New Delhi: India’s Cabinet has sanctioned an AED1.1b project to build a Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in Hingoli in Maharashtra state. When completed and commissioned in 2030, it will only be the fifth such LIGO in the world to detect gravitational waves caused by the movement of planets and stars in space. Also, read […]
Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet – Kirch’s Comet/Newton’s Comet – on this day in 1680. Did you know that: • Samuel Pepys reported the first blood transfusion (between dogs) on this day in 1666• “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson was first published by Cassell & Co on this day in 1883• Albert Einstein […]
Diana, Princess of Wales was a member of the British royal family born on this day in 1961. She was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales—the heir apparent to the British throne—and mother of Prince William and Prince Harry. Did you know that: • In China, sunglasses were invented on this day in […]
