Brits have been warned that inflation could stick at 3 per cent until the end of the year unless the Iran war is over soon. The Treasury’s OBR watchdog said if oil and gas prices stay at current levels the headline CPI would likely stay a percentage point higher than…
Mystery ‘whippet’ space explosion is the brightest of its kind
“The Whippet”, as imagined by the New Scientist picture desk NASA/muratart/Shutterstock/Adobe Stock A sudden, mysterious burst of bright light in the sky could be from a black hole devouring a vast, unusually bare star. In 2018, astronomers spotted a new kind of cosmic explosion that became brighter more quickly than…
Long-Lost Page From Archimedes Palimpsest, One Of The World’s Most Famous Ancient Manuscripts, Re-Discovered
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Archimedes Palimpsest is one of the most significant surviving manuscripts from antiquity. It is a 10th-century Greek manuscript that preserves several treatises by Archimedes of Syracuse. In the Middle Ages, parts of the original text were erased so that the expensive animal-skin parchment could…
Moment masked men try to break into family home while children sleep – before being confronted by father wielding baseball bat
By JOE ROSSITER, REPORTER Published: 14:51 GMT, 10 March 2026 | Updated: 14:51 GMT, 10 March 2026 A pair of masked men were caught on a family’s Ring doorbell as they tried to break into their home in the early hours last week. Devin Parmar, his wife and two children…
A star dies in the Cat’s Eye photo of the day for March 10, 2026
A new image of the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543, produced by the Hubble and Euclid space telescopes. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESA Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA/Q1-2025, J.-C. Cuillandre & E. Bertin (CEA Paris-Saclay), Z. Tsvetanov) Two powerful space telescopes turned their gaze onto the Cat’s Eye Nebula,…
Americans demand Andrew testify as fury over Epstein boils down to an explosive issue
The majority of Americans want to see former Prince Andrew testify before the US Congress amid fury over Jeffrey Epstein. This comes as Richard Kahn, Epstein’s former attorney and accountant, is set to appear for a deposition before the US House Oversight Committee on Wednesday morning. According to an exclusive Daily Mail/JL…
Shots fired at US embassy in Toronto amid Iran war terror fears
By ROSS IBBETSON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR Published: 13:34 GMT, 10 March 2026 | Updated: 13:49 GMT, 10 March 2026 Shots have been fired at the US embassy in Toronto, local police say. Bullets struck the consulate building at around 5.30am Tuesday. No injuries were reported. No suspect was apprehended at the…
‘The future of the space economy’: Colorado startup Lux Aeterna raises $10 million to develop reusable satellites
Lux Aeterna just got some more money to take reusability in a new direction. The Colorado-based company announced today (March 10) that it has raised $10 million, which it will use to accelerate the development of fully reusable satellites — technology that it believes will be as transformative as reusable…
Hegseth says we take civilian deaths in Iran ‘very seriously’ amid fury over bombed girls’ school
By PHILLIP NIETO, US POLITICAL REPORTER Published: 13:03 GMT, 10 March 2026 | Updated: 13:20 GMT, 10 March 2026 Pete Hegseth claimed the Pentagon tries to ‘seriously’ avoid civilian deaths in Iran amid outrage over the bombing of a school that left over a hundred children dead. An American Tomahawk…
AI techniques speed up forensic analysis of crucial crime scene larvae
A mass of writhing maggots on a decomposing murder victim is not a sight for the squeamish, but for some, it is evidence. A maggot’s age and species can give essential information to forensic entomologists investigating murders. (A single wriggling horse fly maggot, for instance, found on a dead body…