By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA’s decision to send Boeing’s Starliner capsule home without astronauts comes after years of missteps by the aircraft maker in its space business and casts doubt on the unit’s future, analysts and industry sources said. Taking NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station (ISS)… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. Matching footprints discovered in Africa and South America reveal that dinosaurs traveled on a kind of highway 120 million years before the two continents separated, according to a new study. Paleontologists have found more than… Read More »
Barron Trump, the youngest of Donald Trump’s children, is embarking on one of the first big adventures of adulthood this fall: He’s leaving home for college. The 18-year-old, who recently graduated from Florida’s prestigious Oxbridge Academy, will study in New York, his father revealed this week. The exact university is not yet known, but NYU,… Read More »
As humans change the planet’s climate and ecosystems, scientists are looking to Earth’s history to help predict what will come out of climate change. To that end, massive ice structures like glaciers serve as nature’s freezers, archiving detailed records of past climates and ecosystems, including viruses. We are a team of microbiologists and paleoclimatologists who… Read More »
Nurses have written an open letter to Sir Keir Starmer warning that the Lucy Letby case leaves them “terrified” of continuing to work in the NHS if they are held unfairly responsible for deaths in their care. The group of 19 nurses came together to argue that Letby’s latest convictions had “consequences” for the nursing… Read More »
For Hazel Wood, getting beauty treatments isn’t just an occasional thing. The 28-year-old influencer spends around £500 a month on maintenance appointments. Of that, £80 goes on pedicures and manicures, £70 on brow lamination (a chemical solution is used to straighten and reshape the brow hairs) and £60 on her lashes. In addition, she also… Read More »
Nearly a third of the world’s population, approximately 3 billion people, lack access to the internet or have poor connections due to infrastructure constraints, economic inequalities and geographic isolation. Today’s satellites and ground-based networks leave communications gaps where, due to geographic location, traditional ground-based communications equipment would be prohibitively expensive to install. High-altitude platform stations—telecommunications… Read More »
The first French phrases that Nigerian teenager Sara* learned when she arrived in the city of Bouaké were:Alors beiser” And “very sweet”, initiating sexual activity and then pretending to experience pleasure during the act. Her mother’s best friend’s daughter told her she was going to Ivory Coast to sell body lotion. Instead, an older woman—a… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An artist’s concept image of a superconductor floating in the air. | Source: ktsimage via Getty Images Scientists have found a fundamental process required for superconductivity to occur at higher temperatures than previously thought. It could be a small… Read More »
Human brain samples collected at autopsy in early 2024 contained more tiny pieces of plastic than samples collected eight years ago, according to a preprint published online in May. The preprint is a study that has not yet been peer-reviewed and has not been published in a journal. “The concentrations we saw in brain tissue… Read More »