NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its 20th close approach to the sun on June 30, 2024, matching its own distance record by coming about 4.51 million miles (7.26 million kilometers) from the solar surface.
As part of NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative, Firefly Aerospace launched eight small satellites on July 3 aboard the company's Alpha rocket. Named "Noise of Summer," the rocket successfully lifted off from Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 9:04
[SNA] Moscow -- A Meeting was held on Thursday July 4 in Moscow between Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and Russian Special Envoy for the Middle East and Africa. Hereunder the Sudan News Agency (SUNA) publishes the original text of the press statement issued by the Ministry
In her maiden speech in the Commons in 2010, she vowed to fight for "jobs, growth and prosperity".
Russia’s outsized military spending continues to blunt the impact of economic sanctions during its war in Ukraine. The World Bank said that it was upgrading the country’s economic standing to its top-tier “high-income” category from its earlier “upper-middle-income” status,
There's a new bill before federal parliament calling for housing to be considered a fundamental human right.
Around half of Americans can’t afford to take a summer vacation this year thanks to the rising costs of living , according to a new survey. Read more...
The glamorization of high-pressure work environments, like the infamous "996" culture (where staff work from 9am until 9pm six days a week), often portrays relentless dedication and long hours as key to career success.
People living in southern Australia won't have failed to notice how cold it is. Frosty nights and chilly days have been the weather for many of us since the start of July.
Summer Games Done Quick is typically a beacon for good things. Every year, players break good games and perform wild acts of digital acrobatics as they do speedruns for a good cause. And the best good thing was the goodest of good boys Peanut Butter, a four-year-old Shiba Inu,
At the start of this year, Elon Musk had so much money that he could pretty much single-handedly solve world hunger with his $251 billion fortune. However, stagnating Tesla sales , endless struggles with his takeover of Twitter and the turbulent value of Tesla stock means he’s
The man who would have made a Horizon show for Netflix has been accused of abusive behavior in the workplace.
Nineteen years ago, I covered a terrible New York music festival called Amsterjam. The theme of the fests was mash-ups, an online phenomenon that was already running out of steam in 2005. When the mash-up became a corporate-backed music fest, that meant we got the rare treat of
Our clothes are made mainly of plastic.
Nothing could have prepared me for f(x)’s “NU ABO” at 13. The cover showed a young woman blindfolded, the title melting off the right side. The music video cast five young women in a tiny stage, changing outfits and dancing less in the cutesy pointing of Girls’ Generation’s
Portuguese auteur Pedro Costa will host this year’s Creators Lab, organized and operated in Mexico by Playlab Films. The 2024 edition of the Lab will be held in Mexico, with a record 50 emerging filmmakers in attendance. Pedro Costa Lab: Mexico will run from Sept. 23 to Oct. 3
President Biden will participate in a high-stakes interview Friday with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos the television network is calling a “primetime special” at 8 p.m. The potential make-or-break interview comes more than a week after Biden's disastrous debate performance,
The naming process, the act of naming the items of the world, is as old as the first words spoken by our ancestors. We can reconstruct the stages of this process through etymology, which studies the historical development of the lexicon of a language.
Samsung estimated its second quarter operating profit will jump more than 1,450% year-over-year, sending its stock to a three-year high Friday morning. Read more...
June 25 2024 marked a new "first" in the history of spaceflight. China's robotic Chang'e 6 spacecraft delivered samples of rock back to Earth from a huge feature on the moon called the south pole–Aitken basin. After touching down on the moon's "far side," on the southern rim of
Volcanic activity has intensified in Italy as Mount Stromboli belched ash and lava off the coast of Sicily.
Shelby McFaddin, an investment analyst at Motley Fool Asset Management, spoke with Quartz for the latest installment of our “Smart Investing” video series. Read more...
A new catalyst may well catalyze a shift to greener chemistry. Chemists from Yokohama National University have successfully developed innovative catalysts containing two noble metals that demonstrate remarkable efficiency in ester-producing chemical reactions and utilize oxygen
When Katori Hall’s Starz drama, “P-Valley,” debuted in 2020, it showcased a world that had never been spotlighted on television. “P-Valley” follows the erotic dancers of the gritty but beloved strip club The Pynk, run by Uncle Clifford (Nicco Annan), the club’s
Al-Nakhalah's name has often popped up during military conflicts between the armed Palestinian factions and Israel over the decades.
Lover track, an Eras Tour mainstay for its first year, was among the sacrifices when setlist was shuffled to incorporate Tortured Poets Department songs
Health care and government were two key areas of job growth, while employment in manufacturing shrank.
Without a ceasefire and reconstruction plan, Gaza will struggle to emerge from the rubble or avoid the threat of ethnic cleansing, writes Mohammed Mourtaja.
The study found that higher ocean temperatures could threaten the unique species of shark.
An international team of researchers from the Universities of Tübingen (Dr. Armando Falcucci), Siena, and Bologna analyzed the cultural remains left by groups of early Homo sapiens at Grotta di Castelcivita in southern Italy, dating back to before the major eruption known as
Following a historic landslide win for the Labour Party in the United Kingdom's general election, Sir Keir Starmer officially became Britain’s new prime minister on Friday, ending 14 years of Conservative government. “Now our country has voted decisively for change, for
A recent study, conducted in the midst of last year's widespread protests in Israel, has uncovered extreme polarization in public opinion regarding the judicial reform introduced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
