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A rock musician working at a computer might seem an unlikely figure in an asteroid-sampling mission, but Brian May brought a specialist skill to Nasa’s search for a place to land on Bennu. The Queen guitarist, who also holds a doctorate in astrophysics, helped scientists turn spacecraft photographs into three-dimensional views of the asteroid’s rough…

The Mushroom Shed was designed to resemble a mushroom. A 12-year-old girl from Surrey, England, gave her father £500 from her savings and asked him to build a house shaped like a mushroom in their back garden. Her father, Ben Swanborough, took up the challenge and built a two-storey wooden hideaway with a trapdoor, stained-glass…

Brooklyn Green spotted an elderly worker emptying rubbish at an AMC theatre in Tennessee and recorded a video of her. A 21-year-old woman in Tennessee, United States raised more than $146,000 in less than 24 hours for an 80-year-old cinema worker after noticing her cleaning up rubbish at an AMC theatre. What began as a…

Billionaire real-estate developer Donald Bren helped turn a significant portion of California’s historic Irvine Ranch into a vast network of protected public lands, with 57,500 acres now preserved as open space and parklands. The scale of the conservation effort has been documented by the Irvine Ranch Conservancy, the City of Irvine and the National Park…

File photo: Pete Hegseth said that he planned to make Hasan’s execution public. The Pentagon has announced that it will livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, the former Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009. The execution is scheduled for December 3 at the Texas military base…

File photo: Demonstrators protest near the scene of a shooting reportedly involving US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in the Bronx borough of New York City, US An ICE agent shot and wounded a Dominican man during an arrest in New York City on Thursday, triggering protests and drawing sharp criticism from local leaders…

Margaret Hamilton sitting in a mock-up ofthe Apollo command module in 1969. Thefamed Apollo programme allowed US tobeat the Soviet Union in the race to becomethe first humans to land on the Moon American scientist Margaret Hamilton, who led development of the computer system used by Nasa’s Apollo lunar program, has died at the age…

Photo credit (L-R): Bryan Cranston/ Instagram; Jake Cryan In 2007, actor Bryan Cranston, who is best know for playing Walter White in hit TV series ‘Breaking Bad’, purchased a modest beach bungalow in Venice, California, for $2.5 million, drawn by the location just steps from the sand. Rather than simply renovating the existing structure, he…

Country singer Zach Bryan has quietly added a sprawling Tennessee property to his real estate portfolio, purchasing a nearly 40-acre estate in the Leiper’s Fork area near Franklin for $18.25 million earlier this year. The purchase was first reported by TMZ, which cited property records and sources familiar with the transaction. Country music outlet Whiskey…

A fence that had been treated as a property boundary since 1967 has been upheld as the dividing line between two Arkansas properties, after a dispute over trees and fencing reached the state Court of Appeals. The ruling in Floyd v. Bowlin-Lemon, reported by Justia, Leagle and Case Law Wire, affirmed the Bowlins’ boundary claim,…