A private U.S. lunar lander is expected to stop working Tuesday, its mission cut short after landing sideways near the south pole of the moon. Intuitive Machines, the Houston company that built and flew the spacecraft, said Monday it will continue to collect data until sunlight no longer shines on the solar panels. Based on … Read more
Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email The former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who has been charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden, has been ordered by a California judge to stay in jail. The 43-year-old appeared … Read more
Ringtail. Credit: Jonathan Armstrong, Oregon State University Secretive species can pose special conservation challenges simply because they are so skilled at staying under the radar that researchers have uncovered comparatively little about their basic needs. One such species is the ringtail, a relative of the raccoon that has cultural significance to many Indigenous peoples in … Read more
Astronomers have spotted a star with a dark metallic âscarâ on its surface, thought to be the imprint of a doomed planetary fragment that came too close to its host. The white dwarf star, called WD 0816-310, is a dense, Earth-sized remnant of a star about 63 light years away that would have been similar … Read more
Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email The speaker has refused to grant the SNP a second debate on a humanitarian ceasefire as the party demanded an investigation into the chaos surrounding the Gaza ceasefire vote last week. Sir Lindsay … Read more
A catalase reaction in a reaction chamber produces gas which pushes ink along a channel. The flow rate is directly tied to the concentration of catalase, itself connected to the original concentration of the analyte. Credit: Tokyo Metropolitan University Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have engineered a new micro total analysis system that quantifies a … Read more
When it comes to a typical psychopath, the suited and booted Patrick Bateman from the novel American Psycho might spring to mind, but, according to one expert, the number of women with the neuropsychiatric disorder could be far greater than previously thought. Psychopaths are generally considered to lack empathy and guilt, exhibit antisocial behaviour, lie … Read more
Sign up to Miguel Delaney’s Reading the Game newsletter sent straight to your inbox for free Sign up to Miguel’s Delaney’s free weekly newsletter Pep Guardiola is relishing the decisive phase of the season and has promised Manchester City are again “going for it”. The treble winners are in strong contention to repeat last season’s … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of bio-scientists affiliated with a host of institutions across the U.S. has developed a gene editing technique to produce newborn pigs immune to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, also known as blue-ear pig disease. The paper is published in The CRISPR Journal. In the 1980s, blue-ear pig disease had … Read more
The writer-activist Wendy Mitchell, who has died aged 68, won hearts and minds advocating for living positively with dementia. She was determined to remind people that those living with the disease are not “sufferers” and that there is “a beginning, a middle and an end to the disease – with so much life to be … Read more
