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Even in midsummer, the ancient hazelwoods on the Hebridean island of Seil are cool and quiet. Countless slanted stems of hazel support a thick canopy, which…

Rogue Worlds May Not Be So Lonely After All, Europa Clipper Completes Key Test, and RFK, Jr., Pulls $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine FundingFrom planets roaming…

Just over 20 years ago, Steven Spielberg released War of the Worlds, a remake of the HG Wells classic updated for then modern day, capturing an…

The world’s “oldest baby” has been born in the US from an embryo that was frozen in 1994, it has been reported.Thaddeus Daniel Pierce was born…

It was described as “the best job in the natural world”: an expedition botanist for Cambridge University Botanic Garden who would follow in the footsteps of…

It had been the very bestest of bigly weekends. Two rounds of golf at his very own course in Turnberry.On the Saturday Donald Trump had broken…

Australia could face international legal action over its fossil fuel production and failure to rapidly cut emissions, Vanuatu’s climate minister says, after a potentially watershed declaration…

The project on a river that runs through Tibet and India downstream could dwarf the Three Gorges Dam when completed.China has started building a mega-dam on…

Earlier today I set you five “Kennections”, a puzzle devised by legendary US quiz show contestant and host Ken Jennings.Each challenge consists of five trivia questions,…

Jeopardy! is the long-running US quiz show where contestants are given an answer and must respond with a question for that answer.“Ken Jennings”, for example, is…