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By Dan Williams JERUSALEM Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was undergoing medical checks in an Israeli hospital on Saturday

A last-minute try to No. 8 Juan Martin Gonzalez gave Argentina a 34-31 Rugby Championship win over Australia after recalled winger Mark Nawaqanitawase appeared to have given the Wallabies a win with a 95-meter intercept try with five minutes remaining

Through no fault of their own, the Portland Trail Blazers may very well be backed into a corner with Damian Lillard trade talks per the latest NBA Rumors.The Blazers need leverage, which is why they are open to trading Damian Lillard to another contender, rather than his preferred destination in...

Neil deGrasse Tyson is one of the biggest fountains of knowledge on the internet, but it turns out he’s not right about everything. One YouTuber has gone to extreme lengths to prove a point to him about helicopters, after the astrophysicist and science guru posted on Twitter about them. You might think that if an engine fails in a helicopter mid-air, then it’s naturally going to plummet to the Earth, right? That’s the sentiment Tyson posted on social media in 2015, writing: “FYI: An airplane whose engine fails is a glider. A helicopter whose engine fails is a brick.” Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter From then on, Destin Sandlin from the SmarterEveryDay YouTube channel worked to prove this “misconception” wrong. “I’m going to get into the back of that helicopter and power down the engine to really see what happens. How do we get back down to Earth?” he said in a video which has been viewed more than eight million times. STRAPPED INTO A FALLING HELICOPTER - Smarter Every Day 154 www.youtube.com Sandlin was joined by helicopter pilot Gerry Friesen, who stated that he believes landing a helicopter with an engine issue is far safer than landing an airplane with a failing motor. The idea revolves around the concept of “autorotation”, with Sandlin saying: "If the rotor blade quits turning you are going to fall like a brick – but helicopter pilots have a physics trick to keep that from happening." According to the Federal Aviation Administration, autorotation is “the state of flight where the main rotor system is being turned by the force of the relative wind rather than engine power… In this case, the potential energy of altitude is converted to kinetic energy during the descent and touchdown." As Sandlin explains in the video, there’s a biting point where the helicopter blades act like a fan on descent in “pinwheel mode”, allowing safe descent to the ground. So, there is a safe way of landing a helicopter when the engine fails – and Neil deGrasse Tyson isn’t always 100 per cent right about everything, it seems. Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

The umps are at it again.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in “good condition” after being taken to the hospital on Saturday, his office

Barcelona defender Jules Kounde and Real Madrid midfielder Aurelien Tchouameni have worked with a leading neuroscientist this summer in hope of improving their mental abilities. The duo visited Ash Parker while away in the United States this summer.

Last week would have been an ideal week to go on vacation if you're an economist or, ahem, an economics reporter. That's because a boatload of new data was released.

Inter have walked away from negotiations with Chelsea over striker Romelu Lukaku.

Why Alex Anthopoulos should not make these trades for the Atlanta Braves at the deadline.Although some people think he could be pressured into it, Atlanta Braves general manager Alex Anthopoulos may not make a trade deadline deal after all, as he always operates in silence.The Braves have be...

Over 100 people were trapped for several hours in Greenway, the former home of famed British mystery writer Agatha Christie, in the English countryside on Friday.

Australia wicketkeeper Alex Carey has warned England he will repeat his controversial stumping of Jonny Bairstow if another chance arises in the rest of the Ashes series