I can never get my vegan yorkshire puddings to work – help!Traditional yorkshire puddings have eggs and milk to thank for their golden, crisp and puffy looks, so it’s no wonder people run into bother in their absence. “Vegan yorkshires are a mighty task,” says Lianna Lee Davis, who is behind the much-lauded vegan Sunday … Read more
Our eight-year-old daughter has, unbeknown to us, managed to spend over £8,500 over 90 days on the Apple app store. We did not realise that our HSBC debit card had somehow been linked to her iPhone and had no idea that she could spend so easily. She was not aware that the money she was … Read more
Name: Bryan Johnson. Age: 47. Appearance: Not a day over 45. He’s that multimillionaire who’s spending his fortune trying to live for ever, isn’t he? He calls it “biohacking”, but yes, that’s him. Is he broke yet? Not yet. Johnson spends a reported $2m (£1.6m) a year on project Blueprint, his personal programme aimed at … Read more
As part of her training to be a counsellor, Jill Le Jeune gave a presentation about sex. Her group had worked with people who had experienced trauma, low mood, suicidal ideation. “And everyone was very comfortable around these difficult subjects,” she says. But talking about sex made them squirm. “I thought: actually, I’d rather talk … Read more
Starship — the spacecraft that Elon Musk says will one day take people to Mars — is preparing for its eighth test flight. This trip to space, on Monday, will largely be a do-over of the seventh flight, which launched in January. In that test, Starship’s mammoth booster, or the bottom of the rocket, successfully … Read more
The singer and songwriter Katy Perry and the broadcast journalist and show host Gayle King will be among the all-female crew on the next mission of New Shepard, the space tourism rocket that is operated by Jeff Bezos’ private company, Blue Origin. Blue Origin announced the lineup on Thursday, ahead of a planned spaceflight this … Read more
Blue Origin, the space company owned by Jeff Bezos, is laying off roughly 10 percent of its work force, according to an email that was sent to staff on Thursday and that was viewed by The New York Times. The cuts, which could affect about 1,000 roles, follow several years of rapid growth and the … Read more
new video loaded: SpaceX Launches Intuitive Machines’ Moon Lander transcript Back transcript SpaceX Launches Intuitive Machines’ Moon Lander Onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is Athena, Intuitive Machine’s second moon lander, with instruments designed to dig up lunar soil and search for compounds like frozen water. 3, 2, 1, ignition and liftoff. There is that … Read more
Star Wars is back, with an executive order from President Trump that the White House said “directs the building of the Iron Dome missile defense shield for America.” The order, issued on Monday night, didn’t quite do that. It was more a vaguely worded set of instructions to accelerate current programs or explore new approaches … Read more
Two canyons near the south pole of the moon rival the Grand Canyon, both in depth and length. Unlike the sinuous chasm in Arizona, the two lunar canyons, known as Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck, are straight, as if the crust of the moon had been cut by a knife. And unlike the Grand Canyon, … Read more