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NASA’s Chandra Observatory spots possible supernova remnant in the middle of our galaxy
NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory has captured a dramatic scene about 26,000 light-years away from Earth. Scientists suspect it could be a supernova remnant, the violent shock wave and cloud of debris sent hustling through space after a massive star dies. Scientists estimate the possible supernova remnant is expanding at a…
London bus driver, 64, died from brain injury after ‘grappling’ with man on bridge, court hears
A bus driver died from brain injuries after he was seen ‘grappling’ with a man on one of London’s busiest bridges, a court heard. Sergei Krajev, 64, was attacked on the pavement while his bus was parked on Battersea Bridge, shortly after 12.30am on May 18 this year. Police officers…
A Champagne with notes of climate change » Yale Climate Connections
Transcript: For nearly 300 years, the winemaker Maison Ruinart has made Champagne in northern France. The region’s cool weather helps the grapes ripen to just the right conditions for making crisp, bright wines. But as the climate warms, the grapes are ripening earlier and faster. And Caroline Fiot, Maison Ruinart’s…
Mother who gave her daughters her £1m fortune to avoid losing benefits takes them to court to try and get it back after she was left with ‘nothing’
A divorcee left with ‘nothing’ after losing a £1million legal tussle with her high-flying daughters has won permission to bring them back to court. Camilla Bains was once so close to her children that daughter Sonia, a doctor for the Football Association and formerly for Premier League clubs, donated one of…
Celebrated ‘Spiderman’ rock climber plunges to his death while scaling walls of volcanic crater with no ropes
By TARYN KAUR PEDLER, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 12:03 BST, 15 June 2026 | Updated: 12:05 BST, 15 June 2026 A celebrated rock climber plunged to his death after scaling the walls of a 390ft deep volcanic crater with no safety equipment. Al-Khafa Ibn Adhar, known locally as the Spiderman…
Russia tricks migrants into fighting in meatgrinder death zone: How Africans are being lured with offers of work and money… then sent to their death on frontline
Africans are being lured into joining the Russian army with promises of work, only to end up being deployed to the front lines of the war in Ukraine where they are used as ‘meat for the meat grinder’. A new report by Ukraine’s Centre for Strategic Communications accuses Moscow of using…
We have 4 fundamental forces of nature. ‘Quantum gravity’ could help lead us to a mysterious 5th
For decades, scientists have searched for a fifth fundamental force of nature that can explain mysterious aspects of the universe such as dark energy and dark matter. These are pieces of our cosmos that simply can’t be accounted for by the four fundamental forces we know of: gravity and electromagnetism…
We may have finally solved cosmology’s chicken-or-the-egg problem
Did the black hole at the centre of this galaxy begin before the galaxy formed? NASA, ESA, STScI, AURA; S. Smartt/The Queen’s University of Belfast If, as novelist-philosopher Samuel Butler wrote in 1878, “a hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg”, then a galaxy may only be…
Awkward moment Spike Lee appears to snub Prince Harry as he made solo trip to watch the NBA finals in Texas
Spike Lee was filmed pointing animatedly at Prince Harry in an awkward moment for the exiled British royal at the NBA Finals over the weekend. The New York filmmaker, 69, had spotted the Duke of Sussex, 41, hugging a friend in front of him at Saturday’s New York Knicks versus San Antonio…