The seventh US service member killed in the war raging across the Middle East has been identified as a 26-year-old man from Kentucky. Sergeant Benjamin N. Pennington, of Glendale, Kentucky, died during an Iranian strike at the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia on March 1. Pennington, who was…
‘Singing’ dogs may show the evolutionary roots of musicality
Some Samoyed dogs howl along to music Photography by Adri / Alamy Scroll through #SingingDog hashtags on social media, and you will find many clips of hounds howling along to their favourite tunes. But can a canine Callas show any real musicality? That’s the question that psychologist Aniruddh Patel at…
Webb Studies Cranium Nebula – NASA
Nebula PMR 1 is a cloud of gas and dust that bears an uncanny resemblance to a brain in a transparent skull, inspiring its nickname, the “Exposed Cranium” nebula. Webb captured its unusual features in both near- and mid-infrared light. The nebula was first revealed in infrared light by a predecessor to…
France to send ships to re-open Strait of Hormuz as war sends oil price soaring and US-Israeli strikes batter Iranian ships – live updates
Le hug that embarrasses Starmer as Cyprus’s president embraces France’s Macron Emmanuel Macron is welcomed by Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides by David Wilcock and Will Hallowell Cyprus’s president hugged Emmanuel Macron today as he arrived for talks on defending the island – while Sir Keir Starmer and the Royal Navy…
Iran is ‘activating sleeper cells outside the country,’ intercepted alert says
By CLAUDIA AORAHA, DEPUTY HEAD OF NEWS Published: 14:30 GMT, 9 March 2026 | Updated: 14:57 GMT, 9 March 2026 Iran may be activating sleeper cells outside of the country, according to an alert that was intercepted by the US. The encrypted communications, believed to have come from inside Iran,…
A $1.3-billion river dredging in North Carolina by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could unleash ‘forever chemicals’
Taking a blood sample from a wild American alligator is not a clinical procedure. North Carolina native Kemp Burdette describes the process as an “all-hands-on-deck” situation. After rolling up on the gator in a boat and tossing a hook and a lead weight tied to a heavy-gauge fishing line across…
Spectacular fireball over Europe sends meteorite crashing through roof of German home
A meteorite has crashed through the roof of a house in the city of Koblenz in the west of Germany after a spectacular fireball lit up the night sky above western Europe on Sunday evening, March 8. More than 2,800 sightings of the fireball have been reported to the International…
Woman who travelled to Islamic State territory WINS latest legal case in fight to return to Britain
By DAVID BARRETT, HOME AFFAIRS EDITOR Published: 14:23 GMT, 9 March 2026 | Updated: 14:26 GMT, 9 March 2026 Judges have ordered the Home Secretary to re-think a decision blocking a woman from returning to Britain after she travelled to Syria and ‘aligned’ with Islamic State. The woman – who…
Trump furious at Israel for destroying Iran oil fields as crude surges and planned summit collapses
By PHILLIP NIETO, US POLITICAL REPORTER Published: 13:17 GMT, 9 March 2026 | Updated: 13:54 GMT, 9 March 2026 Donald Trump is furious after Israel targeted Iran’s oil depots in a blitz that shocked the White House amid soaring oil prices. A planned summit between the US and Israel was scrapped…
SETI may have missed alien signals because of space weather
Is there anyone out there? NASA/SDO We may have been missing signals from intelligent aliens because of solar wind. Researchers from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute say this means we have been watching for the wrong type of signal, potentially failing to spot promising evidence of extraterrestrial life,…