Halloween-like cosmic cauldron is spotted by astronomers

A zebra-striped bee is seen in Somerset for the first time, offering hope in restored saltmarshes.

Environmental regulator Sepa says households recycled 42.8% of waste in 2025 - down from 44.3% the previous year.

As Scotland's recycling rate falls to its lowest level in five years, Kevin Keane looks at what happens to our rubbish.

‘One of only three skeletons’: Nanotyrannus skeleton goes on display before New York auctionA rare Nanotyrannus skeleton is heading for auction with a price tag of at least $6million. Nicknamed “Jodi", the roughly 10-foot-all skeleton is being auctioned by Sotheby’s in...

The latest Silicon Valley billionaire club is a $333 million political ad machine that is heavily engaged in next week’s elections.

Senior figures from Expedia, Skyscanner and Booking.com are among those who will share their expertise on the Future Stage, Trends Stage and Experience Hub at WTM London, part of the RX Global portfolio. “This year’s programme reflects where the industry is heading, with data-led insight on the Trends Stage, practical thinking on the Future Stage, and creative problem-solving in the Experience Hub,” said Chris Carter-Chapman, Event Director at WTM London. “Whatever their role, attendees will leave with fresh ideas and the tools to put them into action.”

The GoAhead embedded web server loaded a certificate revocation list into its default TLS backend but never turned revocation checking on, so a revoked client certificate could still pass login on affected setups. The flaw is in builds that use the OpenSSL backend with mutual-TLS, where the server checks a client certificate and vice versa, and a revocation list is configured to block revoked

Apple on Monday backported fixes for a high-severity security flaw that was exploited in real-world cyber attacks to older devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950 (CVSS score: 8.8), is an out-of-bounds write affecting CoreGraphics that could result in arbitrary code execution when processing a maliciously crafted file. Patches for the flaw were released last month by Apple in

The government pledges £1.9m to wildlife groups' efforts to buy the Rothbury Estate.

Spaceplanes could take off on regular flights from Cornwall following an agreement.

Open-weight models, China-US tensions, Taiwan – just a few of the more than dozen references to China-related risks cited in Anthropic’s much-anticipated listing prospectus, which was finally released on Monday after months of speculation. Mostly concentrated within the 93-page “risk factors” section of the filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the disclosures reveal how the Silicon Valley start-up assesses the commercial threats posed by China and its artificial intelligence...

Dr. Francis Halzen, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, sheds some light on the mysterious, subatomic particles that whiz through us everyday.