Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The actor Gillian Anderson has just released a book of sexual fantasies. Titled Want, it catalogs a diverse range of fantasies submitted anonymously by women from around the world. It is not the first to do so. In 1973, American author Nancy Friday published My Secret Garden, a volume that provoked … Read more
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. What you … Read more
The two astronauts stuck at the International Space Station since June have welcomed their new ride home with the arrival of a SpaceX capsule. SpaceX launched the rescue mission on Saturday with a downsized crew of two astronauts and two empty seats reserved for Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who will return in 2025. WATCH … Read more
Average spectrum of J1023 normalized to the emission of the continuum. The emission lines studied in this work are highlighted. Credit: Messa et al., 2024. Using the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), astronomers from Italy and Spain have carried out high-temporal-resolution optical spectroscopic observations of a transitional millisecond pulsar designated PSR J1023+0038. Results of the observational … Read more
Large swathes of eastern and central Nepal have been inundated since Friday with flash floods reported in several rivers and extensive damage to the country’s highways. Residents of Nepal’s flood-hit capital returned to their mud-caked homes on Sunday to survey the wreckage of devastating floods that have killed at least 104 people across the Himalayan … Read more
Traders work on the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Andrew Kelly | Reuters This report is from today’s CNBC Daily Open, our international markets newsletter. CNBC Daily Open brings investors up to speed on everything they need to know, no matter where they are. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. What … Read more
This photo provided by The Peregrine Fund and the Bureau of Land Management shows California condors inside a pen before being released on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024 from Vermillion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from the Grand Canyon’s North Rim. Credit: The Peregrine Fund and the Bureau of Land Management … Read more
Beach chairs are piled up after Hurricane Helene hit Treasure Island with high surge waters. Michael Ward—who has lived on Treasure Island, off Florida’s Gulf coast, for 33 years—decided to ride out Hurricane Helene despite an order to evacuate. It was a decision he quickly regretted. Instead of going with his wife to a friend’s … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Young people in Britain could be forgiven for despairing at the financial pressures they face—and feeling that previous generations enjoyed a much fairer economic environment. Then just to add to their worries about home ownership and a precarious jobs market, along comes the gloomy announcement that the UK’s public debt is … Read more
by Sarah Legge, Braedan Taylor, Jaana Dielenberg, Pius Gregory and Rachel Paltridge, The Conversation Bustard tracks across a dune on Anangu Country. Bustards, or bush turkeys, are a culturally significant game species. Credit: Jaana Dielenberg / Biodiversity Council As animals move across the desert, they leave tracks, diggings and droppings. For skilled trackers, reading these … Read more
