THE NEW YORK TIMES: Parents have been meddling with their children’s heads since prehistoric times. To achieve the desired form the pliable skulls of new-borns were manipulated.
Astronaut James Lovell, commander of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission that managed to get back to Earth safely after an oxygen tank explosion, has died aged 97.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Oslo wants to parlay the skills of the petroleum industry and its favourable geology into a kind of garbage disposal service for emissions from heavy industry.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: NASA has put out a call for commercial interests to establish a nuclear reactor on the Moon. It is, however, not clear what it will power.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Sometimes there is something unseen in the story, and the mistake isn’t to theorise about it; it’s to lock on too quickly to a single theory.
They are mega-popular, having sold more than 100 million albums, but scientists have found that their new songs sound a lot like their old ones. Do you agree?
Scientists have raised ‘urgent concerns’ after the discovery of new bat pathogens in China that are closely related to the deadly Nipah and Hendra viruses.