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Image copyright SpaceX Image caption Elon Musk has described hypersonic flight as “the ultimate rush” The US military has launched three hypersonic rockets from a proving ground in California. The hypersonic engines – two…
Britain topped Group A of the Davis Cup while Kazakhstan and Croatia claimed the opening two fixtures in their campaigns as the season-ending clay-court team competition got underway on Wednesday. The 10-times champions Britain…
The scale of new luxury retail parks on the American East Coast evokes an eerie graveyardlike image where the assorted dead leave to rot, limbs hanging like rotting pikes. Lifestyle centers are no different….
Herbert Diess has put his money where his mouth is. In 2015, Volkswagen agreed to spend $15 billion to buy into Tesla. Now, Diess has set his sights on beating Elon Musk and building…
If you feel exhausted by conservative pundits and politicians attacking Roy Moore for his alleged conduct with teenage girls, you will be grateful to David Frum. While for years Republicans denounced the idea of…
This week was a busy one for New Zealand’s Nicola Manson. Manson, a member of the New Zealand Labour Party, ended up biking nearly 35 kilometers with a baby on board to her newborn’s…
In the not-too-distant past, action films with the excellent moniker Straight Outta Compton were “cut”, sometimes not just in their entirety, but simply their middle bit. This isn’t a problem in the case of…
Merck & Co. provided an update on the potential efficacy of its experimental drug against hepatitis C, saying it was less effective and had a higher rate of serious side effects in a final…
Companies with several thousand workers in the United States, including Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson and Yahoo, said Wednesday they’ve begun testing vaccines against the deadly “MERS” virus after receiving interim results from a yearlong,…
Afghanistan’s prime minister on Wednesday defended the Taliban’s government in the battle against an emboldened Afghan insurgency, as the government seeks to adjust to international war pressure while recognizing that a resolution in Kabul…