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The IndependentScientists unable to reach bottom of mysterious underwater sinkhole near dinosaur-killing crater off Mexico
Taam Ja’ Blue Hole in Chetumal Bay is world’s deepest underwater sinkhole – but what lies at its very bottom remains unknown
- The Telegraph
US shared ‘gobsmacking’ Covid lab leak file with UK
The US shared “gobsmacking” evidence with Britain at the height of the Covid pandemic suggesting a “high likelihood” that the virus had leaked from a Chinese lab, The Telegraph can reveal.
- KameraOne
Fishermen find possible spacecraft part parachuting to Earth
This is the moment a group of fishermen happen upon a large metal object with a parachute landing in the ocean off the coast of Mexico on February 9. The object is likely one half of a payload fairing, a nose cone that protects spacecraft from aerodynamic heating during launch. Incidentally, there was a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch on the same day.
- Barrons.com
Boeing Launches Starliner Into Space Today. Here’s How to Watch.
Two NASA astronauts are are headed to the International Space Station on Monday inside the Boeing Starliner spaceship.
- The Independent
Starship will be bigger than the Great Pyramids, Elon Musk says
The biggest rocket ever built is expected to launch later this month
- AFP
Boeing's Starliner set for first crewed mission to ISS, in key test
After years of delays, Boeing's Starliner spaceship is finally set to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday night, marking a crucial step for both the US aerospace giant and NASA's commercial outsourcing strategy. Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are set to take off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 10:34 pm Monday (0234 GMT Tuesday).
- Reuters
TIMELINE-Boeing's new Starliner set for first crewed flight to space station
Two years after its initial unmanned journey to the International Space Station (ISS), Boeing's new Starliner astronaut capsule is set for its first crewed test flight on Monday night, following numerous delays. Boeing's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 Starliner spacecraft, developed in collaboration with NASA's Commercial Crew Program, is engineered to carry up to seven passengers, or a combination of crew and cargo, for journeys to low-Earth orbit. Riding aboard the Starliner are NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore, 61, a retired U.S. Navy captain, and Sunita "Sunni" Williams, 58, a former Navy aviator and test pilot.
- CNN
Boeing and NASA set to launch astronauts to ISS in new Starliner capsule
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is set to make its inaugural crewed launch on Monday, with the mission to carry two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. If successful, the Starliner will join SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft in making routine trips to the space station, keeping the orbiting outpost fully staffed with astronauts from NASA and its partner space agencies. Anna Coren speaks to former astronaut Leroy Chiao about the anticipated launch.
- The Guardian
The new ‘space race’: what are China’s ambitions and why is the US so concerned?
As China launches its Chang’e-6 mission to the far side of the moon, US officials have expressed alarm at the pace of its advancements
- The Guardian
Chicken or egg? One zoologist’s attempt to solve the conundrum of which came first
The writer of a new book about life on Earth seen through the prism of the egg says the age-old paradox actually leads us back a billion years – to the bottom of the ocean
- The Telegraph
The best places to go fossil hunting in Britain
News that an 11-year old girl, Ruby Reynolds, found an important fossil proves that anyone can make historic discoveries if they are willing to get out there and look. The fossilised bone, found on a Somerset beach in 2020, was recently identified by Dean Lomax, a palaeontologist from Manchester University, as coming from a species of giant marine reptile new to science. Ruby, now 15, helped name the prehistoric creature Ichthyotitan severnensis, or, “giant fish lizard of the Severn”. The specie
- Bristol Live
New vaccine 'effective against future coronaviruses that haven't even emerged yet'
The new vaccine works by training the body’s immune system to recognise specific regions of eight different coronaviruses
- Wales Online
New vaccine 'effective against future coronaviruses that don't even exist yet'
The new vaccine works by training the body’s immune system to recognise specific regions of eight different coronaviruses
- Herald Scotland
Prehistoric soil microbes studied in bid to climate-proof today’s crops
Plant biologists in Edinburgh are set to work with European scientists to determine whether microbes from hundreds of thousands of years ago can help present-day plant species adapt to climate change.
- CNN
‘Like wildfires underwater’: Worst summer on record for Great Barrier Reef as coral die-off sweeps planet
As the early morning sun rises over the Great Barrier Reef, its light pierces the turquoise waters of a shallow lagoon, bringing more than a dozen turtles to life.
- OK! Magazine
Linda Robson fans 'minds blown' as she tearfully reveals famous son
Loose Women star Linda Robson got emotional recently as she visited the Emirates Stadium in North London to watch an Arsenal football match, and it's all to do with her son
- CNN
An Indian woman accused her husband of forcing her to have ‘unnatural sex.’ A judge said that’s not a crime in marriage
An Indian judge has dismissed a woman’s complaint that her husband committed “unnatural sex,” because under Indian law it’s not illegal for a husband to force his wife to engage in sexual acts.
- Yorkshire Live
HMRC boost as brown envelopes containing £1,941 dropping on doormats
The brown envelopes will be sent out throughout this month
- Town & Country
Kate Middleton and Prince William Are "Going Through Hell," Says Friend
"I'm heartbroken at the moment," designer Amaia Arrieta, a friend of the Prince and Princess of Wales, said in a new interview.
- Glasgow Live
'Mind-blowing' hack shows we've been poaching eggs wrong - no saucepan or boiling water
A TikTok user has shared a revolutionary method for poaching eggs that has left viewers astonished - and it doesn't involve a saucepan or boiling water