HOUSTON — NASA has provided more details about the revised approaches that Blue Origin and SpaceX are taking to accelerate work on Artemis lunar landers. At a June 9 event at the Johnson Space Center, NASA announced the crew of the Artemis 3 mission, a test flight in low Earth orbit in which an Orion
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Last week, AMC’s The Vampire Lestat premiered after an over two-year hiatus, finally returning viewers to Anne Rice’s increasingly chaotic vampire universe. The premiere episode, “Detroit,” dropped fans in media res of Lestat de Lioncourt’s (Sam Reid) North American rockstar tour as the story shifted away from Louis de Pointe du Lac’s (Jacob Anderson) narration
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Cocaine-related deaths have reached record levels in the UK amid a surge in the availability of “ultra-strength” forms of the drug. New figures show cocaine was linked to 1,279 deaths across the UK in 2024, an increase from 1,118 the previous year and the highest number since records began, according to a report by The Independent. Undercover research carried
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Sonic the Hedgehog producer Takashi Iizuka thinks big-budget game makers could learn a thing or two from indie developers in the same way that major movie studios should be taking notes from this summer’s biggest surprise success stories, Backrooms and Obsession. The Blue Blur’s trading dizzyingly speedy platforming for co-op puzzles in Sonic Pico Park,
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By Howard Bloom Donald Trump has now told us for the 38th time that we are on the brink of a peace deal with Iran, a Memorandum of Understanding in which we both agree to turn the Strait of Hormuz back into a free passage zone, in which we agree to stage a next level of
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Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, DJ Carl Cox and Catatonia’s Cerys Matthews have been named in the King’s Birthday Honours list. The annual honours recognise individuals from across the UK for their achievements and contributions to society, celebrating figures from the arts, sport, science, public services and charity. This time around, those named include the iconic guitarist Iommi, who becomes an MBE for services to music and charity,
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WASHINGTON — U.S. production of solid rocket motors is rising, but not fast enough to meet the Pentagon’s missile-defense program demands, according to a new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The report says solid rocket motors remain a bottleneck across the U.S. missile industrial base, even as the Pentagon prepares for
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In many respects, God of War Laufey is merging the series’ old and new games, its Norse and Greek eras, and it’s in large part thanks to the game’s new protagonist Faye, according to game director and long-time God of War developer Ariel Lawrence. While speaking to GamesRadar+ about the upcoming PS5 game, Lawrence touched
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Universal and Amblin‘s Steven Spielberg alien sci-fi movie, Disclosure Day, is posting a significantly better than expected global start of $93.9M. Originally, the movie, which is a throwback to 1970s movies like Parallex View, was eyeing a low $65M. Overseas is overindexing with $49.9M in addition to $44M from North America where the Emily Blunt,
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Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Ed and Lorraine Warren are perhaps considered amongst the most controversial figures in the world of the paranormal. The married couple had started making a name for themselves through paranormal investigation as early as 1952, and during those years, they created their own group, New England Society for Psychic Research.
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In her vivacious Chain Reaction: How Chemistry Shapes Us and Our World, research chemist Ijeoma Uchegbu celebrates the chemical bonds that dance—sometimes harmoniously, sometimes discordantly—among us and the world we live in.  From the moment we raise our heads from pillows filled with down or latex, walk across a ceramic floor or polyester carpet and
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Steven Spielberg made some of the best movies of the 1990s. With beloved films like Hook and Saving Private Ryan, the Academy Award winner knows how to make memorable movies that audiences are still talking about. If you recall, Spielberg also defined 1993 with big movies like Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List. Now, we’ve learned
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