One flight closer to space tourism Virgin Galactic is one flight closer to becoming a commercial "spaceline." The company's passenger spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, completed its first rocket-powered flight Monday morning above the Mojave Desert in California. More
Herschel captures a 'cosmic horse' Europe's Herschel space telescope has imaged one of the most popular subjects in the sky - the Horsehead Nebula - and its environs. The distinctively shaped molecular gas cloud is sited some 1,300 light-years from Earth in the Constellation Orion. More
Late for Work: How the Changing NFL Draft Landscape Adds Importance for Ravens How the Ravens have avoided—and capitalized—on the best player available strategy. The Athletic’s Jeff Zrebiec shares his 7-round mock draft. Ravens’ 2024 schedule ranked among the most difficult. 04/22/2024 - 3:03 am | View Link
College football transfer portal live updates: Spring commitments, latest moves, analysis Iowa picked a commitment from North Dakota offensive lineman Cade Borud, who started every game at center as a redshirt freshman for the Fightin’ Hawks. The 6-foot-2, 315-pounder hails from Pleasant ... 04/21/2024 - 3:26 pm | View Link
London Marathon: Jepchirchir breaks women’s world record, Munyao beats Bekele in men’s race – live reaction Shaboury for live updates as 50,000 runners take to the capital for the famous race ... 04/20/2024 - 11:11 pm | View Link
Madison house values rise 7.8% this year, assessment shows The value of the average single-family home jumped 7.8% to $457,300 for 2024, and the city saw a record $949.4 million in new construction. 04/19/2024 - 5:45 am | View Link
I'm a filmmaker testing OpenAI's Sora. Here are its best features and biggest limitations — and the prompts I use. Paul Trillo, one of the filmmakers testing Sora, detailed his experience and the abilities and limitations of the OpenAI tool. 04/18/2024 - 2:27 am | View Link
Elliot Page says he experienced a mixture of feelings when he came out as transgender on an Instagram post in 2021.
“I felt utterly elated and beyond grateful to finally be in a place where I could accept and love myself and do what I needed to and wanted to,” the 37-year-old actor, director, and LGBTQ+ activist told the audience at the 2024 TIME100 Summit in New York City on Wednesday.
Dust clouds from the Sahara desert in North Africa have blown across the Mediterranean Sea and turned Greece’s sky orange on Tuesday. Historic landmarks in the country’s capital Athens, including the ancient citadel of Acropolis, were blanketed in orange dust.
One image, taken from the famous Tourkovounia hills that bisect the city of Athens, shows a man in a face mask taking a photo of the Mars-like view of the city.
King Charles III bestowed honors on his family members and nobles, including a new historically significant title for his daughter-in-law, Kate Middleton.
The King appointed the Princess of Wales to be a Royal Companion of The Order of the Companions of Honour on Tuesday, St George’s Day. The order was founded by King George V in 1917 to recognize outstanding achievements and major contributions over a long period of time to the arts, sciences, medicine, and public service.
As India’s marathon election kicked off its first voting phase last Friday, April 19, unemployment was looming large in the minds of millions of voters—despite the country’s rapid economic growth. Since Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, economists have been quick to serve India on a silver platter as a powerful rival to China, particularly for its global manufacturing, investment, and growth capabilities.
North Korea sent its highest-level delegation to Iran in about five years as the U. S. raised concerns that arms sales from Pyongyang and Tehran have helped fuel conflicts in the Middle East and Russia’s war in Ukraine.
In a rare public report of the trip, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a one-sentence dispatch the North Korean delegation led by External Economic Relations Minister Yun Jong Ho left Pyongyang for Tehran on Tuesday.
The International Monetary Fund issued a most unusual rebuttal this month. Its spokeswoman Julie Kozack told reporters in Washington that executive director Krishnamurthy Subramanian’s growth forecast of 8% for India did not represent the views of the IMF, which still maintained a projection of 6.5% for the country.
Subramanian’s views—expressed at an event in New Delhi a few days earlier—were in his role as India’s representative at the IMF, she said.