Net migration to Britain fell to 171,000 last year, new official figures show. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said the figure – those coming to live here long-term minus those emigrating – nearly halved from the previous year’s 331,000. Net migration peaked at 944,000 in 2023. The ONS also…
Daddy longlegs are actually bloodthirsty killers—of frogs
May 21, 2026 2 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Daddy longlegs are actually bloodthirsty killers—of frogs The wobbly, lanky arachnids known as harvestmen or daddy longlegs may be overlooked as predators of small vertebrates such as frogs, researchers say By Jake Buehler edited by Andrea Thompson A species…
Oldest Human Remains In Northern Britain, Belonging To An 11,000-Year-Old Female Child, Discovered At Heaning Wood Bone Cave In Great Urswick, Cumbria
ConnyWaters – AncientPagec.com – The oldest human remains found in Northern Britain have been identified as those of a young female, three years after their discovery in a Cumbrian cave. Local archaeologist Martin Stables excavated the 11,000-year-old bones at Heaning Wood Bone Cave in Great Urswick, Cumbria, providing clear evidence…
Is that it? Rachel Reeves cuts VAT on trips to Legoland to help with ‘Trumpflation’ shock – but DROPS ‘Soviet’ shopping price cap plan and no energy bills help
Rachel Reeves pledged to cut the cost of trips to Legoland and soft play this summer as she unveiled a ‘Trumpflation’ package. The Chancellor said VAT on family attractions will be cut from 20 per cent to 5 per cent from June until September. In a Commons statement, she also announced…
NASA’s Psyche probe takes awesome images of Mars on way to (possibly) precious asteroid
Right now, a spacecraft named Psyche is headed to its namesake asteroid, 16 Psyche. The theory is that 16 Psyche, which lies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may be made of precious metals that, on Earth, would be worth more than the entire world economy. However, we’ll…
Climate change could make picking tobacco even more dangerous » Yale Climate Connections
Transcript: You would not let a child smoke a cigarette. But many kids – including some in the U.S. – work on farms picking tobacco for those cigarettes. And as a result, they can suffer from green tobacco sickness, a kind of nicotine poisoning. When people pick raw tobacco for…
Queen pressed for Andrew to become trade envoy in 2001 – as documents reveal he demanded trips to ‘sophisticated countries’ preferred ‘ballet rather than theatre’ and refused to play golf in public
Queen Elizabeth II was ‘very keen’ for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to be a UK trade envoy – before he made his own demands about wanting trips to ‘sophisticated countries’, newly-released documents on his appointment in 2001 revealed today. Her Majesty pushed for her second son to take on a ‘prominent role…
Women’s body temperature rises from age 18 to 42 but we don’t know why
Hot flushes are associated with the menopause, but women actually get progressively hotter from the start of adulthood to midlife Dmitry Marchenko/Alamy Resting body temperature rises a little bit each year in women from the age of 18 to 42, for reasons that are still being figured out. The finding…
Finnish rescue divers believe they may have SOLVED Maldives cave dive mystery that claimed five lives – with ‘sand wall illusion’ to blame
A group of expert Finnish divers may have solved the mystery surrounding the deaths of five Italians who perished while exploring deep-sea caves in the Maldives. The group, all from Italy, set off to explore caves in the Vaavu Atoll last Thursday, but never resurfaced. The body of diving instructor Gianluca…
SpaceX will launch its 1st-ever Starship V3 megarocket on May 21. The stakes couldn’t be higher
There’s a lot riding on the debut flight of SpaceX’s Starship V3 megarocket — not the least of which are NASA’s Artemis moon landing ambitions. The Starship launch is scheduled to take place today (May 21) from SpaceX’s Starbase test site in South Texas, during a 90-minute window that opens…