Tag: World

Elon Musk’s Starship megarocket reached orbit for the first time on Monday (September 28, 2026) after blasting off from Texas, in a major milestone for SpaceX’s plans, including trips to the Moon and Mars. The black-and-silver behemoth, standing more than 120 meters (131 yards) tall, rose through a thick cloud of smoke on an ambitious...

An army of experts in a WhatsApp group is guiding rescue workers scouring a Nepali valley after a massive flash flood more than a week ago, as they desperately search for anyone who may still be alive inside the tunnels of devastated hydropower plants. The messaging group was set up by engineers before the wall...

Spectators across Spain watched in wonder, some whipping off their protective ‌glasses and rising to their feet in unison, as a rare total solar eclipse swept across the ​north of the country on Wednesday (August 12, 2026) evening, plunging it into darkness. Spain deployed a massive police contingent ⁠and set up special viewing spots across...

Millions of people gathered in Iceland and northern Spain to witness Europe’s first total ‌solar eclipse in 27 years on Wednesday (August 12, 2026), with Spanish officials warning people to avoid areas where a heatwave ​has raised the risk of wildfires. Authorities were expecting up to 6 million visitors in mostly rural areas within the...

Volunteers armed with chisels, brushes and protective goggles chip away at rock encasing the bones of a massive prehistoric amphibian in a glass-walled laboratory on the ground floor of Warsaw’s Copernicus Science Centre. On the other side of the wall, visitors watch the work unfold on the bones of the nearly six metre (20 foot)-long...

At least 2,700 people could have died in England and Wales as a result of heatwaves that struck in May and June, according to a study released on Monday (July 13, 2026). Experts from Imperial College London, the Met Office and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine used weather data, climate models and...

The story so far: On July 10, the Ministry of Commerce and General Administration of Customs, China, has temporarily but immediately banned helium exports from the country. As of 4.30 pm IST on July 10, Beijing had not published any other information as to why it took this step now or its scope. Is China a...

The map has become more important than the territory. And the mapmakers are increasingly burning the territory to keep the map warm. The SpaceX IPO on June 12 ended with Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionnaire — a word that still invites a red underline on Google Docs. That word has become because money...

The United States said Monday (May 18, 2026) it is bolstering precautions to prevent the spread of Ebola, including screening air travelers from outbreak-hit areas and temporarily suspending visa services. The measures shared by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) come as the World Health Organisation has declared the deadly Ebola outbreak...

President Donald Trump’s administration has terminated the entire National Science Board of more than 20 members, two fired members ‌of the board said on Monday (Aprl 28, 2026). The independent board was ⁠established in 1950 to guide the governance of the National Science Foundation and to advise the President and the ‌Congress on policies about...