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The year 1976 is memorable to those of us of a certain age because it was one of…
Guests from across the galaxy visiting Lichfield city centre for 2026 Space Invasion
VISITORS from a galaxy far, far away will be making a return visit to Lichfield city centre next…
What a Nile crocodile case means for Trump’s DC building projects
The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision backing President Donald Trump’s massive ballroom at the White House is already playing…
These microbes in Antarctica don’t live anywhere else
View larger. | Here’s a view of Earth on September 21, 2005, showing the entire region of Antarctica…
Brian Moloney: ‘I bought a car with my last few hundred pounds and had to sleep in it for two weeks’ – The Irish Times
Brian Moloney is the founder and chief executive of StormHarvester, a Belfast-headquartered AI company tackling pollution and flooding…
APOD: 2026 September 6 – Pluto in Enhanced Color
Explanation: Pluto is more colorful than we can see. Color data and high-resolution images of our Solar System’s…
In 2017, a 14-year-old Virginia girl dug a backyard pond for a school project; 9 years later, it has become a thriving wildlife ecosystem
The transformation demonstrates how even relatively small habitat projects can make a difference when they provide food, water,…
Betelgeuse’s northeast hotspot held its spot from 2015 to 2023, outliving the large convective structures current models predict
A bright patch on the northeastern limb of Betelgeuse sat in nearly the same place, at nearly the…
Canada erects giant ‘Lake Ontario’ sign as spat with Trump over name escalates – The Irish Times
Donald Trump and Canada have continued a verbal duel over the US government’s administrative renaming of Lake Ontario,…
James Webb telescope finds one of our galaxy’s rarest stars inside the ‘Treasure Chest’ globule — Space photo of the week
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the “Treasure Chest,” a cometary globule in the star-forming Carina Nebula, on…
In 1983, rhino champion Anna Merz spent her savings to secure 5,000 Kenyan acres; the sanctuary she started grew into Lewa, now sheltering about 245 rhinos | World News
An AI-generated image showing black rhinos moving through the protected landscape of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya, where…
Atlantic waves carved a concert hall into 60-million-year-old volcanic rock off Scotland — when Mendelssohn heard the strange acoustics inside Fingal’s Cave, he went home with the opening notes of an overture already in his head
A seasick twenty-year-old German climbed into a small boat off the Isle of Mull in August 1829, and…