Carrying

by Chris Wilson, Ethan Renner, Jack Smylie and Michal Dziwulski, The Conversation Credit: CC0 Public Domain In March and August 2018, up to a year before he attacked two Christchurch mosques, Brenton Tarrant posted publicly online that he planned to do so. Until now, these statements have not been identified. …

Jam Master Jay “was nervous about something” days before he was killed, according to witness testimony on Thursday at the Brooklyn trial for two men accused of killing the Run-DMC DJ in 2002. The Associated Press reports that Stephon Watford, a cousin and business associate of the late DJ (whose real name was Jason Mizell), told the jury Mizell had started carrying a gun to protect himself in the days prior to the fatal shooting. Watford also claimed that one of the defendants, Ronald Washington, had asked for…

The saga of Peregrine is coming to a tragic end, with the lunar lander scheduled for reentry through Earth’s atmosphere after failing to touch down on the Moon.China's Plan to Land Astronauts on the MoonAfter 10 days of journeying through space, Astrobotic has positioned its lunar lander on a trajectory towards Earth to perform a controlled re-entry over a remote area of the South Pacific on Thursday, January 18 around 4:00 p.m. ET, the company wrote in an update.Peregrine launched on January 8 on board United Launch…

Alogic is well known for making some of the most premium Apple accessories this side of the big A itself — and it's just released a bumper load of new products during the CES show. This product in particular is one that we’re interested in: The Matrix Ultimate MagSafe charger.Portable chargers are a dime a dozen at this point, but this one sets itself apart in a few key ways — let’s have a look.Multipurpose, shrinking charger(Image credit: Alogic)When you yank it out of the box, the Matrix Ultimate is a combination of a…

(A) Above: Image of the southern slope of Sierra de Tucas (Huesca, Spain). The arrow indicates Coro Trasito cave. Below: Entrance to Coro Trasito cave. (B) Plan view of Coro Trasito cave, showing the location of the 2011 and 2013 test-pit and the area of the extended excavation. The isocotes indicate every 20 cm. Credit: Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology (2023). DOI: 10.3389/fearc.2023.1309907 An archaeological find in the…

A Christmas gift turned out to be a Christmas fail when an actor was stopped at the airport, documenting the incident on social media.Brett Gaffney, an actor based in Los Angeles, US, took to his social media page to share how his grandmother’s Christmas present, supposed to be a surprise to him, got him into trouble with airport security.In the video, which has been viewed nearly 600,000 times, Brett explained: “I got stopped at the airport security, and you know what? It was because of this briefcase my grandma gave…

China has always had a clandestine or mysterious nature to the way they carried out their space missions. In a recent mission, China sent a suspicious payload to the moon, not disclosing what it does and what was its purpose…

Japan's space agency on Monday postponed for the third time the launch of its "Moon Sniper" lunar mission due to poor weather.The H2-A rocket due to blast off from the southern island of Tanegashima was also carrying a research satellite developed with NASA and the European Space Agency.The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) gave no new date for the start of the mission, which comes after India successfully landed a probe on the Moon last week.MHI Launch Services, the rocket co-developer, said on the social media…

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is adjusting its course and will return to Earth on September 24 with material from asteroid Bennu, according to mission officials.Mission officials said that on July 26, OSIRIS-REx fired up its engines for about 63 seconds to slightly thrust itself onto a course closer to Earth. This trajectory correction manoeuvre is the final adjustment needed to set up its path towards Earth.OSIRIS-REx, the first US mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, is travelling at a speed of about 35,000…

Air India to Skyrocket Cargo Ecosystem. (PTI file)Air India to boost cargo operations by 300 percent with Airbus and Boeing wide-body aircraft orders. Expanding global reach and tech integration for efficiency.Air India is all geared up to revamp its freight and cargo operations with an impressive plan to enhance its cargo-handling capacity.Wide-body aircraft from aviation giants Airbus and Boeing will soon be delivered to the Tata group airline, providing a huge boost. A whopping 70 wide-body planes, including 34…