Ashes

Star Trek icon Nichelle Nichols is taking one final journey through the final frontier. Celestis Inc., a private space flight company that works with NASA, will include some of the actress’ ashes on a United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur rocket as part of the upcoming Enterprise flight, scheduled to take off sometime later this year. The flight will begin in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and is slated to go beyond the James Webb telescope and into interplanetary deep space, where the company says…

Maya people cremated their rulers and used the ashes to help make rubber balls that were used in ballgames, an archaeologist has claimed.The researcher and his team believe they've found evidence of this practice while excavating the Maya city of Toniná, in southern Mexico.Researchers refer to it as the "ballgame" as its rules and name may have changed over time.It was often played by two teams using a rubber ball on a capital I-shaped court.The game was popular across the Americas for thousands of years. Numerous ball…

A Jaguar I-Pace electric car caught fire while being charged at a garage in the US — the fourth such battery fire in the I-Pace series (that costs upwards of Rs 1 crore), which is Jaguar’s first and only all-electric vehicle. According to Electrek, Jaguar uses LG battery cells like the Bolt EV and Kona EV, which were both recalled for battery fire risks recently. The latest battery fire was reported by Jaguar I-Pace owner Gonzalo Salazar in the state of Florida. “On June 16, I plugged the car in before going to bed. On…

Once hailed as a source of electricity that would be too cheap to meter, atomic power has come a long way since the 1950s – mostly downhill. Far from being cost-free, nuclear-generated electricity is today more expensive than power produced by coal, gas, wind or solar plants while sites storing spent uranium and irradiated equipment litter the globe, a deadly radioactive legacy that will endure for hundreds of thousands of years. For good measure, most analysts now accept that the spread of atomic energy played a crucial…