NASA cleanroom fungus could survive a trip to Mars, raising contamination concerns

A fungus pulled from NASA cleanrooms kept surviving tests that were meant to mimic nearly every stage of a trip to Mars. That ...

An oral history of the Harvard Lampoon, the college magazine that remade comedy

After 150 years the Harvard Lampoon has built a Hollywood comedy career pipeline for Ivy Leaguers such as Conan O’Brien, ...

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to fly to Pakistan for Iran talks, White House says

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is now in the capital Islamabad, but Iranian state media reports that talks with the ...
The Shetland Times

STRAIGHT TALKING: Is Shaetlan a language or dialect? Or is it too much to expect clear cut definitions for ‘constitutionally uncertain’ concepts?

Adrian Brockless takes a look at the languae versus dialext debate and whehter the issue can be resolved so neatly.