29 h. ago Life on Mars: Humans will live in huge 'space oases' on the Red Planet in just 15 years, European Space Agency predicts

In just 15 years' time, the European Space Agency hopes humans will live in huge 'space oases' on Mars - luxury indoor habitats made of heat-reflective material that grow their own food.

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2 w. ago Human rights groups condemn Trump’s ‘racist’ and ‘cruel’ travel ban – live

Human Rights First said Trump’s ban ‘disproportionately targets Muslim-majority nations and undermines the United States’ foundational principles of equality under the law’Trump bans citizens of 12 countries from entering USEverything to know about Trump’s new travel banPresident Vladimir Putin told US president Donald Trump that he was ready to use Russia’s close partnership with Iran to help with negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme, the Kremlin said on Thursday.Trump said after a phone call with Putin on Wednesday that time was running out for Iran to make a decision on its nuclear programme and that he believed Putin agreed that the Islamic Republic should not have nuclear weapons. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Gaza aid points close for day as Israel warns against travel to distribution centres – Israel

Gaza Humanitarian Foundation halts limited supply of food distribution after at least 27 killed by Israeli fire as they waited for food Iran’s supreme leader on Wednesday criticised an initial proposal from the United States in negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear programme, though he stopped short of entirely rejecting the idea of agreement with Washington. According to the Associated Press (AP), Ayatollah Ali Khamenei described the US proposal as “100% against the idea of ‘we can,’” borrowing from an Iranian government slogan. He also said that Tehran needed to keep its ability to enrich uranium. “If we had 100 nuclear power plants while not having enrichment, they are not usable for us,” Khamenei said. “If we do not have enrichment, then we should extend our hand (begging) to the US.” However, some nuclear power nations get uranium from outside suppliers, reports the AP. Details of the American proposal remain unclear after five rounds of talks between Iran and th...

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2 w. ago Humans can 'cheat death' to live forever in just a few years top Google scientist claims

Some of the world's most respected visionaries say we're just years away from cracking the code to human immortality - and one claims the first immortal human may already be alive today

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2 w. ago Humans will live forever by 2050 thanks to android bodies and AI minds, says futurologist

Futurologist Dr Ian Pearson reckons the rich will use advanced tech to upload their brain to computers or android bodies - they can also reverse aging and keep cells young and healthy

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3 w. ago Will Diddy be next to take the stand? Rapper urged to testify to 'humanize' himself: Live trial updates

Sean ' Diddy ' Combs' ex-assistant and alleged victim 'Mia' became the second woman to say the disgraced mogul raped her during his sex-trafficking trial in New York.

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3 w. ago Universe’s mysteries may never be solved because of Trump’s Nasa cuts, experts say

‘Extinction-level cuts’ to space agency’s spending means labs will close and deep-space missions will be abandonedSome of the greatest mysteries of the universe, such as the possibility of life on Mars, and whether humans could ever live on Venus, may never be solved because of Donald Trump’s proposed “extinction-level” cuts to Nasa spending, scientists are warning.The Trump administration revealed last month its plan to slash the space agency’s overall budget by 24% to $18.8bn, the lowest figure since 2015. Space and Earth science missions would bear the brunt of the cutbacks, losing more than 53% of what was allocated to them in 2024. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Resurrection review – fascinating phantasmagoria is wild riddle about new China and an old universe

In Bi Gan’s ambitious alternate reality, where humans can live indefinitely, a reincarnating dissident dreamer travels through history in different guisesBi Gan’s new movie in Cannes is bold and ambitious, visually amazing, trippy and woozy in its embrace of hallucination and the heightened meaning of the unreal and the dreamlike. His last film Long Day’s Journey Into Night from 2018 was an extraordinary and almost extraterrestrial experience in the cinema which challenged the audience to examine what they thought about time and memory; this doesn’t have quite that power, being effectively a portmanteau movie, some of whose sections are better than others – though it climaxes with some gasp-inducing images and tracking shots and all the constituent parts contribute to the film’s aggregate effect.Resurrection is, perhaps, a long night’s journey to the enlightenment of daybreak; it finishes at a club called the Sunrise. It is also an episodic journey through Chinese history, finishing...

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