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Getty Images Sir Chris Hoy performed the baton ceremony before the men’s cycling sprint finals at this year’s Paris Olympics Six-time Olympic cycling champion Sir Chris Hoy has announced that his cancer is terminal. In an interview with the Sunday Times, he says doctors have told him he has betweenContinue Reading

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The use of Palestinian civilians as ‘human baits’ in Gaza demonstrates how racism informs Israel’s warfare practices., Neve Gordon is Professor of International Law at Queen Mary University of London. The use of human shields in war is not a new phenomenon. Militaries have forced civilians to serve as human shieldsContinue Reading

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A new study has found that oceanographic connectivity (the movement and exchange of water between different parts of the ocean) is a key influence for fish abundance across the Western Indian Ocean (WIO). Connectivity particularly impacted herbivorous reef fish groups, which are most critical to coral reef resilience, providing evidenceContinue Reading

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Tearful Ngannou dedicates his comprehensive heavyweight title win to the memory of his late 15-month-old son Kobe., Cameroon’s Francis Ngannou (L) and Brazil’s Renan Ferreira stare each other down during a weigh-in in Riyadh, October 18, 2024 [Fayez Nureldine/AFP] Cameroon’s Francis Ngannou made a triumphant return to mixed martial artsContinue Reading

SpaceX to launch 20 Eutelsat OneWeb broadband satellites to space on Oct. 20

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 20 internet satellites for Eutelsat OneWeb from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Oct. 20, 2024. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX sent a set of internet satellites to orbit for another company early Sunday morning (Oct. 20). SpaceX launched the last batch of Eutelsat OneWeb’s V1 satellites from California’s VandenbergContinue Reading

‘Starfield: Shattered Space’ is outlandish enough, but won’t alter your perception of the game (review)

(Image credit: Futute/Bethesda) Starfield’s hopeful exploration of mankind’s future among the stars (with a healthy dose of zany sci-fi thrown in too) seemed to convince enough critics when the game launched a little over a year ago, but it also faced harsh criticism from longtime Bethesda fans and players expecting much more advanced game design.Continue Reading