On a busy day in Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, passersby would often spot an elderly man standing quietly outside churches with a plastic cup in his hand. His clothes were worn. His beard was long and white. To many, he looked like a homeless pensioner trying to survive on spare change. Yet there was something unusual…
Juan Hernandez’s path into SpaceX began in 2015 through a routine job referral rather than a calculated career move. Working as a contract welder, he stepped into rocket fabrication without much sense of where it might lead, treating it as steady employment rather than a long-term trajectory. The work involved physically demanding tasks on production…
This year marks 75 years since one of the most important machines in computing history was switched on for the very first time. On June 14, 1951, the UNIVAC I, short for Universal Automatic Computer, was formally dedicated at the U.S. Census Bureau’s offices, just months after the agency had signed a contract for the…
Norway Crown Prince Haakon’s stepson, Marius Borg Hoiby, was convicted of rape and domestic violence on Monday and sentenced to four years in prison, after a seven-week trial that has further damaged the Norwegian royal family’s public image.The Oslo District Court delivered the verdict, finding the 29-year-old guilty on two counts of rape while acquitting…
For a few precious months each year, the brightest and most photogenic region of the Milky Way rises high enough above the horizon to create one of nature’s most spectacular night-time displays. June marks the beginning of peak Milky Way season across much of the Northern Hemisphere, offering photographers their best opportunity to capture the…
What if a single immune cell could destroy dozens of others around it simply by exploding like a tiny bomb? That’s exactly what a team of Stanford researchers has discovered while studying planarian flatworms, tiny creatures famous for their extraordinary ability to regrow lost body parts. Scientists have identified a completely new type of immune…
Under-16s face social media ban as UK unveils tough new online rules / Image – file Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced that children under the age of 16 will be banned from using major social media platforms under what the government calls the most significant overhaul of online child safety rules in a generation.Unveiled…
A vast area of Antarctica that should be covered in winter sea ice is instead lying largely exposed to the ocean, alarming scientists and raising fresh concerns about the future of the frozen continent. Satellite observations show that roughly 650,000 square kilometres of sea ice, an area comparable to the size of France, has failed…
An Australian family was caught up in a horror shooting while on holidays in Pakistan. A police officer in Pakistan’s Punjab province has been arrested after an Australian girl was killed and two members of her family injured in what authorities described as a mistaken shooting during a robbery response.According to Punjab Police, officers responding…
Some scientists make discoveries. Others create entirely new ways of understanding the universe. Harish-Chandra belonged to the latter group. Born in Kanpur in 1923, he began his academic career as a physicist and earned his doctorate at the University of Cambridge under Nobel laureate Paul Dirac. During this period, he identified a mathematical error in…