When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. European Space Agency reserve astronaut John McFall takes part in a parabolic flight sponsored by the agency and Novespace in Bordeaux, France, on April 6, 2023. McFall is the first reserve astronaut with a disability. | Credit: ESA/Novespace … Read more
You don’t have to read the news or scroll through Instagram for long to come across the latest example of a rare and beautiful species going extinct. Since 1500 AD, at least 705 vertebrate species and 571 plant species have become extinct. Humans have now taken over half of the Earth’s surface for agriculture and … Read more
It’s easy to wax nostalgic about long summer vacations from school. Back in the day, they meant disappearing on bikes with friends until the sun went down, or setting up makeshift camps in the yard with hastily thrown together picnics of buttered bread, orange squash, and the odds and ends of the snack drawer. Times … Read more
Who was the first Avenger? While The Avengers means Captain America, Hulk, Iron Man, Thor and Black Widow to much of the world, those of us with longer memories remember another team of crime fighters by that name. But it wasn’t Stan Lee’s band of superheroes that arrived first – two years before that first … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. NASA’s Perseverance rover may have found a key clue crucial to its Mars mission: geological evidence that could suggest life existed on the Red Planet billions of years ago. The robotic explorer on July 18 … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. NASA’s Perseverance rover may have found a key clue crucial to its Mars mission: geological evidence that could suggest life existed on the Red Planet billions of years ago. The robotic explorer on July 18 … Read more
Kenneth Grange, who has died aged 95, was the most important British product designer of the second half of the 20th century. Even if they don’t know his name, most people in Britain are familiar with his work: the Kenwood Chef food processor, the Kodak Instamatic camera, the Ronson Rio hairdryer, the Morphy Richards iron. … Read more
Some very prominent tech leaders are excited about Donald Trump, and also about JD Vance, a tech VC. In an interesting twist, VC Peter Thiel supported both Trump and Vance, but became disillusioned with Trump after the 2016 election. So how should we think about Vance’s connection to tech and Thiel’s connection to Trump today? … Read more
An 11-year-old girl who dreamed of becoming a lawyer has died after her older brother hit her on the head in a fit of rage, and her family tried to cover up the incident, a coroner has ruled. Falaq Babar was described as the ‘princess of her family’ as she washed another sibling in the … Read more
The programming language of the web is JavaScript (JS), but the lack of static types is the biggest pain point highlighted in the 2023 State of JS survey. We rely on TypeScript (TS) to achieve strong structural type analysis of our code, as noted in our standardization article. Static types help prevent runtime errors on … Read more
