NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has reached Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where it has begun final preparations for launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The observatory arrived on NASA’s Pegasus barge on June 21, 2026, after travelling in a protective, environmentally controlled container from Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. Roman is…
Before European settlers arrived on Australia’s coastlines, vast oyster and mussel reefs stretched across the southern half of the country all the way north to the edges of the Great Barrier Reef. These shellfish reefs filtered seawater, fed fish populations, stabilised sediment, and protected shorelines from wave damage. Then, over the course of a century,…
The Arctic is warming far faster than the rest of the planet, and a new study published in Science Advances suggests that this warming could transform one of Earth’s biggest natural carbon stores sooner than scientists once thought. Researchers say northern soils above 30°N, including vast areas of permafrost, may switch from absorbing carbon to…
Outgoing UK PM Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump (R) US President Donald Trump took aim at outgoing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday, saying that the Labour Party leader’s policies on energy, immigration and relations with Washington contributed to his downfall.Speaking to reporters during an Oval Office event, Trump struck a friendly…
On a low stretch of countryside not far from Stonehenge, where the road from Bulford cuts across open grassland, archaeologists have been piecing together something that never quite forms a full picture. Scattered postholes, fragments of pottery, bits of bone and charcoal that seem ordinary until they are placed in relation to each other. The…
Trump, Vance say Iran agreed to IAEA inspections. Tehran denies. Photo Credit: AP The first full day of US-Iran talks in Switzerland ended with Washington and Tehran offering differing accounts of what had been agreed, particularly on the issue of international inspections of Iran’s nuclear programme.Speaking after the opening round of negotiations at the Burgenstock…
The protester was waving an upside-down American flag when she was hit, video shows. A protest outside a US immigration detention centre turned chaotic on Sunday after a demonstrator was struck by a car while waving an upside-down American flag, reports the New York Post.The incident happened outside Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey where…
A Redditor shared US visa interview (tourist visa) experience in Delhi. An individual wants a tourist visa to the US to watch the FIFA final. The visa officer asked him whether he had watched last night’s match. The answer is negative. Then the visa officer asked whether he had watched any match at all. No…
Savitha Shan posthumously received two degrees from the University of Texas two months after being killed in a mass shooting. 21-year-old Indian-origin Savitha Shan would have graduated by May, but her life was cut short by a March 1 mass shooting. Her parents Shan Muthian and Selvi Shan refuse to continue grieving and announced the…
LONDON: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer nearly broke down as he found himself on the scrapheap of history on Monday when like Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss before him, he was booted out of No. 10 by his own MPs.After just two years in the job, having watched his authority within his party…