This live blog is now closed. Full report – Nasa’s Artemis II rocket lifts off for historic moon mission There’s potentially alarming news from AccuWeather about a solar flare, which the forecasting service says could affect the Artemis mission. While not an official Nasa source for weather and climate information...
FA Cup buildup, Championship action and latest on Italian turmoil: football news – live
⚽️ News and buildup ahead of EFL matches⚽️ Read Football Daily | Follow us on BlueSky There’s a full EFL programme today, starting with Middlesbrough v Millwall and Doncaster v Walsall at 12.30pm. I won’t type all the fixtures because that would be an arthritic mistake when I can just...
Artemis II astronauts rocket towards the moon after breaking free of Earth’s orbit
Spacecraft’s engine fired up for six minutes to propell astronauts on their three-day voyage towards Earth’s natural satellite The four Artemis astronauts have fired up their spacecraft’s engine to break away from Earth’s orbit and zoomed towards the moon, a milestone that commits Nasa to the first crewed lunar flyby...
Sex at arm’s length? Male octopuses use specialised arm to mate, scientists find
Sensory organ in male cephalopod able to detect female hormone progesterone, even if male cannot see partner Sex might seem an intimate act, but scientists have shed fresh light on how octopuses manage it at arm’s length. Male octopuses use a specialised arm called the hectocotylus to place a package...
As satellites fill Earth’s orbit, the space race risks becoming an environmental crisis
In this week’s newsletter: From pollution in the upper atmosphere to mounting debris, experts warn the rapid expansion in space could threaten our planet • Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Our relationship with space is changing rapidly. For almost all of human history,...
Archaeologists discover wreck of Danish warship sunk by Nelson 225 years ago
Divers in race against time to unearth wreck of the Dannebroge before seabed becomes construction site More than 200 years after being sunk by Adm Horatio Nelson and the British fleet, a Danish warship has been discovered on the seabed of Copenhagen harbour by marine archaeologists. Working in thick sediment...
Humanity returns to the Moon, but Outlook still doesn’t work
A clip from NASA's livestream quickly circulated on social media, capturing the moment astronauts flagged the problem. The glitch added an unexpectedly relatable note to an otherwise historic launch. Read Entire Article
Dell’s new XPS 14 dominates MacBook Air with 43 hours of battery life in web browsing test
Tests conducted by Hardware Canucks show that the XPS 14 delivers exceptional battery life, lasting more than 43 hours on a single charge while browsing the web with variable refresh rate enabled. During the test, the screen refresh rate was reduced to 1Hz. The laptop tested features an Intel Core......
Developer rebuilds Doom using only CSS and HTML, turning divs into a full 3D game engine
Leenheer is best known for creating HTML5test.com, the WhichBrowser user-agent parser. He began exploring a CSS-based Doom renderer after completing an earlier experiment that ran the game on an oscilloscope, reusing code to extract map data from the original WAD file. Read Entire Article
Hitachi and MOL plan to turn retired ships into floating data centers
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Hitachi have signed a memorandum of understanding to build and operate floating data centers hosted on repurposed ships. The two Japanese corporations aim to develop and commercialize a novel approach to the data center business, believing that a seafaring solution could significantly improve convenience and......