Virgin Galactic is set to launch its first commercial flight today. It would take passengers to the edge of space. A three-man crew from Italy will be on board the rocket plane operated by British billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s company, along with an astronaut instructor, and will carry out 13 […]
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The US Coast Guard believes it has recovered human remains from the wreckage of the Titan submersible. The vessel was pulled from the seabed days after it imploded on its way down to the Titanic wreckage, around two miles below sea level. US medical officials will now conduct formal analysis […]
BUFFALO, Mo. — A second man has been sentenced to life in prison for the death of a woman who was kept in a cage and dismembered in southwest Missouri in 2021. Timothy Norton was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty in Dallas County court to first-degree murder in the death […]
Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers have been able to “hear” the celestial hum of powerful gravitational waves, created by collisions between black holes, echoing across the universe for the first time. Their observations […]
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday picked a conservative scholar and an outspoken critic of North Korea’s human rights record as the country’s new unification minister handling relations with Pyongyang in a cabinet reshuffle. The nomination of Kim Yung-ho, a political science professor at Sungshin […]
Everything pointed to bowling first. The skies were brooding, the air was moist, the pitch was green and the floodlights were on. When Ben Stokes won the toss and reconfirmed an England XI now featuring a four-pronged seam attack, not even a captain known for flipping convention could resist the […]
WASHINGTON — The Spaceport Company, a startup developing floating launch pads for space rockets, is one of 17 companies selected to receive government funding this year under the National Security Innovation Capital program. The NSIC program, run by the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, allocated $35 million in 2023 funding to […]
Participants at a session about the study of religious leaders on psilocybin, including Kamal Abu-Shamsieh, Jaime Clark-Soles, Rabbi Zac Kamenetz and Don Lattin Psychedelic Science 2023 After taking psilocybin, religious leaders report that the experience brought them closer to God or the divine, reinvigorated the practice of their faith and […]