Lunar delivery: A big rover aims to be like UPS for the moon
SpaceX, which did not respond to requests for comment, has yet to announce that it is planning this commercial Starship mission to the moon’s surface,...
Diplomacy matters Do the US need a Cold War with China?
While locked down, we found out that my wife, who is Chinese, was pregnant. It took a combination of bluster and desperate pleas to local officials to...
Elusive ‘Einstein’ solves a longstanding math problem
I’m always messing about and experimenting with shapes,” said Smith, 64, who worked as a printing technician, among other jobs, and retired early....
A sting operation to save elephants, with no stings
“Human-elephant conflict feeds into the issue of local people being recruited into poaching gangs,” said Francesca Mahoney, founder and director of...
Doling out huge loans, China ‘bails out’ nations
Some countries, like Mongolia, now hold much of their currency reserves in renminbi, after previously holding them mainly in dollars, said Brad Parks,...
We need to talk, just as soon as we consult ChatGPT
ChatGPT, the new virtual tool powered by Open AI, sources its information from a wide range of online material including books, news articles,...
Slow motion tidal wave consuming economy
A reason why economic models fail in times of crisis is that they can’t deal with a world filled with complexity or twists
In a Roman tomb, ‘dead nails’ reveal an occult practice
The new study provided significant evidence that “protective magic” was used in Imperial Rome necropoli, said Silvia Alfayé, a professor of ancient...