By JADA BAS, REPORTER Published: 12:34 BST, 28 May 2026 | Updated: 12:38 BST, 28 May 2026 An economist who has correctly predicted the World Cup winner three times has said The Netherlands will be this year’s champions. Joachim Klement, a German national who works at an investment bank in…
How extreme heat threatens honeybees » Yale Climate Connections
Transcript: On many farms, honeybees buzz about, pollinating berry bushes, nut trees, and melon vines. Without these tiny insect farmworkers, many of these crops would never reach grocery shelves. But Jun Chen, a researcher at Texas A&M Kingsville, warns that as the climate warms, honeybees could face trouble. The young…
Labour’s minimum wage hikes blamed for fueling highest youth unemployment since records began – with UK’s ‘lost generation’ of a million jobless young people to cost £125billion A YEAR
Labour’s inflation-busting minimum wage hikes are partly to blame for the UK’s ‘lost generation’ of jobless young people, according to the author of a damning new report. Ex-Cabinet minister Alan Milburn said the cost to the country of the growing number of young people classed as Neets – not in education, employment…
Where did Mercury get its water ice? Maybe from a slow asteroid impact in a single Mercurian day
A single colossal impact may have rapidly spread water across Mercury and locked much of it into permanently shadowed polar craters — all within the span of a single Mercurian day, or 176 Earth days, according to a new study. Being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury seems like…
Millions of planets might form around supermassive black holes
The disc of material swirling around a supermassive black hole may give birth to many planets NASA and M. Weiss/Chandra X-ray Center The active centres of galaxies might be regions of extraordinary planet formation, where millions of worlds are born. Most galaxies in the universe, such as our own Milky…
Russia’s tactics in Ukraine reach a new hellish low as troops are forced to crawl for miles through underground pipes – with a life expectancy of ten minutes at the other end
Russian soldiers attempting to infiltrate Ukrainian positions by crawling for miles through abandoned underground pipelines are surviving for often just minutes when they reach the other end. At a command post in northeastern Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian sergeant ‘Tovsty’ of the Khartiia Brigade painted a stark picture of the emerging tactic.…
Incoming boss of ABC news division is named after Justin Stevens abruptly resigned from the public broadcaster
By NICK WILSON AND BEN MCKAY FOR AAP Published: 10:54 BST, 28 May 2026 | Updated: 10:57 BST, 28 May 2026 A Reuters executive has been appointed head of the ABC’s news division, as the national broadcaster’s managing director denies pushing out his predecessor. Simon Robinson, the London-based executive editor…
It’s been 340 years since Newton and scientists still haven’t solved the secret of gravity
Celebrating its 340th birthday this year, the gravitational constant is the oldest fundamental constant in physics. “Big G” as it is affectionately known, was first placed at the heart of Newton’s law of universal gravitation during its formulation in 1686 and formally published a year later as an estimate yet-to-be-measured…
Three people are stabbed by knifeman ‘shouting Allahu Akbar’ at Swiss train station
By SABRINA PENTY, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 09:46 BST, 28 May 2026 | Updated: 10:33 BST, 28 May 2026 A major police operation is underway at a Swiss train station after three people were stabbed. The attack at the Winterthur train station on Thursday was confirmed by Zurich cantonal police,…
I’ve been hit on the head, kicked in the ribs and left covered in cuts and bruises. Once, I was knocked unconscious and ended up in A&E. My attacker? My little sister. Read my story before you judge
A violent bang to the head woke me up with a start in the dead of night. Then came the kicks to my ribs. As the searing pain hit me, I realised I’d been struck with an ornament and shouted in panic for my mum. She came rushing in and tried…