“The Council today agreed that the head of the Mission of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to the European Union be declared persona non grata,” the European Council said in a statement on Thursday, adding “this is a response to the decision by the Venezuelan government to declare the head …
Read More »NASA shares more incredible PHOTOS from Martian surface as Perseverance mission begins in earnest
The six-wheeled robot beamed back several high-resolution images taken during the rover’s landing. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter also captured the spacecraft sailing into the landing site within the Jezero Crater, with parachute in tow. © NASA/ JPL Caltech The snapshots were sent via several spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet but …
Read More »WHO fact-finding mission: Animal source of Covid-19 still unidentified, Wuhan laboratory leak ‘extremely unlikely’
The expert team with the World Health Organization (WHO) held a press conference on Tuesday to present their findings to the public. The team spent four weeks in Wuhan, the city that was first to report the outbreak of the new disease in December 2019. The team identified and looked …
Read More »WHO fact-finding mission arrives in China’s Wuhan to investigate origins of Covid-19
The WHO mission arrived in Wuhan on Thursday, Chinese media reported. TV channel CGTN said the investigators have to undergo “relevant quarantine procedures” before starting field work in the city, where the coronavirus was first discovered in late 2019. WHO spokesperson Margaret Harris told CGTN that a team of ten …
Read More »Staffers quit Tom Cruise’s ‘Mission Impossible’ movie project after star goes full-on KAREN with second Covid rant – report
The second meltdown came on Tuesday night, after news broke of an earlier on-set rant by Cruise that was caught on tape, the Sun newspaper reported, citing an unidentified person involved in the movie. The 58-year-old actor stars in the film, which is the seventh installment of “Mission Impossible,” and …
Read More »Mission accomplished? Facebook joins Twitter in reverting to pre-election news feed algorithms that do not prioritize MSM
An algorithm tweak that saw Facebook users deluged with mainstream media stories following last month’s elections has been reversed, the social media behemoth told the New York Times on Wednesday, insisting that the change – which significantly boosted traffic for establishment outlets like CNN, NPR, and the Times itself while …
Read More »China launches robotic mission to haul Moon rocks back to Earth, first in over 40 years
The China National Space Administration’s (CNSA) Chang’e-5 mission blasted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in a pre-dawn launch on Monday, putting the advanced robotic craft and its Long March-5 carrier rocket – the largest of its kind in China – on course for the Moon. If all goes …
Read More »Elon Musk heralds ‘glorious’ Mars mission – but admits colonists will almost certainly die
SpaceX has high-profile plans to send one of its Starship rockets to the Red Planet as soon as 2022 and aspirational plans for a manned mission just two years later. Musk, SpaceX’s founder, discussed the project at a conference this week, revealing that he believes getting people to Mars will …
Read More »Mission impossible: how to get a free test for antibodies in Moscow
May 27, Muscovites can take a free test for antibodies to the coronavirus in 30 clinics in the capital. Before this analysis could take only those who participated in the testing method of random sampling. It would seem that now all problems are solved.However, it turned out to give blood …
Read More »NASA will launch a new mission to study storms on the Sun
The us space Agency spoke about new research mission, which NASA plans to study how the Sun formed solar storms. Thanks to the SunRISE program scientists want to better understand the Solar system and to protect the astronauts who will go to the moon and Mars, says the press service …
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