Power from Gravity

Gravity batteries aren’t exactly a new idea. You can store energy by lifting something heavy, converting kinetic energy into potential energy. To get it back, you let the mass fall and convert that motion to electricity. [Valeriamayara22] shows how t

Global Oil Price Rises After U.S. Strikes in Iran Cloud Peace Deal

Optimism for a resolution to the conflict and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz was checked after the United States said it had carried out strikes on missile launch sites in Iran.

Ferrari shares fall 7% after luxury carmaker launches first fully electric vehicle

Shares of luxury carmaker Ferrari fell sharply on Tuesday morning, shortly after the company launched its first fully electric vehicle.

European stocks open mixed following U.S. strikes on Iran, mixed messages on peace talks

European stocks opened mixed on Tuesday, as traders watched developments in the Middle East and Ukraine.

+++ Nachrichten im Ukrainekrieg +++: USA wollen weiter vermitteln

US-Außenminister Rubio hält nach den jüngsten russischen Großangriffen an Verhandlungen fest. In der Nacht zu Dienstag kam es zu weiteren tödlichen Angriffen. mehr...

Der Hausbesuch: In der Sprache eine Heimat finden

Poesie begleitet Dagmar Nick durch die Jahrzehnte, ihr erster Gedichtband ist den KZ-Überlebenden gewidmet. Am 30. Mai wird sie 100. mehr...

Kohlekraftwerk an der Elbe: Das Fossil von Wedel

Noch geht es da um Kohle. Aber Mitte nächsten Jahres soll das Heizkraftwerk Wedel endlich stillgelegt und die Hamburger Fernwärme klimafreundlich werden. mehr...

Torjäger Harry Kane: Ein Engländer wird Bayer

Harry Kane, dreifacher Torschütze im DFB-Pokal, ist so treffsicher wie kein anderer, aber kein Egomane. Die Rettung für den FC Bayern und Uli Hoeneß. mehr...

Napoli, padre accoltella il figlio dodicenne e tenta di togliersi la vita

È accaduto alla Sanità, in via Vergini. Il ragazzo è ricoverato all'ospedale Vecchio Pellegrini con due ferite al polmone sinistro

‘Next time, I’ll stab you’: Russia sees spate of wartime school attacks

There have been at least 14 reported attacks in schools and other educational institutions in Russia so far this year compared with 15 in the whole of 2025.

Bianchi (Svimez): “Resta un conto aperto tra Meloni e il Mezzogiorno che ha premiato i cacicchi”

L’economista: “Non c’è stata la svolta. Non a sinistra che non ha messo le mani sul tesoretto del referendum, ma neanche a destra. Bisogna ancora intercettare i giovani con un’offerta credibile, che oggi non c’è in nessuno dei poli”

Japan Cosmetic Association head guilty of bribing former University of Tokyo researchers

The Tokyo District Court sentenced Koichi Hikichi to one year in prison for bribery linked to joint research with the university.

Russia tells US to pull its diplomats and citizens from Ukraine capital

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called US State Secretary Marco Rubio to advise him to evacuate US citizens and diplomats from Kyiv, as the Kremlin plans to continue heavy strikes on the Ukrainian capital, according to a statement published by

China defence chief Dong Jun tipped to skip this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue

Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun is set to skip the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore for the second year in a row, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Instead, China will send a lower-level People’s Liberation Army (PLA) delegation to

Less than 10% of Chinese public worried about AI destroying jobs: survey

China is better positioned than many other nations to lead in artificial intelligence due to the public’s “strikingly positive” attitude towards the technology, according to a new survey by University College London. Less than 10 per cent of responde

Rubio looks to repair lens on US-India ties amid Quad talks, energy deals

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to India this week will give Washington an opportunity to “get the optics right” regarding ties between the two sides, amid friction over unresolved trade issues and broader international cooperation. Rubio s

Riz Ahmed Says British Intelligence Tried to Recruit Him Three Times

British spies have tried to recruit Riz Ahmed three times, with a senior BBC figure involved in one of the attempts, the actor has said.  Ahmed made the claim during a recent interview with Zeteo’s Mehdi Hasan.“It’s happened three different times and

Review | Mother Courage and Her Children

War is a guzzling money‑making machine

114: Why We Can’t Let Go of the Girl Boss

The girl boss is back – and this time she’s working class, mixed race and fully therapised. Moya asks how we should make sense of Skims entrepreneur Emma Grede and the success of her book, Start With Yourself. Plus: which fantasy archetype are you? C

The Long History of Controlling Water and Why It No Longer Works

McNary Dam, Columbia River, Washington/Oregon. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. The defining signature of the past 6,000 years of human civilization is the domestication of the hydrosphere—capturing, damming, canalizing, reorienting, propertizing, pr

Раскрыты новые кандидаты на роль переговорщика с Россией от ЕС

Резкое изменение интенсивности ударов ВСУ по России связали с новой тактикой

Microsoft обвинили в лицемерии

В Совбезе заявили о снабжении Западом террористов современным оружием

Missing sheets in evaluated papers leave city’s Class 12 CBSE students in shock

CBSE’s first nationwide rollout of the On-Screen Marking (OSM) system for Class 12 evaluation has come under public scrutiny after students from several cities began posting about alleged discrepancies

Writer Sivasankari’s stories find a theatrical voice

Drawing from Sivasankari’s oeuvre, director Dharini Komal recently presented six stories at the Vani Mahal theatre festival in Chennai.

NGO asks Chief Justice of India Surya Kant to withdraw remarks against environmentalists

They pointed out that the Constitution of India recognises the importance of environmental protection

Vellore TVK functionary removed from party post over bribery charges by brick kiln operators

A group led by T.R. Vijayakumar had reportedly demanded that each brick kiln operator pay a bribe of ₹1 lakh every month to run their units smoothly without any political interference

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft uses Mars as a giant slingshot toward a mysterious metal world

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft just used Mars as a giant gravitational slingshot to continue its journey toward a strange metal rich asteroid. The close flyby boosted the spacecraft’s speed by about 1,000 mph while also producing rare crescent images of Ma

Scientists discover a giant “planet factory” beyond Jupiter

Scientists believe a dust-filled ring just outside Jupiter acted like a cosmic “planetesimal factory,” producing multiple generations of early space rocks with very different compositions. The discovery may finally explain the origins of several myst

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