This week on Tuesday, Starhopper – the early test prototype of SpaceX’s Mars-colonizing Starship spacecraft, took its last flight into the South Texas skies, marking the fourth and final test jaunt. The flight lasted one minute and it took the prototype several hundred feet up and then flew it back down on a sideways translation […]
The skis above Bristol began to be full of color from yesterday, when the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta started at 06:30 BST with dozens of balloons heading over the city towards the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Over 140 hot air balloons from around the world have gathered at Europe’s largest annual hot air balloon meeting. Organizers
India has successfully launched a moon mission today, the aim is to soft land a rover on the moon – a time of reference for a nation that is trying to become a space superpower. The moon mission is called Chandrayaan-2, meaning ”moon vehicle” in Sanskrit, and it took off from the Satish Dhawan Space
The findings of researchers at Masaryk University’s Research Center for Neuroscience in the Czech Republic have found that the mental health of at least three generations of the same family could be affected. The researchers found that the relatives of concentration camp survivors had substantially less gray matter or neurons in the brain areas responsible
A new study published at the beginning of the month in the journal Water Resources Research shows that torrential rains have become more common nowadays compared to the middle of the last century when global warming first started to intensify. The world is getting rainier because as the climate warms, the atmosphere can hold and
Online shopping retail, Amazon, is coming to high street in Britain with a chain of pop-up shops selling everything from food and drinks to electronics, beauty products and homeware. The first of the 10 stores, branded “Clicks and Mortar”, opened on St. Mary’s Gate in central Manchester, north England, this week, with more stores in
Many people are now associating Sears with store closings and liquidation sales, but now, new Sears Home & Life stores are opening in different locations across the US. The popular retailer re-launched last week as a smaller, boutique-type chain by opening its first scaled-down store locations in the United States, more exactly in Lafayette, Louisiana,
Usually, tourists visiting the Ha Long Bay in Vietnam opt for cruise views, but starting this month, they also have the option to hop on a helicopter to see the area’s famous karst rock formations from the skies. There is now a Ha Long heli made up of five-seater helicopters that can soar up to
Aviation contributes to about 2% of the world’s global emissions. IATA, the airline trade body predicts passenger numbers will double to 8.2 billion a year by 2037, while Boeing foresees a demand for 42,700-plus new aircraft over the next 20 years. That is why the European Union wants the industry to reduce CO2 emissions by
The 30-year-old rugby player is a known devoted Christian and his Instagram page is filled with Christian messages among which a most recent one was directed to homosexuals in particular, saying that “hell awaits” for “drunks, homosexuals, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists, idolators”. The player was found by Rugby Australia’s code of conduct to have
