‘Starship in space’: See amazing photos from SpaceX megarocket’s Flight 9 test mission
SpaceX’s Starship megarocket soars above Earth on its ninth test flight, on May 27, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX) SpaceX’s Starship megarocket tends to put on a show, and its latest test flight was no exception. That mission, the ninth ever for the roughly 400-foot-tall (122 meters) Starship, lifted off from SpaceX’s Starbase site in SouthContinue Reading
Missing Mind’s Eye: Solving the Mystery of Aphantasia
An estimated 1 to 4% of people have aphantasia, a condition where they don’t experience mental imagery or a ‘mind’s eye.’ Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia is now revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences. Correction: February 10, 2025 Joel Pearson is aContinue Reading
Rachel Reeves announces £15bn investment for trams, trains and buses outside London
The chancellor unveiled Labour’s transport plan for northern cities and the Midlands, with Greater Manchester to receive £2.5bn for projects including new tram stops in Bury, Manchester and Oldham and an extension of the tram network to Stockport. South Yorkshire will get a £1.5bn investment ,while the East Midlands willContinue Reading
Why Al Qaeda Refuses to Die
DEEP DIVE — More than two decades after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Al Qaeda is not only alive — it has adapted, expanded, and quietly embedded itself into global jihadist networks. Despite relentless international efforts to dismantle it, the group continues to act as an umbrella foralmost all other terrorContinue Reading
UK drone deliveries to Ukraine jump from 10,000 to 100,000 in 2025
Britain will deliver 100,000 drones to Ukraine this year in a tenfold increase from 2024 targets, the UK Ministry of Defence announced on 4 June. The country delivered more than 10,000 drones to Ukraine last year. The record £350 million ($474 mn) investment in drones forms part of Britain’s £4.5Continue Reading
Drone hits house in Russian Kursk oblast, woman injured
Ukrainian drones reportedly attacked Russia’s Kursk Oblast overnight on 4 June. Three unmanned aircraft were spotted over the city of Rylsk, according to the Russian Telegram channel Mash. One drone fell on a private house in Rylsk, causing a fire. A 66-year-old woman was injured in the attack, oblast governorContinue Reading
Sen. Joni Ernst To Constituents Regarding Medicaid Cuts: We’re All Going To Die, Someday
I’ll start this off by acknowledging that, sure, there are times when it is perfectly reasonable to say, or even shout, “We’re all going to die!” Say you’re on a plane that has just lost all engine power and is hurtling towards the ground, for instance. Or perhaps someone hasContinue Reading
Thinking Is Power on the Canadian Atheist Podcast (Again!)
From the Canadian Atheist: Episode 218 “This week we welcome back Melanie Trecek-King. We had such amazing response to Melanie’s first appearance that we knew a round two was needed & here it is! Today, we take a deeper dive into critical thinking, why it’s important and some of theContinue Reading
A Song for the Cahaba River
As the Cahaba’s “‘charismatic” namesake lily blooms, an old festival and a new musical tribute celebrate Alabama’s longest free-flowing river. By Lee Hedgepeth WEST BLOCTON, Ala.—“The lilies have bloomed this season if you know where to go.”Continue Reading
Supreme Court puts Utah’s oil train back on the rails
The 8-0 decision overturned the U.S. Court of Appeals decision that the project’s environmental impact statement was insufficient. The post Supreme Court puts Utah’s oil train back on the rails appeared first on High Country News.Continue Reading
Regulators seek to phase out gas-powered appliances in Southern California
The South Coast Air Quality Management District is poised to vote on regulations that would limit emissions of nitrogen oxides — the key pollutants that form smog.Continue Reading
Argentine hospital staff protest over pay and conditions
Medical staff and administrative workers at Garrahan Hospital, a leading paediatric centre in Buenos Aires, staged a protest to demand urgent salary increases from President Javier Milei’s government., Read MoreContinue Reading
Lethal Petty Bigots ‘R Us
As the country tumbles into fascism, we are consoled by tee vee host, sexual predator, inept alcoholic, definitely-not-gay serious person and Defense Secretary Whisky Pete Hegseth taking on the big issues of the day and hewing to his obsession with “warrior ethos” by ordering the Navy to strip the nameContinue Reading