Human brains struggle to take ideas or elements away from designs, such as from a blueprint of a building – and instead tend to add more, a new study reveals. In experiments, participants tasked with making a Lego Duplo building stronger tended to add more bricks rather than take them away. In another computerised task, … Read more
NASA’s Orion capsule that will carry the first woman and next man to the moon completes second drop test that saw the 14,000lb craft fall from seven feet in the air into a hydro impact basin Orion has completed its second drop test and has just two more to go The test was to finalize … Read more
Gary Haffenden (pictured) smashed his friend’s mother’s Ford Ranger pick-up truck into Syed Zaidi, 35, in Virginia Water, Surrey A hit-and-run driver has been jailed for three years for killing a restaurateur in front of his wife and children after sucking on a balloon at the wheel. Gary Haffenden smashed his friend’s mother’s Ford Ranger … Read more
Two years ago, the world was Noah Green’s oyster. A star of the college football team, the accused Capitol knife attacker was soon to graduate with a degree in finance from Christopher Newport University in Virginia. Yet over the course of the next two years, his life would take a frightening turn into paranoia and … Read more
Singer Pharrell Williams (above) has revealed that his cousin was the armed man who was fatally shot by Virginia Beach police Singer Pharrell Williams has revealed that his cousin was the armed man who was fatally shot by Virginia Beach police during a chaotic night of gun battles in the street that left eight others … Read more
Disturbing new video footage shows two teenage girls accused of carjacking and killing an UberEats driver speeding off in the man’s car as he hangs off the side of the vehicle before being flung to his death. Mohammad Anwar, 66, died on Tuesday after being ejected from his Honda Accord in a violent carjacking in … Read more
NASA conducted its first splash test for the Orion spacecraft in advance of the upcoming Artemis lunar missions. Cameras captured the 11-foot capsule dropping into the ‘hydro impact basin,’ a large tank of water at Langley Research Center’s Landing and Impact Research Facility in Hampton, Virginia. However, the drop was hardly a long fall -the … Read more
Will THIS Covid vaccine mean an end to the common cold? Scientists develop a $1 shot that may protect people against other coronaviruses Researchers at the University of Virginia and Virginia Tech used a platform that places a piece of synthesized viral DNA into genetically altered E. coli The bacteria, which is now a host … Read more
Oscar-nominated actor George Segal dies at age 87 ‘due to complications from bypass surgery’ By Valerie Edwards For Dailymail.com Published: 01:23 GMT, 24 March 2021 | Updated: 01:23 GMT, 24 March 2021 George Segal, the Oscar-nominated actor who sparred with Richard Burton in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, romanced Glenda Jackson in A Touch of … Read more
The U.S National Park Service has revealed its most-visited sites of 2020 – and it’s the Blue Ridge Parkway that comes out on top. The 469-mile ribbon of road that runs through stunning scenery in North Carolina and Virginia, and has magnificent views of the Blue Ridge Mountains, welcomed 14.1million visitors last year. It beats … Read more