NASA plans to put the first woman on the moon in 2024. 

Gravitational waves indicate the 7 million year old merging of two black holes about 85 and 66 times the mass of the sun.

UK-based computer chip designer ARM Holdings is being sold to the American graphics chip specialist Nvidia. If approved, the deal would be the largest semiconductor acquisition in history.

2016-20 is set to be the warmest five year period on record with the average global temperature 1.1 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures.

Who were the Vikings?

Research debunks the modern image of Vikings, including the conclusion that many Vikings actually had brown and not blonde hair.

Noble beasts?

I presume that no animals were harmed in the doing of the research, this year the Ig Nobel Prize Winners have a beastly feel. From getting crocodiles to breathe helium to vibrating earthworms. Also, there was some ‘crap’ science.

 Did a taste for fat make us human?

Long before human ancestors began hunting large mammals for meat, a fatty diet provided them with the nutrition to develop bigger brains, posits a new paper in Current Anthropology.

NASA will get paid about $128,000 for filming some skin care products on the International Space Station. The footage will be used by a cosmetics company for promotions and advertisements. My initial reaction was somewhat negative ... because you’re earth it? ... in space no one can hear your cream? ... Houston we’ve had a perfume? However on reflection I feel more sanguine, as well as generating income, it further engages NASA and space exploration with the wider public and is a bit of fun. The later perhaps being in short supply at the moment.