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UK Transport Minister Mark Harper said that self-driving cars could be on the country’s roads by 2026, reports Reuters. According to Harper, cars with full autonomous driving technology are not currently allowed on British roads, but a bill on automated vehicles is currently under consideration in Parliament. This means that by the end of 2024, […]
In the UK, paleontologists have recovered a giant skull of a marine reptile pliosaurus, which lived in the ocean about 150 million years ago, from the Jurassic rocks on the coast of Dorset, BBC reports. It is noted that the length of the found skull is about 2 meters. “This is one of the best […]
A British Navy Vanguard-class nuclear submarine with Trident 2 ballistic missiles on board nearly sank in the Atlantic Ocean. This was reported by The Sun on November 19. According to the newspaper, the submarine was preparing for patrolling in the Atlantic, but it turned out that the depth gauge sensors were out of order. As […]
In 2020, scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing the genome editing method, and three years later, the tool was licensed for the treatment of sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia. Both inherited blood disorders are caused by errors in the hemoglobin gene. People with sickle cell anemia […]
Engineers from the University of Manchester have built and launched the world’s largest quadcopter, the Giant Foamboard Quadcopter (GFQ). The drone, made of a cardboard-like material called foam board, measures 6.4 meters long from corner to corner and weighs 24.5 kg. The four arms consist of a series of hollow box structures and can be […]
As part of comprehensive training under the guidance of Royal Navy mentors, the Cherkasy and Chernihiv mine countermeasures ships and the headquarters of the Ukrainian Mine Action Tactical Group joined the Joint Warrior 23-II multinational exercise in UK territorial waters. This week for Ukrainian sailors began with participation in the Joint Warrior 23-II exercise in […]
The MSI-DS Terrahawk Paladin was first introduced only a year ago and is an extremely effective answer to the question of how to take down Shaheds cheaply. As part of a new military aid package worth 100 million pounds (about $123 million) from the International Fund for Ukraine (IFU), the United Kingdom is sending additional […]
Together with the British military, L3Harris specialists conducted field tests of the T7 robotic platform equipped with the X-ray Backscatter module. This was reported by the official website of the UK Ministry of Defense. The Ukrainian military knows L3Harris as the developer of Vampire anti-drone systems. They are used to destroy Shahed-136. With the X-ray […]
The UK government has imposed new sanctions against Russia for holding elections in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine by a terrorist country. We are talking about Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Crimea. This is stated in a press release published on the government’s website. The new sanctions list includes 11 individuals and legal entities, […]
In September 2022, a Russian pilot fired two missiles in an attempt to shoot down a British Air Force plane, believing he had permission to do so. “The Royal Air Force aircraft with a crew of up to 30 people was on a surveillance mission over the Black Sea in international airspace on September 29 […]