The giant Nightingale hospital that hasn’t treated ONE patient: West Midlands Mayor Andy Street admits new temporary health centre in Birmingham has ‘not needed to be used’ yet The temporary hospital, which was built in eight days and has the potential capacity for 4,000 patients over a 75,000 sq ft area, opened on April 10 … Read more
Peppa Pig SOLD to US toy giant Hasbro: Firm behind Monopoly and Transformers snaps up London-listed Entertainment One for £3.3bn Peppa Pig owner Entertainment One has been sold to US toy firm Hasbro Hasbro is the US toy-making giant behind My Little Pony and Monopoly Entertainment One shareholders are set to receive £5.60 per share … Read more
To mark its 30th anniversary the Hubble Space Telescope team have released a stunning new image captured by the satellite showing a vast star-forming region. Named the ‘tapestry of blazing starbirth’, the new image brings together the nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbour NGC 2020 – both about 163,000 light years from Earth. They are … Read more
Insurance giant Hiscox set to be hit with £142m virus bill as it faces legal action from firms claiming they were unfairly treated By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 22 April 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 22 April 2020 Insurance giant Hiscox could be hit with a £142million bill from pandemic … Read more
The first planet to be discovered outside our solar system was never a planet and may be a giant dust cloud created by the collision of two icy asteroids, a study finds. Astronomers spotted what was thought to be a Saturn like planet lying 25 light years from Earth in the star system Fomalhaut 12 … Read more
Blue Origin is now in the running to put Americans back on the moon by 2024. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has revealed the ambitious next steps for his aerospace company at a highly-secretive media event in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. During the event, which kicked off at 4 p.m., the billionaire and Blue Origin founder … Read more
Mysterious exoplanet 40 times bigger than Earth and 730 light-years away in the ‘hot Neptuian desert’ may be the core of a gas giant An exoplanet has been discovered 730 light-years from Earth However, it is just the core of what was once a gas giant similar to Saturn Cosmic radiation or a collision with another … Read more
Giant greenhouses the size of 26 football pitches are being built in Britain to grow tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers using excess heat from sewage farms The first two greenhouses are being opened in East Anglia powered by sewage The Norfolk facility is the same size as 26 football pithes with miles of piping The company … Read more
A massive supernova discovered ‘in the middle of nowhere’ is twice as bright as anything previously found in the universe, according to astronomers. Dying stars are found every night but most are in vast galaxies – while this one appeared to stand alone, according to a team from the University of Birmingham. Astronomers believe the explosion … Read more