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New study suggests ocean of water lies beneath Mars’s surface

  • August 13, 2024

The findings follow analysis of seismic readings from NASA’s Mars InSight lander before it shut down in 2022. New research suggests there may be enough water hiding in the cracks of underground rocks beneath the surface of Mars to form an ocean. The findings are based on seismic measurements from...

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Spoilers that could Ignite ‘Tinder Box’ in the Middle East

  • August 11, 2024

SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – Since the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran nearly two weeks ago, world leaders are urging calm while waiting to see whether further escalation could ignite a broader war in the Middle East, a region former U.S. intelligence officers are referring to as ‘tinder...

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Review – Rebel Governance in the Middle East

  • August 11, 2024

Rebel Governance in the Middle EastEdited by Ibrahim Fraihat and Abdalhadi AlijlaPalgrave Macmillan Singapore, 2023 Unlike some other overlapping fields, such as social movement studies, which are characterised by historical western-centricity, the field of rebel governance was originally pioneered in non-western cases (Arjona, Kasfir, and Mampilly 2015; Mampilly 2011). However,...

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USA rack up relay golds; Qatar’s Barshim bows out with high jump bronze

  • August 10, 2024

The United States have won their eighth consecutive Olympic women’s 4×400-metre relay crown to clinch the country’s 14th track and field gold medal of the Paris Games. A star-studded USA quartet, which included two-time Olympic 400-metre hurdles champion Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and 200-metres gold medallist Gabby Thomas, powered home in 3...