Caltech Readies to Build World’s Most Sensitive Radio Telescope
Two prototype dishes for the DSA at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) near Bishop, California.
‘The Antarctic is the last frontier’: the quest to save Shackleton’s Endurance
Amid fears the wreck will be more accessible to explorers – and new species – as the climate warms, conservationists want to create the region’s first underwater protected area
Monet for nothing: the famous artworks cheering up UK high streets
Reproductions of works by Monet, Picasso and Van Gogh are being hung in town centres to bring art closer to communities
I Got Pepper Sprayed in My Own House | Killer Beaz
Killer, hard-hitting stand-up from one of the longest-running road comics in the business. “The Best Buzz in Town” tour is rolling through 2026.
Orfeo by Richard Powers
Our protagonist is Peter Els, a 70-year- old composer, of some obscure renown among the cognoscenti. One day before the events of the novel’s present-day timeline unfold, he reads about the DIY biology movement – people tinkering with DNA in their garages – and orders the appropriate equipment himself from the internet
British paratroopers lead airdrop onto Tristan da Cunha for suspected hantavirus case
A team of six paratroopers and two military clinicians from 16 Air Assault Brigade jumped from an RAF A400M transport aircraft that flew 6,788 km (4,218 miles) from RAF Brize Norton air base in Oxfordshire to Ascension Island then another 3,000 km due south to Tristan da Cunha.
10,000 Years of History Unearthed at Newly Discovered Site in Sinai, Egypt
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a previously unknown site in South Sinai that preserves thousands of years of human activity, including ancient rock art, ancient inscriptions, stone tools, and traces of repeated habitation.
Massive freshwater aquifer 400 meters under the Atlantic Ocean confirmed
About 70 percent of Earth’s surface is covered by water, but most of it is salty. A surprising amount of freshwater in underground aquifers, and not just under dry land.