HOUSTON – A burning smell coming from a toilet is not something you want to hear on Earth, so when it happened to NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts on their way to the moon – well, you can bet Mission Control was listening. By the end of Friday (April 3), according to NASA The Work of … Read more
The Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and gas supplies pass, has been largely closed to shipping since the war involving Iran, the United States and Israel, as well as, to a lesser extent, other nations, began last month. The supply disruption has resulted in reduced … Read more
A world dependent on oil is in crisis. Shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz – through which more than a quarter of the world’s marine oil trade and a fifth of the world’s natural gas flows – has come to a standstill! Oil prices rose, briefly reaching $119 a barrel. The largest release of … Read more