[May 3rd] Commercial pilot says plane hit by drone over US airport
The pilot of a commercial flight said Wednesday his plane may have been hit by a drone thousands of feet (hundreds of meters) in the air as he came in to land at a US airport. Recordings of the conversation between air traffic control in San Diego and a United Airlines flight reveal the pilot …
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[May 2nd] Indian billionaire’s son offers home for Escobar’s hippos
An Indian billionaire’s son offered on Tuesday to take hippos descended from those introduced to Colombia by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, rather than have the animals killed. Anant Ambani, the son of tycoon Mukesh Ambani, said he had formally requested the Colombian government to stay a decision to kill the animals, which have wreaked havoc …
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[May 1st] China develops ultra-low-cost iron battery that retains 99.4% efficiency for over 16 years
Chinese scientists have developed an iron battery 80 times cheaper than lithium that can run for over 6,000 cycles with almost no loss in capacity. The “all-iron flow battery” technology was developed by a research team from the Institute of Metal Research under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and their findings were published earlier this …
