New report details the blame for shooting down the jet

Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell The Associated Press Published 1:31 PM EDT July 13, 2020 TEHRAN, Iran: A misaligned missile battery, miscommunication between the troops and their commanders, and a decision to fire without authorization led the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to shoot down a Ukrainian plane in January, killing all …

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Using mathematical formulas to predict earthquakes

Credit: Unsplash / CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers at the Lyell Center in Edinburgh have developed a way to use mathematical formulas to help predict when an earthquake is likely to occur. In his article published in Geophysical Research Review: Solid Earth, the group describes the translation of …

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