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Almost All Non-Iran Tankers That Entered The Persian Gulf During The War, Have Successfully Exited With A Cargo

Almost All Non-Iran Tankers That Entered The Persian Gulf During The War, Have Successfully Exited With A Cargo

Published by Jenni Sidey

Despite a near-halt in daily Hormuz traffic, Bloomberg reports that almost all large non-Iranian tankers that have entered the Persian Gulf during the war appear to have successfully exited with a cargo, underscoring the emergence of a small group of shipowners willing to risk crossing the Strait of Hormuz. At least 19 oil- and liquefied petroleum gas-carrying ships without Iranian links have both entered and exited Hormuz since March 1, according to vessel-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg. In contrast, about 100 such tankers that entered the Gulf before the conflict remain stuck for fear of attacks, the data show. As noted above, merchant shipping through the vital energy chokepoint has – for the most part – ground to a halt since US-Israeli attacks at the end of February triggered a wave of Iranian retaliation and led Tehran to tighten its grip over the waterway. Yet a handful of vessels have been managing to cross under an array of schemes, including deals arranged at a government level (with payment in bitcoin) in some cases (and keep …

Netanyahu says he was successfully treated for prostate cancer

Netanyahu says he was successfully treated for prostate cancer

Published by Sam Flores

The US-Israeli campaign against Iran has been paused since a temporary ceasefire went into effect a little over two weeks ago. Netanyahu has been admitted to hospital several times since returning to office in December 2022, according to his office. In March 2024, he underwent hernia surgery, before having the operation on his enlarged prostate in December of the same year. In July 2023, less than three months before the start of the Gaza war triggered by Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel, Netanyahu had a pacemaker implanted after a brief hospitalisation following complaints of dizziness. Elections are due to be held in Israel by October. Source link

Blue Origin successfully re-uses a New Glenn rocket for the first time ever

Blue Origin successfully re-uses a New Glenn rocket for the first time ever

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Blue Origin has successfully reused one of its New Glenn rockets for the first time ever, marking a major milestone for the heavy-launch system as Jeff Bezos’ space company looks to compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. But the overall mission’s success may be in question. Roughly two hours after the launch, Blue Origin revealed that the communications satellite that New Glenn carried to space for AST SpaceMobile wound up in an “off-nominal orbit,” meaning something may have gone wrong with the rocket’s upper stage. In other words, it appears the company missed the mark. “We have confirmed payload separation. AST SpaceMobile has confirmed the satellite has powered on,” the company wrote on X. “We are currently assessing and will update when we have more detailed information.” AST later said Blue Origin’s rocket placed its satellite into an orbit that was “lower than planned,” so the satellite will have to be de-orbited. According to a timeline provided by Blue Origin prior to the launch, the upper stage of New Glenn should have performed a second burn …

Mac OS X Cheetah Successfully Ported to Nintendo Wii

Mac OS X Cheetah Successfully Ported to Nintendo Wii

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Developer Bryan Keller was curious whether an old version of Apple’s Mac operating system was capable of running on the Nintendo Wii after seeing Windows NT ported to the gaming device, so he decided to give it a try. He was able to get Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah to operate on the Nintendo Wii, and he shared a blog post walking through the project. The Wii uses a PowerPC 750CL processor, which is a newer version of the PowerPC 750CXe that Apple used in the G3 iBook and iMac, which is why Keller had a hunch that the process would be successful. Keller wrote a custom bootloader and eventually managed to load OS X, with the multi-step process detailed on his website. He had to patch the OS X kernel source code and compile a modified kernel binary, then write custom drivers so the kernel was able to read from the Wii SD card slot to boot into the file system. He also had to write a framebuffer driver for the OS X interface, …

Artemis II Mission Launches Successfully

Artemis II Mission Launches Successfully

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At 6:36 pm Cape Canaveral time, NASA’s SLS rocket lifted off without incident with the four members of the Artemis II spacecraft aboard. During the first few hours, Orion will complete its journey into Earth orbit and, throughout the first day, will conduct critical navigation and systems tests. Around the third or fourth day, the spacecraft will begin its trajectory toward the moon and cross its gravitational sphere of influence. In total, the mission will last approximately 10 days. The mission includes the first woman and the first Black person on a crewed mission to lunar orbit. The launch comes 53 years after Apollo 17, the last crewed mission to the Moon. The Artemis II crew will not land on the moon (that will happen on Artemis IV ). Instead, their capsule will fly at altitudes between 6,000 and 9,000 kilometers above the surface of the far side of the moon, circle it, and begin the return journey to Earth. The mission’s main objective is to demonstrate that the space agency has the technological capability …

Physicists Successfully Deliver First Bottle of CERN Antimatter From the Antimatter Factory

Physicists Successfully Deliver First Bottle of CERN Antimatter From the Antimatter Factory

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech For thirty minutes on Tuesday, a team of researchers white-knuckled it across the CERN campus on the outskirts of Geneva, completing the world’s first haul of antimatter particles ever attempted. Antimatter is incredibly unstable, making it notoriously difficult to store in a solid structure, let along the back of a cabover rig. Yet that’s exactly what they did, after physicists decided it was necessary to move antiprotons away from their CERN production line to another on-campus lab where they’d be free from “experimental noise,” Nature reported. In order to complete the haul, physicists sealed 92 antiprotons in a specially designed vacuum bottle, which was cooled to an astonishing 4 degrees Kelvin, or -452.47 degrees Fahrenheit. Each antiproton is precious, since CERN’s “antimatter factory” — the only place on Earth where antiprotons can currently be produced — are only able to capture a limited amount. Successfully transporting the stuff, at speeds reaching up to 26 miles per hour, is …

First lab-grown oesophagus successfully implanted in pigs | Science, Climate & Tech News

First lab-grown oesophagus successfully implanted in pigs | Science, Climate & Tech News

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Scientists in the UK have created the first lab-grown oesophagus and implanted it in pigs, which have been able to use it to swallow food. In the study, scientists from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and University College London (UCL) showed that a pig donor oesophagus can have cells removed, be repopulated with a recipient’s own cells and implanted in the recipient to restore the organ’s function. The hospital said it marks a major step to carrying out personalised regenerative treatments for children born with life-threatening oesophageal conditions. Dr Marco Pellegrini, senior researcher at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, said the technology “could allow us to build a child a new oesophagus, using their own cells, collected in a surgery they are having anyway, combined with a ready-prepared scaffold from pig tissue”. Other studies have previously shown parts of this technology, but this is the first time the full process has been completed with such success, the study’s authors said. Image: The study was published on Friday in Nature Biotechnology Transplant ‘would …

Researchers successfully grow chickpeas in ‘moon dirt’

Researchers successfully grow chickpeas in ‘moon dirt’

Published by Jenni Sidey

A pot of gray, lifeless regolith does not look like the start of dinner. Yet in a new experiment, researchers managed to grow chickpeas to the point of seed production in a material designed to mimic lunar soil, a result that hints at how future moon crews might raise some of their own food. The work, led by researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University, tested whether chickpeas could survive in simulated lunar regolith mixed with vermicompost, a nutrient-rich material produced by red wiggler earthworms. The team also added arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, which form symbiotic relationships with plant roots and can help plants handle stress. The result was a first for this crop in this kind of growing medium. Chickpeas grown in mixtures containing as much as 75 percent simulated lunar regolith produced harvestable seeds. Plants grown in pure regolith did not make it that far, though the fungi helped them live about two weeks longer than untreated plants. The researchers chose the ‘Myles’ variety of chickpea for this study. …

Tesla successfully scared Giga Berlin workers away from union

Tesla successfully scared Giga Berlin workers away from union

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IG Metall’s vote share at Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin decreased from 39.4% to just 31.1% in the works council election that concluded today, a devastating 8-percentage-point drop that came after weeks of threats, police involvement, and a direct warning from Elon Musk that expansion would stop if the union gained influence. The management-aligned “Giga United” list won 40.4% of the vote, securing a commanding lead over the union and ensuring that Germany’s only non-union auto plant stays that way. The results Roughly 10,700 workers at Tesla’s Grünheide plant voted over three days from March 2–4, with 87% turnout — down 6 percentage points from the 2024 election. The council was reduced from 39 seats to 37, reflecting the factory’s shrinking workforce. IG Metall needed 19 of those 37 seats to take majority control. They didn’t come close. The union’s 31.1% vote share represents a sharp retreat from the 39.4% it earned in 2024, when it secured 16 of 39 seats and became the council’s largest faction. Advertisement – scroll for more content Giga United, the list …

She successfully rebranded MSNBC. Up next? Streaming

She successfully rebranded MSNBC. Up next? Streaming

Published by Sam Flores

One year ago, Rebecca Kutler was promoted to president of the cable news network then known as MSNBC. Taking the helm at a major news organization is the pinnacle of a journalist’s career. But a lot changed after Kutler landed the job. In August, MSNBC announced it was dropping its name of nearly 30 years to become MS NOW — as its now-former owner NBCUniversal wanted a clean break from the channel, which was spun off to be part of a new media company called Versant. The spin-off, which NBCU parent Comcast initiated because its cable networks are considered slow-dying properties that weighed down its stock price, was hardly a vote of confidence in the business. Losing the moniker that had decades of brand equity among its politically progressive viewers was not going to help. At a recent lunch near her Washington office, Kutler, acknowledged the circumstances were less than ideal. But with more than 20 years in the TV news business where she began as a production assistant at CNN, she understood the audience’s …