Comet Neowise as seen from the Czech Republic on the morning of July 6. Jan Tláskal/Spaceweather.com Comet Neowise, the most impressive comet in nearly 25 years, is visible now. After two other promising comets — Swan and Atlas — fizzled and faded away earlier this year, Comet C/2020 F3 (aka Neowise) is […]
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Alden Ehrenreich explores a Brave New World. NBC/Peacock When I first read Aldous Huxley’s famous 1932 novel Brave New World, I expected something fusty and old-fashioned. I wasn’t prepared for how scathingly direct or unsettlingly dark it was, and still is today. The new TV adaptation, available on NBC’s streaming […]
Last month, George RR Martin updated fans on his progress with The Winds of Winter. While the 71-year-old has been working hard, he did admit that he hopes a 2021 release, rather than this year, will happen. He wrote: “Of late I have been visiting with Cersei, Asha, Tyrion, Ser […]
Fortnite developer Epic Games has released the fifth Aquaman Style challenge on PS4, Xbox One, PC, iOS, Android and Nintendo Switch. The latest Aquaman challenge features one of the best rewards yet, as players are able to unlock the Trident Pickaxe. Provided you’ve completed all five of the Aquaman challenges so […]
Approximately half of all missions to the Red Planet fail – and the Emirates Mars Mission has faced a tricky start, following a series of delays. The launch had already been pushed back by two days due to poor conditions at the Japanese facility where it was due to launch […]
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a Thursday speech about U.S. human rights advocacy abroad, called for a return to country’s “founding principles” while attacking The New York Times and criticizing recent racial justice demonstrations that saw monuments to Confederate generals and George Washington vandalized or removed. “Today, the very […]
An ocean mystery – how the blackest fish in the deep sea are so extremely black – has been solved in a study that began with a very bad photograph. “I couldn’t get a good shot – just fish silhouettes,” said Dr Karen Osborn from the Smithsonian Institution. Her detailed […]
The United Nations is warning that 265 million people could be pushed to the point of starvation by the end of 2020 with the first increase in global poverty since 1990 unless urgent action is taken. Humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock made the single largest appeal in U.N. history Thursday, seeking […]