Explorers set out to find lost WWII ships deep under the ocean
47 MINS AGO - The expedition has already found one missing ship, the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga.
NASA's all-women spacewalk makes history after spacesuit delay
5 HRS AGO - NASA has made history as Christina Koch and Jessica Meir took part in the first ever all-female Expand
5 HRS AGO - NASA has made history as Christina Koch and Jessica Meir took part in the first ever all-female spacewalk. 15 women have walked in space, all have been accompanied by men. Collapse
Just nipping out for a zero-gravity mocha! Moving to Mars review
8 HRS AGO - Design Museum, LondonAs this fascinating show makes clear, colonising the Red Planet will require Expand
8 HRS AGO - Design Museum, LondonAs this fascinating show makes clear, colonising the Red Planet will require technical genius – plus an eye for fashion and coffee you can drink upside-down‘Nuke Mars!” tweeted Elon Musk in August this year. Having launched a car into orbit and developed a self-landing rocket, the billionaire SpaceX founder seems to have set his sights on bombing the red planet. “T-shirt soon,” he added.But it wasn’t just another drug-induced whim. Musk has been contemplating the idea since 2015. By nuking the sky over the Martian poles every couple of seconds, he thinks he could create two tiny pulsing “suns” that would melt the ice and release vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It would essentially create an instant greenhouse effect, raising the temperature and air pressure of the planet – climate change on demand from the man who marketed flamethrowers for torching marshmallows. Continue reading... Collapse
How the wheels came off Facebook's Libra project
9 HRS AGO - Support for Mark Zuckerberg mission to reshape global finance is slipping away slowly but surely Expand
9 HRS AGO - Support for Mark Zuckerberg mission to reshape global finance is slipping away slowly but surely When Facebook announced plans to launch a digital currency earlier this summer, it added a full-blown revolution in global finance to its typically-vaulting Silicon Valley mission statement: to create a digital currency alongside its efforts to bring the world closer together through networks.Over the past month, that mission has gone badly awry. The Libra cryptocurrency project now faces existential threats from world leaders and central bankers worried about its harmful potential: as a vehicle for money laundering, a threat to global financial stability, open to data privacy abuse, dangerous for consumers and stripping nations of the control of their economies by privatising the money supply. Continue reading... Collapse
Royal Navy launches new recruitment drive - and it's targeting gamers
10 HRS AGO - The Royal Navy has launched a new campaign at EGX, the UK’s biggest video games event, which is Expand
10 HRS AGO - The Royal Navy has launched a new campaign at EGX, the UK’s biggest video games event, which is taking place in London this week Collapse
NASA makes history with first ever all-female spacewalk from ISS
11 HRS AGO - BREAKING: Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir have started the historic spacewalk, which is Expand
11 HRS AGO - BREAKING: Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir have started the historic spacewalk, which is the first to be performed by two females Collapse
NASA spacewalk live: Watch all-female team embark on ISS mission for first time
12 HRS AGO - Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are part of NASA’s Expedition 61 Flight, and will begin Expand
12 HRS AGO - Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are part of NASA’s Expedition 61 Flight, and will begin their spacewalk at 12:50 BST today Collapse
Martin Luther King's daughter says disinformation helped kill her fa…
13 HRS AGO - Disinformation campaigns helped lead to the assassination of Martin Luther King, the daughter of Expand
13 HRS AGO - Disinformation campaigns helped lead to the assassination of Martin Luther King, the daughter of the US civil rights champion said on Thursday. Her comments came after the head of Facebook said Collapse
Trans cyclist Rachel McKinnon defends her right to race in women's competitions
13 HRS AGO - Trans athlete McKinnon will race to defend her sprint title at the Masters track cycling Expand
13 HRS AGO - Trans athlete McKinnon will race to defend her sprint title at the Masters track cycling championships in Manchester on Saturday. Collapse
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Trump kept waiting on phone by astronauts
4 HRS AGO - The president spoke to the astronauts after they completed the first ever all-female spacewalk, in Expand
4 HRS AGO - The president spoke to the astronauts after they completed the first ever all-female spacewalk, in one giant leap for womankind. Collapse
Go back to work': outcry over deaths on Amazon's warehouse floor
5 HRS AGO - Billy Foister died last month after a heart attack at work. The incident was just one in a series Expand
5 HRS AGO - Billy Foister died last month after a heart attack at work. The incident was just one in a series of recent accidents and fatalitiesIn September, Billy Foister, a 48-year-old Amazon warehouse worker, died after a heart attack at work. According to his brother, an Amazon human resources representative informed him at the hospital that Billy had lain on the floor for 20 minutes before receiving treatment from Amazon’s internal safety responders.“How can you not see a 6ft 3in man laying on the ground and not help him within 20 minutes? A couple of days before, he put the wrong product in the wrong bin and within two minutes management saw it on camera and came down to talk to him about it,” Edward Foister said. Continue reading... Collapse
Huge hurricanes can create 'stormquakes', scientists discover
9 HRS AGO - It is hoped stormquakes could help researchers better understand ocean dynamics or even earth's Expand
9 HRS AGO - It is hoped stormquakes could help researchers better understand ocean dynamics or even earth's structure. Collapse
First all-female spacewalk begins as 'space sisters' repair ISS
10 HRS AGO - Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are part of the same astronaut class and call themselves "space Expand
10 HRS AGO - Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are part of the same astronaut class and call themselves "space sisters". Collapse
Nasa astronauts make history with first ever all-female spacewalk
11 HRS AGO - Two Nasa astronauts have conducted the first ever all-female spacewalk. More follows…
Friday briefing: Anyone's fingerprint can unlock a Samsung Galaxy S10
12 HRS AGO - Samsung says it's working to patch an S10 fingerprint bug that will unlock for any finger through Expand
12 HRS AGO - Samsung says it's working to patch an S10 fingerprint bug that will unlock for any finger through clear plastic, Three went down, leaving millions without phone service Collapse
Octopuses devour whale carcass in nightmare-inducing footage
13 HRS AGO - Researchers from the Nautilus expedition saw the nightmare-inducing scene during a recent dive to Expand
13 HRS AGO - Researchers from the Nautilus expedition saw the nightmare-inducing scene during a recent dive to Davidson Seamount off central California’s coast Collapse
Brexit: The PM needs 320 votes from MPs for his deal to pass. Is that likely?
13 HRS AGO - The prime minister needs 320 votes to pass the new Brexit deal - and initial estimates suggest he Expand
13 HRS AGO - The prime minister needs 320 votes to pass the new Brexit deal - and initial estimates suggest he is tantalisingly close. Collapse
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