Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The surprisingly large Germanic Iron Age Village, believed to have been an important trade center and dating to the 2nd to 5th centuries AD, sheds new light on close trade relations with the Roman Empire. The excavation team is documenting and digging out the former…
Man who brought illegal immigrants into the UK on a boat tells court he did it ‘to make quick money for his mother’s cancer treatment’
By NOOR QURASHI, NEWS REPORTER Published: 20:34 BST, 3 September 2026 | Updated: 21:05 BST, 3 September 2026 A man who brought illegal immigrants to Essex via small boat has claimed he did it to pay for his mother’s cancer treatment. Christian Albano, an Italian national, appeared at Chelmsford Crown…
NASA’s Hubble Spies Superbubble Scene
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sprawling cosmic vista in the Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, the largest of the small galaxies that orbit our Milky Way galaxy. At just 160,000 light-years away, the LMC offers a close look at highly active star birth sites like the one…
Australia blows PIF climate opportunity as Pacific leaders urged to band together
KOROR, PALAU, Friday 4 September 2026 – At the closing of the 55th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Palau overnight, Greenpeace Australia Pacific called out Australia for promising climate action while expanding fossil fuel production, and is urging Pacific leaders to unite ahead of the Pacific Pre-COP. The meeting…
‘Unparalleled’ study finds psilocybin protects against nerve damage from chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is brutal. The cancer treatment is often lifesaving, but it comes with serious side effects. Some are shorter-lived, such as hair loss, nausea and fatigue, but others can last long after treatment is over and even for life. That’s the case with peripheral neuropathy. This painful side effect, which…
Radar Detects Anomalies And Unknown Burial Mounds At Viking-Age Birka
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Viking Age settlement of Birka on the island of Björkö in Sweden has long interested archaeologists. But not all archaeological discoveries can be made through traditional excavations, which is why scientists rely on LiDAR, Ground-Penetrating Radar, and aerial photographs to detect archaeological features that…
Civil servant provokes fury from colleagues by showing up for work ‘dressed as a cat’
By MICHAEL BLACKLEY, SCOTTISH DAILY MAIL POLITICAL EDITOR Published: 19:44 BST, 3 September 2026 | Updated: 19:44 BST, 3 September 2026 A civil servant in the Scottish Government has provoked fury from colleagues by showing up for work dressed as a cat. Other staff members have expressed outrage at the…
NASA to Cover Progress 96 Spacecraft Launch, Docking
NASA will provide live coverage of the launch and docking of a Roscosmos cargo spacecraft carrying about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the crew aboard the International Space Station. The unpiloted Progress 96 resupply spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 12:15 p.m. EDT (9:15 p.m. Baikonur time),…
The spacecraft BepiColombo is finally nearing Mercury after 8 years in space
Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, is extremely difficult to study up close. In fact, just one spacecraft, NASA’s MESSENGER, has ever orbited the planet. But soon a second mission will begin exploring this rocky world to tease out new details about its surface, interior and interaction with our…
Trump’s controversial plan to pardon 250 jailbirds in one go is very much alive. His heart says ‘WHAT A GESTURE!’ His advisers are not so sure…
Even his opponents admit that, when it comes to appearing on camera, the 47th president seems assured. Some go further, suggesting there’s a touch of the savant in Donald Trump – or even genius. When it comes to channelling the voters and their feelings – on stage, under the lights,…