Physical sciences

The weather will remain cloudy today. In the afternoon, rain showers will start in the southern part of the country under the influence of the Mediterranean. In the night of Monday to Tuesday the rain will become stronger and it will encompass most of Bulgaria. 

Nine-year-old Laurent Simons of Belgium has an IQ of 145 and will become the world's youngest undergraduate student, Daily Mail reports. The boy is due to graduate next month at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. with a major in Electrical Engineering, having completed the entire training course in just nine months.

NASA's Maryland Space Center experts in have confirmed that there are traces of water vapor above the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, Science Alert reported.

They analyzed data obtained from the Hawaiian Keck Observatory over 17 observations with a spectrograph to study the chemical compositions of other planets' atmospheres by scanning the infrared light they release or absorb

An earthquake of magnitude 5.3 was recorded off the coast of Japan at 176 km. from Katsuura City, Tiba Prefecture, BGNES reported.

The quake struck at 05.51 Bulgarian time.

It was at a depth of 10 kilometers.

There is no information about victims, devastation, tsunami threat or injured people.

A moderate earthquake struck in the sea area between the islands of Hydra and Serifos on Friday night, according to a preliminary reading of the Athens Institute of Geodynamics.

The epicenter of the 4.1-magnitude tremor was located 42 kilometers southeast of Hydra, at a depth of 13.1 kilometers. 

The European Commission's Joint Research Center (JRC), emergency services and the local community on the eastern Aegean island of Kos will hold a tsunami drill next Tuesday morning (Nov. 19), the Commission announced last Friday.

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck 134 kilometers northwest of Malaku, Indonesia, according to the United States Geological Survey, quoted by the Independent.

The tremor was at a depth of 62km, USGS reported.

A tsunami warning was issued but it was lifted two hours later.

The quake struck between the Sulawesi and Halmahera islands.

Daytime speed limits on Dutch roads must be lowered to 100 km / h in order for the country to cope with its emissions and nitrogen oxide pollution, Dutch media quoted by economic.bg.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte said it was an "unpleasant measure" but necessary. The existing limit of 130 km / h will still be allowed overnight.

It will be mostly cloudy today. Rain is mainly expected in the southwestern part of the country. Light to moderate southeasterly wind will blow. The maximum temperatures will range between 16C and 21C, reaching 23-24C in places in northeastern Bulgaria. Atmospheric pressure is lower than the monthly average and will continue to decrease.

A joint statement by some European countries voiced on Nov. 11 "extreme concern" over Iran's latest move to restart enriching uranium at an underground facility.