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Musk in X spat with Danish astronaut over ‘abandoned’ ISS crew
Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen speaks at the Kennedy Space Center in August 2023. The world’s richest man Elon Musk got into a heated row Thursday with a Danish astronaut who…
Hurricane-proofed downtown skyscrapers unexpectedly vulnerable to ‘bouncing’ winds
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Houston, we have a problem. The “Space City” boasts 50 buildings over 150 meters tall. These were designed to withstand hurricanes, to which Texas is prone.…
Odds plummet that asteroid will hit Earth in 2032
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The chance that an asteroid capable of wiping out a city will hit Earth in eight years has been cut in half to around 1.5 percent,…
Impacts of workplace bullying on sleep can be ‘contagious’ between partners, research suggests
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Workplace bullying affects not only the employee’s sleep but their partner’s too, according to new research published today. Exposure to bullying by superiors and/or colleagues has…
Ahead of COP30, Brazil’s Lula pushes for oil drilling in the Amazon
Hosting a COP in the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest, has raised hopes that this year’s UN climate summit in Brazil will be free from the shadow of fossil…
Prehistoric jewellery has cosmic origins
A study of prehistoric jewellery from the Częstochowa Museum collection has revealed meteoric iron in three bracelets. Meteoric iron is a naturally occurring metal and a remnant of the early…
‘Deaths of despair’ more than double in the US over two decades
Credit: Keira Burton from Pexels The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is a global standard for classifying diseases, deaths and health conditions and has been used for more than a…
‘Jupiter Ascending’ came out 10 years ago, and we’re still not sure how the Matrix creator’s space opera went so wrong
Whenever someone brings up Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s body of work, The Matrix is always at the center of the conversation. Maybe Speed Racer and Cloud Atlas get some mentions…
Ranger 8 moon photos aid in Apollo site selection
Impact sites of Rangers 7, 8 and 9. Credit: NASA / JPL Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface. While most scientists…
