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King Charles plans big for Prince Harry and his family family King Charles seems desperate to make amends with Prince Harry and his family as the clock ticks away. In a desperate bid to heal the rift, the 76-year-old monarch could make contact to Meghan Markle, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet. The monarch reportedly plans a Zoom call with the …

According to the theory by Stephen Hawking, black holes emit particles and radiation, which leads to them gradually losing mass. Small black holes evaporate faster, and eventually, this process ends in a final burst. The problem with observing these PBHs exploding is that they would have evaporated already, or their explosions are too rare or too weak to detect. Source …

So it was the early astronauts that kind of drove the desire to take cameras themselves, but they were quite basic. Wally Schirra (Mercury-Atlas 8) then took the first Hasselblad. He wanted medium format, better quality, but really, the photographs from Mercury aren’t as stunning as Gemini. It’s partly the windows and the way they took the photos, and they’d …

Composite: Rita Liu/The Guardian/Getty Images/Photos courtesy of Joelle Fraser For days before her last hospital visit, Mom’s texts worried me. She sent them from the one-room mountain cabin she shared with my stepfather, Mark. They pinged each day on my phone like tiny arrows: two dozen or more, with random all-caps. Mom: Making mark red velvet CAKE. we have the …

For over a hundred years, schoolchildren around the world have learned that ice melts when pressure and friction are applied. When you step out onto an icy pavement in winter, you can slip up because of the pressure exerted by your body weight through the sole of your (still warm) shoe. But it turns out that this explanation misses the …

Each fall, updated versions of the COVID-19 vaccines come out around the same time as the annual flu shot. And just like the flu shot, these updated COVID vaccines are formulated to protect against virus strains that people are more likely to encounter in the coming months, as opposed to strains that were rampant the year prior. But this year, …

Gov. Janet Mills speaks to the media at the State House in July 2023. (Robert F. Bukaty/Associated Press) Gov. Janet Mills issued an order Friday that will expand the number of people who can get COVID-19 vaccines in Maine, going against federal guidance that had limited approvals for this year’s shot. The order authorizes health care professionals, including pharmacists, to administer …

Facebook Tweet Email Link A clutch of 28 dinosaur eggs found in the Qinglongshan fossil reserve in central China is about 86 million years old, according to scientists who used an “atomic clock” method to date the samples. Researchers said they now hope the eggs, and the technique employed to evaluate their age, might help to reveal how dinosaurs living …

Football September 12, 2025 02:00 PM Mike Montoro Story Links MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia University Director of Athletics Wren Baker has announced that the “Backyard Brawl” football series with Pitt, one of the nation’s oldest and most intense rivalries, has been scheduled …

The fierce debate over whether Homo sapiens was the first species to bury its dead is far from over. After a decade of back-and-forth with skeptics, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his team are not going to let their hypothesis die: that a small-brained species called Homo naledi was culturally burying their dead long before modern humans were. Their latest peer-reviewed …