Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces the COVID Inquiry today, regarding his role as Chancellor during the pandemic. Among the questions he faces is the matter of his “lost” WhatsApps from the pandemic period – Sunak claims they have been “missing” since he changed phones. The prime minister is the latest member of the COVID-19 cabinet … Read more
The UK Government has given Rwanda a further £100m this year as part of its deal to relocate asylum seekers there. The substantial payment was made in April of this year, the Home Office’s top civil servant said in a letter to MPs, after £140m had already been sent to the African nation. Sir Matthew … Read more
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — One of the biggest and brightest stars in the night sky will momentarily vanish as an asteroid passes in front of it to produce a one-of-a-kind eclipse. The rare and fleeting spectacle, late Monday into early Tuesday, should be visible to millions of people along a narrow path stretching from … Read more
Observing a whole pen full of salmon at a fish farm will only tell you so much about their well-being. That’s why Norwegian scientists have developed an implant that measures and records the vital signs of individual fish, who will serve as “sentinels.” Created by Eirik Svendsen and colleagues at the SINTEF Ocean research institute, … Read more
The U.N.’s climate body has published a draft of what is set to be its final agreement from the COP28 climate summit, which ends Tuesday. Activists have condemned the draft as moving away from previously expected language, and not containing measures that would tackle the global warming that scientists blame for sea rise, increasing droughts … Read more
Image: Jared Locke / Space Explored Another packed week between SpaceX and China launching almost every day this week. The expected Falcon Heavy launch from this weekend is now today (Monday) but that’s not the only RTLS mission this week. This Friday a Falcon 9 will fly and have its booster return to LZ-1 as … Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Countries moved closer to reaching what critics called a watered-down final deal Monday, avoiding calls from more than 100 nations to phase out planet-warming fossil fuels as United Nations climate talks in Dubai neared their culmination. A new draft released Monday afternoon on what’s known as the global stocktake … Read more
Electrically conductive “smart fabrics” have many potential applications, but their specialized fibers typically aren’t as soft and flexible as those made of regular materials. An experimental new two-faced fiber, however, is both flexible and conductive. Developed by a team of scientists at Washington State University, the fiber is made of two substances: cotton cellulose obtained … Read more
LONDON — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak defended Britain’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday, telling an official inquiry he did not recognize testimony describing a dysfunctional government and saying his hospitality scheme was supported at the time. The inquiry is examining Britain’s response to the pandemic which killed more than 230,000 people in the … Read more
Renowned Chinese doctor and activist Gao Yaojie who exposed the AIDS virus epidemic in rural China in the 1990s, has died at the age of 95 at her home in the United States. Gao’s outspokenness about the virus outbreak embarrassed the Chinese government and drove her to live in self-exile for over a decade in … Read more
