New Shepard rocket fails shortly after launch, but uncrewed capsule jettisons successfullyAn uncrewed rocket belonging to Jeff Bezos’s space company, Blue Origin, failed shortly after launch in Texas on Monday morning, a potential setback for the Amazon founder’s wider ambitions of sending humans into orbit.The malfunction of the New Shepard booster, a type of rocket that is similar to the one...
Dr Susan Howard says psychologists in the 1980s were inspired to challenge the system when treating patients with mental health problemsAs a semi-retired clinical psychologist, I find it depressing that Dr Sanah Ahsan’s article (I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health, 6 September) should sound so revolutionary. When I trained in the early...
Research shows Sydney residents devising increasingly sophisticated ways to keep highly intelligent but ‘bloody annoying’ birds out of household wasteGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastCockatoos and humans are locked in what Australian researchers have described as “an interspecies innovation arms race”.Sydney residents are resorting to increasingly...
This week the brightest objects in the constellation are the planet Saturn and the star Deneb AlgediIt is a great time of the year to search out Capricornus, the sea goat. This constellation was identified a few thousand years BC in Babylonian astronomy as the goat-fish, a hybrid creature with the body and head of a goat and the tail of a fish. In Greek mythology, the constellation is often...
‘Internet commentary personnel’ told to deluge social media with thoughts on anything from cooking to their personal moodSee all our coronavirus coverageChinese censors have reportedly been ordered to flood social media with innocuous posts about Xinjiang to drown out mounting complaints of food and medication shortages in a region under lockdown for more than a month.The Ili Kazakh...