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A federal judge has ordered a receivership for Tennessee’s Nearest Green Distillery after the business defaulted on more than US$100 million in loans. It is unclear what role Fawn Weaver will play in the business following its receivership Farm Credit Mid-America, Uncle Nearest’s primary creditor, filed a lawsuit at the beginning of the month. It asked federal judge Charles E …

Engineers have designed a spacecraft that could take up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to Alpha Centauri, the star system closest to our own. The craft, called Chrysalis, could make the 25 trillion mile (40 trillion kilometer) journey in around 400 years, the engineers say in their project brief, meaning many of its potential passengers would only know …