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The summer months are the perfect time to stop looking down at your electronic devices and look up at the spectacular show the night sky puts on for us all. “The universe is sending us a message: It’s a good time to look at the sky,” said John Mulchay, director of the Carnegie Observatories in California. Carnegie Science, where Mulchay also serves as associate director for science, has documented some of the best places to see all sorts of celestial events, and this time of year in particular is a great time to do so, John says, because it brings…

Everett/Shutterstock Purple Rain was released on July 27, 1984 and was Prince’s first film appearance. CNN — For 40 years, Prince fans have been laughing and bathing in his film Purple Rain. In this semi-autobiographical musical, which was released on July 27, 1984, Prince plays “The Kid,” a musician who plays local clubs in Minneapolis with his band while trying to escape his abusive father. The protagonist also faces conflict with another group and begins a relationship with an aspiring singer played by Apollonia. Prince reportedly came up with the idea to star in the film and told his managers…

Saint-Denis, France — Cassidy Cook and Sarah Bacon won silver medals She won the U.S.’s first medal in the women’s 3-meter synchronized diving event on Saturday. 2024 Paris Olympics.The score for the five dives was 314.64. The event put an American on the podium. First time since 2012Bacon and Cook were sandwiched between gold medal-winning China’s Zhang Yani and Chen Yiwen (337.68) and bronze medallists Yasmin Harper and Scarlett Mu-Jensen of Great Britain (302.28).For the duo known as “Cook and Bacon,” familiarity and friendship were key ingredients in their winning formula, say the divers, who have been friends since childhood…

Overdose deaths involving a synthetic opioid 100 times stronger than fentanyl have more than doubled in New York City, while a new, deadly sedative has been detected in the city’s drug supply for the first time. The two deadly drugs are wreaking havoc on public health, with city officials issuing warnings Thursday about carfentanil, a drug powerful enough to sedate elephants, and medetomidine, an animal sedative that experts say is more powerful than the “zombie drug” xylazine. But even as these two poisons made the city’s cocaine and heroin supplies even more dangerous, the city Health Department continued to promote…

WASHINGTON — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 successfully launched a suite of Starlink satellites early on July 27, its first flight since its upper stage experienced an anomaly 15 days ago. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 1:45 a.m. ET, and the company confirmed the successful launch of its payload of 23 Starlink satellites a little over an hour later. This launch was the first for Falcon 9. Launch later on July 11thThe rocket’s upper stage also contained the Starlink satellites. A liquid oxygen leak in the rocket’s upper stage prevented the Merlin…

Andrew Harnick/Getty Images The Apple Store at Towson Town Center Mall: The union representing the store’s workers and Apple have reached a tentative labor agreement, the tech giant’s first U.S. labor contract. new york CNN — Apple Inc. and the union representing retail workers at its Towson, Maryland, store agreed to a tentative labor agreement late Friday, the first of its kind in the U.S. to cover all of the tech giant’s U.S. employees, not just Apple Stores. Towson Apple store employees Voted to join the International Union of Machinists They signed their first contract in June 2022 and have…

Secretary General says Ukraine is ‘closer’ to joining NATOReally supportIndependent journalismClick here for detailscloseOur mission is to provide unbiased, fact-based journalism that holds power accountable and exposes the truth.Every donation counts, whether it’s $5 or $50.Support us to deliver journalism without purpose.Ukraine The missile forces Attacked a Russian airfield in Crimea It was used in an attack on the country, the latest in a series of attacks on the peninsula.In a statement, the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff said: RussiaRussia’s Saki airfield in the western Crimean peninsula was the latest target of the attack, and the Russian government said it…

Image: Nintendo LifeBelieve it or not, today Fire Emblem: Three Houses It was released on the Switch. SRPG fans will have already completed it at this point. Furthermore, Fire Emblem EngageIt’s now been a little over a year. Despite being from the same series, anyone who’s played the two latest titles will have noticed the striking differences. Three Houses (let’s not forget that this is the series’ first console release in over a decade) strikes a bold new direction with a game as tied to the appeal of social simulation as it is to tactical combat. All of the turn-based…

Do or die. Exciting new research suggests that having more sex could benefit women’s hearts and help them live longer. This recent, outrageous study Journal of Mental HealthThe study found that women aged 20 to 59 who had infrequent sexual activity (less than once a week) had a 70% higher risk of all-cause mortality. A new study suggests that women who have infrequent sex may be at higher risk of death. Lucky Business – stock.adobe.com Women were disproportionately affected by a lack of sexual activity, but for men, too much sex increased their risk of death. George Rudy – stock.adobe.com…

A NASA-funded research team has announced a breakthrough in hypersonic flow technology that could allow operators to control airflow at the speed of light during a deadly “shock train.” Shock train is a condition that typically precedes engine failure in scramjet engines, and now, for the first time, researchers from the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science have demonstrated the ability to monitor airflow inside a supersonic combustion jet engine using optical sensors instead of pressure sensors. This unprecedented level of sensing and control gives engineers of the scramjet propulsion engines used in hypersonic prototypes an entirely…