A photograph and interpretive line drawing show the Baminornis zhenghensis fossil – credit: Min Wang According to a truly field-altering fossilized bird found in China, birds already existed in the Late Jurassic period, approximately 160 million years ago. The new discovery suggests that rather than a linear evolutionary path from dinosaur to bird, these two…
Sam Francis Political reporter EPA Sir Keir Starmer has reaffirmed the UK will continue to back Ukraine’s “irreversible path” to joining Nato despite leading figures in President Trump’s administration appearing to rule out membership. The prime minister told Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky he stood by a pledge made alongside ex-president Joe Biden at last year’s…
File photo by Ana Essentiels The restaurant and fashion industries are often and rightly critiqued for the mountains of landfill waste they produce, but the same can—and really should—be said about cosmetics and hygiene products. In response, an Ivorian immigrant to Arizona has created a fully compostable, plant-based refillable skincare dispenser made of sugarcane and…
James FitzGerald and Holly Honderich BBC News, London and Washington DC Watch: Musk defends government cuts in surprise White House appearance A new advisory body created by US President Donald Trump and led by the world’s richest man has been tasked with cutting US government jobs and other spending. Elon Musk is leading this effort…
(left) The helmet discovered in Denmark (right) a Weisenau-type Roman helmet found in Germany – credit: Velje Museums / Carnuntum Museum CC 2.5. When it comes to archaeological discoveries, few things excite as much as a soldier’s helmet. The epitome of looking into the face of the past, they’ve helped historians infer so much about…
Paul Burnell BBC News, Manchester PA Media Andrew Malkinson was wrongly convicted of rape in 2004 and spent most of two decades behind bars The lawyer for Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, has said his client is at risk of losing access to social housing…
Ruden AS workers in front of the Kimbiji aquifer site – credit Ruden AS Firms that conduct exploratory surveys for oil drilling have been sitting on mountains of geologic data that are now used to locate hidden aquifers of water for African communities. Two-thirds of the African population is affected by water scarcity, but while…
Bernd Debusmann Jr, at the White House, and Mike Wendling BBC News EPA US President Donald Trump has said he had a “lengthy and highly productive” phone call with Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in which the leaders agreed to begin negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. In a post on his Truth Social platform,…
Sombrero ground lizard – credit: Richard Brown / Fauna & Flora © Originally published on Mongabay by Shreya Dasgupta A tiny lizard found only on one tiny Caribbean island has seen a dramatic 1,500% increase in its population, after just a few years of island restoration efforts. In 2018, researchers estimated there were fewer than…
Daniel De Simone BBC investigations correspondent BBC MI5 lied to three courts while defending its handling of a misogynistic neo-Nazi state agent who attacked his girlfriend with a machete, the BBC can reveal. Arguing for secrecy, the Security Service told judges it had stuck to its policy of not confirming or denying informants’ identities. In…
