MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Pro-Palestinian protesters breached security at Australia’s Parliament House to unfurl banners from the roof on Thursday as a senator quit the government over its direction on the Gaza war. Tensions over Israel’s war against Hamas dominated Parliament’s final sitting day before a five-week break. The four protesters were arrested after draping […]
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Pro-Palestinian protesters enter Brooklyn Museum, unfurl banner as police make arrests
NEW YORK (AP) — A large pro-Palestinian rally marched on the Brooklyn Museum Friday afternoon, setting up tents in the lobby and unfurling a “Free Palestine” banner over the building. Social media posts show New York City police confronting, tackling and arresting some of the protesters. Other posts show supporters holding banners, waving Palestinian flags […]
Watch NASA unfurl basketball-court-sized solar sail for deep space propulsion (video)
NASA has reached a significant technological milestone with progress on an experimental form of spacecraft propulsion which utilizes solar radiation. The space agency successfully deployed one of four identical quadrants of a huge solar sail at Redwire Space’s facility in Longmont, Colorado on Jan. 30. The demonstration was a big step towards some day using […]