Jesse and Sarah 20 Years (Family photo) A farmer in Kansas had an idea for an anniversary gift, but it was going to take eight months, one mile of land, and 65 million wheat seeds. Jesse Blasi and his wife Sarah were set to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary this year. And he was inspired…
Adina Campbell UK correspondent, BBC News Anadolu via Getty Images Child Q was strip-searched by police at her east London school in 2020 – demonstrators highlighted the incident while campaigning against institutional racism outside the BBC’s HQ and elsewhere in 2022 Two Metropolitan Police officers have been dismissed from the force after they conducted the…
– credit, Ruben de Heer / Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Looking as intact as the day it was forged, a 1,000-year-old sword has gone on display in the Netherlands. Capturing a transition in medieval military technology with its expert degree of preservation as well as a dramatic culture of weapon embellishment with its series of religious…
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is “in denial” about the scale of Labour MPs’ welfare rebellion writes the Guardian. Some cabinet ministers “are now said to believe the welfare reform bill has no chance of passing in its current form”, it adds. Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte grins at US President Donald Trump in a…
The solar catalyst – credit, Olov Planthaber, via Linkoping University Swedish engineers have improved the process through which hydrogen fuel is produced from solar electricity by 800%. Hydrogen fuel is considered one of the best renewable alternatives to fossil fuels in heavy machinery like planes and ships, but its creation requires electricity. That electricity can…
Getty Images A significant number of Labour MPs are threatening to vote against the government’s working-age welfare reform plan when it comes before the House of Commons next week. The reforms are designed to reduce the overall working-age welfare bill by about £5bn a year by the end of the decade. The rebel MPs have…
The badger bridge at Marazanvose under construction – credit, SWNS Nationally protected badgers have just been given the right of way by Cornwall council, with a new wildlife crossing that will allow them to pass over a busy road unharmed. To reach across the four-lane divided highway, the crossing, nicknamed the “badger bridge,” is nearly…
The Daily Telegraph describes the UK’s purchase of twelve jets, which will carry US tactical nuclear weapons, as a “landmark deal”. The Guardian says their acquisition will “substantially expand” Britain’s nuclear deterrent, and says it is bound to provoke alarm among arms control experts. “The world has changed” reads the Daily Mirror editorial, adding: “peace…
Vera Rubin Observatory Debuts Stunning Celestial Photos to Rival the James Webb Space Telescope–LOOK
The Tifrid and Lagoon nebulae – credit NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Your iPhone 16 camera has 48 megapixels. Astronomy’s latest toy has 3,200. That’s because the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has to be able to image a framing of the night sky as large as seven full moons side to side. It…
Charlotte Cox BBC News, Devon John Danks BBC News, South West Watch: CCTV captures one of the bears helping itself to supplies outside the bear house Two bears who sparked the evacuation of a wildlife park involving trained firearms staff and police had headed straight for the honey store, the park has said. Wildwood Devon,…
