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Prince: SymbolPrince was both a dream and a nightmare for a luthier – astonishingly talented, he would also fling guitars around for some poor stage hand to catch (as at his peerlessly casual yet brilliant 2004 performance honouring George Harrison). The “Cloud” model used in Purple Rain, and built by Dave Rusan, is every bit as insouciantly sexy as the man who played it, with a gorgeous spiral detail around the jack and an actual horn jutting out of the body, ending in its own spiral. But nothing is more iconic than the…

A deep sea exploration company has released a sonar image they say may be the remains of the plane of Amelia Earhart, the famed American aviatrix who disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.Deep Sea Vision (DSV), a South Carolina-based firm, said the image was captured after an extensive search in an area of the Pacific to the west of Earhart's planned destination, remote Howland Island.Earhart went missing while on a pioneering round-the-world flight with navigator Fred Noonan.Her disappearance is one of the most…

Last year, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter, which currently spends its days flying over the surface of Mars, discovered what many described as “otherworldly wreckage.” The image is making the rounds again, but it isn’t alien in nature. Instead, the images are just a showcase of how humanity is trashing up the universe while we try to explore it.Obviously, it is impossible to send multi-billion dollar spacecraft to another planet without there being some trash left behind. The photos currently making the rounds show a…

2023 was a busy year in science. Here are 10 stories worth revisiting as we wind up the year.1. Canadian Jeremy Hansen chosen to fly to the moonA Canadian astronaut was selected as part of the crew for NASA's Artemis II mission to the moon.Jeremy Hansen and three crew mates will fly in an Orion capsule that will orbit the moon and fly farther into deep space than any humans have gone before.Hansen will not land on the moon, but the planned 10-day mission will be the first of a series of missions expected to culminate with…

Alice Winn, 30, is the author of the bestselling novel In Memoriam, about the illicit love between two public schoolboys on the western front. Already the winner of this year’s Waterstones debut fiction prize, it’s currently on the shortlist for Waterstones book of the year, announced on 30 November. Wartime historian Peter Parker recently called it “horrifyingly visceral a remarkable feel for the complicated emotions of her two protagonists... easily the most affecting novel I read this year”. Raised in Paris and…

The U.S. Coast Guard has found what appears to be human remains among the Titan submersible debris. The vessel was carrying five passengers to the Titanic wreckage site on June 18 when it imploded thousands of feet below the water’s surface, killing all onboard.Trump Went Through Twitter WithdrawalPelagic Research Services, which owns the ROV that discovered the debris told CNN it had “successfully completed” its recovery efforts at a Canadian ship Horizon Arctic at a Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John’s, Newfoundland,…

Submersible wreckage found near Titanic, all 5 aboard lost at seaThe U.S. Coast Guard says debris from the OceanGate Expeditions submersible Titan has been found 500 metres from the wreckage of the Titanic. All five people on board are considered lost at sea after a 'catastrophic implosion' appears to have happened.The United States Coast Guard says debris from the missing Titan submersible has been found near the wreck site of the Titanic, and all five men aboard are considered lost at sea.Shortly before the coast…

James Cameron isn’t just one of Hollywood’s most successful directors ever, he’s also a lover of deep sea exploration. Those paths have crossed in two of his biggest hits, “Avatar” and “Titanic.” While Cameron has not publicly commented on the current search for the Titanic tour OceanGate submersible with five people on board, he has personally made 33 dives to the wreckage site. CNN has reached out to representatives of Cameron for comment. Here’s what the director has said in the past about the deep sea exploration. His…

A fire service in North Yorkshire, UK, has reported on Facebook that an Apple Watch helped them find and rescue two people from a car wreckage. The call for the emergency came through an Apple Watch, and then the health information that came through the watch helped emergency services monitor what was happening on the ground.The details on the printout in the Facebook post also show that rescuers used What3words to help pinpoint the location of the accident.Apple Watch saving livesThis isn't the first time that an Apple…

Credit: Curtin University On the 81st anniversary of the sinking of the Australian warship HMAS Sydney (II) and the disguised German raider HSK Kormoran following a battle off the coast of Western Australia during WWII, Curtin University has revealed a new large-scale 3D reconstruction from the wreck sites. Associate Professor Andrew Woods, Manager of the Curtin…