‘It smelled like dead people’: the plan to tackle England’s illegal waste problem | Waste
“There were parents dropping their children off and then heaving from the smell,” says Liz Thompson, 45, who…
In 2025, astronomers mapped Quipu, the largest reliably identified cosmic superstructure yet—a branching filament roughly 1.4 billion light-years long, 13,000 times the diameter of the Milky Way’s stellar disc, with an estimated mass of about 200 quadrillion Suns.
Quipu is difficult to picture because even the comparisons used to make it manageable are enormous. The structure…
Researchers tested gravity across galaxy clusters separated by hundreds of millions of light-years and found it behaves almost exactly as Newton and Einstein predicted, strengthening the case for dark matter
Astronomers have discovered that stars in the outer portions of galaxies tend to move much faster than expected…
The November 2025 geomagnetic superstorm pushed satellite-positioning errors beyond 10 metres in parts of the continental US, with interference stretching nearly coast to coast. Researchers warn that had it struck during spring planting, it could have caused hundreds of millions of dollars in agricultural losses.
For many people, the geomagnetic storm of November 2025 was a night of rare auroras. For a network…
Hughenden residents relying on bottled water as Queensland’s water infrastructure reaches a crisis point
In Queensland more than half of the state’s water infrastructure is beyond its service life, but in the…
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS arrived from the direction of Sagittarius with the highest incoming speed of any known interstellar visitor, accelerated to nearly 250,000 kilometres per hour near the Sun, and is now escaping on a hyperbolic trajectory that will never bring it back.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is doing something no ordinary long-period comet does. It is leaving the Solar System without…
Dark matter: Flash of light gives scientists burst of inspiration
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Ancient English supervolcano blasted ash across northern Europe 454 million years ago
A buried volcanic complex beneath eastern England may be the long-sought source of the enormous Kinnekulle ash layer…
Water leak found near Seddon after 3000 cubic metres lost
The leak in a Marlborough water main has been identified after about 3000 cubic metres of water was…
Every galaxy in our neighborhood, including our own, is being pulled toward a single point in space hidden directly behind the crowded disk of the Milky Way, and when astronomers finally looked through the dust, they found a large, previously hidden cluster of thousands of galaxies sitting almost exactly where the pull was coming from
In 1986, a small team of astronomers noticed something that did not add up. They were measuring how…
Meissner Raises $2.6 Million to Search For New Superconducting Materials
Insider Brief Meissner raised $2.6 million in pre-seed financing to develop superconducting materials for quantum computing, fusion energy…
A black monkey with a pinkish-orange patch around its mouth was photographed in a Congo forest canopy in 2008, detected 114 times between 2018 and 2022, and only then named Colobus congoensis — by its describers’ count, the fifth African monkey species new to science in 75 years
The Mituku communities along the eastern edge of the range call it kasaba nkoni, the branch shaker. Across…