SpaceX is gearing up for a historic mission, set to launch the first human spaceflight over Earth’s polar regions. The privately funded Fram2 mission will carry four astronauts on a four-day orbital journey.The launch is scheduled from Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the crew aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule atop a Falcon…
Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan returned to Romania early Saturday morning, where they are accused of serious crimes, including human trafficking and rape. The brothers, 38 and 36 years old, were arrested in Romania late in 2022 and were indicted formally in 2023 on allegations of their roles in a criminal organisation that exploited…
Earlier this year, I was thumbing through Facebook Marketplace when I came across a “fire piano” for sale. I clicked the listing expecting that “fire” meant “cool,” but found something far more literal: a pyrotechnic piano, MacGyvered to spit flames from its top whenever a player tickled the keys. In the brief description that accompanied…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced that his ambitious Starship rocket will make its maiden flight to Mars by the end of 2026. This is in accordance with the current development and testing of some recent hiccups through the flight testing of the rocket. The company seeks to utilise these tests to refine Starship’s design…
A mother of five narrowly avoided jail time in Australia after she was convinced of planning to sell a dead man’s toe online. 48-year-old Joanna Kinman, a resident of Melbourne pleaded guilty to offensive conduct involving human remains. She was put to trial in the Ringwood Magistrates’ Court. A mother of five narrowly avoided jail…
A group of volunteers searching for their missing relatives first received a tip last week about a mass grave hidden in western Mexico. When they arrived at an abandoned ranch outside La Estanzuela, a small rural village outside Guadalajara, they discovered three underground cremation ovens, burned human remains, hundreds of bone shards and discarded personal…
The story of how James Reason became an authority on the psychology of human error begins with a teapot. It was the early 1970s. He was a professor at the University of Leicester, in England, studying motion sickness, a process that involved spinning his subjects round and round, and occasionally revealing what they had eaten…
Archaeological excavation work at the Sima del Elefante site in Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain, where a fossil from a hominin between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years old was found. (AP) WASHINGTON: A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull…
Arindam Bagchi (File photo/X) NEW DELHI: India on Monday lashed out at the United Nations’ human rights chief for making “unfounded and baseless” comments about Kashmir and Manipur.Slamming the UN’s human rights body for having a “misplaced concern,” India took strong exception to generalised remarks that were “cherry picking” of the situation.Arindam Bagchi, Permanent Representative…
The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw foreign aid and dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development is likely to cause enormous human suffering, according to estimates by the agency itself. Among them: up to 18 million additional cases of malaria per year, and as many as 166,000 additional deaths; 200,000 children paralyzed with polio annually,…