50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: July 2021

U.K. Will Stop Using Coal Power in Just Three Years

An 82-year-old woman trained to be an astronaut sixty years ago. Now she's going to space with Jeff Bezos

Galactic 'bridges' could be the largest rotating structures ever discovered. Astronomers have uncovered evidence that cosmic filaments – tendrils of matter that stretch across hundreds of millions of light years – are also spinning. Rotation on such gigantic scales has never been observed before.