After reviewing the data, Nasa managers signed off on a second rollout and the next phase of checks, which take place at the pad. If those tests are completed without incident, Artemis II will become the first crewed mission in the programme, paving the way for another crewed test flight, Artemis III in Earth orbit,…
A promotional video for the album shows RM, V, Jin, Jungkook, Jimin, j-hope and Suga listening to that wax cylinder recording, creating a connection across 130 years of history and placing them in a tradition of exporting Korean culture to the world.
Community tensions – and reports of both antisemitism and Islamophobia – have been rising in Australia since Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023, killing more than 1,200 people and taking 251 others hostage. Israel’s offensive in Gaza has led to more than 72,000 Palestinian deaths, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
India’s environment ministry has told state pollution boards to let restaurants and hotels temporarily switch to biomass (wood, dried crops, animal manure), fuel pellets, kerosene and coal for a month, prioritising cooking gas for households and essential sectors.
Firstly, because some producers are heavily exposed to disruption in the Middle East. ExxonMobil, for instance, has operations at Qatar’s Ras Laffan industrial hub, where production has been shut down since early March, and which has now been hit by Iranian missile attacks, causing “extensive damage”.
According to experts at the local National Drought Management Authority, the rains have been uneven, with some parts of Turkana receiving little to none, while the rainfall remains unpredictable and insufficient to offset the impact of the last two failed rainy seasons.
Gas prices, which had already been rising since the start of the conflict, surged in response to the Iranian attack on Qatar. The UK benchmark peaked briefly at almost 183p per therm on Thursday before easing back to 154.8p, an 11.3% increase from Wednesday’s level. European prices also rose by more than 10%.
A probiotic cream could make visits to extremely cold environments a little bit safer Aurora Photos, USA Polar explorers and deep-water divers could one day apply a probiotic cream to their skin to ward off frostbite or hypothermia. This optimism comes after scientists genetically engineered bacteria that naturally live on our skin to detect temperature,…
Gerd Faltings has won the 2026 Abel Prize Peter Badge/Typos1 Gerd Faltings has won the 2026 Abel Prize, considered the Nobel prize of mathematics, for a groundbreaking proof which took mathematics by storm in 1983. His contributions helped establish one of the most important fields in modern mathematics, arithmetic geometry. The crowning achievement of Faltings,…
There is a limit to how many times you can fold a crêpe ResonX /Jasmin Schoenzart If you gently fold a disc made of some flexible and possibly tasty material, what makes it stay folded? And how many times can you fold it before it puts up a fight and flips back? A physicist from…