Yu newspaper 2020/03/31

YU NEWSPAPER

Drones have played dodgeball

Drones have come a long way since their first iteration, which was unsteerable and lifted a mere two feet off the ground during its first flight, was unveiled by French inventor brothers Jacques and Louis Bréguet in 1907. Modern-day quadcopters can be programmed to fly autonomously at high altitudes for long distances, swim underwater, and now, thanks to some University of Zurich researchers, even play dodgeball!

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2020 Underwater Photography Contest Winners

The Underwater Photographer of the Year is a yearly contest based in the United Kingdom. As you might expect, the focus is on photos taken underwater, whether in the ocean, in lakes or rivers, or even swimming pools.

Though the first Underwater Photographer of the Year award was given out in 1965, the current contest didn’t really start until 2015. Every year since then, thousands of photographers from around the world have entered stunning pictures taken underwater.

The pictures are judged in several different categories. This year’s contest had over 5,500 entries from 70 different countries.

Earth Hour Goes Digital

Yesterday, millions of people around the world turned their lights off for “Earth Hour”, an event meant to remind people of how important climate action is. Because of the coronavirus,  this year’s event was marked online.

Earth Hour is held once a year, on the last Saturday of March. To take part in the event, people turn their lights off for an hour between 8:30 and 9:30 at night.