NASA announces its Orion spacecraft has reached the Moon, will now go farther from Earth and return in December

NASA announces its Orion spacecraft has reached the Moon, will now go farther from Earth and return in December

The Orion spacecraft swooped just 130 kilometres above the lunar surface on November 21, the closest a capsule designed to hold people has been to the Moon in half a century. In the lunar darkness the capsule, which launched as part of the Artemis I mission last week, flew directly...

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UN, EAC forces start combing troubled eastern DR Congo to flush out rebels, restore normalcy

UN, EAC forces start combing troubled eastern DR Congo to flush out rebels, restore normalcy

Hostilities in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have seen troops from two East Africa Community (EAC) countries deployed as part of a reaction force with resident UN peace mission troops conducting heightened patrols in provincial capital Goma. There is a South African military presence in the region with the...

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Processed food stigma: Surveys suggest Chinese and Indians are more likely to eat lab-grown meat than Americans

Processed food stigma: Surveys suggest Chinese and Indians are more likely to eat lab-grown meat than Americans

To have a chance of meeting our global climate targets, ending deforestation and protecting the world’s wildlife, we need to eat much less meat. Both plant foods and meat substitutes have a much lower carbon footprint, use much less land and cause less water pollution than meat. The environmental toll...

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Tech giant Apple lines up $7 billion Man United takeover that’d make Red Devils richest club

Tech giant Apple lines up $7 billion Man United takeover that’d make Red Devils richest club

Apple are interested in a £6 billion ($7.2 billion) takeover of Manchester United in a deal that would make the Red Devils the richest club in the world. The California-based firm are the largest tech company in the world and could be set to add United to their portfolio as...

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Hate or love it, processed food is here to stay if the world is going to feed 8 billion people

Hate or love it, processed food is here to stay if the world is going to feed 8 billion people

The stigma against processed food is growing, but there’s no way to sustainably feed eight billion people without it. Say “processed food” and most of us picture unhealthy, cheap junk. Fresh food straight from the garden or the field is good. Once we’ve put it through a processing plant or...

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Time for disgraced Ronaldo to prove ‘best timing is always my timing’ after Man United exit

Time for disgraced Ronaldo to prove ‘best timing is always my timing’ after Man United exit

“In my life, the best timing is always my timing,” Cristiano Ronaldo said this week. Well, now we are about to find out if he is right. Less than 48 hours before Portugal are due to kick off their World Cup campaign against Ghana, arguably the most-high profile footballer in...

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Use of antibiotics to prevent new sexually transmitted infections in US hits brickwall as gonorrhoea spikes

Use of antibiotics to prevent new sexually transmitted infections in US hits brickwall as gonorrhoea spikes

A health department in the United States has become one of the first to recommend that people who are at high risk of getting a sexually transmitted infection (STI) take a preventive dose of antibiotics after unprotected sex. Clinical trials have shown the strategy can reduce infections such as chlamydia,...

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