Europe’s largest telescope captures stunning images of the sun showing intricate details of sunspots and plasma unlike anything researchers had seen before Europe’s largest telescope captured its first high-resolution images of the sun It snapped solar magnetic fields taken at a wavelength 516 nanometers The telescope was also able to take a picture sunspots at 430 … Read more
Watchdog threatens to sue UK’s four largest housebuilders including Barratt and Persimmon over misleading leasehold contracts that DOUBLE ground rent every decade Barratt Developments, Persimmon Homes, Taylor Wimpey and Countryside Properties will all be investigated by Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Watchdog said it had uncovered evidence of potential mis-selling practices It said this could … Read more
Doctors successfully remove world’s largest ovarian tumour which weighed EIGHT STONE from 52-year-old woman in India The patient had complained about her weight ballooning to almost 17 stone Her feet began to swell and one doctor said it was lucky her organs hadn’t failed Surgery at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in Delhi lasted for three … Read more
Billionaire known as the Czech Sphinx quietly becomes largest shareholder in Royal Mail By Jamie Nimmo, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:53 BST, 22 August 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 22 August 2020 The billionaire known as the Czech Sphinx has quietly become the largest shareholder in Royal Mail, heaping more pressure on the troubled … Read more
A huge California wildfire has grown to become the second largest in the state’s history as 14,000 firefighters battle more than 500 blazes that have scorched one million acres and killed at least six. The LNU Lightning Complex Fire has now spread across a staggering 314,000 acres wiping out any homes, trees and entire neighborhoods … Read more
Extinction Rebellion has targeted the largest private residential ship on the planet left to mothball off the British coast. A new offshoot of the environmental group, Ocean Rebellion, led a protest against The World residential ship in Falmouth, Cornwall. The group claims the ship ’emits ten times more greenhouse gases per person per mile than a … Read more
The first object discovered from London‘s largest ever Bronze Age hoard was spotted by a newly qualified archaeologist on his first job out of university. The Havering Hoard is a treasure trove of 453 artefacts dating back nearly 3,000 years including axe heads, spearheads, daggers, knives and copper ingots. Harry Platts was 21 when he started … Read more
Six whales have died and another is ‘likely’ to perish in what is being described as the largest live stranding of the animals in Ireland’s history. The seven northern bottlenose dolphins were spotted stranded on a beach in Rossnowlagh, County Donegal, on the north west coast of Ireland, earlier today. Conservationists rushed to the beach in … Read more
Pesticides and fertilisers have overtaken fossil fuels as the largest human source of sulphur in the environment, study shows Sulphur is one of the key components of acid rain which can harm ecosystems Regulations of fossil fuel emissions have helped reduce this form of damage US experts have found sulphur used in farming is now … Read more
Richard Branson-owned space firm Virgin Galactic has unveiled the design of the cabin and seats for its SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity, that will take the company’s first fee-paying astronauts to the edge of space. Each seat in the six-person cabin has two personal windows for a view of the Earth below and ‘mood lighting’ linked to … Read more