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Four astronauts pulled up at International Space Station after eight-hour express flight led by Jessica WatkinsFour astronauts pulled up at the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday after launching on an eight-hour express that set a US speed record, and that created further history with the...
The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral with two Americans, a Russian and a Canadian who will spend up to six months aboard the International Space Station.
Prince William visits residents of Skenfrith, Monmouthshire, who have faced four floods in six years.
Melbourne researchers behind previous BV transmission breakthrough turn attention to understanding why some cases are harder to cure Australian scientists have identified two contributors to recurrent bacterial vaginosis infections, a common sexual health condition that affects about one in four wom...
The Scottish government said the decision will simplify trading for farmers, hauliers, and auction markets.
Now a $15bn industry, astrology is more mainstream in the US than ever. But its practitioners are still debating: who gets to have authority on the celestial bodies?“The dwarf planets change everything,” said the woman with the smart haircut as she made a mind blown gesture with her fingertips, temp...
All parties urge Welsh and UK ministers to ensure polluters pay to clean up contaminated land.
Community-funded archaeological excavations of ‘really important’ sixth-century monastery also rewrite story of LismoreTo the residents of the Scottish island of Lismore, population 190, history is never very far away. The tiny island near Oban in Argyll has no row of shops or even a pub – if island...
Madeleine Finlay hears from Steve Ramirez, an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at Boston University, whose book How to Change a Memory was shortlisted for this year’s Royal Society Trivedi science book prize. He explains how scientists have been able to locate memories in the ...
In today’s newsletter: Reversible male hormonal contraception could reach the market within five to 10 years. But why has this development been so slow?Good morning. Since the first vasectomy was performed in the 1890s (imagine being that volunteer), the male contraceptive armoury has barely advance...
Alpine regions in Europe experiencing extreme glacier collapse due to heat-trapping effects of fossil fuel pollutionSwitzerland has lost almost one-fifth of its ice in just five years, research has found, in a dramatic reshaping of the Alpine country whose big white glaciers have been reduced to moo...
Scientists say such rapid melting is no longer surprising given the pace of climate change.
Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest.
Experts called it a "special surprise" to find an "incredibly sparse moth" in this habitat.
A month after mass catastrophic flooding, around 30 people have died in landslides and heavy rain.
Their whirring wings and bright patterns help keep them safe from birds, British study findsNaturalists have long wondered how brightly coloured butterflies manage to evade the attention of birds that make a meal of other insects.New research from British ecologists suggests it is not simply a matte...
The brown bear, described by one supporter as having both the "chonk and the badonk", will shortly enter hibernation, which can last up to six months.
The Orionid meteor shower peaks in October as Earth passes through debris left behind by Halley’s Comet.
Exeter museum to host DJ’s ‘collaboration’ with woodland fungi and artist’s map of her own body’s mycobiomeFor one of the installations, a musician spent hours in woodland “collaborating” with fungi to create a soundscape inspired by the electricity they emit.Another is a kinetic sculpture of an ext...
The municipality building in Baglung was left teetering on an unstable ledge due to floods before it fell into a river.
More than 70 million specimens from 100 UK collections will be put into an online digital museum
Though not yet approved by any regulatory agency, retatrutide could help improve blood sugar levels and reduce inflammationThe ‘Godzilla’ of weight-loss drugs could help improve blood sugar levels, reduce inflammation and cut a person’s body weight by a quarter, according to the largest study of its...
The wearable technology company had been expected to list its shares in the US.
The solution to the seventeenth century stumperEarlier today I set you a puzzle that Isaac Newton posed in 1679 in a latter to Robert Hooke. I mentioned that the answer is counter-intuitive, and also gave you the hint that it might have something to do with figure skating. Here’s the problem again, ...
SpaceX's spaceship blasted off from its Starbase launch facility in Texas on 28 September morning, marking its 14th test flight and first attempt to circle the planet before falling back to Earth, despite an engine failure. Continue reading...
Our use of cleaning products has increased since the pandemic, but do we understand what they could be doing to our health? The journalist Rebecca Seal recently wrote for the Guardian about the potential impacts of the many chemicals we now use in our homes. She tells Madeleine Finlay how social med...
As sellers waded through floodwaters to sell produce like fish and vegetables from floating platforms and foam boxes, buyers walked or paddled between the makeshift stalls to buy their groceries.
CDC says 392 cases of Dengue were reported for the year so far in the state, along with different county-level dataSeveral Florida counties recently declared a state of local emergency in response to a spate of dengue fever infections.Hillsborough county, Florida, officials made the declaration on 2...
The mission was supposed to last 10 hours, but SpaceX announced it was ending after 90 minutes.
Fossilised teeth across Europe had been wrongly identified until the latest find in south Wales.