Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave SYDNEY — When Anthony Albanese sits down with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday, the meeting will mark an achievement for the Australian prime minister, who has managed to mend once-fractured relations with his nation’s biggest trading partner without making concessions. Looming over the event, … Read more
The Moon’s crater-covered countenance was previously thought to be a youthful 4.42 billion years old, give or take about 10 million years. But now, samples of crystals taken from the rocky satellite half a century ago indicate that the Moon is about 40 million years older than we knew. Moon Knight Gives Us Hope The … Read more
Keke Palmer is gushing over her son! The 30-year-old actress took to Instagram on Thursday to share new photos of Leodis, the 8-month-old baby boy she shares with Darius Jackson. In the shots, Leo is seen rocking a baseball hat, lounging on a couch, smiling as he plays and more. Palmer is clearly delighted by … Read more
Screenshot: Wholeearth.info Remember the Whole Earth Catalog? If you’re a fan of the anarcho-libertarian magazine that helped usher in a popular interest in all things tech and internet culture, there’s good news: a nearly complete collection of the publication’s archive has been digitized and uploaded to the web for easy browsing. Google’s Pixel 8 and … Read more
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hours after forming an emergency government and wartime cabinet, foreshadowed a major ground attack on Gaza by promising to destroy Hamas. “Every Hamas terrorist is a dead man,” Netanyahu said at a late-night briefing, flanked by Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Benny Gantz, the head of Israel’s opposition. Five days after … Read more
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. A Lot of Influencer PR Packages Are Extremely Wasteful For more than a decade, an Australian company called Arafura Rare Earths has been looking for customers willing to buy rare earth metals from a mine under development in the nation’s Northern … Read more
What happens when you are the hottest person on the planet? The people who run Hollywood take notice. The newest ‘Mrs. Earth 2023’ Debanjali Kamstra is making a huge name for herself in the Entertainment business, and at the same time is globally expanding her interior design business. In most cases, smoking hot models seek … Read more
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Next year, NASA plans to scoop up a small batch of dirt from an asteroid named Bennu, located millions of miles from Earth — and now the agency knows which part of the space rock it’s going to steal from. Today, the space agency announced that one of its spacecraft will attempt to grab some … Read more
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on its way to Earth to drop off rocky samples from asteroid Bennu on Sunday, marking NASA’s first attempt to retrieve a piece of a pure space rock. Vizio’s Latest TVs Go All Quantum The highly-anticipated drop-off has been seven years in the making, but the wait is finally over. OSIRIS-REx … Read more
The fact about menacing asteroids coming to destroy Earth within the modern-day is, maybe surprisingly, not too scary. Sure, the doomsayers thrive on-line, however the prognosis is encouraging: – Astronomers have already discovered over 90 % of the half-mile-plus “planet-killer” asteroids that at occasions move close to Earth’s neighborhood, and there isn’t any identified menace … Read more