Space tourist grounded
Internet entrepreneur Daisuke Enomoto, who would have been Japan’s first space tourist, has failed his medical. He will not be allowed to fly to the International Space Station in September, the Russian space agency Roskosmos announced on Monday. Enomoto could fly at a later date after “additional measures” are taken.
Noise, noise everywhere
There is no escape from industrial noise pollution – not even underwater. Since the 1960s there has been a tenfold increase in underwater ocean noise off southern California, according to a study published in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. The noise…
