Want to see Uranus for yourself? Independence Day morning offers one of the best opportunities in decades, as the distant ice giant passes extraordinarily close to Mars in the predawn sky. Although we often hear that only five planets are visible to the unaided eye, Uranus can also be seen…

On June 17, 1775, some 1,000 rebel colonial troops faced down the British war machine on a hill on a peninsula north of Boston, allegedly conserving scarce ammunition by waiting to fire until they could see the whites of the redcoats’ eyes. The Battle of Bunker Hill, as it became…

Two millionaire equestrian half-sisters are locked in an ‘obsessive’ High Court battle over a £2.7 million New Forest mansion after one allegedly changed the locks and evicted the other. Lindsay Bisiker, 50, is suing her older half-sister Judith Bisiker, 63, over ownership of Moonhills, a six-bedroom house with stables, tennis…

Transcript: On the hottest summer days, when lots of people turn on the AC, the demand for power spikes – and the grid must be able to supply enough electricity. So the size of the power grid is determined in large part by the scale of these short periods of…