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Nasa has assembled the key elements of its powerful SLS rocket.
27 articles from SATURDAY 12.6.2021
Nasa has assembled the key elements of its powerful SLS rocket.
Bids in 10-minute auction started at $4.8m for 20 July trip on Blue Origin spacecraft with Bezos and his brother.Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin has sold the spare seat of the company’s 20 July New Shepard space rocket blast-off for $28m, the company announced on Saturday. Related: Rocket men: Bezos, Musk and Branson scramble for space supremacy Continue...
G7 summit hears move would slash the cost of jabs and accelerate the rollout of programmes across the developing worldBritain and Germany were last night under intense pressure to drop their resistance to proposals that would slash the cost of Covid-19 vaccines, following accusations that an agreement at the G7 summit to fund a billon doses will give the world’s poorest countries “crumbs from...
The neuroscientist, broadcaster and author on the evolution of the brain, the mystery of consciousnesss, and why the next generation will be much smarter than usDavid Eagleman, 50, is an American neuroscientist, bestselling author and presenter of the BBC series The Brain, as well as co-founder and chief executive officer of Neosensory, which develops devices for sensory substitution. His area of...
Prime minister stresses importance of being cautious, as cases of Delta variant continue to riseCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBoris Johnson has dropped a heavy hint that the final lifting of lockdown restrictions in England will be delayed by up to a month, as the government prepares to make a final decision over the weekend.The prime minister, who is hosting the G7...
Scientists advise four-week delay to June 21 reopening as cases of Delta variant and hospitalisations doubleExperts – including government scientific advisers – have urged against lifting England’s coronavirus lockdown restrictions on 21 June, warning: “We don’t want to go backwards”.It comes amid reports that lockdown easing will be delayed by four weeks. Continue...
On the first hot weekend of the summer, Richard Knapp put up a sign outside Mother’s Ruin, a bar tucked in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. It had two arrows: one pointing vaccinated people indoors, another pointing unvaccinated people outdoors. https://www.instagram.com/p/CPsh43GtmgW/ The Instagram post showing the sign (above) quickly went viral among European anti-vaxxers on Reddit....
Norway, Western Europe's biggest oil producer, plans to continue exploration and drilling in coming decades, the government said Friday, despite concerns about its impact on the climate.
Turns out the comic books were wrong.
Japanese chemist Ei-ichi Negishi who won the Nobel prize for developing a method for creating complex chemicals necessary for manufacturing drugs and electronics has died aged 85, his US university said.
In 1950s Cape Dorset, a northern service officer and Inuit artist came together to create a wild experiment in locally-designed...
Retired 79-year-old John Stimpson started making the boxes as a hobby and now does it full-time.
Experts say three billionaires have upended the traditional model for human spaceflight and are shaping a thriving new eraIt was a week in which two space-faring billionaires tussled again in their futuristic game of cosmic oneupmanship. And this time, for once, Elon Musk was not at the party.The declaration that Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and world’s richest man, was heading into space next...
Driving force behind change of heart was being able to travel and see family, researchers sayCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMore than half of the people in the UK who were firmly against getting vaccinated at around the time the first dose was administered have had a jab, a study has suggested.Researchers at the University of Bristol and King’s College London also...
For the first time, the boundary of the heliosphere has been mapped, giving scientists a better understanding of how solar and interstellar winds interact.