Senior NHS doctors will go on strike in November after the British Medical Association branded a proposed 2.4 per cent pay rise ‘an insult’. The BMA, the trade union which represents doctors in the UK, claimed its ‘repeated calls to enter formal negotiations’ had been ignored by the Government. Consultants in…
Astroscale proposes fleet of ‘bodyguard’ spacecraft to protect satellites from orbital attacks
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Technologies developed and tested in orbit to remove space junk and fix broken satellites can be speedily repurposed to build fleets of bodyguard spacecraft to protect important satellites from adversary attacks, space clean-up company Astroscale…
Two men are charged with National Security Act offences following RAF Fairford ‘terror plot’
Two men have been charged with over an alleged ‘terror plot’ at RAF Fairford and are set to appear in court later. Mohmed Abdulkarim, 24, and Nouman Essghir, 24, both of Westminster, London, have been charged with offences under the National Security Act 2023. Police descended on the Gloucestershire airbase…
Analog astronauts: How living underwater can prepare humans for space missions
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter I have been dreaming of doing research in space as an astronaut my whole life, but for some reason, the thought of working underwater made me nervous. I’ve known for a long time that astronauts…
Car rams into group of pedestrians, injuring several people, as German cops open fire at driver
By ELIANA SILVER, SENIOR FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 07:13 GMT, 27 October 2026 | Updated: 08:21 GMT, 27 October 2026 Several people were injured after a car drove into a group of people in a northern German town close to Hanover shortly before midnight on Monday, a police spokesperson said…
How a Johnson Mentor Shapes the Next Generation of NASA Talent
When Rice University student Malvika Bhardwaj asked her mentor Daniel Cohen, a Guidance, Navigation & Control (GN&C) engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, whether he had time to keep teaching interns with his busy workload, he answered, “You decide what’s important.” In honor of National Mentoring Day on Oct. 27,…
Trump slams Obama’s ‘dirty, filthy and broken’ White House during scathing rant in defense of renovations following former president’s Cheesecake Factory joke
Donald Trump went ballistic after Barack Obama’s joke about his redecorations of the White House – saying his predecessor had left the home ‘filthy, dirty and broken.’ The President has hit back at Obama repeatedly after the Democrat joked Trump’s renovations had the White House ‘looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake…
A-81 Reaches South Georgia – NASA Science
Some Antarctic icebergs linger close to home for decades, running aground near the ice shelves that spawned them or circling partway around the continent on coastal currents. Others, like Iceberg A-81, make a faster exit, heading north out of the Weddell Sea along a route well-traveled by the region’s bergs.…
US soldier is sent to jail for six decades for murdering wife, 21, and stuffing body down storm drain
A former US Army soldier who shot his 21-year-old wife in the head before stuffing her body down a storm drain and pretending to help search for her has been sentenced to nearly six decades behind bars. Zarrius Hildabrand, 24, was handed a 59-year prison sentence for the murder of…
APOD: 2026 October 27 – Noctilucent Clouds over Sweden
Explanation: Sometimes it’s night on the ground but day in the air. As the Earth rotates to eclipse the Sun, sunset rises upfrom the ground. Therefore, at sunset on the ground, sunlight still shines on clouds above. Under usual circumstances, a pretty sunset might be visible, but unusual noctilucent clouds float so high up they can be…