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A multi image HDR panorama of Tower Bridge spanning the River Thames in London at dusk in July 2022.

We finally know why so many ancient human bones are pulled from the River Thames

Channel: Tech Tech February 12, 2025 By Brooke Davies

How Antarctica's only native insect could hold secrets to deep space travel

Channel: Tech Tech February 12, 2025 By Jen Mills

Google Calendar removes cultural holidays including Pride and Black History Month

Channel: US US February 12, 2025 By Josh Milton
Young woman hand holding menstrual cup. Selective focus and shallow DOF

Woman gets kidney infection after putting in a menstrual cup incorrectly

Channel: Health Health February 11, 2025 By Jen Mills
Aesculapian snake (elaphe longissima). (Photo by Michel LUQUET/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

There's an 'invasive' new species of snake living in Britain - but how did it get here?

Channel: UK UK February 10, 2025 By Jen Mills
(FILES) Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO Elon Musk looks on ahead of the inauguration ceremony where Donald Trump will sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. US President Donald Trump said in remarks airing on February 9, 2025, that Musk, who is presiding over a purge of US government jobs, will help find "hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud" in federal agencies. Speaking in a Fox News interview set to air before the Super Bowl football championship, Trump said the American people "want me to find" waste and that Musk, the world's richest man and the leader of the president's cost-cutting efforts, has been "a great help" in rooting out unnecessary spending. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla / POOL / AFP) (Photo by CHIP SOMODEVILLA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Elon Musk changes X name to Harry Bolz after $100,000,000,000 OpenAI bid

Channel: US US February 11, 2025 By Jessica Kwong
The exterior of SHA Wellness Clinic in Alicante, Spain, next to Metro's Claie Wilson having a blood treatment inside the spa.

I went to an A-list wellness spa and found the simple secret to longer life

Channel: Travel Travel February 14, 2025 By Claie Wilson
The ?100,000,000 underwater base where humans could live underwater by 2027 Sentinel

The £100,000,000 underwater base where humans could live underwater by 2027

Channel: Tech Tech February 4, 2025 By Jen Mills
Jupiter's volcanic moon Io. Galileo. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Volcano on ‘tormented’ moon has biggest ever 80,000,000,000,000-watt eruption

Channel: Tech Tech February 4, 2025 By Jen Mills
Play Video A staffer shows the location of the minute hand shortly before the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announces the latest decision on the "Doomsday Clock" minute hand, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, at the National Press Club Broadcast Center, in Washington. This year, Jan. 2024, the clock will remain set to 90 seconds to midnight. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Doomsday Clock moves one second closer to midnight in latest Armageddon prediction

Channel: World World January 28, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
In this handout photo provided by Hastings Group Media on January 24, 2023, the Doomsday Clock reads "90 seonds to midnight," a decision made by The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, during an announcement in Washington, DC. (Photo by Handout / Hastings Group Media / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Hastings Group Media" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/Hastings Group Media/AFP via Getty Images)

The factors which could move the Doomsday clock forward

Channel: World World January 28, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Doomsday Clock is about to be set for 2025 so we'll know how close we are to death

Channel: World World January 28, 2025 By Sarah Hooper

Giant iceberg visible from space on a collision course with island

Channel: Tech Tech January 23, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
Play Video UK Driving Licence. Provisional and Full licence cards isolated on dark background. Macro. Selective focus. Stafford, United Kingdom, January 30, 2022.

Driving licences about to get biggest change in years and will look very different

Channel: Politics Politics January 22, 2025 By Craig Munro

Top scientist gives his verdict on if aliens are real

Channel: Tech Tech January 20, 2025 By Jen Mills
Trees and frog.

Warning after stowaway snakes and tree-frogs hide in common potted plants

Channel: UK UK January 18, 2025 By Jasper King
A new species of Funnel Web Spider named Atrax christenseni and nicknamed ?Big Boy? is pictured at the Australian Museum in Sydney, Australia January 14, 2025. REUTERS/Stefica Nicol Bikes

New species of spider nicknamed 'big boy' is one of the world's deadliest

Channel: Tech Tech January 14, 2025 By Tom Sanders
NASA Image illustrating what happens during a Lunar Eclipse https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10787

When and where to see the next 'Blood Moon' lunar eclipse

Channel: Tech Tech February 16, 2025 By Josh Milton
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We finally know what the Sun sounds like - and it's surprisingly retro

Channel: Tech Tech January 14, 2025 By Josh Milton

What is a Wolf Moon and how to see 2025's first full moon alongside Mars tonight

Channel: Tech Tech January 13, 2025 By Jen Mills