over a week ago. The residents, whose roofs were ripped off [...]
Read the rest of this story »Bird song is rising in volume after a new study found astonishing changes over the past 30 years. The research found sparrows in San Francisco’s Presidio district changed their tune to soar above the increasing cacophony of car horns and engine rumbles. “It shows a strong link between the change in song and the change [...]
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