By Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmos
ReutersThe Psyche spacecraft's Falcon-Heavy rocket launched from FloridaAn American space agency (Nasa) probe has left Earth to visit one of the most unusual objects in the Solar System.
The craft is heading to a metal world - an asteroid called 16 Psyche - which telescopic observations suggest is made from up to 60% iron and nickel.
Scientists think it may be the remnant core of a planet-like object that had its outer rocky layers stripped off. Read More...
It only compounded the horror that the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history called forth talking points that had been composed long before 50 innocents were murdered early Sunday.
The immediate reactions on social media to the killings at Pulse Orlando, a popular gay dance club, etched a portrait of our national divisions, our mutual mistrust and our inclination to know what we think even when we lack all the facts. Read More...
David Brooks:
Yes, I think the big story here is that there's been a rupture between liberals and progressives.
And so, if you look at Joe Biden, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, people you would call liberals, they argue that, listen, we had cease-fires. We have had multiple cease-fires with Hamas, and every time they use the cease-fire as an excuse to rearm and reload, and then they break the cease-fire and you get more and more bloodshed. Read More...