Royal Mail customers have been forced to wait for hours to pick up essential post after not receiving any deliveries for six weeks. Fed-up locals desperate to collect vital parcels had to stand in a ‘horrendous’ queue and sit on a wall this week outside the Bridgwater delivery office, in…
Rocket issues delay 1st-ever private mission to Venus: ‘We are awaiting Neutron readiness’
The future of a privately backed robotic mission Venus seems about as cloudy as the planet itself at the moment. Scientists based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working with the California-based company Rocket Lab to search for possible signs of life on Venus. The first step in…
Churches could become cooling centers during heat waves » Yale Climate Connections
Transcript: As the climate warms, faith leaders are helping protect their communities against the perils of rising temperatures. Lewis: “In most faiths, there is a call to care for people who are in need. Through this work, we’re helping people reframe what that looks like in their communities, … and…
Sadiq Khan’s car tax conviction and fine is formally withdrawn after DVLA agreed he was victim of scam
By ELIZABETH HAIGH, SENIOR NEWS REPORTER Published: 10:43 BST, 3 September 2026 | Updated: 10:55 BST, 3 September 2026 Sadiq Khan’s conviction for failing to tax a vehicle registered in his name has been formally withdrawn today after he became the victim of a scam. The conviction and subsequent fine…
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Starlink satellites to orbit on its 35th flight
The Starlink missions keep on coming. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 27 of the company’s internet satellites to orbit this morning (Sept. 2), lifting off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base at 4:42 a.m. EDT (0842 GMT; 1:42 a.m. local California time). It was the 35th flight for this…
Motorway ‘ghost junction’ dubbed Britain’s most expensive dead end now needs repairs despite costing £40million – and not a single vehicle using it in the six years since it was built
A £40million motorway dubbed Britain’s most expensive dead end now needs repairs – despite not one vehicle using it since being built six years ago. The ‘ghost junction’ – located off Bristol’s M49 – was intended to connect a distribution centre for retailers like Amazon, Tesco, Lidl, Next, DHL and…
On this day in space! Sept. 2, 2016: Rosetta spacecraft finds long-lost Philae lander on Comet 67P after 2-year search
On Sept. 2, 2016, the European Space Agency finally located Philae, its long-lost comet lander. Philae was a spacecraft about the size of a washing machine, and it was dropped off at Comet 67P by another spacecraft named Rosetta in November 2014. But when Philae’s landing harpoons failed to deploy,…
The universe has plenty of hydrogen. So why is star formation collapsing?
The universe is producing fewer stellar “babies.” Over the past 4.5 billion years, the rate at which new stars form has fallen to less than half its previous level. Yet the supply of one of the most important types of “fuel” for star formation has changed surprisingly little. That finding…
One of Malta’s richest men is cleared of masterminding the car bombing of an investigative journalist
One of Malta’s wealthiest men has been cleared of being the mastermind behind a 2017 car bombing of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Caruana Galizia’s killing shocked Europe, led to protests that toppled a prime minister, and exposed a culture of impunity in the European Union’s smallest state. Yorgen Fenech, a…
Peatland Fires Darken Skies in Indonesia
If there were an apex predator among fires, tropical peatland fires would be a top contender. These fires, which burn in dried wetland soils, are slow-burning, highly polluting, and notoriously difficult to extinguish because they smolder at low temperatures and often burn underground through expansive deposits of peat. By one…