The 2020s have already seen many lunar landing attempts, although several of them have crashed or toppled over. With all the excitement surrounding the prospect of humans returning to the Moon, both commercial interests and scientists stand to gain. The Moon is uniquely suitable for researchers to build telescopes they can’t put on Earth because […]
A university professor addressing his students during a lecture. Getty Images. Over the past few years, Republican state lawmakers have introduced more than 150 bills in 35 states that seek to curb academic freedom on campus. Twenty-one of these bills have been signed into law. This legislation is detailed in a new white paper published […]
The 2020s have already seen many lunar landing attempts, although several of them have crashed or toppled over. With all the excitement surrounding the prospect of humans returning to the Moon, both commercial interests and scientists stand to gain. The Moon is uniquely suitable for researchers to build telescopes they can’t put on Earth because […]
Reality Check is a Bee series holding officials and organizations accountable and shining a light on their decisions. Have a tip? Email realitycheck@sacbee.com. A revived bipartisan measure in the House of Representatives’ farm bill claims it’ll save California’s giant sequoias from worsening wildfires. The Save Our Sequoias Act, heralded by former Rep. Kevin McCarthy before […]
Arrowhead’s new CEO says that while he agrees some Helldivers 2 weapons aren’t “as fun as they could be,” he’s joined the studio’s old CEO in calling out threats made to developers. One week ago, it was announced that Johan Pilestedt, Arrowhead’s CEO, would be stepping down and transitioning to a COO role, to focus […]
DALLAS – An unsettled pattern will trigger scattered strong thunderstorms from Texas through the central and northern High Plains on Wednesday. Storms are expected to develop over the higher terrain of the High Plains during peak daytime heating and into Wednesday evening, according to the FOX Forecast Center. While the threat is much lower than […]
Title icon The News NAIROBI — Kenya’s push to introduce new taxes on some electric vehicles and their batteries could stifle growth in the country’s fledgling e-mobility sector, experts have warned. The country’s new finance bill proposes the introduction of value added tax (VAT) on electric bikes and buses, as well as solar and lithium-ion […]
Donald Trump called his youngest son’s high school graduation ceremony Friday a “beautiful thing” in a speech in Minnesota in which he conflated the morning event at Oxbridge Academy near West Palm Beach with the criminal charges he faces. Trump said Barron, as a college prep student, “got good marks and he’s a good boy […]
Campaigners against mass tourism are threatening to collapse Majorca’s busy international airport and protest outside hotels. The radical tactics were put forward at a ‘citizen’s assembly’ on Friday at a school in the inland town of Sineu. Association Menys Turisme, Mes Vida, which translates into English as “Less Tourism, More Life”, organised the meeting to […]
Covid-19 levels are about the lowest they’ve ever been in the United States, but another new crop of virus variants once again threatens to disrupt the downward trend as the country heads into summer. KP.2 — one of the so-called FLiRT variants — has overtaken JN.1 to become the dominant coronavirus variant in the United […]
(Bloomberg) — UK plans to compensate thousands of victims of a decades-old contaminated blood scandal risk undermining Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s ability to deliver a tax-cutting pre-election budget in the autumn. Most Read from Bloomberg A final report into what’s been dubbed the worst treatment disaster in the history of the National Health Service is […]
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — It was a very close call for businesses next to Yokuts Park when a wildfire broke out nearby on Tuesday. Some employees had to move their cars so they wouldn’t catch on fire. “A couple of patients came in right away and told us that there was fire next door,” said […]