Australian graduates as astronaut at ESA ceremony in Cologne
Australian graduates as astronaut at ESA ceremony in Cologne
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Popular MechanicsA Remarkable New Thruster Could Achieve Escape Velocity—and Interplanetary Travel
Scientists are on the brink of a propulsion breakthrough.
- Futurism
Spacecraft Takes Close Up Video of the Sun, Revealing Otherworldly Hellscape
The European Space Agency has released an incredible video of the Sun's roiling surface, which was taken by its Solar Orbiter last year. The video shows strands of energized particles leaving the star's lower atmosphere in the form of "coronal rain," with small eruptions of plasma dotting a fuzzy, "coronal moss" surface — a […]
- Miami Herald
‘Rare’ ocean predator — with ‘blade-like teeth’ — seen off coast of UK, photo shows
The “rare” visitor was just one of dozens of species spotted during a yearslong survey.
- CNN
Scientists reveal the face of a Neanderthal who lived 75,000 years ago
A Neanderthal was buried 75,000 years ago, and experts painstakingly pieced together what she looked like. The striking recreation is featured in a new Netflix documentary, “Secrets of the Neanderthals.”
- CNN
Japan’s ‘Moon Sniper’ keeps baffling experts by waking up. It has shared images from its latest lunar ‘day’
Japan’s “Moon Sniper” wasn’t designed for extreme lunar temperature swings. But the spacecraft has endured three long lunar nights and keeps returning new images.
- WKBW - Buffalo Scripps
Don't throw away your eclipse glasses; here is what you can do with them instead
Are your eclipse glasses still lying around your house? Don't throw them away. Here's what you can do with them instead.
- The Canadian Press
A wild orangutan used a medicinal plant to treat a wound, scientists say
WASHINGTON (AP) — An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported Thursday. Scientists observed Rakus pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal plant used by people throughout Southeast Asia to treat pain and inflammation. The adult male orangutan then used his fingers to apply the plant juices to an injury on the right cheek. Afterward, he presse
- The Canadian Press
Russia proposes UN resolution on banning weapons in space, after vetoing similar UN-Japan draft
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia has circulated a U.N. resolution calling on all countries to take urgent action to prevent putting weapons in outer space “for all time” a week after it vetoed a U.S.-Japan resolution to stop an arms race in space. The Russian draft resolution, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, goes further than the U.S.-Japan proposal, not only calling for efforts to stop weapons from being deployed in outer space but for preventing “the threat or use of force in outer spa
- PA Media: UK News
Parrots taught to video call friends ‘prefer live chats over recorded messages’
The findings could pave the way for a future with an ‘animal-centred internet’, researchers say.
- Engadget
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft may finally take its first crewed flight next week
Boeing's Starliner crew capsule is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Launch Complex-41 in Florida on Monday, May 6. The launch window opens at 10:34PM ET. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will be on board.
- Sky News
Why the moon's south pole is the chequered flag of space race 2.0
The far side of the moon is rugged and mysterious. It aims to visit the same area near the south pole visited by its predecessor Chang'e 4 in 2019. The intended destination is the Aitken basin, a 2,500km-wide impact crater, one of the oldest in the solar system.
- Reuters
Bird flu likely circulated in US cows for four months before diagnosis -paper
Bird flu likely circulated in U.S. dairy cows on a limited basis for about four months before federal officials confirmed the disease that has now spread to nine states, according to a new federally funded research paper. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported the first-ever H5N1 virus infection in a dairy cow in Texas on March 25, following reports of decreased milk yields in multiple states. The USDA has said it believes wild birds, which can carry the virus, introduced H5N1 to cattle.
- CNN
H5N1 bird flu was circulating in dairy cows for four months before it was detected, USDA scientists say
Bird flu was probably circulating in dairy cows for at least four months before it was confirmed to be the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus, according to a new analysis of genomic data by scientists at the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal Disease Center.
- CNN
China launches moon probe as space race with US heats up
China launched an uncrewed lunar mission Friday that aims to bring back samples from the far side of the moon for the first time, in a potentially major step forward for the country’s ambitious space program.
- Miami Herald
Injured orangutan observed treating his own wound with medicinal plant, scientists say
Is this the history of medicine in action?
- Reuters
Boeing sending first astronaut crew to space after years of delay
Boeing is poised to send the first Starliner space capsule with a crew of humans into orbit next week, giving it a long-delayed chance to score a badly needed win as it struggles to compete with Elon Musk's SpaceX. The CST-100 Starliner test mission, a years-delayed milestone after more than $1 billion in cost overruns, will ferry two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) in a final demonstration before the spacecraft can be approved to fly routine space trips under the space agency's commercial crew program. NASA in recent years has backed a new generation of privately built spacecraft that can ferry its astronauts and other customers to the ISS and, under its more ambitious Artemis program, to the moon and eventually Mars.
- Snopes
Fact Check: Blurry Telescopic Image Allegedly Shows Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon. Here's How We Confirmed It
A round, celestial object that had a similar appearance to Earth could be seen in the fuzzy image.
- BANG Showbiz
Britney Spears sparks fears for mental health after being photographed topless and wrapped in blanket
After being snapped being escorted to emergency services topless, wrapped in a blanket and with cuts on her knees amid reports she was involved in a bust-up, Britney Spears has sparked fears for her mental health.
- The Daily Beast
Hope Hicks Breaks Down on the Stand
Carlos Barria/ReutersHope Hicks, Donald Trump’s first political PR guru and presumed holder of all his dirty secrets, started crying on the stand as the former president’s legal team questioned her at his New York criminal trial on Friday.Hicks instantly broke down when Trump defense lawyer Emile Bove began his cross-examination, asking her about how she was initially hired to work with the Trump Organization. After a brief break was called to allow her to compose herself, Hicks returned to the
- HuffPost
Judge Calls Out Trump For Making False Claims About Gag Order
Trump may be trying to wriggle his way out of testifying, which he'd previously pledged to do.