By JACK HARDY, NEWS REPORTER Published: 13:01 BST, 26 August 2026 | Updated: 13:05 BST, 26 August 2026 A former chief constable who stepped down amid the Maccabi Tel Aviv supporter ban row is now being investigated by a watchdog for gross misconduct. Supporters of the Israeli club were barred…
SpaceX sends Starlink satellites to orbit on predawn launch from California
SpaceX launched 27 more of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit today (Aug. 26), in a predawn liftoff from California’s central coast. The spacecraft rode atop a Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 5:35 a.m. EDT (0935 GMT; 2:35 a.m. local California time). The…
Cover crops help make soils healthy » Yale Climate Connections
Transcript: The impacts of climate change can be a headache for home gardeners. Heavy storms can flood beds and drown seedlings, and hot, dry spells can leave soil parched and cracked. But Lee Rinehart’s garden fares better than most. That’s because as summer fades to fall, when many people abandon…
The overlooked role of sperm DNA damage in recurrent miscarriage
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. When heterosexual couples struggling to conceive seek medical assistance, sperm often don’t get as much attention as they should. Standard tests measure sperm count and motility, but this ultimately just shows how likely a sperm is to make it to…
Two more near misses between planes at Sydney Airport – with authorities now investigating six incidents in just over a month
By ASHLEY NICKEL, NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 11:55 BST, 26 August 2026 | Updated: 12:03 BST, 26 August 2026 Another two incidents at Sydney Airport have triggered new investigations into its operations. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is now looking at new incidents on August 16 and August 25, which…
Inside the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, NASA’s next great observatory
NASA is just days away from launching its next major space observatory. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to lift off Aug. 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, heading for a spot roughly 930,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from Earth.…
Hundreds of tourists missing including 12 Brits as flash flood triggered by earthquake sweeps away buildings and bridges in Nepal
Hundreds of tourists, including 12 Britons, are missing after devastating floods in Nepal that swept away buildings and bridges have killed at least eight. Nepal sent helicopters to the rescue on Wednesday after the massive flash flood swept away villages in the Himalayan nation. So far, officials have said the…
Solving A 1,600-Year-Old Roman Mystery: Parchment Fragments That Surprisingly Survived In The Egyptian Sands
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A Roman law expert from the University of Cincinnati has edited and translated a Latin legal text that was pieced together from fragments buried in the Egyptian sands for more than 1,600 years. The text deals with taxes. Left: Possible head portrait of Constantius II found…
Father of ‘exemplary’ Treasury worker, 26, who killed herself a day after meeting over anonymous complaint says the lack of safeguarding in place ‘beggars belief’
The father of a Treasury worker who took her own life a day after she was convinced she was losing her job has attacked Whitehall’s ‘complete failure in their duty of care’. Chloe Moffat, 26, took her own life on May 20 2025 after being hauled into a meeting with senior…
Astronauts make history repairing the ISS photo of the day for Aug. 25, 2026
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA astronaut Anil Menon complete a spacewalk on Aug. 18, 2026. (Image credit: Roscosmos/Anna Kikina) Intensely focused and tethered to a floating laboratory in the vacuum of space, two astronauts spent over 6 hours working on the International Space Station during a historic spacewalk. What…