TUCSON — Hot and dry air, perfused with a scent reminiscent of a warmed hair straightener, stuffed a hangar-sized room beneath the football stadium at the University of Arizona. The space, part of the Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab, was dominated by a gyrating, carousel-sized furnace, fire truck red and shaped like a flying saucer. The swirling cocoon of a colossal light collector.
“It’s making 4.9 revolutions per minute,” says astronomer Buell Januzzi of the University of Arizona, raising his
The film paints a deeply disturbing picture. A dark-skinned man stares menacingly and licks a huge knife. Flames explode out of burning cars on an urban street. Shrieking young rioters, their heads covered by hoodies, kick in a shop window.
An alarming soundtrack thunders as a solemn male voice asks: ‘Do you want this to happen in Poland . . . to stop being masters of your own country?’
The short clip championing stronger border controls could easily have been
Michael Allio could’ve been The Bachelor season 26 lead, but he turned down the offer — and the paycheck he says may well have been the largest ever for the show.
“I was just really scared. I was really fearful of it,” Allio, 39, revealed on a recent episode of the “She’s All Bach” podcast, adding the idea of becoming the star of the show “felt a little bit like a prison.”
The single father, who eliminated himself from Katie
I’m in a Portakabin in a Tesco car park, somewhere just outside of Wimbledon in South London, about to have what is perhaps the most important blood test I’ve ever had.
Queuing alongside me is a gaggle of people, young and old, all eager to get their samples taken, too.
Together, we are about to become a small handful of the five million volunteers to take part in one of Britain’s most ambitious medical research projects to date.
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New York and California saw the largest loss of tax income from migration of any states, according to a new study of IRS migration data.
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The affable advice at Aussie Trax, the four-wheel drive hire company located at Kingfisher Bay Resort, is: ‘No worries if yer run into strife, but try not to, mate.’
And then we set off to explore K’gari, the world’s largest sand island, nine miles off Queensland’s southeastern coast and 160 miles north of Brisbane.
With just a couple of campsites, one resort and no permanent residents, these 75 miles by 14 miles of rainforest growing on sand (the only place
Barry Benson tightened his grip on his steering wheel. The federal wildlife-damage-abatement officer had handled bears, coyotes, and wolves. But now he was on a bigger hunt. And he was not alone. At an utterly unassuming, otherwise-bucolic intersection just outside the 280-acre Schmeeckle Reserve in rural Wisconsin, dozens of cars—Benson’s among them—idled in the predawn darkness of 5 a.m., all tuned into the same local radio station, 90 FM, waiting for instructions.
If you recognise any of these retro Apple computers, now may be a good time to have a rummage through your attic.
That’s because the set of over 500 devices is going up for auction on Thursday, and is expected to rake in thousands of dollars.
‘The Hanspeter Luzi Vintage Apple Archive’ is said to be one of the world’s most comprehensive collection of Apple computers and products ever offered.
It includes a rare 1983 Lisa I computer, which is
Twenty-two-year-old Pamella Jili has seen its impact up close. She grew up in the township, a hot spot in the worst-hit province in South Africa, where more people live with HIV than anywhere else in the world. She has watched others struggle with the virus. When dating, she has always worried about her partner’s status.
Despite
