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More than a decade on from its disappearance, the fate of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 remains one of aviation’s greatest mysteries. Despite a worldwide effort spanning years, the plane’s wreckage has never been located. Now, a Cardiff-based mathematician is proposing that underwater microphones in use at the time could have picked up what is known as a pressure signal, caused by a large-scale impact. These could make it possible to hone in on the crash site.
The microphones are owned by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization and are located in Australia and the Indian Ocean. The team involved have analysed the data from 2014 and think they’ve identified a signal of interest. Find out more about their work here.
Each year, over the course of just a few weeks, 17 million flies migrate through one 30-metre mountain pass in the Pyrenees — at a rate of 105,000 a minute. In a dispatch from the middle of this insect intersection, an animal migration specialist explains why they behave in this way – and what it feels like to dip your specimen net into the oncoming traffic.
A lot has happened in the election campaign over the past few days but, ahead of Fathers’ day tomorrow, this piece about Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey’s very personal party political broadcast really sticks out. In the film, Davey gives a glimpse of life not as a party leader but as a carer to his disabled son. The film is loving, moving and, as this author writes, refreshing in its celebration of male caregiving.
Also this week, guides on how to produce fish and chips on Mars, hold yourself properly in Regency London and avoid getting bamboozled by the spending figures being hurled at you by campaigning
politicians.
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