A Pennsylvania school board member is accused of stealing more than $50,000 from her job to fund a lavish Bahamas vacation and a Bar Mitzvah, according to prosecutors. Jennifer Rivera, 41, has been arrested and charged with multiple theft-related felonies after SMB, a law firm marketing agency, uncovered that she…
Integrating Model-Based Systems Engineering and Fault Management to Enable Autonomous Space Missions
Fully autonomous space mission operations require the ability to detect faults and compensate for them without human intervention. To address this challenge and provide model-based support for system design and operations, it is important to connect fault management (FM) and model-based systems engineering (MBSE). This approach was successfully demonstrated with…
Partner of female chemistry teacher accused of sexually abusing two pupils in the 1980s tells court ‘she had congenital condition which stopped her having sex’
By CAMERON CHARTERS Published: 14:12 BST, 25 August 2026 | Updated: 18:08 BST, 25 August 2026 The partner of a teacher accused of sexually seducing her former pupils told her trial she has a medical condition which means she can only have ‘quick’ sex. Sally-Anne Bowen, 65, allegedly had relationships…
Galactic Gems Glisten in New Gallery From NASA’s Chandra
Galaxies are like cosmic gems, each with characteristics including size and shape that make them distinct. A new gallery released today from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes displays a collection of galactic images that showcase this variety. Astronomers put galaxies into three main categories: spirals like our own…
How to see the 2026 ‘blood moon’ eclipse this week
Sky-gazers who were disappointed not to catch the total solar eclipse this month have a consolation prize. This week people in the Americas, Africa and Europe can expect to see a near-total lunar eclipse in which Earth’s umbra—the shadow cast when the sun is blocked by our planet—will cover 96.3…
First look inside tech oligarch Mark Zuckerberg’s remote Irish castle: The jaw-dropping feature that wouldn’t look out of place in a JAMES BOND villain’s lair – and the sinister ‘murder hole’ that forms part of its dark past…
An expensively engineered underground swimming pool with a rising floor is among the features of the Co. Waterford castle bought by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The Meta CEO and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are understood to have completed the purchase of Strancally Castle in Knockanore several weeks ago. It is…
Astronauts Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot on Spacewalk
From left, Expedition 75 flight engineers Anil Menon of NASA (partially obscured and wearing the spacesuit with a red stripe on the legs) and Sophie Adenot of ESA (European Space Agency) work together during a six‑hour and 23‑minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Aug. 18, 2026. The pair…
Home Office minister accused of putting A66 youths ‘on a par’ with dead police officers in crash tribute – but claims local force told her to do so
A Home Office minister has been criticised by a senior Tory after she paid tribute to the five dead youths who killed two police officers on the A66. Anna Turley, the Labour MP for Redcar, took to social media the following morning of the crash in her constituency, sharing a photo…
Teen who stabbed university student in the heart while he was on the phone with his girlfriend after falling out over fake Rolex found guilty of manslaughter
By CLAIRE DUFFIN, SENIOR REPORTER Published: 15:25 BST, 25 August 2026 | Updated: 15:52 BST, 25 August 2026 A student who stabbed his former friend through the heart near a university campus after they fell out over a fake Rolex watch has been found guilty of manslaughter. Harper Dennis, 19,…
Sun fires powerful M6.9 solar flare and CME toward Earth — could it boost northern lights chances this week?
Today (Aug. 25), the sun unleashed a powerful M6.9 solar flare from a restless Earth-facing sunspot, hurling a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space — and Earth could potentially be in the firing line. The M6.98 solar flare erupted from the active sunspot region 4513 and peaked at 6 a.m.…