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West Texas is not quite like the moon. But it can serve as a handy stand-in. On Tuesday, Blue Origin, the rocket company started by Jeffrey P. Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, launched — and landed — its small New Shepard rocket and capsule for the 13th time as...

Natalie Portman is using her 2020 Oscars red-carpet moment to make a statement. The Oscar-winning actress arrived at the 92nd Academy Awards dressed in a custom black and gold embroidered Dior dress paired with a matching cape. On closer look, Portman’s cape was inscribed with the names of the female...

Emanuel Zayas dies after undergoing surgery to remove 10-pound tumor from his face. Zayas, 14, died Friday night, his doctors and relatives announced. And the news of his death spread sadness through the social networks where many people had been tracking his progress from desperation to encouragement. Dr. Robert Marx, head of...

Diana Rigg, the actress known for her roles in movies and TV shows like The Avengers, Game of Thrones, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service, has died at 82. Rigg's death was confirmed to BBC News by her agent on Thursday, who said she "died peacefully early this morning" while...

Flying cars are hopefully, not too far away into the future, but for the moment, they are concept vehicles. General Motors, too, just showed off its single-passenger Cadillac capable of vertical takeoff and landing and achieving flying speeds of up to 55 mph. General Motors, at the Consumer Electronics Show...

A team working on widening the A14 have found evidence of what archaeologists believe to be the first beer brewed in the UK. Experts working on the road improvements between Cambridge and Huntingdon said tiny fragments of charred residue from the brewing process were found in excavated earth. They believe the...

Rome sinkhole swallows several cars in residential street. A massive four-lane-wide sinkhole swallowed at least six cars in Rome on Wednesday, forcing 20 families to flee their homes. A dramatic video captured the extent of the damage. The incident happened in the Italian capital's Baldunia neighborhood on Wednesday evening. Although no...

SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk said on social media this week his internet venture, Starlink, will go into its public beta testing phase “very soon”. ELON MUSK’S STARLINK SATELLITE CONSTELLATION EMERGENCY RESPONSE ASSISTANCE This follows after CNBC’s Michael Sheetz reported that SpaceX is working with Washington’s emergency response team “to bring...

China's 'Ice Boy' told to leave new private school after week. China's "Ice Boy", whose photograph went viral on the internet after his freezing trek to school in an impoverished area of western China, has been removed from his new private school after just over a week because the headmaster...

Johnson & Johnson's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine is less effective than currently authorized vaccines, new data shows, though it appears to be extremely effective against severe disease. The J&J vaccine has been described as a "game-changer" in the campaign against the virus because it is a single dose regimen. The two...