Uncrewed Spectrum test rocket’s failure seconds after blast-off said to have produced extensive data nonetheless A test rocket intended to kickstart satellite launches from Europe fell to the ground and exploded less than a minute after takeoff from Norway on Sunday, in what the German startup Isar Aerospace had described...
Dazzling planet, moon and stars tableau to usher in April
The pinnacle of this celestial display will be the waxing crescent moon cruising past the Pleiades star cluster We start April with a glorious tableau of planet, moon and stars. The chart shows the view looking west-south-west from London at 2030 BST on 1 April. The last of the twilight...
RFK Jr says they are poisoning us, influencers call them unnatural – but what is the truth about seed oils?
The common cooking ingredient has sparked fierce debate since the US health secretary urged people to avoid it It’s curious that something so bland could cause so much controversy. Most of us have a bottle of seed oil, normally called vegetable oil in the UK, in our kitchens – a...
Mathematician Adam Kucharski: ‘Our concepts of what we can prove are shifting’
The epidemiologist who advised on Ebola and Covid discusses the value of evidence in light of AI and social media, and how the notion of fact has long been divisive Adam Kucharski is a professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. As a mathematician and epidemiologist, he...
Most US Institute of Peace workers get late-night word of their mass firing
Most employees at the U.S. Institute of Peace, a congressionally created and funded think tank now taken over by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, have received email notices of their mass firing — the latest step in the Trump administra...
Myanmar’s main resistance movement announces a partial ceasefire to facilitate earthquake relief efforts
Myanmar's main resistance movement announces a partial ceasefire to facilitate earthquake relief efforts
Woman and 2 children killed after car crashes into them at Brooklyn crosswalk
Authorities in New York City say a woman and two of her children have been killed by a car crash as they were walking in Brooklyn, and a third child was critically injured
Deputies won’t face charges in deadly 2022 shootout on California highway, prosecutors say
Prosecutors in California say San Bernardino County deputies involved in a shootout that killed a teenage girl and her fugitive father will not face any criminal charges
University of Minnesota leaders say ICE has detained a graduate student
The University of Minnesota says one of its graduate students is being detained by U.S. immigration authorities
Trump says he won’t ‘fire people’ over Signal messages, reiterates support of national security team
President Donald Trump is making his clearest commitment to not fire anyone over an embarrassing accidental leak of his administration’s plans for an airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen