Pfizer and Moderna will deliver at least another 135 million doses of coronavirus vaccines over the next five weeks, the firms will lawmakers on Tuesday. The two companies have considerably ramped up their production of vaccine doses and found solutions to previous manufacturing issues that caused bottlenecks in production. To date, Pfizer has delivered about … Read more
Historian Charles Spencer is sending divers to the wreck site of the White Ship, which sank 900 years ago with the only heir of King Henry I on board. The ship plummeted to the depths of the English Channel on November 25, 1120, after hitting the notorious submerged Quillebœuf Rock, off the French coast. Carrying … Read more
The remains of six skeletons have been recovered from the wreck of the Whydah, a pirate ship that sank more than 300 years ago, in waters off New England in 1717. The remains were identified in several large concretions which were examined back on land. A concretion is a hard, compact mass of matter and … Read more
Police and Border Force swoop as seven Albanian stowaways are found on board cargo ship off Dorset coast ‘Small number of unidentified individuals’ were found on board vessel yesterday Cargo ship is believed to have loaded at Rouen before arriving off Portland coast Border Force officials called in alongside local police to deal with the … Read more
A grandfather who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the fall of his young granddaughter from an 11th-story window of a cruise ship has avoided jail. Salvatore ‘Sam’ Anello, of Valparaiso, Indiana, was sentenced Monday to three years´ probation, according to justice officials, following the death of Chloe Wiegand. Anello was aboard the Royal Caribbean Cruises´ … Read more
Katherine Johnson is a famous NASA mathematician whose calculations helped send the first American astronaut into space and although she never made it to the final frontier, her name will. Northrop Grumman, an aerospace and defense technology firm, announced it has named the NG-15 Cygnus cargo ship SS. Katherine Johnson. The craft is set to … Read more
Massive ship sparks panic when it breaks loose from its moorings and drifts in high winds near nuclear power plant’s cooling inlet Valaris DS4 broke free from Hunterston Terminal in Fairlie at 7.20pm last night Crew of eight released the vessel’s anchors as lifeboats and Coastguard called Locals feared the ship may be drifting towards … Read more
Pfizer board member Scott Gottlieb defends decision to ship up to 7 million fewer vials of its COVID-19 vaccines to account for extra doses as ‘the only way’ to distribute them now without waiting for regulatory approval Pharmacists discovered after Pfizer Inc sent out its coronavirus vaccine than an extra sixth dose can be extracted … Read more
Hoo’s this starring in a film about Britain’s biggest medieval discovery? Excavation of Anglo-Saxon burial ship to be dramatised with star-studded cast New Netflix film about discovery of early medieval burial site at Sutton Hoo The star-studded movie ‘The Dig’ is set to be released on January 29 Features Lily James, Carey Mulligan and … Read more
SpaceX Dragon cargo ship loaded with science experiments, a case of wine, and live mice, has made its first ever splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean, NASA confirmed. The spaceship autonomously undocked from the International Space Station on Tuesday, January 12 after a 36 day stay attached to the orbiting laboratory. Among the experiments on the … Read more