9th June 2018
40% of people on so-called apprenticeship schemes have no idea they’re classed as apprentices.
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A British company has achieved a world first by heating a nuclear reactor to the temperature of the centre of the Sun.
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A CIA intelligence report says North Korea won’t give up its nuclear weapons but might be willing to open a burger joint in Pyongyang as a gesture of goodwill.
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A Harvard-backed US company claims to be able to suck carbon dioxide cheaply from the air and combine it with hydrogen to produce petrol, diesel and jet fuel.
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39% of all the fresh water in the US is used to cool power stations. MIT scientists are working on a way to turn the steam this produces back into drinking water.
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Maison Mumm has produced the first zero-gravity champagne. It is forced out of the bottle as foam and has to be caught by the astronaut in a special glass.