Polish Astronaut Reveals Spacesuit Ahead of Historic Space Mission

China is on the forefront of sodium-ion battery deployment, and electric scooters is being used as the flagship product. Scooters like these, enabled by sodium batteries rather than the conventional lithium-ion and lead-acid models, are becoming popular, helping to usher the technology into the mainstream.

Two previously unknown pages from a 13th-century tale of Merlin in Old French and of Arthur in Guinevere’s court were discovered by researchers at Cambridge University Library. Written in Old French, these leaves were discovered bound into another book as its cover. The fragment is from the “Suite Vulgate du Merlin,” a sequel to the Arthurian legend. Roughly three dozen copies of this sequel are believed to exist.

A novel way to treat snakebites has been discovered through an unlikely collaboration between a scientist and a man who spent nearly 20 years self-immunizing himself by exposing his body to snake venom. Immunologist Jacob Glanville identified Tim Friede, a self-taught snake handler who had injected himself with venom from some of the deadliest snakes on the planet — culturing himself to snake venom as if it were poison ivy and even permitting snakebites at one point — all to gradually build his immune system.

At Sutton Hoo in England, where the seventh-century Anglo-Saxon “ghost ship” burial is located, archaeologists have published a substantial amount of information on a mysterious sixth-century object, the Bromeswell bucket. First identified as fragments in 1986 and excavated more completely in 2012, the bucket has puzzled scientists with its high-resolution North African hunting scene that includes warriors, animals, and weapons. Experts believe it was created in Antioch (in what is now Turkey) under the Byzantine Empire and was moved to Britain a century later.

Google has unveiled its most sophisticated AI video tool to date — Veo 3. The tool can produce a strikingly realistic video that is virtually indistinguishable from human-created content. Its realism is both thrilling and troubling to the many who think that fact and fiction are increasingly blurred online.

The newest prototype of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship spacecraft ruptured during a test over the Indian Ocean recently, indicating new challenges in Elon Musk’s goal to carry humans to Mars. The rocket, the most powerful and tallest ever built, took off at 6:36 p.m. from the southern Texas launch site SpaceX is building near a village that earlier this week voted to change its name to Starbase.