Jupiter mission launched by Europe’s space agency will be first to orbit moon of another planet
If everything goes according to plan, the European Space Agency (ESA) probe will circle back and pass close to both Earth and the Moon in around one year’s time, which will help to slingshot the spacecraft towards the outer Solar System. This double fly-by will require “the most accurate gravity-assist manoeuvre ever done”, said ESA payload-system engineer Alessandro Atzei at the briefing.
US intelligence community in crosshairs again after sensitive Pentagon data leaks to Russians
While it is not yet clear who leaked the documents or what their motivation was, initial indications from Discord activity suggest that the leaker may have been trying to show off to their gaming friends, and might even be a teenager or young adult.
Discovering planets is now routine: From 1992, over 5200 have been found and 9,000 pending confirmation
Over 300 years ago, the German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued that ours was the best of all possible worlds. The word “world” comes from Old English, originally meaning Earth, and later extending to the physical world in the broadest sense, or the universe. Leibniz was trying to address the...
War of Surprises: Ukrainian resistance to Russian invasion has confounded military mavens world over
Some wars acquire names that stick. The Lancaster and York clans fought the War of the Roses from 1455-1485 to claim the British throne. The Hundred Years’ War pitted England against France from 1337-1453. In the Thirty Years’ War, 1618-1648, many European countries clashed, while Britain and France waged the...
The Great Reset: Why consumers should keep off fake foods and focus on natural human nutrition
The fake food industry wants people to believe that products produced with precision fermentation are no different from other fermented foods, like kimchi and yogurt. But what they fail to disclose is that the most often used organism in precision fermentation is the common bacteria E. coli. The E. coli...
Fed up with being sermonised over online security, China’s TikTok CEO blasts US firms for failing to safeguard Americans’ data
Media coverage United States governments’ policies and political pronouncements point to rising abuse of power, including attacks on democracy, civil liberties and use of mass surveillance. Tell Media and The Defender, Big Brother NewsWatch and NewsGuard bring the latest political and health coverage via excerpts from other news sources. The...
Facebook content moderators sue Meta for sacking 260 staff in a ‘union-busting operation’
A group of Facebook content moderators in Kenya is taking the platform’s parent company Meta and two outsourcing companies to court, a tech rights group said Monday. A total of 43 workers for outsourcing company Sama, who moderated Facebook content, are bringing the lawsuit for what they allege was unlawful...
New UN report warns greenhouse gases ‘spewed’ by food systems threaten life on Earth
Today, march 21, the UN’S Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is releasing what may become a pivotal document of human progress – or lack thereof, if we don’t heed its warnings. It’s a “synthesis” report, summarising the findings from the six previous IPCC reports that laid out the science of...
Evidence of volcanic activity on Venus is flipping scientists’ interest from Mars to ‘Earth’s true sibling’
Scientists have found some of the strongest evidence yet that there is volcanic activity on Venus. Because the planet is a close neighbour to Earth and originally had water on its surface, one big question has been why its landscape is hellish while Earth’s is habitable. Learning more about its...
Ethiopian journalist awarded in US for her push for press freedom in ethnically polarised nation
An Ethiopian journalist presented an award by the United States has sounded the alarm over media freedom in her country, which Secretary of State Antony Blinken is visiting visit. Meaza Mohammed, the founder of the online network Roha TV, was honoured at the White House on Wednesday on International Women’s...
