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Grid operators brace for solar power dip during 12 August eclipse
A total solar eclipse took place on Wednesday, 12 August 2026, with totality visible across Iceland, Greenland, northern Russia, and parts of Spain and Portugal, while a partial eclipse was seen across northern parts of the United States, from Alaska to North Carolina. The event drew huge interest from astronomy enthusiasts worldwide, many of whom…
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University opens government-funded lab to help train biomedical scientists
The £2.5 million facility at the University of Essex, which includes a dedicated cancer diagnostics laboratory, was funded by the Office for Students.
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What it’s like to chase solar eclipses around the world
For many, a total solar eclipse is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. But for a dedicated few, it’s a deep passion.
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Footballers’ wives tell all to scientists for first ‘Wag-ademic’ study into how they REALLY live – from drunk husbands and predatory women to deepfake porn and light-fingered nannies
A new academic study, dubbed “Wag-ademic” research, has for the first time surveyed footballers’ wives and girlfriends (WAGs) directly to examine the realities of their lives, moving beyond tabloid stereotypes. Researchers gathered first-hand accounts covering issues such as husbands’ drinking habits, women pursuing their partners, deepfake pornography being created of them, and nannies stealing from…
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Sheffield cash-and-gold seizure, Harvey Nichols sale and Guimaraes’ record £75m Arsenal move
Todd Blanche is confirmed as US attorney general and a Mount Vernon police chief is charged over a getaway, while AI weather forecasting, Swiss shelters, Para-rowing gold and Phoebe Bridgers also feature.
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Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.
Amazon is planning a data centre in Pecos County, Texas, supported by an on-site natural-gas power plant that could become the United States’ largest single source of climate pollution. The proposal highlights the growing tension between technology companies’ expanding AI infrastructure and their public climate commitments, as data centres require increasingly large amounts of electricity.…
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Rare turtle to be sent back home in 5,000-mile ‘incredibly emotional’ trip
Rhossi, a rare Kemp’s ridley sea turtle rescued from an Anglesey beach, is being flown about 5,000 miles back to the Gulf of Mexico after more than two years of rehabilitation. The return is significant because Kemp’s ridleys are the world’s rarest sea turtles, and conservationists hope releasing him will contribute, however modestly, to the…
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Data Centres, Pollution and Debt Fears Grip Britain and America
US voters turn on data centres as a UK whistleblower alleges hidden water pollution; Britain faces debt warnings, Severance’s surge and fresh questions over a Royal Navy-linked murder suspect.
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Australia is the planet’s extinction hotspot, but one animal offers a glimmer of hope
Australia is facing an escalating extinction crisis despite its exceptional biodiversity, with rare species threatened by invasive predators, disease, habitat loss, development and climate change. The recovery of the numbat in Western Australia offers a rare positive example, showing that focused conservation can improve a species’ prospects even as broader declines continue. Numbats, once widespread…