Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter On Oct. 28, 1971, the United Kingdom launched its first satellite. The satellite was named Prospero, but it was also known as the X-3. This wasn’t Britain’s first satellite, but it was the first and…
Kristin Scott Thomas’s £45,000-a-year former private school closes suddenly during half-term after 135 years
By ROBERT FOLKER, NEWS REPORTER Published: 15:08 GMT, 28 October 2026 | Updated: 07:17 GMT, 29 October 2026 A 135-year-old private school has announced it will not reopen after the October half-term amid Labour’s ongoing VAT raid on fees. Leweston School, near Sherborne in Dorset, apologised to families for the ‘little…
Arnab Strikes India – NASA Science
The first named storm of the 2026 North Indian Ocean cyclone season—Arnab (pronounced Or-nab)—emerged in the Bay of Bengal on October 25, a rather late start for a basin that typically produces named cyclones in April or May. When the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on NOAA-20 captured this…
Terrified neighbors of the iconic Hollywood Sign say they are living in fear… and they blame bungling Karen Bass and her ultra-woke rival
Los Angeles residents near the iconic Hollywood sign are living in fear of fire hazards caused by throngs of tourists clogging the roads near their homes. About 100 residents of the affluent Hollywoodland, Lake Hollywood Estates and Hollywood Knolls neighborhoods filed a legal complaint against the City of Los Angeles on…
APOD: 29 October 2026 – The Horns of Venus
Explanation: That’s no moon. But you could be forgiven for thinking it was a crescent Moon in the sky. It is a lesser known fact that Venus also has phases. (What about other planets?) The featured image shows Venus seen almost directly between the Sun and the Earth. This happens…
Your blood pressure could be dangerous even when your numbers look normal
Blood pressure readings are typically evaluated based on their average values, but growing evidence suggests that fluctuations throughout the day may be equally important. Rapid or excessive changes in blood pressure can independently increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and brain injury, even when average readings fall within the…
Woman allegedly stabbed to death by partner in NSW apartment
By KYLIE STEVENS, SENIOR BREAKING NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 01:01 GMT, 29 October 2026 | Updated: 03:07 GMT, 29 October 2026 A man has charged with murder, accused of stabbing his partner to death inside an apartment in the NSW Northern Tablelands. Emergency services were called to the Rockvale Road complex in…
Caltech Names Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman as NASA JPL Deputy
Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman has been named Caltech associate vice president and deputy director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The emeritus astronaut and retired U.S. Navy captain begins his new role at NASA’s center of excellence for robotics and deep space exploration and at Caltech, which…
Some of the world’s smallest penguins will get to fly for the first time… as they ditch the UK for Spain
By DAVID OLASEINDE Published: 00:22 GMT, 29 October 2026 | Updated: 01:27 GMT, 29 October 2026 Some of the world’s smallest penguins have boarded a flight from the UK for a move to Spain. The fairy penguins were given passports and boarding passes as they prepared to go from SEA LIFE…
NASA Selects 19 New Citizen Science Proposals in 2026
So far, 2026 has seen a flood of successes for volunteers who do NASA science, exemplifying NASA’s commitment to gold-standard science—transparent, reproducible and intrinsically collaborative. The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project announced that their project volunteers have now discovered most of the known brown dwarfs, celestial objects that are similar…