U.S. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts a new late-night talk show, Star Talk. Iceland As it sheds ice—and weight—the island’s land surface is rising 1.4 inches a year. Germany Spans of its high-speed autobahn system will open to self-driving cars in a pilot program, government officials say. Israel In western Galilee, archaeologists found a 55,000-year-old partial human skull—making the area the most plausible for human and neandertal inbreeding. Kenya To save the norther white rhino, conservationists plan to collect eggs from the females for the first time. Only five rhinos remain. Italy Seismologists concluded that thousands of mysterious rumbles across Italy, once thought to be caused by magma flow, originate from cement factory machinery.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts a new late-night talk show, Star Talk.
Iceland
As it sheds ice—and weight—the island’s land surface is rising 1.4 inches a year.
Germany
Spans of its high-speed autobahn system will open to self-driving cars in a pilot program, government officials say.
Israel
In western Galilee, archaeologists found a 55,000-year-old partial human skull—making the area the most plausible for human and neandertal inbreeding.
Kenya
To save the norther white rhino, conservationists plan to collect eggs from the females for the first time. Only five rhinos remain.
Italy
Seismologists concluded that thousands of mysterious rumbles across Italy, once thought to be caused by magma flow, originate from cement factory machinery.