Happy 80th Birthday to Eric Clapton, the blues-rock musician, singer, and songwriter that Rolling Stone magazine named the second greatest guitar player of all time. The British rocker was a founding member of the Yardbirds, Derek and the Dominos, and Cream, and produced huge hits like Layla, Crossroads, and Let It Rain. He survived heroin…
Women in England will be able to get the morning-after pill for free from pharmacies from later this year, the government has said. Emergency contraception is already free of charge from most GPs and sexual health clinics but ministers say getting it over the counter is more of a “postcode lottery”. Some women have to…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captures Neptune auroral activity, with green splotches showing auroral activity alongside white clouds (released by NASA/ESA/CSA/ STScI/Heidi Hammel (AURA), Henrik Melin, Leigh Fletcher, and Stefanie Milam, NASA-GSFC) NASA’s Webb Space Telescope was finally able to capture bright auroras on Neptune—the most distant planet in our solar system. “In the past,…
France: Bourgeois, Arbey, Menager (co-capt), Amedee, Llorens, Arbez, Sansus; Brosseau, Bigot, Bernadou, M Feleu (co-capt), Fall, Escudero, Okemba, T Feleu Replacements: Riffonneau, Mwayembe, Joyeux, Zago, Berthoumieu, L Champon, A Champon, Queyroi Scotland: Rollie, Lloyd, Orr, Thomson, McGhie, Nelson, Brebner-Holden; Young, Skeldon, Clarke, Cunningham, Bonar, Malcolm (capt), McLachlan, Konkel Replacements: Martin, Bartlett, Poolman, Ferrie, Boyd, Stewart,…
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote…
Justin Rowlatt BBC News Climate Editor JSO Handout The climate action group Just Stop Oil has announced it is to disband at the end of April. Its activists have been derided as attention-seeking zealots and vandals and it is loathed by many for its disruptive direct action tactics. It says it has won because its…
Molten iron pours from Boston Steel’s electrical reactor – credit, Boston Steel, screengrab An MIT-startup has found a way to commercialize steel production by the ton using electricity rather than a CO2-emitting blast furnace, promising the beginning of decarbonization in one of humanity’s most carbon-intensive industries. Called Boston Steel, their industrial-scale production facility can make…
Alex Pope BBC News, Bedfordshire Contributed The last van rolled off the production line at about 12:40 GMT on Friday Vehicle production at Vauxhall’s Luton plant has come to an end after 120 years of the company being based in the town. Parent company Stellantis announced the van plant’s closure in November as it planned…
Up for auction today at a swanky Parisian auction house will be a slightly lazy paint sketch of some lions. But these relaxed beasts are more than they appear. As it turns out, the work entitled Study of Reclining Lions was a lost creation from one of Paris’ greatest ever modern painters: Eugène Delacroix. The man…
A former police officer has been spared a jail sentence over his fatal decision to Taser a 95-year-old woman with dementia symptoms at an Australia aged care home. Kristian White said he had used the weapon to prevent a “violent confrontation” after finding Clare Nowland disoriented and holding a small kitchen knife in May 2023.…
